The Best Peach Cobbler Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Which is better for peach cobbler, canned or frozen peaches? ›

If using frozen peaches, thaw, chop, and blot them dry before using. Readers have raved about this dessert using frozen, thawed peaches. Canned peaches are not ideal because they're already too soft and mushy.

How do you thicken peach cobbler? You will need to toss the peaches with plenty of cornstarch before baking. The cornstarch will thicken the juices so that your cobbler doesn't come out runny. Make sure you see the filling vigorously bubbling up before pulling it out of the oven.

To be clear, you can use any fruit for making cobbler, but using canned fruit or, worse, canned pie filling can result in a sickly sweet cobbler with a gummy filling. Try this: Fresh fruit is grand, but frozen fruit works too.

Making a cobbler is one of the easier desserts that you can make. First make the filling by combining peeled peach slices, white and brown sugar, tapioca starch or cornstarch, a touch of acid like raspberry vinegar or lemon juice, vanilla and almond extract, salt, and some spices like cinnamon, paprika and nutmeg.

Frozen peaches don't need to be thawed before adding them to baked dishes because the oven's heat will gently defrost them as the recipe cooks. You may want to add extra thickener to absorb the excess liquid, though, or let the recipe bake for an extra 5 minutes to cook off the extra moisture.

Mistake: Serving too soon

We know, it's hard to resist slicing into your peach creation the minute it comes out of the oven. Again, patience. You need to let the cobbler cool and let the syrup thicken. It'll be worth the wait.

You take a clean tooth pick and poke it into the batter section of the cobbler. If the toothpick comes out clean, it's done. If there's raw batter clinging to it, bake it for a bit longer.

If you use enough batter to completely cover the fruit, you'll end up with a cobbler that's far too bready, more like an upside-down cake.

Blind Bake

The most common way to ward off a soggy pie crust is by a process called blind baking. Blind baking means you pre-bake the crust (sometimes covered with parchment or foil and weighed down with pie weights to prevent the crust from bubbling up) so that it sets and crisps up before you add any wet filling.

Cobblers are made with biscuit dough. A basic biscuit dough uses two cups of flour, a tablespoon of baking powder, a teaspoon of salt, and six tablespoons of butter, rubbed into the dry out ingredients in large chunks or flakes. Some people freeze the butter and grate it.

Should you refrigerate peach cobbler? ›

The leftovers should be refrigerated within two hours of being prepared. Store for Up to 3-4 Days: Peach cobbler can be safely stored in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days. Reheating: When you're ready to enjoy the leftover peach cobbler, you can reheat it in the oven or microwave. Reheat until it's warm throughout.

This peach cobbler recipe comes from my mom, and it is a family favorite recipe she made for us all the time growing up! The best part about it is that it literally takes 5 minutes to throw together! My mom often used a quart jar of homemade canned peaches, but you can also use fresh peaches!

Ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, clove and nutmeg give warmth and gentle spice to peaches, while herbs like basil, tarragon, thyme and rosemary add earthy notes to peach desserts.

Cobbler: A fruit dessert made with a top crust of pie dough or biscuit dough but no bottom crust. Crisp/crumble: In Alberta, the terms are mostly interchangeable. Both refer to fruit desserts similar to cobbler but made with a brown sugar streusel topping sometimes containing old-fashioned rolled oats.

Ingredients: Filling: Peaches, Water, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Spice, Annatto (color). Crust: Wheat Flour, Shortening Butter Blend (palm Oil, Butter [cream, Salt]), Palm Oil, Water, Soybean Oil, Salt, Dextrose, Yeast, Mono- And Diglycerides.

Freezing peaches is a little easier and quicker and produces wonderfully sweet and delicious peaches to put in your freezer. Canning peaches produces jars of peeled and halved peaches for your pleasure.

If you like to bake your peaches into warm, comforting desserts, look for yellow freestone peaches at your local orchard or farmer's market. Yellow peaches have a sweet and tangy flavor that balances out sugary baked goods. Their naturally firm flesh bakes to a soft — but not mushy — texture.

At Walmart, the pre-baked cobblers will be sold fresh in the bakery, but samples provided to us by the company came frozen, meaning we had to reheat ours for about 40 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees, vs. the 12 to 16 recommended on the package.

Sure, they don't dazzle quite like the platonic ideal of the season's finest fresh fruit, but frozen peaches are harvested and preserved at their peak, so they're packed with flavor. (Plus, there's no risk of smushed skin or bruising, which seems to always happen to the fresh ones whenever I buy them.