Skillet Peach Cobbler Recipe {Cast Iron} - Savory Simple (2024)

FAQs

Is it better to use canned or frozen peaches for cobbler? ›

Readers have raved about this dessert using frozen, thawed peaches. Canned peaches are not ideal because they're already too soft and mushy. Buttermilk: You can make your own DIY version of buttermilk if needed. Add 1 teaspoon of white vinegar or lemon juice to a liquid measuring cup.

Mistake: Baking at too high of a temperature

Cobblers need enough time in the oven for the topping to cook through and brown, but at too high a temperature, anything above 375 ℉, the fruit filling might not be cooked by the time the top is burnt.

If your oven bakes hot, make an adjustment in the recipe, but if your oven doesn't bake as hot as you'd like it do, bake cobbler at a slightly higher heat to encourage bubbling and browning.

We love cobblers for being juicy, but really ripe fruit can make more puddles than a spring rain. The result is a soupy cobbler with a soggy top. Try this: Add one to two tablespoons of cornstarch to the filling.

Cobbler: A fruit dessert made with a top crust of pie dough or biscuit dough but no bottom crust. Crisp/crumble: In Alberta, the terms are mostly interchangeable. Both refer to fruit desserts similar to cobbler but made with a brown sugar streusel topping sometimes containing old-fashioned rolled oats.

To substitute frozen peaches for fresh peaches, plan on using one pound for every three peaches called for in the recipe. Most baked recipes can be made directly with frozen peaches, so you don't have to plan ahead and thaw them.

When it's done, the topping should be deeply golden and the peach juices should be bubbling up. You can further tell when the cobbler is done by checking the temperature of the topping. Cobbler topping is a variation on a quick bread, and should be baked to at least 200°F at the thickest part of the topping.

If you use enough batter to completely cover the fruit, you'll end up with a cobbler that's far too bready, more like an upside-down cake.

You can bake a cobbler with just fruit as the filling, but a little sugar and cornstarch tossed with the fruit before baking will work together to create a lush sauce from the fruit's juices. This is the thing that turns a good cobbler into a knock-out dessert.

Peach cobbler is best enjoyed warm, right after it's baked. Store leftover cobbler covered, in the fridge for 4-5 days. To reheat peach cobbler, use the microwave or oven. To reheat in the oven, remove it from the fridge and allow it to come to room temperature.

How do you keep cobbler crust from getting soggy? ›

Blind Bake

The most common way to ward off a soggy pie crust is by a process called blind baking. Blind baking means you pre-bake the crust (sometimes covered with parchment or foil and weighed down with pie weights to prevent the crust from bubbling up) so that it sets and crisps up before you add any wet filling.

Citric Acid or Lemon Juice

Mix 3 tablespoons of lemon juice in each quart of cold water. (You can also use 1/4 teaspoon crystalline citric acid instead of lemon juice.) Dip the prepared fruit in the solution and let sit for 1 to 2 minutes. Drain and pack with water, sugar, syrup or fruit juice.

Baking at too high a temperature — 375 degrees and above — increases the risk of overcooking or burning the top before the fruit cooks completely. The best cobbler recipes bake at 350 degrees, which allows the crust to cook slowly and gives the interior enough time to soften.

While both are fruit desserts that can be made in the oven in a baking dish, or on a stovetop skillet, cobblers and crisps have nuanced differences, including: Exterior: Cobblers are denser due to the biscuit dough topping and base, while crisps use oats and a streusel topping, making them lighter.

The method for the topping goes like this: Combine equal parts flour and sugar, and add enough melted butter to make a dough. This makes a very sweet cobbler with a topping somewhere between a sugar cookie and pie crust. Let me repeat that: a topping that is equal parts cookie and pie crust.

Bring them out for serving on ice cream, making sauces, baking – whatever tickles your fancy! They are especially nice to bring out when the snow is falling! Just be sure your peaches are fully thawed before baking or you'll end up with sogginess in the crust.

Freezing peaches is a little easier and quicker and produces wonderfully sweet and delicious peaches to put in your freezer. Canning peaches produces jars of peeled and halved peaches for your pleasure.

Babco*ck. If you can find Babco*ck peaches, they're perfect for peach desserts. That's because these semi-freestone peaches aren't as sweet as other types of peaches, featuring a noticeable tart flavor.

Freeze: Lay the peaches out in a single layer on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Freeze until solid, about 4 hours. Seal and freeze: Transfer the frozen peaches to a gallon zip-top plastic bag labeled with the date. Seal the bag, removing as much air as possible.