cobbler

I found a recipe on the internet that I’m going to recommend you do not make.

On Sunday, Father’s Day, I arrived home from the airport at about 3:45 and immediately began to make dinner for my dad, husband, and son.  Since I’d already been awake for 12 hours, I didn’t want to have to think too hard about what to make.

Since I have a peach tree that was full of ripe peaches, I decided to whip up a peach cobbler for dessert.

I wanted to be able to post the recipe so it needed to be somewhat different from the three peach cobbler/crumble recipes I already have posted here. For that reason, I turned to the web to find one that I could “make my own” and get done easily and quickly.

The recipe I stumbled upon first was the Pioneer Woman’s Peach Cobbler. Her version used frozen peaches and since I was using fresh, I figured that would be a perfect recipe to switch up. I made a few other minor changes, with the addition of spices and such, and popped it into the oven while I made the rest of the meal.

I’ve tried many of the Pioneer Woman’s recipes before and they’ve always been wonderful. I thought that this too would be a “sure thing.”

In fact, I’ve loved a couple of them so much that I reposted them, almost exactly as originally written. This Dip recipe and this Poppers recipe are two of my all-time favorites. So please do not take this as a bashing of the Pioneer Woman and her recipes – but this peach cobbler recipe is one that I can not endorse. No way, no how.

Instead, you should make one of the three peach cobbler/crisp recipes I’ve previously posted – one of the ones I should have made for Father’s Day.

Mason Jar Peach and Berry Cobbler

Peach-Blueberry Cobbler

Blueberry-Nectarine Crumble

So, what was the problem(s) with the recipe I tried?

The simple answer is that the peach to cobbler ratio was way off, too much cobbler and not enough fruit, as you can easily see for yourself in the photo above. Plus the enormous amount of sugar and the flour that was added to the fruit made it overly sweet and gummy. Finally, the cobbler itself was too heavy… way too much flour, it was tough, not at all sweet, and just plain yuck!

Proof of just how unappealing this dish was – neither Dave nor Connor touched the leftovers for three days, I finally toss it out yesterday.

So there you have it.  I have no doubt that some people, maybe some of you reading today, have run across recipes of mine that they would not make again and they would not recommend. No one is perfect, not even Food Network and internet stars like the Pioneer Woman.

I relied too heavily on my past experience and not enough on my knowledge when reading a recipe when I hastily picked this one to make.

Lesson learned.