Chez Panisse’s Blueberry Cobbler
Updated May 17, 2018
- Total Time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
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Ingredients
THE BERRIES
4 ½ cups fresh blueberries
⅓ cup sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
THE DOUGH
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 ½ tablespoons sugar
2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch pieces
¾ cup heavy cream, plus additional for serving, if desired
Preparation
- Step 1
Heat the oven to 375 degrees. To prepare the berries, place in a bowl and toss with the sugar and flour. Set aside.
- Step 2
To make the dough, mix the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder in a bowl. Cut in the butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the cream and mix lightly, just until the dry ingredients are moistened.
- Step 3
Put the blueberries in a 1 ½-quart gratin or baking dish. Make patties out of the dough, 2 to 2 ½ inches in diameter and ½-inch thick. Arrange them over the top of the berries. Bake until the topping is brown and the juices bubble thickly around it, about 35 to 40 minutes.
- Step 4
Let cool slightly. Serve warm, with cream to pour on top, if desired.
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Delicious and very easy! I added some lemon zest and lemon juice to the berry/sugar/flour mixture to bring out the taste of the blueberries and it was amazing!
4 1/2 cups = 27 oz = 765 grams fresh blueberries
About as easy as dessert gets, added a dash of cinnamon and replaced the cream with buttermilk because buttermilk makes everything better. Served it to my foodie pals with local vanilla ice cream, everyone loved it. I have about a dozen cobbler recipes, this one is now number one.
Made this with frozen blueberries and wow it was fabulous.
Simple, fresh ingredients and easy to make. I was taking it to a event with 12 people so I doubled the recipe and put it in a 9x13 baking dish. It was delicious but a bit soupy, I think the baking dish was too deep. I’d use a wider, shallower dish or put it in two separate vessels if I were going to make a double batch
I made this exactly as written and it was good. I didn’t have it right out of the oven as I was taking it to a party so perhaps fresh would’ve been really magnificent. I did find that I preferred whipped cream instead of just plain cream as a topping. That really made it tasty :-)

