Conor (Kalen's brother) invited us to for a picnic at the park with the boys. We gladly accepted and brought chips and apple slices. I didn't want the slices to turn brown and I also wanted them sliced before arriving at park. So I deconstructed 6 apples (2 granny, 2 jazz, and 2 large jonagold). And submerged them in cold water with one squeezed lemon and a little bit of salt. It kept the apples crisp and no browning.
But we brought home left over apples. And I thought it would be fun to make cobbler. Its my first without my Mom and its my first Apple. We would have made pie but I like the crust on cobbler better. So here we go.
Apple Filling
- sliced peeled apples (I used about 4.5)
- 3/4c sugar
- 2T white wheat flour
- 2.5t cinnamon
- 1/4t salt
- 1t vanilla extract
- 1.5T orange juice
Mix well till apples are coated. Take pan and lightly butter sides before pouring apple filling in.
Note: I made two since the first didn't cover the whole cobbler. Also it was a bit dry so for the 2nd batter I added a little bit of OJ since I used all white wheat flour.
First Batter (under the 2nd one), mix well and serve on top of apple mixture
- 1/2c white wheat flour (1/8c of was white flour)
- 1/2c sugar
- 1/2t baking powder
- 1/4t salt
- 1/2t cardamon
- 1 egg
Second Batter, mix well and serve on top of first batter
- 1/2c white wheat flour
- 1/2c sugar
- 1/2t baking powder
- 1/4t salt
- 1/2t cardamon
- 1egg
- 1T orange juice
Dap on about 1T of butter ( could use 2T) on batter. Bake for 35-45 minutes on 375. Or till crust is brown
In hindsight I would have used a flatter pan to cook instead of a bread pan. I had to break the crust in order for the rest of the batter in the first layer to finish cooking.
The cardamon was wonderful in the cake batter and the 1 to 1 ratio for the sugar made it a bit more crunchy in the crust than if I had used a 2 to 1 ratio of flour to sugar.
Overall tasty, serve warm with some vanilla ice cream.
