If you love fresh peaches you’ll love my easy recipe for Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler. A traditional southern summertime dessert made in under an hours time with fresh peaches and pantry staples. Summer is not complete in my book unless you’ve made one or two peach cobblers.
I’ve been making this Old Fashion Peach Cobbler recipe for almost a decade now. In my book, summer is not complete if I haven’t made at least one if not two peach cobblers! Year’s ago, my husband and I would drive through Georgia for a DIY/Craft Blog Conference. On our drive home from Georgia we always stopped at Lane Southern Orchards to buy a box or two of peaches. I say a box… it’s like a massive box full of 50+ peaches. Maybe even more?
Once we get home its peach-a-palooza until we are all out of peaches. Peach puree, peach mojitos, grilled peaches, etc.
Yes, I love to make skillet peach cobbler or my slow cooker peach cobbler recipe. When I make peach cobbler for dessert I tend to make it the traditional way in a pan. I haven’t reinvented the wheel–instead I’ve tested all sorts of recipes that call home to the web.
Overall, I enjoy the recipe from Southern Living the best. I’ve made modifications over the years and found that I liked to double the recipe and cut the butter in half. Gasp! I know… cut the butter in half? To be honest I’ve never seen a difference in my cobbler with it only baking with half the butter required in the recipe.
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Ingredients
- Peaches – Fresh peaches work best for this peach cobbler recipe; however, you can use frozen.
- Dry Ingredients – You will need granulated sugar (take note that you will need to divide the amount listed in the recipe card–some is needed for the peaches and other is needed for the batter), flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Wet Ingredients – Butter, lemon juice for the peaches, and milk.
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375° Fahrenheit.
Once oven is preheated, melt butter in a 9- x 9-inch baking dish.
While butter is melting, bring ¼ cup sugar, peach slices, and lemon juice to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly until softened and juice is extracted from peaches (about 5 minutes). Set to the side.
Using a stand mixer, combine flour, ¾ cup sugar, baking powder, and salt. Then, add milk, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour batter over hot butter pan (do not stir). Then pour peach mixture over batter (do not stir).
Bake at 375° Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Serve cobbler warm or cool.
FAQs
Here are all the frequently asked questions readers have asked when making this recipe.
This Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler feeds about 9 people. You can feed a few more people with a smaller serving.
A cobbler is a deep-dish baked fruit dessert with a thick cake like base. A crisp is also a baked fruit dessert topped with a crunchy topped layer of ingredients that typically contain oats and nuts.
Peach cobbler should not be overly gooey, but more firm like cake. If you find it too gooey it might be because your peaches are too ripe and they let out too many juices.
Yes, you can easily double this fresh peach cobbler recipe. Just make sure you try and divide both the cake batter and the fresh peaches in syrup as evenly as possible.
Tips & Tricks
Here are a few of my favorite tips and tricks I’ve learned when making this traditional cobbler recipe.
- Peaches – You can use frozen peaches if you do not have fresh peaches on hand. Just cook then until warm and soft as stated in step 3.
- Fruit – You can also add mango or apple into your cobbler. Both are delicious additions to the peach cobbler. Add the apples to the sauce pan to cook. If using mango, it’s naturally softer and does not need to be precooked. Simply mix it into the pot right before you are about to pour on top of the batter.
- Sugar – If you are concerned that this recipe is to sweet. You can reduce the amount of sugar in the batter from ¾ cup to ½ cup of sugar.
- Batter – The batter will be very thin. That is normal–do not be alarmed. I promise it will thicken and taste delicious.
Peach Recipes
If you love peaches, you’ll love these other peach recipes.
- Peach Salsa
- Pineapple Peach Smoothie
- Peach Baby Food
- Peach and Mint Sorbet
- Grilled Southwestern Pork Chops with Peach Salsa
Cobbler Recipes
Still craving cobbler? Try these other cobbler recipes…
The next time your at the store, buy a few extra peaches and make this traditional peach cobbler recipe! Trust me, your friends and family will thank you.
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Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler
Equipment
- Stove Top
- Oven
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Unsalted butter
- 1 cup Granulated White Sugar divided
- 5 Fresh Peaches peeled and sliced
- 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 tablespoon Baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375° Fahrenheit.
- Once oven is preheated, melt butter in a 9- x 9-inch baking dish.
- While butter is melting, bring ¼ cup sugar, peach slices, and lemon juice to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly until softened and juice is extracted from peaches (about 5 minutes). Set to the side.
- Using a stand mixer, combine flour, ¾ cup sugar, baking powder, and salt. Then, add milk, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour batter over hot butter pan (do not stir). Then pour peach mixture over batter (do not stir).
- Bake at 375° Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Serve cobbler warm or cool.
Notes
- Peaches – You can use frozen peaches if you do not have fresh peaches on hand. Just cook then until warm and soft as stated in step 3.
- Fruit – You can also add mango or apple into your cobbler. Both are delicious additions to the peach cobbler. Add the apples to the sauce pan to cook. If using mango, it’s naturally softer and does not need to be precooked. Simply mix it into the pot right before you are about to pour on top of the batter.
- Sugar – If you are concerned that this recipe is to sweet. You can reduce the amount of sugar in the batter from ¾ cup to ½ cup of sugar.
- Batter – The batter will be very thin. That is normal–do not be alarmed. I promise it will thicken and taste delicious.
Jamey
Perfect! It was so easy to make and was delicious. I also added a dash of cinnamon to the peaches which was good.
Katie
Jamey, so glad you enjoyed this recipe as much as others do!
Mel
This is real southern cobbler! My neighbor just brought me a ton of fresh peaches from her tree, can’t wait!
I had this recipe scribbled down years ago and lost it, thank you for this!
Katie
Mel, so happy you love this recipe. Enjoy!
Shannon Skinner
Now this is a proper peach cobbler. Seriously I found one that had the same method but just under two cups of sugar in a 13X9 and there were only 5 peaches in total and a cup of milk. Way too much sugar it had and had to soak the pan overnight. Also this other recipe was at 350 and I knew that didn’t sound right even for a larger pan.
Haven’t tried yours yet but your percentages in your ingredients and as well the 375 temperature sounds exactly like my grandmothers. Great job!! Can’t wait to try it. Will be when I get more peaches… should have come here first. <3 cheers.
Katie
Shannon–I hope this is THE winning recipe you’ve been looking for.
Pat
can you use white peaches
Katie
Hi Pat, I’ve never tried using white peaches, but I’m sure it would be fine!
Kathryn Kalpakoff
tried it with black plums, took about 10 plums turned out delicious
Katie
Hi Kathryn, I love that you tried this recipe with plums. Sounds delicious!