Cooktop Cove: Make a strawberry cobbler in just five minutes using your microwave
By August West
In the world of baked goods, there's a lot of overlapping characteristics when it comes to naming things. Pies, cobblers, crisps, and crumbles all share many attributes — for one, they're all filled with fruit — but there are often subtle differences in presentation. For something to be a pie, it's often got a crust on the top
and bottom. Crisps and crumbles are crustless on the bottom, and are topped off with "flour, nuts, bread crumbs, cookie or graham cracker crumbs, or even breakfast cereal," writes
What's Cooking America.
Cobblers, though, tend to vary from chef to chef. Some of them have got a crust on all sides, while other versions opt for a crustless base, like we find in this Berry Cobbler
recipe from Domestic Fits.
It's a cobbler that Jackie, a writer with Domestic Fits, says is so delicious that, in the month after making the recipe, she "found [her]self 'recipe testing' ... about 17 times." That's not just a testament to the quality of the concoction, though — can you think of a cobbler that you'd even have the time to make 17 separate times in a month? I didn't think so.
Resisting this temptation will be tough, not least of which because of the adorable mason jar used to make it. With strawberries, sugar, flour, butter, milk, and a couple other ingredients, it's easy to see what's so appealing about this elementary recipe.
Jackie has posted the recipe
here, so you can try making your own. That said, if you're not a fan of strawberries, there are plenty of other microwave-made cobbler recipes online, like this
blueberry cobbler recipe from Snappy Gourmet.
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