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Slow Cooker Recipe
Black and Blue Cobbler
When Phyllis was featured on CNN this summer, she asked me to help her prepare some recipes I had tested for the Fix It and Forget It cookbooks. The Black and Blue Cobbler is one of my favorite recipes. I loved preparing it during the summer with fresh blueberries and blackberries from our local farmers market. The day that I bought the berries, they were very plentiful at the market stand, so I bought extra and froze them.
I thought about this recipe again recently and remembered my frozen berries. This is a great way to bring a bit of the summer’s bounty into some cold winter days. So pull out those frozen berries, warm up your slow cooker, dab on some ice cream and enjoy a taste of summer as the snow is flying!
Black and Blue Cobbler
Fix It and Forget It Cookbook Revised and Updated, page 247
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 2 – 2 ½ hours
Ideal Slow Cooker size – 5 qt.
Makes 6 servings
1 cup flour
¾ cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
2 eggs, beaten
2 Tbsp. milk
2 Tbsp.Vegetable oil
2 cups fresh (or frozen!) blueberries
2 cups fresh (or frozen) blackberries
¾ cup water
1 tsp. grated orange peel
¾ cup sugar
1. Combine flour, ¾ cup sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl.
2. Combine eggs, milk, and oil in a separate bowl. Stir into dry ingredients until moistened.
3. Spread the batter evenly over bottom of greased slow cooker.
4. In saucepan, combine berries, water, orange peel, and ¾ cup sugar. Bring to boil.
5. Remove from heat and pour over batter. Cover.
6. Cook on High 2-2 ½ hours, or until toothpick inserted into batter comes out clean. Turn off cooker. Uncover and let stand 30 minutes before serving.
7. Serve with ice cream and some nutmeg sprinkled on top. Enjoy!
Would love to try some of your recipes but I need the nutritional info for health planning for my husband and myself. Most websites have calories and other info at the end of each recipe. Thanks!
this one looks wonderful- if I am just not looking in the right place let me know and I apologize. Thanks!
Can’t wait to try this!
I have some triple berries in the freezer. I’m going to try that.
I was just wondering how this would turn out if I used WHEAT FLOUR instead of regular flour and SWEET ‘N LOW instead of regular sugar. My daughter is on a NO flour, No sugar or No Sodium diet, and this sounds like a great dessert to try. The salt in this recipe would be fine.
Thank you
@Lisa: last I knew wheat flour is still flour, don’t know how that makes a difference to your daughter unless you do not want the gluten, in which case use buckwheat flour.
Thanks Wendy, she just can’t have bleached or unbleached flour. The doctor said when cooking and eating bread products make sure it’s 100 % wheat, and no High Frustose Corn Syrup added to the bread.
I like the recipe and it sounds easy enough but what if you don’t have a slow cooker? Just simmer at a low temp for same time? Please give advise for those who don’t have a slow cooker.
> I would suggest just buying a clow cooker! They are inexpensive, and once you’ve tried it, you’ll wonder how you ever cooked without it!!! I am a widow, living alone, and I own 4 slow cookers–yes, 4! I don’t often use them for myself, but when I have family visiting, which is often, it is not unusual for all 4 of my slow cookers to be in use at the same time. You can do so much with them!
Looking forward to trying this recipe. I’ve spent years trying to come up with a recipe my husband’s grandmother used to make for him. I know she didn’t have a crock pot, but this sounds very similar to what he wants. Tomorrow is hamburgers in the crock pot.
Easiest Cherry Cobbler Cake Ever
1 box golden cake mix-dry
1 can cherry pie filling
1 can crushed pineapple 16oz-drained
1 cup butter
1 cup walnuts chopped
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray cooking oil in bottom of 13×9 in. pan.
Pour pineapple and cherries into pan. Pour dry cake mix on top of fruit to cover. Place small dabs of butter all over top of cake mix. Sprinkle with nuts.
Bake in oven uncovered for 50 min. at 350 degrees.
going to try the cherry pinepiale sounds delicious.
Um yesss…loved this recipe! We had friends over the other night and I made this (perfect b/c I also have a 10 month old baby to run around after), I also added raspberries in addition to the blackberries and blueberries. My guest has already emailed me asking for the recipe:)
Looks great but I’d like the nutritional info on this….. thanks!!
I tried this and it was a complete disaster! Had friends over and asked one of them to bring her new crock pot as I had pulled pork in mine.. she brought hers and we put the Black and Blue Cobbler in hers. After 3 hours it was still wet and doughy — my friend also brought her new pressure cooker and for fun we cooked a roast with veggies to see how the thing worked… after 3.5 hours I poured the wet/runny cobbler into a baking pan and threw it into a 350 degree oven for 1 hour… came out really good. But we laughed that we cooked a roast with veggies in 38 minutes and it took 4.5 hours – a pan, a crock pot and the oven to make 1 cobbler.
Not to blather on and on but I discovered her heating element is in the sides of her crock pot — as per her user booklet — my heating element is on the bottom of my crock pot – as per my user booklet.
I had no idea the heating elements are not all on the bottom.
I plan to try it again soon with my crock pot.
I have made this a couple of times and it is a huge hit! EVERYONE who tastes it wants the recipe. I am not a big fan of a heavy nutmeg taste, so I increased the cinnamon and decreased the nutmeg. Also, I have tried it with all blackberries since they were on sale. Still yummy, but I like the combination of the them and the blackberries the best. This will surely go down as a family favorite!
I found this recipe in my Fix-it and Forget-it cookbook! Can’t wait to try it. For the past 2 days by cobblers aren’t coming out well in my oven. I believe it needs to be worked on! Anyway…I’m so glad I have 2 crock-pots! ^_^ I can cook dinner in one and dessert in another! Thank you so much for posting this recipe, and also making a cookbook! You Rock!
I recently became an empty nester and still have trouble cooking for one. Can these leftovers be frozen?
I made this last night for my Valentine. He stuffed himself on the main course & didn’t even make it to this, but I sent him some for his lunch today. There really are no words for how good this is!
Just the thing for Sunday afternoons, for evening dessert.