Take your cobbler to-go!
I created these to compliment the Deep-Dish Cookie Pie at our Memorial Day party.
Put in charge of dessert, I figured people wouldn’t want two chocolate selections. (Silly people. Don’t they realize two chocolate desserts are better than one?)
Thanks to their portability, these bars make really good breakfast bars, too.
Raspberry Cobbler Bars
(makes 8-14 bars)
- 1.5 cups spelt flour or oat flour (to make oat flour, you can grind oats in a food processor)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup applesauce (see notes, below)
- 1 and 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup brown sugar (see notes, below)
- 2 cups (8oz) fresh or frozen berries
- 2 T maple syrup or agave
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Stir together the first six ingredients. Scoop half of the dough into a small, oiled glass dish (or any small pan). In a separate bowl, stir together the other ingredients. Layer them into the pan, then top with the rest of the dough from the first pan. Bake for 35 minutes at 350F, then cool before cutting.
See the following page for the Calorie Information.
Fat and Sugar Notes:
These bars are fat-free. If you’re not a fan of fat-free baked goods (or just want a deeper, more buttery taste), I recommend replacing some or all of the applesauce with margarine or shortening. As for sugar, the subtly-sweet bars have the perfect sweetness if you’re eating them for breakfast, if you’re planning to top them with vegan ice cream or whipped cream, or if you don’t have much of a sweet tooth. If, however, you’re looking for more of a dessert-like (super-sweet) bar, you can increase the sugar to 1/2 cup and double the maple syrup. (Of course, you can also use stevia if you wish.) Personally, I really like these without any added sugar (except the maple syrup), and with coconut butter in place of half the applesauce. But try that version at your own risk!
Question of the Day:
What are your favorite snacks that don’t have chocolate?
Peanut butter? Pumpkin? Currently, I love Snickerdoodle Dip.
My favorite non-chocolate desserts usually include either coconut butter or a carrot-cake theme. But honestly? Most of my favorite desserts have chocolate! (Ooh, just thought of something: You can add chocolate chips to these bars!)
Wait. There are desserts without chocolate? 🙂 I’d have to say frozen mango chunks or homemade granola are my favorite sweet snacky things. Fruit pies are my favorite non-chocolate desserts to MAKE, though.
Yum! Don’t hate me for saying this, but I actually prefer fruit desserts to chocolate-y desserts during the summer time. Of course fruit and chocolate together is best 🙂
These look SO good! I don’t know how you come up with so many amazing recipes on a weekly basis! I think its definitely time for a CCK cookbook!
I always love pumpkin-based desserts…although I have a chocolate-pumpkin recipe planned for tomorrow!
I love rice cakes with PB and cinnamon!
Oooh these look tasty, raspberries are so in season at the moment over here, but we dont have cobbler! 🙁 Never heard of itbefore I went to America! May have to a whip up a batch of these..my favourite snack without chocolate? Gotta be fruit!
Another amazing recipe!!! 🙂
Wow those look so good!
My favorite snacks that don’t involve chocolate almost always either involve peanut butter or lemon. I love both way too much.
I made very similar bars with strawberries and coconut. So good!
hey katie! Great recipe!! thankyou! made this tonight but used sour cherries as the fruit cuz my parents pick them each summer and cram the freezer full of them! anyhow, it is so good, great! consistency! I did your coconut butter subsitution for half the applesauce and I didnt add any brown sugar but did put in a sprinking of stevia and my dad thought it was sweet enough too, not just me (always good to have a 2nd opinion!). I sprinkled some grape nuts on the top layer and i served it w/ sweetened sour cream on top too which was delish. thanks again! i always tell them where my recipes are comin from and my parents think that CCK is totally rad just by what theyve tasted!
I’m so glad you made it, Katy! LOL I warned you about that not-sweet version ;).
And now I’m craving some sour cherries… I don’t think I’ve ever had one, and I’m intrigued!
I’m so trying this with blueberries this weekend.
And I have to say thank you for the gluten-free, baked-good recipes. I recently had to adjust to this new way of eating and baking can be really difficult!
Oh you are so welcome!
And good luck with your new baking challenges… I felt so overwhelmed when I first had to change my style of cooking (i.e. when I became a vegan and couldn’t bake with eggs or dairy anymore) but it eventually turned out to be a good thing in that it widened my culinary horizons and exposed me to foods I’d never heard of before! Hopefully the same will happen to you in your new gf adventures :).
Just made these, and they are freakin delish! I halved the recipe and made two mini custard cobblers, cooking them at the same time because they’re really thick, and i just ate a tiny slice and it’s SO GOOD 🙂 my belly is happy right now!
oh yeah and i made these with strawberries instead of raspberries 🙂
I am so so so excited you made them!!! Strawberries sound delicious… I might need to make some with strawberries now too!
I made these with frozen blackberries since I didn’t have raspberries, and it was so tasty! great recipe!
I’m so excited you made them… and that they turned out well! 🙂
I used a bigger pan so I added another cup of blackberries, it made them super thick and filling! They didn’t last too long through….=]
Extra filling sounds like it could never be a bad thing! 😉
Yum! I’m going to go and make these with chia seeds 🙂
Do you make your oat flower w/a certain kind of oat or do you use rolled oats?
You can do either. I’ve done it both ways. (If I’m making my own, I make sure to pulverize it for a looooong time so it’s finely-ground as opposed to having big pieces of oat… unless, as in my flourless chocolate-chip cookie recipe, I actually WANT big pieces of oat.)
I had some plums that were about to go bad so I made these today! I used about half the brown sugar and they came out soooooo good!! I REALLY think the fruit paired with the cinnamon is plenty sweet for me! Soooo, next time I am going to make these without any added sugar! YUMMM! Thanks for the great recipe!