Skillet Strawberry Cobbler.
I’m that girl.
You know. The one who eats alllll the cobbler topping? The one who leaves the soft and sometimes mushy fruit in the dish, then sticks it in the fridge for the next hopeful victim? THAT one.
Yeah. That’s me.
It’s rare that I even consider fruit for dessert, but when it’s caramelized and laced with sugar and topped with a fluffy pillow of buttery crust, it doesn’t take much convincing. I like it. I like it even better with ice cream. And fresh mint.
I know you probably haven’t noticed, but I’m a bit obsessive. Apparently it’s a Scorpio trait. I don’t know beans about astrology but according to my horoscopologist (read: my BFF), I am a Scorpio to a T.
So today I’m obsessed with strawberries, fresh mint, and vanilla bean ice cream that melts over a crunchy biscuit-like topping and soaks into the crust. Yesterday I was obsessed with cheese. Oh! And I’m really obsessed with these ice cream things I’ll tell you about later. Does this make it difficult for you to take me seriously? Probably.
Me thinks it would be a good idea to be obsessed with the treadmill.
Me also thinks that you should make this for the 4th of July. Use a cast iron skillet. It will make you feel all Southern and 1950s and stuff. It is the only cobbler topping I make these days. I’ve made it with strawberries and peaches, blackberries, and blueberries and strawberries. Festive right? Red and blue. Me thinks so.
Me thinks I’ll stop that now because that’s annoying.
Skillet Strawberry Cobblers
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 4 pints of strawberries
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 stick butter, softened and cut into cubes
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- vanilla ice cream for serving and fresh mint for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Slice strawberries – I slice a few in half, a few in quarters, and leave others whole for a variety. Toss with 1 tablespoon white sugar.
- Heat a large cast iron skillet (I’m sure an oven-safe skillet would be okay too, it just needs to be large) over medium heat. Wait for 5 minutes until the entire skillet is hot, then add 2 tablespoons butter. Add strawberries and cook for 5-6 minutes to soften.
- While strawberries are cooking, combine flour, baking soda and powder, salt and 1 tablespoon brown sugar in a bowl and mix. Add in cubed butter and mix with a fork or your fingers until the butter is in smaller crumbles and strewn throughout the mix. Make a well in the center and pour in buttermilk. Add vanilla extract and stir until mixture comes together.
- Turn off heat under strawberries. Spoon globs of dough on top of the strawberries, scattering them all around. Melt remaining 2 tablespoons of butter and drizzle over top of dough. Sprinkle remaining brown sugar on top. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes, then turn down heat to 375 and bake for 10-15 minutes more. Serve with vanilla ice cream and fresh mint.
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144 Comments on “Skillet Strawberry Cobbler.”
SERIOUSLY?……..I’m in LOVE with this!!
Hot cobbler+cold ice cream=heaven in my mouth.
I just adore cobblers. Is there anything better in life than that topping?! What a great summer dessert!
What is it about summer that makes me want warm fruit?? It must be because it gives me an excuse to eat ice cream. I’ve been looking for a standard cobbler topping…looks like this may be the one!
I am that girl too! Maybe this recipe will help curb my fruit-leaving tendencies. :)
OMG love the web site, I love to read cook books all the time and love to cook. Also in the burgh, by the way. Again love the blog
Thanks Stacey!
“I love fruit desserts now. They are so healthy!”
Is it wrong that that line made me burst out laughing?
It’s true, right? ;)
Jessica!!! I am JUST like you! I’ll eat all of the “good” stuff and leave everything else. This tends to make some family members pretty irate.
Definitely reminiscent of a 50’s type dish – homey, comforting and downright delicious! Now I need to go out and buy a bigger sized skillet. I’m thinking my small one just isn’t going to do for this cobbler.
Ooh, I totally want to make one for the 4th! So homey and basically shouting with patriotism.
Where’s a good place to get a nice iron skillet?? Target.. ?
