Stones !! What stones ?-Stone fruit cobbler

With the Summer comes all kinds of things to do !! Free concerts, farmers markets, fresh fruits in season and a whole lot of fun. This year’s summer is also extra special, the WORLD CUP is going on in South Africa. I wish i was there, however I’ll make do with watching it online or the tube If I’m at home. At this point I’ll also like to announce that I’m Ivorian for the next few weeks since the Super Eagles Super Chickens of Nigeria suck so bad. Ok, lets get back to summer. With summer around lots of fresh fruits are abound. Peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, cherries and a host of others are readily available. There’s nothing like biting into juicy ripe peach with the juices dripping down your chin. With the abundance of stone fruits, I decided to get a couple of pounds of different types and make a cobbler.

Stone fruit Cobbler

Crust

1 cup of almond meal

1 cup of flour

1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 cup of cold butter, diced

1/2 cup of cream

1 1/2 tsp of baking powder

Fruit Mix

1 lb of cherries

15 oz of peaches

10 oz of apricots

14 oz of plums

juice of 1/2 lemon

zest of 1 lemon

1/3 cup of sugar

3 tbsp of cornstarch

1/2 tsp of cinnamon

1/2 tsp of cardamom

1/4 tsp of salt

Preheat oven to 350°F

Set a pot of water to boil and while you are at it, create an ice bath. This is being done to remove the skin from the fruit. In my Alton Brown voice, ” It might not be totally good eats”. Immerse each fruit into the pot of boiling water for at least 10 seconds and place in the ice bath.Once all the fruit has been prepped, proceed to remove the skin and cut each fruit into bite sized pieces. Depending on the variety of the stone you buy, the skin might be easy or more troublesome to remove.

Once all the fruit has been cut up,add them in a bowl with all the other fruit mix ingredients.

To make the crust, add dry ingredients together and with two forks or a pastry blender work the butter into the flour mix until it resembles small peas. Add the cream to the mix and work stir until just mixed together.Spoon a little of the batter into your baking container and spoon the fruit mix on top of it. Cover with the remaining batter. In my case, I baked them in 6oz ramekins to make individual sized portions. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Allow to cool down a little bit or if you are like me, you dig into a pipping hot one. Mint chip ice cream will be a good topping for this.