Recipes: Banana Peach Cobbler

Time for an easy apartment/boyfriend-approved dessert to go with our appetizer and dinner recipes! If you're like us, you probably try to eat healthy, and buy fruits and veggies. Unfortunately, the fruit doesn't stick around for long unless you freeze it. Our latest overripe bowl of fruit included a couple of peaches, nectarines and some very questionably mushy bananas.

The peaches gave me an idea: Time for some peach cobbler.

(Fortunately, we also happened to have a half-eaten carton of vanilla ice cream in the freezer, but don't worry... we won't tell anyone if you decide to make a trip to the store to splurge on a new one.)

I decided to be bold and throw the bananas into the mix. The recipe was based on this one from allrecipes.com. We ate cobbler for a week (and no, not just for dessert). Try it and let us know if you enjoyed it as much as we did!


Ingredients:

• 4 peaches/nectarines
• 3 overripe bananas
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice

• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, sliced and softened
• 1/4 cup boiling water

• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
• 3 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Step 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Step 2. Bring a medium pot of water to a boil on the stove. Blanch your peaches and nectarines by placing them in the boiling water for 30 seconds to a minute. Remove them from the heat. Peel, pit and cut them into thin slices. Chop your mushy bananas.

Step 3. Combine the fruit in a large mixing bowl with 1/4 cup white sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, lime juice, and cornstarch. Carefully - so as not to make the bananas any mushier, mix with your hands to coat evenly.







Step 4. Spread evenly across the bottom of a 2 quart baking dish. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes.

Step 5. While that's baking, combine flour, 1/4 cup white sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar, baking soda, and salt in the large mixing bowl to make the topping. Add softened butter and combine with your fingertips, until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in water until just combined.

Step 6. Remove baking dish from oven, and drop spoonfuls of topping over the fruit. Sprinkle entire cobbler with the sugar and cinnamon mixture. Place pieces of sliced, chilled butter in pockets across the topping. Bake until topping is golden, about 25 minutes.









Ta da!