I’m not sure if Target would have them. I got mine at Macys, but I think any other kitchen store like Sur La Table or Williams Sonoma would have great ones.
Joelle – Target sells Lodge skillets (usually) which are GREAT, already pre-seasoned and pretty inexpensive. The 12″ one is around $20, I think.
Jessica – as per usual, this looks scrumptious!
Well I’m the girl who eats the fruit and leaves the streusel topping. We should meat up and feast :)
We’d be perfect together!
I absolutly love the hot/cold combination of gooey, crunchy cobbler meets melty, creamy ice cream…would it be ok to eat for lunch?!
I would totally buy a cast iron skillet just for this. Topping anything with ice cream makes it better!
Hahaha. Oh man, I never think about desserts being healthy. Are they supposed to be healthy? Me doesn’t think so. (That doesn’t sound good. I knew it would be a wrong idea to try and do English/American funny talk. I have no idea what I’m doing). Anyway, it should be delicious, that’s all that matters in my opinion. And this looks like it’s perfect!
Ummmm, yeah I need to eat this now. My fiance doesn’t like strawberries, so I’ll be getting this all to myself.
Holy yum – that looks delicious as always. I almost made your whole wheat banana bread pancakes this morning but decided they would be SO much better on a weekend morning (plus my boyfriend begged for me to wait for him to be home to eat them! haha)
Happy Friday!
Let me know how they turn out! :)
Will do! :)
mmmmm yummy! Fruit desserts totally = healthy!
Ugh, MUST make.
I am also the gilr that could live off the cobbler topping! I will be making this soon!!
I’m making this on Sunday as a treat for my fiance & myself. This honestly looks heavenly.
I also am not one who loves fruit as part of a dessert (fruit on its own as dessert = bueno) but cobbler’s are amazing!
You’re so talented!
Thanks Leanne!
You food bloggers and your strawberries today… You’re killing my sick stomach! I will for sure try this soon though… It looks incredible!
This looks amazing, I wish I did this with my strawberries this morning instead of having them plain!
Ohmagod yum. Yum. Yum yum yum. I might just have to make this very soon. Could you use frozen berries?
I think you could, just make sure they are totally thawed and dry.
I’m so glad I found your blog. Not only do I love all your recipes, but I love your writing style. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much Laura!
I’m totally ‘that girl’ too :D
Hi!
I recently found your blog through a bit of blog surfing, and i LOVE all your recipes and your hilarity :) Love this blog and will definitley be returning to read (and drool) more.
Vivian
You are such a tease! I am also one to eat all the topping off and leave the rest behind. I especially do that with apple crisp in the fall and blackberry cobbler right now. I just start picking at the top thinking, ‘Oh, just a bit more…no one will notice’, that is until I look down and realize I have just polished off a whole section!
So, when do you want to come to Charleston to make this?? ;) I mean, it is a ‘southern’ dish.
Holy FREAKING Moly!! this looks divine!!!
xxoo
This is actually my kind of breakfast, lovely!
OH MY! Cobbler is my favorite dessert! This is just perfect :)
Haha i’m definitely ‘that girl’ too. I think crumble is just perfect without most of the fruit and with a generous scoop of ice cream… or custard! YUM! :)
This looks soooo good! I’m book marking this recipe to make when I get home from my vacation!
I told my bf that I was going to make this for our 4th of July party, and he suggested that I try it tonight as well! I’m going to have to go find a cast iron skillet today…Please post more recipes that use cast iron skillets! :)
This sounds amazing! I have a ton of fresh picked blueberries just waiting to be made into this “healthy” dessert. ;) I’m also a scorpio and just wish I was obsessed with the treadmill!
Sarah
Soooo gooood! I’m the girl who eats up the whole cobbler with vanilla ice cream on top. Bliss :D
As always, I love your posts–and I will be trying this recipe very soon–perfect for my recently picked berries!
