Blackberry~Strawberry~Peach Cobbler!

My good friend Shaun has been making amazing fruit cobblers for the last few years, and is always saying that they are sooooo easy to make. I couldn't believe something so grandma good was truly easy to make, but now I believe it!

I recently discovered a gigantic blackberry bush just popping with incredible fruit. I've been picking berries by the (WaWa large iced-tea) cup full! My hands and wrists are all scratched up from the thorns! It doesn't matter; these berries are worth it! I picked a ton the other day and thought it might be a good idea to bake something instead of just eating them raw since my lips were already stained and my tongue was starting to feel a little funny. I thought about muffins but the last batch I made was just embarrasing. I need to work on those. Then I remembered the cobbler! I looked up a ton of recipes on line. I compiled a few to come up with this one I'm going to pass on to you. It's really easy. I'm baking my second cobbler in a week while I'm writing this. The smell is so homey it's killing me.

Set your oven to 350, put a whole stick of butter in an 11 by 13 glass baking dish and put it in the oven until it's melted

Fruit:
1 large (or at least a medium) iced tea cup full of blackberries
1 hand full sliced strawberries
2 peaches sliced and pitted
if you don't have strawberries you can substitute sliced canned pears. I tried the first time and it was great.

Meanwhile:
Mix all the fruit together in a giant bowl and cover it with about 2 cups of sugar. Most recipes I read online called for more sugar but I thought 2 cups was plenty especially since there is also a cup of sugar in the flour mix!


Now, in another giant bowl stir together:

1 1/2 cups self rising biscuit flour
1 cup whole milk or 1/2 and 1/2 (I used the later)
1 cup sugar

When your butter is melted take the dish out and set it down. Pour your cobbler batter out as evenly as possible over the melted butter. Don't worry about stirring it.
Then dump your mixed berries over that and just spread them around a little. Don't stir the whole thing up. The batter will rise up through the berries while it's baking.

Pop it in the oven and set the timer for 50 min. You'll want to check it then and see if you want to leave it in for an extra 10 minutes. I do because I like the edges to get crispy.

One word of advice... you should put a cookie sheet under your dish while it's baking. I didn't do that on the first go round and now I have some sticky drippings to clean up! WOMP WOMP


Hope you like this totally unhealthy, delicious, indulgence! I think you will. :>