Sourdough Cherry Cobbler

A delicious sourdough cobbler that can be made with fresh or frozen cherries in under one hour! Serve with vanilla ice cream for a discard dessert everyone will be talking about!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Sourdough Discard

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 40

Total Time 1

Servings serves

Calories 2548kcal

Equipment

Baking Dish (2Q or 1.9L - measuring 31 x 18.5 x 6 cm or 12 x 7 x 2.5 inches)

Ingredients

Cherry Filling

750 g Cherries
40 g Brown Sugar (light or dark can be used)
25 g White Sugar
30 g All Purpose Flour
1 Orange (juice and zest only)

Sourdough Cobbler Topping

150 g All Purpose Flour
150 g Sourdough Starter (or sourdough discard)
5 g Salt
50 g White Sugar
10 g Baking Powder
120 g Milk (any milk is fine, I've used whole milk)
75 g Butter (melted - salted or unsalted is fine)
25 g Granulated Sugar (for crunchy topping)

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 200C (390F).

Prepare the Cherry Filling

Place the cherries into a medium sized baking dish. I've used a 2Q or 1.9L. You can use fresh or frozen cherries. If using fresh cherries, you'll need to pit them first (this is a great job for the kids).
On top of the cherries, add the brown sugar, white sugar, all purpose flour and orange juice and zest. Use your hands or a spoon to mix all of this through the cherries so that they are well coated. Set this aside while you prepare the topping.
I find it so easy to do this in the baking dish - it creates less dishes to wash later! But you can mix the cherries separately if you prefer.

Sourdough Cobbler Topping

In a small mixing bowl, add the all purpose flour, sourdough starter (or discard), salt, sugar, baking powder and milk. Stir until it forms a light and airy batter.
Spoon or pour the sourdough cobbler topping onto the cherries and spread so it mostly covers them. It's ok to have some of the cherries peaking through.
Sprinkle the batter with granulated sugar and then pour over the melted butter.
Place the sourdough cherry cobbler into the oven and bake at 200C (390F) for around 35 to 40 minutes. You'll know it's done when the topping is golden brown and you can see the cherry filling bubbling away underneath.
Remove from the oven and allow the sourdough cobbler to sit for around 10 minutes before serving. This allows the filling to thicken before serving.

Notes

Cherries - I've used fresh cherries for this recipe, but I've also tested it with frozen and it works just as well. In fact I think frozen is much easier as you don't have to pit the cherries!

Orange - if you don't have an orange, consider using fresh lemon juice. I love the flavor of the orange with the cherries, but lemon works really well too! You could even try a combination of both.

Almond Extract - if you love almonds, consider adding a splash of almond extract to the cobbler batter. You can even scatter some flaked almonds on top. It adds such a lovely depth of flavor and pairs beautifully with the sweet, jammy cherries.

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