Best Apple Cobbler
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
 
Michigan's best fall apples topped with a delicious cookie style cobbler
Ingredients
  • • Fruit:
  • • 5-6 cups peeled, cored, and sliced apples. We like a mix best, this was Granny Smith's, northern spies, and Jonathons.
  • • ½ - ¾ cup sugar, depending on how sweet you like it and how tart the apples are
  • • 1 - 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
  • • 2 teaspoons cornstarch
  • • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • • 2 Tablespoons brandy - I used a maple liqueur called Sapling (OMG!! delish)
  • • 2 Tablespoons water (I always use orange juice)
  • • TINIEST PINCH of clove
  • TOPPING:
  • • ½ cup or 1 stick butter, softened
  • • ½ cup sugar
  • • pinch salt
  • • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • • 1 egg yolk
  • • ½ cup flour
  • • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Mix all Fruit ingredients in a 9-10 inch pie plate. Bake for 20 minutes.
  • 2. While fruit is baking, mix the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla. Add egg yolk and mix. Add flour and baking powder and mix just until smooth.
  • 3. After the 20 minutes, remove the fruit from the oven and stir. Drop the topping by small spoons full all over the top of the fruit. It will spread during baking. Lower the oven temperature to 375°F.
  • 4. Return cobbler to the oven and bake an additional 45 - 50 minutes. MAKE SURE the topping is SIGNIFICANTLY DARK. It could even take on a SLIGHTLY scorched look at the edge. Believe me, it is easy to under cook that topping. MAKE IT DARK. Depending on your oven, it may take longer than 50 minutes.
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Mix all Fruit ingredients in a 9-10 inch pie plate. Bake for 20 minutes.
  2. While fruit is baking, mix the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla. Add egg yolk and mix. Add flour and baking powder and mix just until smooth.
  3. After the 20 minutes, remove the fruit from the oven and stir. Drop the topping by small spoons full all over the top of the fruit. It will spread during baking. Lower the oven temperature to 375°F.
  4. Return cobbler to the oven and bake an additional 45 - 50 minutes. MAKE SURE the topping is SIGNIFICANTLY DARK. It could even take on a SLIGHTLY scorched look at the edge. Believe me, it is easy to under cook that topping. MAKE IT DARK. Depending on your oven, it may take longer than 50 minutes.
Recipe by Messin' With Perfection at https://www.messinwithperfection.com/best-apple-cobbler/