I Blog What I Bake

“Girl I love your peaches wanna shake your tree…” I couldn’t stop singing this to myself as I was dancing around my kitchen putting together these individual peach cobblers. Appropriate, no?

Anyway, I planned on these being plum cobblers, but couldn’t find any nice black plums. After the fact, I learned  that plums are not quite in season yet, hence the difficulty in finding them. Oh well. These turned out great! The inspiration came from The Bitten Word, they had posted cherry cobblers, but I didn’t want to take on pitting a million cherries. Some days I am all about the mess and the challenge. This past Sunday was not one of those days. Peeling peaches was as far as I was willing to go with the prep work. The cobbler topping for this recipe is delicious. It’s a biscuit-like topping and I’ve never had that before on a cobbler. It was so good I just baked the extra rounds of dough I had so I could eat them on their own. Another great thing about this recipe is that pretty much all the sugar comes from the sweetness of the peaches and since the cobblers come in such neat little packages this is perfect dessert to serve to company!

Individual Peach Cobblers
Serves 8
Adapted from “The Bitten Word”

3 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 cup white granulated sugar
3/4 cups (1 1/2 sticks) very cold unsalted butter
2 cups very cold heavy cream, plus more for brushing
9 medium sized peaches – peeled and sliced
1 tablespoon plus one teaspoons corn starch
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and 1/2 cup sugar. Using large holes on a box crater, grate butter into flour mixture. With a fork, stir in cream until dough just comes together. On a floured work surface, roll out dough to a 3/4 cinch thickness with a floured rolling pin. With a knife or biscuit cutter, cut out 8 to 12 rounds or squares of dough.