This easy peach cobbler recipe is baked in true Southern style: a sweet, satisfying dessert made from juicy, ripe peaches and topped with a tender, golden-brown biscuit crust. There's no pie dough to fuss with, and you can keep the peaches unpeeled for extra ease and a gorgeous color. Serve with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, or plain.
1/2to 2/3 cup sugar, depending on how ripe and sweet the peaches are
1/2teaspoonground cinnamon
1/4cupall-purpose flour
squirt fresh lemon juice
For the Biscuits
scant 1/3cupmilk
1egg
1 1/2cupsall-purpose flour
1tablespoonbaking powder
1tablespoonsugar, plus more to top cobbler
1/2teaspoonkosher salt
1/3cupcold butter (about 6 tablespoons), diced into small pieces
Instructions
For the Peach Cobbler Filling
Grease or butter a 9" pie plate or baking dish, and preheat the oven to 425°F.
Prepare the peaches. Slice each peach around the equator into two hemispheres. Remove the pit and cut the peaches into thick wedges and add them to a large mixing bowl. Stir in the sugar, cinnamon, flour, and lemon juice and mix until fully combined. TIP: You can substitute up to half the sugar for packed light brown sugar if you'd like to give it a more caramel flavor.
Pour the peach filling into the pie shell and bake in the center rack, uncovered, for 20 minutes.PRO TIP: I recommend placing your baking dish on a rimmed sheet pan to catch any juices that bubble over. Peach cobblers tend to get juicy!
Make the biscuit topping. While the peaches par-bake, whisk together the milk and egg in a small bowl. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl (I just reuse the peach one), whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder until fully combined and aerated.
Add the diced butter and work it into the flour mixture with your fingers or a pastry blender until the mixture resembles a combination of flour and pea-sized, buttery crumbles. Do not overmix.
Add the milk and egg, and stir with your fingers and knead very lightly until just combined into a sticky, shaggy mass.
Add the biscuit topping to the peaches. Pull the 20-minute peaches from the oven. Dollop large pieces of biscuit all over the top of the peaches. Sprinkle with sugar.
Return the whole thing to the oven and bake for an additional 30 to 40 minutes, until the cobbler is bubbling and golden brown.PRO TIP: Check the cobbler after about 20 to 25 minutes. If the biscuits are starting to look too brown, tent with foil.
Cool and serve. Cool for 20 to 30 minutes, uncovered. Serve warm, preferably with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a spoonful of fresh whipped cream.PRO TIP: Waiting a bit before serving allows the peaches to set up so that the filling will not be overly runny -- or too hot.
Notes
Storage and FreezingSouthern peach cobbler is best fresh from the oven because the biscuit topping will be at its most tender. This will keep, covered or in an airtight container, for about two days in the refrigerator. You can also freeze this, fully cooled and wrapped, for up to three months. You can reheat it directly from frozen, uncovered, as below.Reheating DirectionsReheat the cobbler at 325 degrees F until warmed through.Here's a good baking tip for reheating cobblers and pies: Never reheat pies and cobbler at the same temperature as you baked it. If you use a very oven to reheat, the cobbler will brown and get very hot on the outside but remain cool on the inside.
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