Old-Fashioned Peach Cobbler

  4.4 – 78 reviews  • Peach Dessert Recipes

An old-fashioned peach cobbler made with buttermilk. You might also include blueberries. Serve with sweetened whipped cream or ice cream.

Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Additional Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
Servings: 9

Ingredients

  1. 9 fresh peaches
  2. 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  3. ½ cup white sugar
  4. 1 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
  5. 3 tablespoons white sugar
  6. 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  7. ½ teaspoon baking soda
  8. ¼ cup butter, chilled
  9. ⅔ cup buttermilk
  10. 2 teaspoons white sugar
  11. ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  2. Submerge peaches in boiling water for about 1 minute. The amount of time required to make the skin easy to peel varies with the degree of ripeness: if really ripe, it may take less time. Remove peaches with a slotted spoon, and run cold water on them. Slip off skins.
  3. Cut peaches into wedges, and place in either a deep 10-inch pie plate or a 2-inch-deep 2-quart baking dish. Toss peaches with lemon juice and 1/2 cup sugar. Cover dish with foil.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven 15 minutes, or until peaches are hot and bubbly.
  5. Whisk together flour, 3 tablespoons sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles small peas. Pour buttermilk over top, and toss with a fork until the mixture clumps together.
  6. Remove hot peaches from oven, uncover, and drop heaping tablespoons of dough over peaches. In a small cup, mix 2 teaspoons sugar and nutmeg. Sprinkle over biscuits.
  7. Bake until biscuits are golden brown, about 30 minutes. Set dish on wire rack to cool 10 to 15 minutes before serving.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 209 kcal
Carbohydrate 38 g
Cholesterol 14 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 3 g
Saturated Fat 3 g
Sodium 211 mg
Sugars 23 g
Fat 6 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Kathleen Arellano
I used 1/4 cup granular monkfruit (from Amazon) – Low carb sweetener. Worked OK. and 2 cans peaches, drained.
Sara Velez
Loved this one! Added a bit of flour to the fruit mixture to be sure it wasn’t too wet and about a cup of blueberries to 6 peaches. It was delicious, I thought the topping needed a bit more sugar in the mix but overall the texture was perfect – loved that biscuity topping to the juicy tender fruit filling!
Amber Mccall
If you’re looking for a basic recipe for peach cobbler recipe, this one will do. There’s nothing special about it, but it was tasty. I made two servings, in individual ramekins, and used the adjust button to get the right ingredient measurements. I also elected to not peel the peaches before slicing them.
David Lee
This was a great dessert to make/serve at a very stressful time in life. My family enjoyed it quite a lot, and it was very easy to make. Next time, I would reduce the lemon juice in the filling to 1 tbsp as I felt it overpowered the peaches. I also added some cinnamon, nutmeg, and 1 tbsp of corn starch to the peaches. Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Lindsey Reed
Last weekend we went to pick peaches at Southern Belle Farms in McDonough, GA with family and friends. The peaches this year are absolutely delicious! I used the last of the peaches that we picked, and made this recipe. I halved the recipe and put it into 4 ramekins. The only other adjustment I made was to add a bit of cinnamon in addition to the nutmeg on top. It was delicious, served warm with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Great recipe!
Kelly Wilson
Peach filling very, very good. Not crazy about dough part.
David Rivera
I made this and it was delicious, perfect the first time out! But the topping has never turned out the same again . . . or indeed, turned out the same way twice. Sometimes it’s perfect cobbler topping, sometimes it is very biscuit-y, sometimes crumbly. I usually have no idea what is behind the changes. . .
Jennifer Garcia
I’ve made this twice. I added flour to the peaches as recommended by another post. I also doubled the “cobbler” topping then there wasn’t enough peaches. Lol. So the second time I used 15 peaches and doubled everything else and used a deep casserole dish so the peaches wouldn’t boil over. Added some roasted almonds on top because I love nuts with fruit!
Cheryl Bryant
