Blackberries and peaches are now in season, and they make a perfect pair for a summertime cobbler. Traditional cobblers rely on refined sugar, butter, and cow’s milk, but these ingredients aren’t missed at all in this dish; instead we’ll use dates, non-dairy milk and banana. Enjoy!
Blackberry–Peach Cobbler
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Serves: Serves: 6 to 8
Ingredients
- Fruit:
- 4 large peaches, pitted and sliced (about 2 cups)
- 2 cups blackberries
Fruit sauce:- 1 cup water
- 3 Medjool dates (or 6 Deglet Noor), pitted and quartered
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ cup rolled oats, ground into flour (in a blender)
Topping:- ½ cup nondairy milk
- ½ large, ripe banana, sliced
- 3 Medjool dates (or 6 Deglet Noor), pitted and quartered
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1½ cups rolled oats, ground into flour (in a blender)
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Fruit: Place peaches and blackberries into a large bowl. Set aside. Preheat oven to 375. Grind oats into flour (for both sauce and topping) before blending the fruit sauce.
- Fruit sauce: Blend the water dates, lemon juice, cinnamon, and oat flour in a blender until smooth (if your dates are not soft/room temperature, soak them in the 1 cup water for 15 to 30 minutes first). Pour this into the bowl of fruit and stir. Spoon into a 9x9-inch baking dish or a 9-inch pie pan and spread out evenly (no treatment is necessary for the pan).
- Topping: Using your blender again, blend the nondairy milk, banana, dates, and vanilla together until smooth. Transfer this mixture to a medium bowl and stir in the oat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Mix until the texture is like biscuit dough. Spread the topping over the fruit filling evenly, or drop by spoonfuls, leaving gaps of fruit between. Cook for 25 to 30 minutes, until topping is lightly browned. Let stand for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
Notes
Fruit: Feel free to change up the fruit in this dish. Also good would be apples, blueberries, strawberries, nectarines, and pineapple.
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Love this! Now this is my kind of cobbler! 🙂
Yum, I love fruity desserts in the summer! I made a peach strawberry cobbler almost identical to this recipe a couple of weeks ago! That is a good idea to use oat flour to thicken the fruit sauce!
This looks outrageously delicious!
This looks great – I might try applesauce instead of banana…I am a bit overdone on banana. Thanks!
Delicious…I substituted blueberries for blackberries, used only cinnamon for the topping and enjoyed the taste beyond words and…accepted compliments when it was served to non-vegan friends.
Yay!! 😉
made this last night, delicious! thank you for the recipe!! made two actually – one just peaches, one blackberry-peach. changes:
– used a little flax meal in the topping as well in case the banana wasn’t bind-y enough (not sure this had a positive impact)
– added about a teaspoon of lemon zest to the fruit mixture – this added a subtle but delicious flavor – would definitely do again / recommend if you like lemon zest
– used cinnamon in addition to allspice
– in a nod to traditional cobbler, melted a tablespoon of earth balance in the bottom of the pan before adding the fruit
at first bit I wasn’t thrilled with the topping, but after a few more minutes of cooling it was quite good.
would definitely make again.
This is really delicious. I’m having mine for breakfast. Why not? I usually have fruit and a grain for breakfast anyway. I topped it with some walnuts. Can’t wait to try the different variations. I think apple with cinnamon is next for me. Thank you.
I made this with all peaches. The filling was delicious, but my topping came out “gummy.” Any tips to get a better texture?
Hi Marlene, you could substitute in 1/4 cup of ground millet or cornmeal to try and balance this a bit. Or just cook it a bit longer. Oats can have a creamy and gummy effect sometimes. Also, make sure your baking powder isn’t old (to check this, stir 1 teaspoon of your baking powder into 1/3 cup hot water; if it bubbles actively, it is good). 🙂 Thanks!
Cathy I made this dessert for my aunt’s birthday and I enjoyed it thoroughly 🙂 Wish I could show you the photo with this response. Thanks so much as always!!
Hi Trisha, great! You can post it on my FB page if you like: https://www.facebook.com/StraightUpFood1 Thanks! 😉
I know it’s not the season for this, but your recipe looked so delicious that I had to make it anyway. I used frozen peaches and blueberries, and it tastes wonderful! The sweetness is just right, and that oaty topping is to die for. Thank you!
This sounds delicious, and just like your other baked recipes, which I love. I can’t eat bananas – do you have an idea for something I could use instead?
Hi, I’ve never made it without the banana, but maybe you can just leave it out; it should be ok. You may need to add a bit more oat flour in this case. 🙂
I used nectarines, about 1/2 cup of fresh raspberries I needed to use up, and a cup of blueberries. Fabulous. :p I ate the other half of the banana while I was cooking the cobbler. 🙂
Cathy,
Do you think you could make this with frozen fruit? Is there something you would do differently?
Thx!
I think it would work; maybe thaw the fruit a bit first. 🙂
I made this last night and enjoyed a bit of the leftovers for breakfast. Delicious! My SAD eating son had seconds!
Yay! 😉
I am making my 4th cobbler already this summer – absolutely love this recipe! I especially like pineapple and blueberries, as the pineapple adds some extra sweetness.
Wow! This recipe is a keeper in my opinion. I’ve been making lots of recipes on this blog lately and all of them have been wonderful. I just used 2 pints of farm fresh blueberries for the fruit and it was delicious.
Woo hoo! 😉 Thanks Miles!