Cobblers, Crisps, and Crumbles
If you're wondering what sets all of these desserts apart, your not alone. Here is a nice little break down of these fruity down-home comfort desserts.A Cobbler is a deep-dish fruit dessert with a fruit filling poured over a batter that rises when baked. The batter forms as a dumpling within the cobbler as well as a crust for the top. The cobbler is somewhat similar to a pie with the exception that the crust is thicker and the crust is traditionally placed only on top. However, over the years, cobbler recipes have evolved with the crust either on the bottom or on top. The cobbler is typically served warm with whipped cream or ice cream.
The Crisp is a sweet dessert made with baked fruit as the bottom layer, with a streusel-like topping made from a combination of flour, brown sugar, oatmeal, nuts, spices and butter that is crumbly and looks like coarse meal that is spread over the baked fruit. The crisp is commonly referred to as a "fruit crisp" or as a crisp described by the name of the fruit in the dessert. Crisps do not have a bottom crust and the topping, when baked, becomes crisp and crunchy. Although it can be served cold, it is most often served as a warm dessert with softly whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
A Crumble is a dessert with a crumb topping made from flour, sugar, and butter combined into a mixture that is sprinkled over sliced fruit and then baked. The topping is basically made with pastry ingredients except it doesn't contain any liquid. When the crumble bakes the butter melts and mixes with the flour and sugar to create a crunchy, crumbly topping. A crumble is very similar to a crisp except that the topping for a crisp generally contains oats and often nuts, giving it a coarser texture that the crumbles toppings.
The traditional crumble topping contains flour, sugar, and butter but may also include oats, nuts, and spices. As more of these ingredients are added, the crumble becomes even more similar to a crisp. A crumble also resembles a cobbler, which has a fruit filling with a top crust and no bottom crust. The difference being that top crust of the cobbler contains a leavening agent such as baking powder which gives it more of a smooth bread type texture rather than crumbly.
A Buckle is a sweet dessert made from a yellow batter, resembling cake batter, with the filling mixed in with the batter. Typically a berry filling is placed on top of the batter, then topped with a streusel type topping. The batter rises up as it bakes and the berries and streusel topping sink at uneven intervals, forming a buckled affect in the cake.
Originally, the buckle was made as a single layer cake topped with blueberries. However, over the years a variety of berries, fruits and toppings have been added to make different varieties of this cake-like dessert.In some buckle recipes, the berries are folded into the batter and in some the berries are spread on top. It is often made with blueberries and another fruit combined into the cake and topped with the streusel coating.
Fruits* Favorite Combinations
Apple Strawberry Raspberry Peach
Peach Raspberry Lemon Blueberry
Blueberry Mango Strawberry Mango
Blackberry Plum Triple Berry (Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry)
Apple Apricot
Here are a few of our most requested items:
-Southern Peach Cobbler -Blueberry Crumble -Apple Crisp
-Blackberry Buckle -Triple Berry Crumble -Pumpkin Streusel Crisp
-Peach Blueberry Crisp -Cherry Cobbler -Peach Raspberry Crumble
-Blueberry, Peach, Cherry, or Apple Cream Cheese Brown Sugar Streusel nut Crumbles
5" round buckles $8 8" round buckles $10 10" round buckles 12$
9x9" pan cobblers, crisps, crumbles start at $10
9x13" Starts at $15
Prices include one fruit choice, $1 each additional fruit
*In winter when fruit supplies are more limited, a combination of fresh AND frozen fruit (but never canned) may be used.
**All of these flavors and more are available in bar form such as our Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars with Streusel topping.
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