I liked the “biscuit” topping aspect of this recipe – a great way to soak up all the sweet juice rendered from the peaches. For some reason this style of topping (a “dry” dumpling, if you will) seems to fallen out of favor and I am happy to see this version here. I was pretty faithful to the recipe as it’s written, although I added 2TB sugar, 1/4tsp salt, 1/4tsp ground nutmeg and 1/2tsp ground cinnamon to the biscuit mix . I did not spice the peaches.
Melissa Estrada
Very tasty. True cobbler topping and good filling with slight tweaks. Need about another 50% of the topping to cover a 9×13. I made double and it was too much. Sprinkled top w small amount of sugar. Added a few tbsp of flour and sugar to the peaches and a light sprinkle of nutmeg to the peaches before cooking them.
Elizabeth Church
I usually make cobbler from scratch, always with fresh peaches, but results were inconsistent (duh!) I thought this recipe was close to how I make it, so gave it a try. I did not have too much juice, but tossed in 2 tablespoons AP flour with the peaches. Pre-baking the peaches was another thing I usually do, so I mixed up the dough/batter while it baked. Added cinnamon along with nutmeg & ginger to peaches & to batter, because I like them. Bottom line, loved the results except neither peaches nor dough were sweet enough for my taste. I will keep this and make it again, adding a bit more sugar to both!
James Parsons
I added vanilla extract to my peach mixture though and some extra fancy Vietnamese cinnamon as well as nutmeg and dash of cloves. Very aromatic. Makes my whole house smell like heaven! ?
Warren Rivera
Just had this for dinner. Followed the recipe, except I added the 1/3 C. Flour to the fresh peaches as was suggested by others. It is 85 degrees outside and we are using the air conditioner inside so I cooked the peaches on top of the stove in a saucepan before putting the peaches in a large baking bowl and adding the “biscuit” topping. This way the oven was only on for about 25 minutes. The recipe makes 8+ servings so we will be enjoying this tomorrow.
Kayla Nguyen
My whole family loved this amazing peach cobbler. It was real easy to make. The only thing i did different was I removed some of the juice from the peaches after baking it with the lemon juice. BTW my kid are very picky eaters and they approve this message!!
Norma Davis
Just made this this morning and it is FABULOUS! I doubled the topping (and the baking powder) Boiled the peaches for a minute or so, thank god someone mentioned that, makes it soooo much easier than peeling with a knife lol. Couldnt wait till dessert to try a piece so I had one for lunch it is awesome! Cant wait to give it to everyone for dessert tonight!
Briana Bolton
I used fresh peaches (ripe) and I thought it was too watery. Maybe I’m thinking it should have come out like a peach pie. My fault. It didn’t seem sweet enough. Husband loved the crust.
Michael Cook
Too much cobbler–not enough peaches.
Mrs. Jennifer Hawkins
This was my first time making a cobbler and it was horrible for me. I waited to review until i made a successful cobber just to be sure that i wasnt cobbler-cursed (hopeless at making cobber). The flavor was really very wonderful but, like quite a few others, i had soggy peaches. It broke my heart to just toss all those peaches but they really were so nasty in all the liquid that there was no saving it…soggy peaches makes unicorns cry. I do not suggest to NOT try the recipe but i do think that if you have never made cobber before this is not a good recipe to start with. I have no suggestions on how to not get all that liquid in the cobbler like i did but others have said it was all dependent on the kind of peaches you use and i didnt think that my peaches were juicy! i will be willing to try this recipe again a little later and i hope that i will be able to change my review and rating.
Beth Keith
I made the recipe as is, but I used frozen peaches. I thawed and drained them for 24 hours and then followed the suggestion to add 1/3 cup of flour to the peaches before I cooked them. I also used more peaches to make up for them being frozen. It worked great, and was very good.
Jose Howard
This cobbler recipe is fantastic and I will definitely be using it as my peach cobbler go to recipe. I would recommend using fresh juicy summer peaches if you have them available- they made the cobbler heavenly. To solve the problem of excess juice that other reviewers have mentioned I simply added a couple of tbs cornstarch to the peaches after the first 15 minutes of baking.
Jose James
this was ok…way too much juice! i think it need some cinnamon and maybe a little bit of brown sugar.

 

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