Wondering about the mint–do you grow your own? When I was young we had some plants, and my dad always warned that it would take over the garden if you let it…..spreads very quickly! But, maybe that’s a good thing?
I do not grow my own! I’d LOVE to, but we don’t have a deck for pots and live near woods and nearly everything I’ve ever planted just gets eaten. Our only option is to dig up a spot with fencing for a garden and we don’t want to do that since we plan on moving in the near future. I think it would be a delicious thing if it spreads quickly. ;)
it’s a cobbler ratio for me; i need more cobbler to fruit.
i love fruit, but like cobbler more. lol
This looks irresistibly delicious! Yours is one of the few blogs I follow religiously, your writing style is so very unique and you have perfectly divine recipes to go with it. I have tried a few out already with awesome results so I know when i try this one, which i am 100% going to do!, it will be totally scrummy. Thank you for the wonderful recipes and inspiring me to start my own mini blog :)
Thank you so much Sasha!
Just found your blog! When I read that you don’t really consider fruit for a dessert, I knew I’d found the right place! :) My husband ALWAYS gets fruit for dessert, and I make so much fun of him! Ha!
Glad you found me Lindsay!
This is the epitome of summer dessert! Yum and like the idea of the skillet!
I am dreaming of this with vanilla ice cream right now!
YUMM! I have tried making cobbler in a cast iron two times. And each time it pretty much failed [the fruit burned on the bottom] But, I just might have to give this one a try and see what happens!
This looks divine!! What a fun take on cobbler!
So I just made this (its delicious btw!) However, my strawberries are still a little bit wet (there is a puddle of strawberry juice on the bottom of the pan). Should I have cooked the strawberries more? I don’t know what else would be the cause? Thank you!
Glad you like it! Is it “juice” or more like a syrup?? The fruit in cobblers still tends to be wet and more syrupy, almost as if it came from a can.
It was more juicey than syrupy…Any suggestions on what I should do different next time?
I am totally the same way … I love the top of a cobbler. Almost as much as I love the top of a creme brulee!! I wish I could steal that from other people’s dishes!
This looks awesome – perfect for dessert on the 4th! We’re going strawberry picking this week, so this cobbler WILL be made!
Oh dear. Just when I thought I should really start to cut back the amount of sweets I have, you go and post something like this. How am I supposed to live without this?? I’m the same way – I like a little of the fruit and A LOT of the topping!! I’m in love with your blog!!!
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after drooling over this post for days, i finally made this delicious concoction this weekend. it totally bubbled over and made a mess on my oven floor and repeatedly set off the smoke detector, which terrified my mini dachshund and angered my downstairs neighbors. however, it was delicious and amazing and worth the small fire hazard. i may or may not have licked the skillet clean this morning for breakfast. this totally counts as breakfast, right? anyway, long time creeper and first time commenter. i absolutely love your blog and look forward to your posts every day! :)
Just made this with peaches…YUM!
I made this tonight and it was tasty!! I didn’t find it to be very sweet, but it was perfect when paired with vanilla ice cream. I’m not sure I love hot, cooked strawberries, so I think I’ll try with a mix of blueberries and raspberries next time. Easy to whip up after dinner on a weeknight. My hubby doesn’t love fruit desserts like I do, so that means more for me!!! I halved the recipe and made in my 6″ cast iron skillet. Thanks for the recipe!
Looks wonderful! I can smell it cooking just reading about it and seeing the pictures!! Does anyone have any idea about the number of carbohydrates and amount of fiber for those of us who MUST limit carbs (can subtract fiber if > 3!!) for health reasons. Can you say diabetes type II?
Guess I could use artificial sweeteners, but that would never be as good.
I love Becki Sue’s idea of trying blueberries and raspberries. In the frozen foods section at Wal-Mart there and unsweetened fruits–one of them is mixed berries and it’s great.
Thanks again for showing this!! And to “The Paper Boutique” for telling us about it.