Easy Peach Cobbler
This time of year (summertime… falltime…) brings a lot of fruit! Now a good homemade pie is, yes, to die for, but let’s be honest… we don’t always have that much time (or inclination to dust the entire kitchen in flour in a curse-ridden attempt to make homemade pie crust). Enter cobbler. Cobbler is one of those things you can make on any weeknight with any fruit in about 20 minutes (plus 1 hour of cooking time). Top it with some vanilla bean gelato (Talenti, of course) and serve it right up. This cobbler recipe is: 1) super quick and dirty, 2) not very sweet, 3) biscuit-y rather than shortbread-y. All fruits welcome beyond peaches… nectarine, plums, pears, berries, apples…
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what you need
~4-5 fresh peaches
1/8 cup lemon juice + zest
Ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup flour
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup hot water
Salt
(optional) honey, maple, or bourbon drizzle
how to make it
Preheat oven to 350 and lightly butter a cast iron skillet. Slice peaches to medium thickness and arrange in the skillet as desired. Drizzle with lemon juice and then zest the lemon on top. Sprinkle fruit with cinnamon.
At this point, if you want your cobbler a) sweeter or b) more interesting, you have several options… you can sprinkle it with some additional sugar or you can drizzle the peaches with bourbon, maple syrup, or honey.
Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl. Add the vanilla extract, flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix until combined. Add the milk and hand beat until creamy. Spoon the mixture over the peaches spreading out to desired thickness. It is not necessary to cover all the fruit.
Pour the hot water over top and bake ~55 minutes or until golden. Let sit for 20 minutes and then serve warm with vanilla gelato sprinkled with cinnamon.
