Merrissa Hardy

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Vintage Recipe: Fruit Cobbler

There are few things more synonymous with summer than fruit cobbler. I found this recipe shoved in the back of an old recipe card box, so we tried it. It was so good we decided to take a couple of pans of this fruit cobbler to the lake for the holiday weekend. It was a hit! 

Fun fact: when I first came across this recipe, I thought, "how old can this recipe be? It calls for boxed cake mix, so it can't be that old". So I had to turn to google to find out when boxed cake mix started to become a thing. I was surprised to find that the first cake mix was patented in 1933!

A couple notes:

I used the entire 15oz box of cake mix

A 16 oz bag of frozen peaches works great; add a single layer between the pineapple and cake mix, and then the rest on top

Instead of 1/4 cup of butter, I used 1/2 cup

This baked perfectly at the 40-minute mark

Fruit Cobbler

Layer:

  • 1 - 20oz can crushed pineapple

  • 12 oz frozen peaches

  • 13 oz yellow cake mix

  • More peaches

  • Coarsely chopped pecans

  • Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar

  • 1/4 cup melted butter

Directions:

  1. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes or more

Recipe by no name on recipe card

Xx, Riss

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