In preparation for Valentine’s Day, (yes folks, it’s coming up faster than you think!) Ingredients, Inc. is going to share a fabulous recipe with us!  Want to know what’s even better about it?  It’s dessert and it has strawberries, I’m drooling already.

Alison Lewis is a nationally known Recipe Developer, Food Television and Media Spokesperson and Owner of Ingredients, Inc., a Food Consulting Company in Birmingham for 9 years. She is known for creating healthy, family-friendly recipes that are easy to prepare, and she offers great entertaining ideas on her blog, http://ingredientsinc.net. Her first cookbook, 400 Best Sandwich Recipes: Ideas for Every Meal and Occasion, will be internationally published this spring by Robert Rose Books. Alison’s recipes are frequently featured in well- known magazine publications, food companies, and cookbooks. Her recipes have been published in Southern Living, Cooking Light, Better Homes and Gardens, Birmingham Magazine, Clean Eating, Cuisine at Home, Oxygen, Yum Food and Yum Food for Kids. She has worked on recipes and media with companies such as Coca Cola, General Mills, Wisconsin Milk and Marketing Board, Kraft, Honeysuckle White, Kellogg’s, Whole Foods Market, Nestle and more. Alison is the mother of three children, an avid runner and does yoga in her spare time.

I am so excited to share one of my newest and most favorite recipes for Strawberry Cobbler just in time for Valentine’s Day to “Sandy A La Mode’s” readers. I have been following Sandy’s blog for a while, and I am a big fan. She has been so kind to answer questions from time to time regarding blogging as well as to allow me to “guest post” on her site today. My career is in recipe development and spokesperson work for magazines, food companies and public relation firms. I started my blog Ingredients, Inc. in the fall of 2008 sharing my favorite family-friendly recipes.

I developed this Strawberry Cobbler recipe for Valentine’s Day for a special Valentine’s dessert for my family, but it’s also one of the recipes I will be teaching in my Valentine’s Kids cooking class in early February. This recipe turned out great on the first try with the perfect flavor of strawberries and texture of the oat topping. It’s super easy to prepare, heart warming and bursting with strawberry flavor. When my three children tasted it, they said, “Mom, this is the best thing you have ever made.” I took that as a huge compliment. Serve this to your special Valentine this year, and you will get many hugs in return.

Strawberry Cobbler

Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients
4 cups fresh strawberries, sliced
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup dry oats
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
Vanilla ice cream (optional)

Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Spread strawberries evenly in a lightly greased 2-quart baking dish; set aside.
3. Combine flour, sugar, oats and baking powder in a medium bowl, mixing well. Add egg and cinnamon, stirring gently with a fork to combine. Sprinkle flour mixture evenly over strawberries. Drizzle with butter.
4. Bake in preheated oven 40 to 45 minute or until lightly browned and bubbly. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream, if desired.

Thanks for this delicious sounding and looking dessert, Alison!  I can’t wait to make this for my hubby!  🙂  Hope you’re all having a great weekend!