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Spiced Date and Apple Cobblers
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Spiced Date and Apple Cobblers
Classic comfort puddings don't get much more scrumptious than this. The dates give the filling a gooey sweetness and the cobbler topping is softer and more crumbly than the traditional firm scone top.
- Preparation time:
- 20 minutes
- Cooking time:
- 25 minutes
- Total time:
-
45 minutes
- Serves:
- 6
Ingredients
- 2 Bramley apples, peeled and finely diced
- 75g Medjool, Hadrawi or Deglet Nour dates, roughly chopped
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- Knob of butter
- 125g golden caster sugar
- The cobblers
- 50g butter, melted
- 250g plain flour
- 4 tsp golden caster sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 240ml Yoplait Buttermilk
- Single or double cream, to serve
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C, gas mark 6. Toss together the apples, dates, sugar, cinnamon and mixed spice. Butter six ramekins and spoon in the fruit mixture.
- For the cobbler: Stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. In a separate bowl stir together the butter and buttermilk then mix into the dry ingredients to make a sticky dough.
- Drop spoonfuls of the dough onto the fruit then bake for 25 minutes until the crust is golden and the fruit is tender. Serve warm with cream.
Nutritional Info
| Energy | 393.0kcal |
|---|---|
| Fat | 10.7g |
This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in October 2000
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