Just like a cobble stone street

As I rested on the couch after work, the fruit bowl on the dining table caught my eye. I thought to myself, “Eek! The 8 pears that I bought a few weeks ago are still there and aren’t looking as “fresh” anymore. I need to use them pronto!”. So I grabbed my trusty iPad and found some delicious pear recipes but there was one that I kept going back to – the Pear Cobbler recipe. The picture of the Southern baked dish I found looked yummy so it was a no-brainer that I had a to give it a go.

I modified the recipe that I found and here is my version:

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Pear Cobbler Recipe

Condition of using this recipe: you must leave a comment and let me know how much you enjoyed baking and eating this dish, I’d love to hear about it! ;)

Ingredients
* 4 green pears (peeled, corked and sliced)  Note: I used pears that were a few weeks old so they were soft already.

* 2 cups brown sugar (which you will be using 1 cup at a time)

* 120g unsalted butter

* ¾ cup plain flour

* 2 tsp baking powder

* ½ tsp cinnamon

* ¼ tsp salt  Note: I used sea salt.

* 1 egg

* ¾ cup milk

Preparation

1.      Preheat fan-forced oven to 160° (Celsius).

2.      Mix the sliced pears and 1 cup of the brown sugar so that the pears are completely covered in the sugar and let it stand.

3.      Put all the butter in your baking dish (I used a 20cm wide round baking tin and place in the 160° oven until the butter has melted. Note: remove from oven once the butter is completely melted.

4.      Combine remaining sugar, plain flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt until it is mixed completely together.

5.      Add the egg and mix.

6.      Add half the milk, mix slowly.

7.      Add the remaining milk, mix slowly until it’s mixed through.

8.      Pour your mix over the butter. Do NOT stir together.

9.      Place your sugared pears to cover your mix, placing them in no particular pattern. Do NOT stir together. Note: you will find that the pear will sink – don’t panic, it’s part of the “master plan” ;)

10.   Bake at 160° for 45-55 minutes, or until it’s a lovely brown colour and the pears are soft. Note: if you used soft pears to start off with just bake until it’s a nice brown colour.

11.   Once you have removed from the oven, let it stand for 10-15 minutes. And then grab a plate and place face down on your baked dish and carefully flip over the baked dish onto the plate.

Serve warm or cold on it’s own or with vanilla ice cream and enjoy! 

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As I placed my freshly baked Pear Cobbler on the dining table to get it ready for its photo shoot (for the blog of course), I noticed the pattern that it formed. To my amusement, it looked just like a cobble stone street. I had a light bulb moment, “so that’s why it’s called Pear Cobbler”...and that my friend is the end result of the “master plan”!