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Beer Berry Cobbler Recipe in a Camp Cast Iron Dutch Oven

This recipe will work great with most any fruit. Blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and even peaches, apples, pears, and the like. I’ve even created this with fine-chopped rhubarb. I’ll present the recipe by using blackberries.
You can use either use fresh fruit or frozen fruit: but…you’ll need to let the frozen fruit thaw before you use it in this recipe. Though things like milk are considered “wet” and sugar is considered “dry,” keeping certain ingredients separate until ready to cook is important.
If you pre-prepare this recipe at home, you will only pack a mixing bowl, stirring spatula, and a 1-cup measuring cup with you to camp.
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Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 6

Equipment

  • 1 Microplane (Zester/Grater)
  • 2 Measuring Spoons: 1 Teaspoon and 1 Tablespoon
  • 3 Measuring Cups ½ Cup, ¼ Cup, and 1 Cup
  • 1 Mixing Bowl large enough for 2 cups of flour and 2 cups of milk
  • 1 Mixing Spatula
  • 2 Gallon Zipper Bags

Ingredients
  

The Wet Ingredients

  • 4 Cups Blackberries Fresh or Frozen
  • ½ Cup Sugar
  • ¼ Cup Beer
  • 1-2 Teaspoons Lemon Zest

The Dry Ingredients

  • 2 Cups White Flour
  • 1 ½ Cups Sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt

Pack To Camp Ingredients

  • 2 Cups Milk
  • 8 Tablespoons Butter

Instructions
 

Pre-Prepare at Home

  • Set out a 1-gallon zipper bag or other container and add all of the wet ingredients; mix thoroughly. Store in the ice chest, cooler, or refrigerator until ready to bake.
  • Set out a 1-gallon zipper bag or other container and add all of the dry ingredients; mix thoroughly. Store this until you are ready to bake.
  • Pack the milk and butter in the ice chest or cooler until you are ready to bake.

In-Camp Bake Steps

  • Set 24-30 charcoal briquettes to fire. Let them heat until they are hot and ready.
  • Set a 12-inch camp cast iron Dutch oven over 24-30 hot-and-ready charcoal briquettes.
  • Add the stick of butter to the Dutch oven. We need this to be fry-ready. Careful!! DON’T BURN THE BUTTER.
  • As soon as you put the butter in the Dutch oven, mix the dry ingredients with 2 cups of milk. Use a mixing bowl to stir them together very well. This is our cobbler batter.
  • Once the butter is hot and fry-ready, pour the batter into the Dutch oven and over the butter. It’ll be bubbling around the edges.
  • Once the batter is in the Dutch oven, add the wet ingredients to the top of the batter. DO NOT MIX the wet ingredients in with the batter; just evenly add, drop, or spread the berry mixture to the top of the batter.
  • Return the lid to the Dutch oven and remove the Dutch oven from the hot charcoal briquettes. Add 16 hot briquettes to the top of the Dutch oven and set the Dutch oven over 8 hot briquettes. (24 total briquettes: 16 on the lid and 8 under the oven).
  • Let this bake for 10-minutes. Then, turn the Dutch oven: Turn the lid 1/3rd turn in one direction and the whole pot 1/3rd of a turn in the other direction.
  • Let this bake for another 10-minutes (20-minutes) total. Visually check the cobbler.
  • If you feel the cobbler needs more time, return the lid to the pot and give the pot another turn. Wait five minutes and check again. Do this every five minutes until the cobbler is done.

Notes

Once the cobber is baked, remove all of the briquettes from the top of the Dutch oven and from under the Dutch oven. Enjoy this dessert over ice cream or whipped cream.
This is likely one of the easiest recipes you’ll prepare in your camp cast iron Dutch oven. It may be easy, easy, easy…but it’s delicious, delicious, delicious. It’s great in the summer with some vanilla ice cream. And it’s good in the winter too. Hey…you want to know what’s great about this recipe in the winter? If you have snow at camp, make some snow ice cream for this dessert.
This is a crowd-pleaser for sure. You’ll likely feed 4-6 people with this one.
Creating this recipe at home in a home Dutch oven is very doable as well. If you do bake this recipe at home and in your home’s oven, leave the lid off the Dutch oven while you bake.
CHEERS!
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