What other way to celebrate the peach season than making a peach Cobbler, a warm, comforting dessert packed with summery flavors? It is easy to throw together and requires less than an hour to cook. The peaches give it a natural sweetness and pair well with a warm, crumbly baked crust and a scoop of ice cream, which is optional. It is versatile and tastes as delicious if made with fewer ingredients or plant-based alternatives.
Traditional peach cobbler
This recipe for peach cobbler requires a handful of ingredients, including peeled and sliced peaches, sugar, a pinch of salt, unsalted butter, all-purpose flour, milk, baking powder, and ground cinnamon. The recipe can be made with fresh peaches or canned peaches, depending on what’s available. Fresh peaches, however, do take the recipe to the next level. One can also add some lemon juice and nutmeg to bring out this dish’s flavors.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix the sliced peaches with sugar and salt in a saucepan to make the peach cobbler with fresh peaches.
- Cook the peaches in sugar on medium heat to dissolve the sugar and release the sweet juice of the peaches.
- Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
- Add milk to this flour mixture and stir till the ingredients completely mix.
- Pour this mixture onto a pan after coating it with melted butter.
- Add the peaches with the juice to this. Those using canned peaches can directly add the peaches and juice to the pan.
- Bake this for a little over half an hour, and the classic and never-to-fail peach cobbler will be ready.
Peach cobbler with three ingredients
Besides the traditional way, there are several quick and easy ways to make peach cobbler. Among these is a recipe that only calls for three ingredients: canned peaches, yellow cake mix, and melted butter. The packaged cake mix reduces the effort one needs to put into preparing the crust. Furthermore, the cake mix and the canned peaches have added sugar, so there is no need to add extra sugar to sweeten it up.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Add the canned peaches with the juice into a baking dish.
- Then, add the cake mix to the dish.
- Add melted butter to the baking dish, and mix all the ingredients together.
- Place the dish in the oven and bake until golden brown.
- Remove the dish, and the best three-ingredient peach cobbler is ready to serve.
Four-ingredient peach cobbler
Apart from the three-ingredient way, one can also consider making the peach cobbler recipe, which uses four ingredients. While it does include one extra ingredient, it is still easier than the traditional recipe. For this, one needs all-purpose flour, sugar, butter, and canned peaches.
- Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees.
- Add the flour, melted butter, and sugar to a bowl.
- Mix the ingredients until the texture becomes crumbly.
- Transfer the mixture to a baking dish.
- Add the canned peaches with the juice to this flour mixture.
- Add some more flour mixture to the dish.
- Bake until the top of the cobbler turns brown.
- Remove it from the oven and serve it with a side of vanilla ice cream.
Peach-corn cobbler
Those who love experimenting with recipes can consider this one, which uses creamed corn and a combination of all-purpose flour and cornmeal. To make this, one needs peeled and sliced fresh peaches, sugar, salt, cornstarch, creamed corn, cornmeal, baking powder, butter, heavy cream, and vanilla extract.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Add the sliced peaches, sugar, cornstarch, and salt into a bowl and mix properly.
- Transfer this mixture to a baking dish.
- Bake the peaches until they start to bubble, and then remove them.
- Mix the cornmeal, all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a bowl to make the crust.
- Add butter to the mixture and mix until the assortment becomes crumbly.
- Add creamed corn, heavy cream, and vanilla to this mixture.
- Transfer this mixture to a baking dish, and add the baked peaches.
- Place the dish in the oven and bake until the top is golden brown.
- Remove the dish, and the peach-corn cobbler will be ready to serve.
Vegan peach cobbler
Individuals who do not eat dairy can also enjoy peach cobbler. This recipe can be whipped together without using milk or butter. All one needs is peeled and sliced peaches, maple syrup, arrowroot powder, vanilla extract, and ground cinnamon. For the crust, one needs almond milk or soy milk, lemon juice, whole spelt flour, baking powder, extra-virgin coconut oil, baking soda, and coconut sugar.
- Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix the peaches with arrowroot powder, maple syrup, vanilla, and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Transfer this mixture to a baking dish and spread it evenly.
- Next, mix the almond or soy milk with lemon juice to curdle it.
- Mix the flour with baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, coconut sugar, and salt in a bowl.
- Add some coconut oil to the flour mixture and mix properly.
- Add the curdled almond milk and maple syrup to the flour mix, then stir.
- Add this mixture to the baking dish over the peaches.
- Place the dish in the oven and bake until the top is golden brown.
- Remove the dish, and the vegan peach cobbler pie will be ready to serve.
