When it comes to baking in the summer, I have two requirements of a recipe: it has to involve summer stone fruit and it has to be so good it is worth turning on the oven in the blazing August heat. This fruit-laden, cake-like cobbler is both.
Prep for this recipe is quick, especially since nectarines don't need to be peeled. Unlike with other cobblers I've made, the butter doesn't have to be cut into the dry ingredients. Instead, the butter is browned, poured into the baking pan and topped with a buttermilk batter and a pile of lightly cooked nectarines.
As the cobbler bakes, the batter puffs up around the fruit, getting brown and crisp at the top, but staying soft and cakey underneath. It's hard to say if it beats out my previous favorite nectarine cobbler — they are both so good! — but served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, it is everything I could ask for in a baked summer dessert.
• Get the recipe: Brown Butter Nectarine Cobbler/Cake from the New York Times
Do you have a favorite cobbler recipe?
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Was super happy with this as I have an assortment of stone fruit from my CSA I want to use this weekend. But uh-oh...what is "Demerara sugar" and can I find it in my local grocery store??
wiki: natural brown sugar... :)
I am so with you. I am head over heels with stone fruit cobblers because they're quick and easy. I finally perfected my recipe -- I made it FIVE times in two weeks before I felt like it was done. (And, yes, I ate them all!) It's not so different than the NYT one, I guess. But, I prefer the sugar super restrained (I mean, the fruit time of year is so awesome!). So, here's my favorite.
Merideathx, here's a link to the package that I see at my local fancy grocer:
http://www.surlatable.com/product/PRO-23069/?affsrcid=Aff0001&mr:trackingCode=4EE68517-D9AD-DE11-93DB-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA&origin=pla&mr:adType=pla
I's got a slightly bigger grain than light brown sugar, but light brown sugar will work just fine if that's what's in your pantry or local grocery store.
Here's another attempt at a link since that one looks tricky:
http://tiny.cc/demerara