APPLE COBBLER- GLUTEN FREE

Ingredients for Cobbler topping:
¼ cup sorghum flour
¼ cup tapioca flour
¼ cup potato starch
¼ cup almond flour
1 tsp salt
4 Tbsp sugar
½ tsp cardamom
¼ tsp cloves, ground
¼ cup sour cream
3 Tbsp chilled, unsalted butter, cut into pieces

Combine all the gluten-free flours with the salt, sugar, cardamom, and cloves. Cut the pieces of butter into the flour until the mixture has the texture of coarse cornmeal. Spoon in the sour cream and stir with a rubber spatula, until it all just starts to come together. Stop stirring.
Put the completed dough between two sheets of parchment paper. Form a large ball of dough between the sheets, and then flatten it into a square. Do it gently. Set the dough square into the refrigerator and let it chill while you prepare the filling.

Apple filling:
4 pounds crisp, fresh apples
1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
¾ cup cane sugar
¼ tsp cloves, ground
2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375°. Peel the apples. Remove the cores of each of them. Cut the apples into small cubes. Place them in a 9 inch pan. Squeeze the lemon juice over the fruit. Sprinkle the sugar over the apples . Toss the ground cloves on top. Dribble the vanilla extract over it all. Stir it up.

The topping.. Retrieve the dough square from the refrigerator and carefully lay it over the apples. Bake for 35 minutes or until the topping is golden brown and is firm to the touch, the cobbler is done. Serve on it's own or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.