Cream Cheese Strawberry Cobbler

There are some things in life that just have to be experienced and one of them is this scrumptious Cream Cheese Strawberry Cobbler.  Do you remember as kids what it was like to wake up to the aroma of baking in the house.  How the smell of freshly baked cookies, pie, or even cobbler made you get out of bed and run to the kitchen to see what was cookin’?  There are so many times when my son was a teenager that he just didn’t want to get out of bed.  But one way I could lure him out was bakin’ this favorite dish right here.  He LOVES this cobbler with a little ice cream or whipped cream on top.  He may not have been real talkative at the table during those teen years but at least this got him out of his room and put a smile on his face, but only for a second of course!

Where Did Cobblers Come From Anyway?

It appears that our cherished cobbler was an improvisation of the beloved pie.  According to Wikipedia, the cobbler “originated in the British American colonies. English settlers were unable to make traditional suet puddings due to lack of suitable ingredients and cooking equipment, so instead covered a stewed filling with a layer of uncooked plain biscuits, scone batter or dumplings, fitted together.”

They have many names and depending on where you are from you might hear them called tart, pie, torte, pandowdy, grunt, slump, buckles, crisp, croustade, bird’s nest pudding or crow’s nest pudding.  

How Do You Know It’s A Cobbler?

This old-fashioned fruit dessert usually features a fruit filling baked with a crust.  The crust can be solid or  either a solid sheet or “cobbled” together as in this Cream Cheese Strawberry Cobbler recipe. Usually the crust is placed over the fruit, but it can also go either on top or the bottom and sometimes both depending on your preference.  This article explains the difference between the many different versions.

Now let’s get on to cookin’ so your kitchen can smell like heaven…

The Ingredients You Will Need for This Strawberry Cobbler Recipe are:

• one cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup swerve
• one cup milk or greek yogurt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• ½ t. cinnamon, optional
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
• 2 cups strawberries cut into halves or thirds
• 1/2 stick butter
• cream cheese 4 oz cut in squares or more depending on how much cream cheese you want*

Tip About The Cream Cheese

*If you want the cream cheese to be melted a bit more into the cobbler versus what I made, then leave the cream cheese out to soften real good before putting in on top of the cobbler for baking.  We like a big chunk of cream cheese with our servings but some people like it blended it more.  Do what cranks your tractor 🙂

How To Make Cream Cheese Strawberry Cobbler Recipe

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Pour melted butter into the bottom of a 9×13-inch glass baking dish.

Mix milk or yogurt, flour, swerve, baking powder and vanilla extract and cinnamon (both optional) together in a small bowl;

It will look something like this

Plop pieces/scoops over the butter in the baking dish. Do not mix the butter and the batter.

Arrange strawberry pieces on top of the batter. You can spread the batter a bit if you like but don’t mix it with the butter.  Place the cream cheese squares around the strawberries.  

Now here is where you could go crazy with the cream cheese if you like.  You can see in the picture my cream cheese squares are still a little solid so if you wanted them to spread out then put softened cream cheese in there at this point.

Bake in preheated oven until top is nice and golden brown and edges are bubbling. May need to cover with foil if edges brown but no bubbling, 30 to 45 minutes.

By now I am feeling a bit woozy from the beautiful aroma floating around my kitchen.  And I can’t wait to add my vanilla ice cream and dig into this mouth watering cobbler.  I hope you can make as soon as possible!!

Cream Cheese Strawberry Cobbler

Make your kitchen smell like Heaven on Earth when you make this Cream Cheese Strawberry Cobbler. Served with ice cream and you have the perfect treat.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: strawberry

Servings: 8

Calories: 137kcal

Ingredients

• 1/2 stick butter
• 1 cup All purpose flour
• 1 cup Swerve or sugar or your favorite sweetener
• 1 cup milk or greek yogurt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon Optional
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Optional
• 2 cups strawberries cut into halves or thirds
• 4 oz cream cheese softened and cut into squares

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees Pour melted butter into the bottom of a 9x13-inch glass baking dish.
• Mix milk or yogurt, flour, swerve, baking powder and vanilla extract and cinnamon (both optional) together in a small bowl; scoop out over the butter in the baking dish. Do not mix the butter and the batter.
• You can smooth the batter down a little if you like without mixing it and the butter and then arrange strawberry pieces on top of the batter. Place the cream cheese squares around the strawberries.
• Bake in preheated oven until top is nice and golden brown and edges are bubbling. May need to cover with foil if edges brown but no bubbling, 30 to 45 minutes.

Notes

If you want a different sweetener than Swerve here is a list of a bunch of different choices with handy conversions 

Nutrition

Calories: 137kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 86mg | Potassium: 133mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 245IU | Vitamin C: 21mg | Calcium: 73mg | Iron: 1mg

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