Dutch Oven Cobbler Recipe
I love Dutch Oven cooking! My “specialty” is Dutch Oven Cobbler. I’ve been making it since I was a Boy Scout back in the “70s” and I make it now with my son’s Boy Scout troop. Here is my recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 packages of yellow cake mix
- 1 stick of softened or melted butter (unsalted is best)
- 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 4 cans of fruit pie filling (apple, peach, cherry, blueberry, pear)
Preparation
Some people line their Dutch Oven with aluminum foil to make cleanup easier, but I am a purist and prefer to cook directly in a well-seasoned oven.
Pour the cans of fruit into the oven. I like to mix 2 types of fruit – 2 cans of apple with 2 cans of cherry or 2 cans of peach with 2 cans of blueberry (my personal favorite!). I put 1 type of fruit in 1/2 the oven and the other type on the other half, keeping them unmixed.
Dry mix the 2 packages of yellow cake mix, vegetable oil, stick of butter (softened or melted) and egg in a bowl. The mixture will be crumbly and dry. Spread it evenly over the top of the fruit.
Bake in Dutch Oven – arrange a layer of coals the diameter of the oven. Place the oven on the coals. Add a layer of coals on the top of the oven. Bake for 45 minutes. You can start checking it at 35 minutes. It is finished when the cake has risen and the top of the cake is a nice golden toasty brown.
Makes me hungry thinking about it!