Blueberry Cobbler-ish

I ended up here because I wanted to make a cherry clafoutis. Why? Because I like saying clafoutis. It makes me smile. So does pithivier. As does pamplemousse. French words are delightful so I was in the mood to make something French. But I didn’t have any cherries. Or eggs. I had blueberries and wanted something sweet, warm, comforting. To the Google I went, per usual.

I didn’t want muffins or bread or a pie. I wanted easy and quick and pantry friendly. With all of those conditions, I kept coming up against American cobblers. Still too hard and if I didn’t have eggs I certainly didn’t have any buttermilk. I almost gave up but then hit YouTube and John Kanell at Preppy Kitchen saved the day with his Blueberry Cobbler recipe. It was so easy I was almost convinced but such was the obstinance of my laziness it was still too hard.

Luckily, The Pioneer Woman was right there to get me over the line. She’s all about easy and had such a simple ratio to her recipe I committed it to memory before the video was even over. That right there is my kind of cooking. But I knew that her amounts were going to be too much for just two of us so I needed to think for a second.

And such was the birth of a Frankenstein recipe. It’s pretty much someone else’s but not exactly and it is very much built from the things I have laying around the kitchen. I realized that neither of those recipes are a traditional cobbler. They’re both a clafoutis without eggs. I was getting most of what I wanted and it was going to be even easier than I thought. Man, if only all of life worked out so well.

Armed with Ree’s ratios and John’s clever butter trick I ended up with a really great, really simple dessert that I can already see is endlessly flexible. It will work later this summer with strawberries and blackberries. It will take cherries as a clafoutis imposter. It isn’t a cobbler but it isn’t a clafoutis. It could have been the “Cuppa Cuppa Cuppa Cobbler” but I was making a half batch. It’s probably more of a “Clafruity” but in the end I decided on “Cobbler-ish” because I’m not French even though sometimes I wish I were.