Gooseberry and elderflower cobbler
By:
Emily Gussin
Food producer and sustainability lead, delicious.
- Published: 5 May 23
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
Don’t leave cobbler to the Americans! Crumble is good and all, but cobbler is what the cool crowd finishes dinner with. The crunchy outsides and dumpling-like insides sit on a bed of softly cooked gooseberries, here given an extra punch of seasonal fragrance and sweetness thanks to elderflower cordial.
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Ingredients
- 250g self-raising flour
- 125g unsalted butter, chilled and chopped
- 80g golden caster sugar
- 80g rolled oats
- 500g gooseberries
- 2 tbsp elderflower cordial, plus 1 tsp
- Ice cream to serve (optional)
Specialist kit
- Approx. 1.2 litre baking dish
Method
- Heat the oven to 170°C fan/gas 5. Put the flour in a large bowl with a pinch of salt, then use your fingers to rub the butter into it until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in 50g of the sugar and the oats, then add 4-5 tbsp ice-cold water and bring the mixture together into a dough.
- Put the gooseberries in the baking dish, then sprinkle with the remaining sugar, 2 tbsp elderflower cordial and a pinch of salt. Shape the dough into around 9 balls, flatten each one slightly, then sit them on top of the fruit, leaving a little space between each. Bake for 30-35 minutes until the topping is golden brown.
- Brush the cobbler tops with the remaining 1 tsp elderflower cordial, then return to the oven for a final few minutes to make them shine. Serve with ice cream (if you like).
- Recipe from June 2023 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 433kcals
- Fat
- 19g (11g saturated)
- Protein
- 6.7g
- Carbohydrates
- 55g (16g sugars)
- Fibre
- 5.1g
- Salt
- 0.4g
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This is delicious! Made it using frozen gooseberries as that was all I could get but it didn’t seem to matter. The amount of sugar was just right and it tasted tart and really flavoursome and the cobbler topping was light, fluffy and really lovely. The only negative is that there wasn’t enough fruit to topping. It might work well with some additional apple mixed in to make it more fruity and juicy.