Apple and Pear Cobbler
 
Makes 1 (10-inch) cobbler
Ingredients
Filling
  • 2 pears, peeled, cored, and chopped
  • 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
  • ¾ cup ginger beer
  • ½ cup dried cherries
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup whiskey*
  • 1 teaspoon apple pie spice
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Topping
  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons sugar, plus more for sprinkling
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ⅔ cup ginger beer
  • ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400°.
For filling:
  1. In a 10-inch cast-iron skillet, stir together pears, apples, ginger beer, cherries, sugar, whiskey, and pie spice. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until apples start to soften, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat. Sprinkle cornstarch over mixture and stir to combine.
For topping:
  1. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in center of flour mixture; add ginger beer and butter. Mix just until dry ingredients are moistened. Drop dough onto fruit mixture; sprinkle lightly with sugar.
  2. Bake until browned and bubbly, 25 to 30 minutes.
Notes
*We used Standard Proof Texas Pecan Rye whiskey.
Recipe by Taste of the South at https://tasteofthesouthmagazine.com/apple-pear-cobbler/