Grandmother’s Peach Cobbler Recipe
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My Grandmother’s Peach Cobbler Recipe is a traditional Southern peach cobbler! This heirloom recipe has a golden, buttery lattice top and is filled with rich, delicious peaches. The best peach cobbler is a staple in my family for generations and a favorite Southern dessert.
Summers always mean cobblers around our house. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but fresh peach cobbler probably gets the dessert vote most often from my family.
Since I’m from Georgia, I’m kind of partial to Georgia peaches. Their heady scent completely envelopes you as you walk into the grocery store, the farmer’s market, or even up to the back of the farmer’s pickup truck alongside the road. And we just can’t wait for fresh peaches to reach their peak so we can enjoy Grandmother’s peach cobbler recipe.
The peaches you find on the back of that farmer’s pickup truck are some of the best. They are usually full, soft, and just bursting with juice as you bite into them. Perfect for any number of peach dishes or just for eating right then and there on the side of the road.
I remember stopping by with my Grandmother as she’d buy baskets of peaches during the summer. Along with making peach preserves and any number of other peach dishes, she’d always make a fresh peach cobbler for supper. It’s a comforting Southern dessert at its finest.
Ingredients for Grandmother’s Peach Cobbler
Be sure to see the recipe card below for the full listing of ingredients, instructions, notes, and estimated nutritional information.
- Peaches: Fresh peaches if in season; frozen or canned (drained) if no fresh peaches
- Butter
- Granulated Sugar
- Kosher Salt
- All-purpose flour
Crust Ingredients:
- All-purpose flour
- Kosher Salt
- Sugar
- Shortening
- Butter
- Ice Water
How to Make Grandmother’s Peach Cobbler
Here’s how you make this favorite old-fashioned peach cobbler.
Step by Step Instructions
- Prep and Make Crust: Preheat the oven, make the crust and chill as directed, peel and slice peaches (if using fresh) or drain if using canned.
- Cook peaches: Add butter to a medium skillet (or a saucepan, as my Grandmother did) and set over medium heat. Stir in peaches, sugar, salt, and flour, and simmer until thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon. (Grandmother cooked her peaches in a saucepan, then used a deep dish or cobbler pan to bake the final cobbler)
- Make Lattice Crust: Roll out chilled crust dough and cut into lattice strips. Layer in a lattice pattern over cooked peaches.
- Bake and Serve: Place in a preheated oven and bake until the peaches are bubbly and the crust is golden, about 20-30 minutes. Allow to cool a bit, serve, and enjoy.
The perfect peach cobbler, at least in my family, has the perfect portion of peaches to cobbler crust in every single bite. One of the best parts of this cobbler is that the syrup bubbles a bit as it cooks, making the top lattice crust out of this world! Top it with some vanilla ice cream or homemade whipped cream.
More Favorite Cobbler Recipes
Easy Peach Cobbler – Delicious with a pour-over golden crust over sweet peaches.
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Grandmother’s Peach Cobbler
Ingredients
Peach Cobbler
- 2 tablespoons (28 g) butter
- 5 cups (770 g) peaches, sliced
- 1/4 cup (50 g) sugar
- pinch (0.4 g) kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons (15 g) all-purpose flour
Cobbler Crust
- 1½ cups (180 g) all-purpose flour, (spoon + level)
- ½ teaspoon (1 g) kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon (12 g) sugar
- ¼ cup (46 g) shortening
- ¼ cup (57 g) butter, plus more for buttering pie plate or skillet
- 4-5 tablespoons (57-71 g) ice water
Instructions
- Prepare cobbler crust as directed below.
- Preheat oven to 425º F.
- Melt butter in a 10-inch skillet set over medium hat. Stir in peaches, sugar, salt, and flour and cook until a thick syrup has formed that will easily coat the back of a spoon, about 10 minutes.
- Roll the cobbler crust on a lightly floured surface to about 1/8-inch thick. Cut into 8 strips. Place 4 strips over the peach cobbler in one direction and then place the remaining 4 strips over top of the first strips in the opposite direction in a lattice pattern, if you desire.
- Bake until the peach cobbler filling is bubbling and the crust is golden brown, about 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool about 15 minutes before serving.
Cobbler Crust
- In a large bowl, combine the flour and the salt. Cut in the shortening and butter with a pastry blender or two forks until the mixture resembles a coarse meal.
- Gradually add enough ice water to the mixture while mixing with a wooden spoon until a ball of dough is formed.
- Pour the dough onto a lightly floured surface and form into a disc. Lightly flour the top of the dough and wrap well with plastic wrap and place into the freezer for 30 minutes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Originally published 2011.
Now, Robyn, you *know* I love this post! Being a fellow Georgia girl and all. Nothing says summer in Georgia like peach cobbler. Yum!
I would like to book a room at the Casa de Robyn please. You always have the yummiest food! What I wouldn’t give to have fresh peaches here in Guam. Do you think frozen would be adequate?
LOL! Come on! I’ve not tried this recipe with frozen peaches, but would love to hear how it turns out for you. I have another peach cobbler recipe that canned peaches works well with that I’ll post soon for you.
I cannot wait to make this…it’s one of my Granny’s dishes that I miss SO much. All of her cobblers were double-crust and I just haven’t been able to find a recipe that turns out close too hers. I’ll let you know my results! Thanks so much for sharing 😀
I can’t wait to hear if the recipe is close to your Grandmother’s!
There’s really nothing quite like a ripe juicy peach is there? It’s one of those summer time treats that I always look forward to.
Where would we be without our grandma’s recipes? Your cobbler looks delicious, and I pinned it to try later. Thanks for sharing.
I know I’d be lost for sure! Thanks so much for pinning it, April! What’s you Pinterest name and I’ll be sure to follow you?
Sigh. I love your grandma. 🙂 Beautiful recipe!
She would be all ga-ga over your confections, Amanda!
yep . . . right about now i am really wishin’ i were your neighbor . . .
Come on down, I’d love to convert you to a Southerner. 🙂
Oh, I LOVE peach cobbler! We’re right in the middle of peach season in the Texas Hill Country, so I’ll be peeling a bunch of peaches soon! I can’t wait to try your cobbler…I’m bookmarking it to make soon. Your grandmother sounds a lot like mine!
Thanks Jennifer! Grandmother’s are just the best, aren’t they? Happy peach peeling. It’s so worth it!
This looks like the perfect peach cobbler!
Thanks! We sure think so.
Oh my! Totally yum. Would love to have hung out with your Grandmother. A bunch.
She would have loved you – and fed you peach cobbler.