Apple Cobbler is one of the best old-fashioned recipes that you can make at home with simple ingredients and without spending too much time in the kitchen.
This recipe is easy, tasty and satisfying even without refined ingredients and with lower sugar content!
Why is this recipe good
The coconut sugar and the whole grain flour in the biscuit dough make this cobbler nicely crispy, with a slight earthy caramel taste which goes so well with the juicy apples and the spices!
On the other hand this is a really easy from scratch recipe that takes less than an hour!
What ingredients you need
Below is a summary of the recipe ingredients. You will find the complete ingredient list with their quantities in the recipe card.
For the apple filling you would need: apples, coconut sugar and some ground cinnamon. You can use any type of apples or a mix of two kinds: for example granny smith and golden delicious. I used red delicious and they worked perfectly.
For the biscuits you would need: all-purpose flour, whole grain spelt flour, coconut sugar, butter, milk, baking powder and vanilla. This is a recipe without buttermilk and has a wonderful earthy taste of spelt.
Preparation summary
- First you need to cook shortly the apples with the cinnamon and coconut sugar, until they soften and release liquids.
- Then you have to make the dough for the biscuits by crumbling the cold butter with the flour and the sugar and then adding gradually the wet ingredients.
- Roll the dough, fold it and cut biscuits with a round cookie cutter.
- Arrange the biscuits on top of the apples and bake.
- Find the detailed instructions in the recipe card below!
How to serve
The apple cobbler is best with some ice cream. Homemade vanilla ice cream is my first choice but why not try with banana nice cream, for example!
In fact any kind of ice cream you like could be a great garnish to this wonderful old-fashioned dessert!
I hope you liked this recipe! If you made it, please let me know in the comments how it went!
Here are few more apple desserts that you might enjoy:
- Kids Friendly Apple Tiramisu
- Apple Dump Cake From Scratch
- Apple cake with cookies
- Apple Caramel Pudding
📝 Recipe
Easy Apple Cobbler
Ingredients
For the apples:
- 3-4 large apples, peeled and sliced
- ⅓ cup/ 60 g coconut sugar , or dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
For the biscuits:
- ⅔ cup/ 120 g coconut sugar
- 1 cup/ 120 g whole grain spelt flour
- 1 cup/ 120 g all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup/ 160 g butter, cold
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup/ 80 ml whole milk
To garnish:
Instructions
Apples:
- In a saucepan at a medium heat combine all ingredients. Mix occasionally. When the mixture starts bubbling, lower the heat. Cook until the apples soften lightly.
- Transfer the apples into a greased pie dish and set aside.
Biscuits:
- In a large bowl combine the two kinds of flour, the sugar and the baking powder. Whisk very well.
- Add the butter and use your fingers to mix it with the flour very well. You will end up with a mixture like crumbs.
- Add the milk and vanilla extract and knead the mixture shortly, to make a dough.
- Alternatively you can prepare the dough in a food processor at a medium to low speed, following the same steps.
- Roll the dough into a thin sheet (⅕-1/4 inch). Fold the sheet in half and then once again in half. Use a round cookie cutter to cut biscuits from the folded dough.
- Roll the dough again and repeat the folding procedure before cutting more biscuits.
- Repeat until the whole dough has been used.
- Arrange the biscuits on top of the apples in the pie dish.
- Place the cobbler on a baking sheet in the oven. Bake for about 20 minutes or until the biscuits become golden-brown.
- Serve warm, with a scoop of ice cream on every plate.
Notes
- Store the cobbler leftovers covered in the fridge up to 3 days. Ideally reheat them slightly before serving.
- Instead of coconut sugar, you can use dark brown or light brown sugar.
- You can use any size cookie cutter.
Michelle Bowen says
Hi There!
This apple cobbler looks amazing! Just wondering how many servings this serves and approximant serving size.
Daniela Lambova says
I am glad you like it, Michelle! Servings are approximately 8, sorry for missing that. As for the serving size: it's just what a large serving spoon would take with about 1 biscuit per person, if you use a 4 inch cutter. I hope that helps!