Skillet Peach Cobbler
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This Skillet Peach Cobbler is a quick and delicious recipe made with fresh, frozen, or canned peaches and seasoned with cinnamon and vanilla. It's ready in 35 minutes. Serve straight from the skillet with a scoop of melting vanilla ice cream!
If you love peach cake, try this easy peach cobbler cake recipe for utter deliciousness, or for a quick treat, this peach mug cake recipe!
Recipe Review:
★★★★★ This is one of the best dessert recipes I have ever found! Carissa
Recipe Overview:
- Serves 8-10
- Handful of pantry ingredients, plus peaches (fresh, frozen, or canned)
- Ready in 30-40 minutes
What I Love About This Recipe
Peach Cobbler is a comfort classic that evokes mid-summer, warm sunshine, and bright blue sky days, even in the heart of winter.
For me, summer requires at least one peach cobbler on the dinner table, whether that be this skillet peach cobbler, or a slow cooker peach cobbler, or the traditional and classic peach cobbler our grandmothers made.
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Ingredients
These simple ingredients are most likely already in your pantry.
- Peaches: Fresh or frozen peaches, peeled and sliced. Drained canned peaches can work too.
- Sugar: Granulated sugar sweetens this skillet dessert and enhances the peach flavor.
- Butter: This helps brown the outside edges of the cobbler and keeps it from sticking to the cast-iron skillet. Plus, it adds delicious flavor.
- Cobbler Batter: A simple batter consisting of flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla extract.
How to Make Skillet Peach Cobbler
This cobbler is incredibly simple to make and takes about 5 minutes to whip up the batter.
STEP 1: Preheat oven to 350°F. On the stovetop, heat the butter in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet on the stovetop until it's mostly melted. Swirl around until it coats the skillet. This will keep the cobbler from sticking to the pan.
STEP 2: Pour the batter into the warm skillet over the top of the butter, and scatter sugared peach slices on top.
STEP 3: Bake for 30 minutes, or until the cobbler is golden and bubbling. Cool 10 to 15 minutes before serving.
Variations
This classic peach cobbler is endlessly adaptable. Here are a few favorite twists:
- Berry-Peach Cobbler: Add blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries to the peaches for extra color and tang, like in Mom's Blueberry Peach Pie.
- Stone Fruit Cobbler: Mix in nectarines, plums, or apricots for a deeper, more complex flavor.
- Spiced Cobbler: Stir in warm spices like nutmeg, ginger, or cardamom for cozy fall flavor.
- Nutty Cobbler: Sprinkle chopped almonds, pecans, or walnuts over the batter before baking for added crunch.
- Crisp-Style Cobbler: Swap the batter topping for a streusel or oat crisp topping for extra texture, like I did in my Easy Skillet Peach Crisp recipe.
- Mini Cobblers: Divide the peaches and batter into ramekins for charming individual desserts as we did in these Individual Berry Crisps.
- Lighter Version: Reduce the sugar slightly or swap part of it with honey or maple syrup for a less sweet but still satisfying dessert.
All You Need for this Peach Cobbler
In addition to simply pantry ingredients, all you need is an oven-proof skillet. I prefer a cast-iron skillet.
If you need to clean it or season it, see our post on How to Season a Cast-Iron Skillet.
Recipe FAQs
Yes! Just be sure to drain them well. Because canned peaches are already soft, reduce the baking time slightly so they don't become mushy.
If the skins are thin, you can leave them on. For a smoother texture, peel the peaches before slicing.
This cobbler is best served warm, right out of the oven. If you need to make it ahead, prepare the peaches and batter separately, then assemble and bake just before serving. Leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days and reheated gently in the oven.
Too much liquid can cause sogginess, especially when using frozen peaches. If that's the case, drain any excess juice and toss the fruit with 1-2 tablespoons of cornstarch before adding to the skillet, depending on how juicy they are.
More Peach Recipes to Try
- Small Batch Refrigerator Spiced Peach Jam
- Spiced Peach Galette
- German Peach Kuchen
- Skillet Pork Chops and Peaches with Balsamic Honey Sauce
- Thirst-Quenching Peach-Raspberry Iced Tea
Crisps and Cobblers
- Crock Pot Apple Crisp (Slow Cooker Apple Crisp)
- Easy Plum Cobbler
- Individual Berry Crisps
- Skillet Strawberry Cobbler
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Skillet Peach Cobbler Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup granulated sugar plus 1 tablespoon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups peaches sliced plus more to garnish if desired
- cinnamon-sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place the butter in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet and melt on top of the stove.
- Meanwhile, peel and slice the peaches and toss with 1 tablespoon of sugar.
- Then mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl. Stir in the milk, 1 cup sugar, and vanilla to combine.
- Remove the hot skillet with the melted butter from the stove and immediately pour in the batter. Top with the sugared peaches. Bake until brown and the batter has risen up and around the fruit, about 30 to 35 minutes.
- Transfer to a rack to cool slightly. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and serve with vanilla ice cream or lightly sweetened whipped cream.
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Is there any way to make this in the skillet on the stovetop?
Hi Mailee, I don't think this recipe would work well on the stovetop. It needs to rise in the oven.
This is one of the best dessert recipes I have ever found!
Peach cobbler is one of my fave peach recipes. I tried to recreate your version (except for the vanilla ice cream, whipped cream is fine) last night and it turned out amazing.
I love peach cobbler too. I'm so glad you liked it!! Thank you for coming back and letting me know. Have a great day!
Love this recipe! Reminds me of summers back home.