Make a tart cherry cobbler recipe to enjoy warm with a dollop of ice cream on top.
Although Bruce’s favorite way to enjoy sour cherries is in a pie, I must confess that mine is in a cobbler. Add several dollops of vanilla ice cream to a cobbler just out of the oven, let that ice cream melt and mingle with the fruit and crust, and prepare for an incredible pairing of sweet and sour.
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1 cup milk
- 1 quart sour cherries
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 to 4 tablespoons pie thickener
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/4 teaspoon Fiori di Sicilia (citrus-flavored vanilla)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Put butter into 2-1/2-quart baking dish and place in oven until butter is melted. Remove and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and milk. Whisk until well-combined, and let the batter rest for 5 minutes to thicken.
- In another bowl, stir together cherries, sugar, pie thickener, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and flavorings.
- Pour the batter over the melted butter. Pour the cherry mixture evenly over top of the batter.
- Bake for 35 minutes. If the center is doughy and the outside is crisp, stir to lift the doughy parts out to the edge. Bake another 5 minutes.
For more information and recipes with sour cherry trees, visit Best Sour Cherry Tree Varieties and Easy Sour Cherry Jam Recipe.
Bruce and Elaine Ingram are the authors of Living the Locavore Lifestyle, now in its second edition, which explains how to live off the land by hunting, fishing, gathering wild edibles, and raising chickens.
Originally published in the June/July 2026 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS and regularly vetted for accuracy.
