Ingredients

*This recipe makes 6 8 oz. ramekins of fruit cobbler.

Cobbler Crust
2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup firmly packed golden brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
6 Tbs. (3/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 egg
3/4 cup heavy cream

Fruit Filling
6 cups various berries, rhubarb, apples, etc.
1/2 cup raw sugar or honey substitute
2 T flour
1/2 t cinnamon

Preparation

Cobbler Crust

Ingredients

2 lbs macadamia nuts
1 cup sugar
2 eggs

Preparation

Blend nuts, sugar and eggs in blender until pasty.
Form into 2-inch cookies and place on cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.

Dennis and I did some recipe testing tonight, trying out our ideas for fish cakes, seafood stew and "pots de creme" (pronounced po du krem in French), or as I like to call them, chocolate pots of cream! :-) Maybe pots of chocolate cream would be more accurate... At any rate, I haven't tasted the dessert yet- they get baked in the oven for a while, then need to cool and be chilled since they're served cold, so I'm just banking on the fact that Dennis has saved me a pot or two. Cross your fingers!

Ingredients

Topping
1 cup flour
1 cup oatmeal (old-fashioned, not quick cooking)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 t of salt
8 T butter (one stick, unsalted, diced)

Filling
1 T sugar
1 T flour
5 large pears
9 ounces of bittersweet chocolate chips (Ghirardelli 60% cacao)

Preparation

• Mix ingredients (except pears) with your hands until it starts to form a dough that clumps, but still falls apart.
• Peel pears, remove cores, and dice. Mix with sugar, flour, and chocolate chips.
  

Ingredients

These quantities will make enough for 4 individual sized pies
Multiply by 3 to make 12 individual sized pies during one prep period

Pie Crust
3 cups pastry flour
1 cup shortening
1 t salt
1 cup ice cold water

Fruit Filling
6 cups chopped rhubarb
1 1/2 cups raw sugar
1/4 cup flour

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Pie Crust
Mix flour and salt.
Cut shortening into flour mixture until shortening is in small clumps.
Dribble cold water in slowly, clumping the mixture together until it forms a soft dough.