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Easy Old-Fashioned Apple Cobbler

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 385
Ingredients Method Nutrition

Ingredients
  

Spiced Apple Filling
  • 3 lbs firm baking apples (such as Honeycrisp & Granny Smith), peeled, cored, and sliced 1/4-inch thick
  • 1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup granulated white sugar
  • 2 tbsp cornstarch (or all-purpose flour, for thickening)
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground Saigon cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
  • 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla bean paste or extract
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
Fluffy Buttermilk Drop Biscuits
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold European unsalted butter, cubed into small pea-sized pieces
  • 3/4 cup cold cultured buttermilk
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Cinnamon Sugar Crust & Topping
  • 2 tbsp coarse sparkling turbinado sugar mixed with 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 tbsp melted butter, for brushing biscuit tops
  • Premium vanilla bean ice cream, for serving warm

Method
 

Prep Oven & Apple Filling
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C). Lightly butter a 10-inch or 12-inch cast iron skillet or 9x13-inch ceramic baking dish.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, toss sliced apples with dark brown sugar, granulated sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice, vanilla paste, and melted butter until evenly coated. Spread apple mixture evenly into the prepared skillet.
Make Biscuit Dough
  1. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add cold cubed butter. Use a pastry blender or your fingertips to work butter into dry ingredients until coarse crumbs with pea-sized butter bits form.
  2. Pour in cold buttermilk and vanilla. Stir gently with a fork just until a shaggy, soft dough comes together. Do not overmix, keeping the butter cold for flaky pockets.
Assemble, Bake & Serve
  1. Using a large cookie scoop or spoon, drop mounds of biscuit dough evenly across the spiced apples, leaving small spaces between for steam to escape and juices to bubble up.
  2. Brush tops of biscuit mounds with melted butter and generously sprinkle with cinnamon turbinado sugar.
  3. Bake at 375°F for 35 to 40 minutes until apple juices are bubbling vigorously and biscuit tops are deep golden brown and baked through. Cool for 15 minutes before spooning warm cobbler into bowls topped with melting vanilla ice cream.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 385kcalCarbohydrates: 58gProtein: 4gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 40mgSodium: 310mgPotassium: 220mgFiber: 4gSugar: 34gVitamin A: 520IUVitamin C: 7mgCalcium: 80mgIron: 1.8mg

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