Easy Peach Cobbler Recipe

This homemade Southern peach cobbler recipe is so easy to make – combine a few ingredients for the magic cake layer, add spices to canned peaches, add melted butter, bake, and voila! This amazing dessert will be your new favorite Southern dish that everyone will love- even if they don’t like fruit desserts!

Jump to:

• 🍑 What Is Peach Cobbler?
• 💖 Why You’ll Like This Recipe
• 📝 Ingredients
• 👩🏻‍🍳 How To Make Peach Cobbler
• Baking Tip
• 🫙 How To Store Peach Cobbler
• 🤷🏻‍♀️ FAQs
• 📖 Recipe

🍑 What Is Peach Cobbler?

What exactly is a cobbler, you ask. Good question.

According to one of my favorite research websites, Wikipedia, the definition is:

“…a variety of dishes, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom, consisting of a fruit or savoury filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or pie crust before being baked. Some cobbler recipes, especially in the South, resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie with both top and bottom crust.”

So…basically, a peach cobbler is a lot like a peach pie – only better!

Most cobblers that I am used to only require three ingredients for the crust – self-rising flour, sugar, and either milk or buttermilk. For the filling, you can simply use a can of pie filling. Oh, and we can’t forget a stick of butter. 

I prefer to use a can of peaches in natural juices when I make peach cobbler. (It’s so much easier than preparing fresh peaches.) I add a little sugar and a couple of spices and pop the delicious cobbler in the oven. It has become one of our favorite peach recipes.

💖 Why You’ll Like This Recipe

• It’s delicious! Juicy peaches pair with a sweet homemade cobbler topping with a rich butter taste in one easy-to-make sweet treat.
• It’s the easiest way to make a cobbler! It’s made with canned peaches saving time and work. (There’s no need to pull out your pairing knife to remove peach skins!)
• You don’t have to wait for peach season. Because it’s made with canned peaches, you can make it any time of year.

Let’s look at how to make this easy peach cobbler dessert, shall we?

📝 Ingredients

You can make this yummy, peach-filled cobbler in less than an hour by following these easy steps. Before you get started, make sure that you have the following ingredients:

• butter
• self-rising flour
• granulated sugar
• buttermilk
• peaches in natural juices
• ground cinnamon
• vanilla

👩🏻‍🍳 How To Make Peach Cobbler

Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

While the oven is warming up, melt the butter by placing it in a 9-in square baking dish or a glass pie pan and place it in the oven. For a rustic look, you could use a 9-inch cast-iron skillet. No matter which you choose to bake the cobbler, be sure to keep an eye on it. You only want it to melt, not brown.

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl mix together the topping ingredients: flour, sugar, and buttermilk. Set the topping aside for now.

Next, combine peaches, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla.

Remove the melted butter from the oven if you have not already and spoon the batter mixture into the bottom of the pan. Drain the peaches and spoon the sliced peaches on top of the batter.

It may seem strange to put the topping on the bottom and the bottom peach later on top, but trust me. The peaches will sink and the top crust rises and it’s simply delicious. It’s like magic!

Bake the cobbler for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown on top.

Allow the cobbler to cool for approximately 30 minutes before serving.

Scoop out the warm, delicious peach cobbler into bowls and top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, Cool Whip, or whipped topping. Watch as it magically disappears!

Baking Tip

I recommend that you place the whole cobbler on a baking pan or baking sheet before you bake it. It will make it much easier to place it in the oven and remove it. It will also help catch any drippings should the cobbler spill over.

🫙 How To Store Peach Cobbler

For any leftover peach cobbler, cover it with plastic wrap and store it in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. You can reheat servings of cobbler in the microwave on HIGH for 45 seconds. Be sure to cover it so that it doesn’t make a mess.

🤷🏻‍♀️ FAQs

Hungry for more? Check out these other delicious recipes:

• Mini S’mores Pies – All the great taste of the campfire favorite, without the campfire and a lot tastier!
• Easy Apple Dumplings – This is that famous recipe for apple slices wrapped in crescent dough and baked in a citrus soda mixture.
• Old Fashioned Tea Cakes – These are just like what your grandma made if your grandma was from the deep South. They’re so delish!
• Orange Cookies – One of my favorite cookies that my mom makes. They’re light, citrusy and refreshing. (Can cookies be refreshing?)
• Blackberry Cobbler – This cobbler is made using fresh blackberries and comes together quickly.

📖 Recipe

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