Today’s Best Recipe is this Easy Homemade Peach Cobbler Recipe. It is delicious and takes me back to my Grandma’s cooking.

It’s easy to make and big on taste.

Something about Peach Cobbler makes me think of summer days as a child.

I love the flavors, the crust, and the homemade whipped cream that slowly melts and drizzles down the cobbler in mid-bite.

It’s delicious, it’s warm, and this recipe for easy peach cobbler is really easy to make.

This easy peach cobbler recipe makes use of canned peaches; however, you can use fresh peaches–simply peel and slice and then use simple syrup for outstanding results.

Cook’s Note: If you don’t have peaches, fresh berries or other stone fruit will work just as well.

Cobblers originated in the British American colonies.

The origin of the name cobbler, recorded from 1859, is uncertain: it may be related to the archaic word cobeler, meaning “wooden bowl”.

It was the Dutch and English immigrants to America that brought the traditional pie recipes and adapted them to what was available in the New World.

As settlers began moving westward in the early 19th century, their access to fruit such as peaches, cherries, and plums became more difficult.

The settlers made do with what they had, dried, or syrup-preserved fruit, a recipe for biscuit dough, and an open fire creating a rustic pie we know today as the cobbler.

If you aren’t familiar with a cobbler, it’s an American deep-dish fruit dessert or pie with a thick crust (usually a biscuit crust) and fruit filling, in this case, peach!

It’s easy peach cobbler canned peaches to make life simple, and taste like you spent the day in the kitchen.

Another timesaver is making this easy peach cobbler with a cup of self-rising flour. It gives it some rise.

Today, peach cobbler is a traditional dessert served in the Deep South, usually accompanied by a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

This peach cobbler can be served warm or cold.

At our house, we prefer it warm; however, it’s equally good, either way!

It’s the comfort of summer any day of the year!

If you want to reheat it, scoop it into a bowl and pop it in the microwave for a few seconds.

Easy Homemade Peach Cobbler

Peach Cobbler Recipe Ingredients:

2 (15-ounce) cans sliced peaches in syrup

1/2 cup butter

1 cup self-rising flour*

1 cup sugar

1 cup milk

Homemade Whipped Cream (or Cool Whip)

How to Make Easy Homemade Peach Cobbler

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Open the 15-ounce cans of peaches and drain 1 can of peaches; reserve syrup from the other.

Place the butter in a 9- by 12-inch ovenproof baking dish.

In a medium saucepan, heat the butter on the stove, over medium heat, or in the oven until it’s melted.

In a medium bowl, mix the flour and sugar.

Stir in the milk and the reserved syrup to the sugar mixture.

Pour the batter over the melted butter into the baking dish.

Arrange the peaches over the batter.

Line the peaches in rows, in a single layer.

Take a little time here to line the peaches–they make this cobbler a beautiful dessert.

The batter will rise above the peaches, so you don’t want to stir or mix when pouring the ingredients into the baking dish.

Bake for 1 hour.

If you want, you can sprinkle with brown sugar out of the oven–it’s optional.

The cobbler is done when the batter rises around the peaches and the crust is thick and golden brown.

Serve warm with fresh whipped cream Homemade Whipped Cream.

You may even enjoy drizzling this homemade caramel sauce over the top.

*Note: If you don’t have self-rising flour, substitute 1 cup all-purpose flour mixed with 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/8 teaspoon salt.

And that, folks, is how you make how to make easy peach cobbler.

The time-saver is this easy peach cobbler recipe with canned peaches.

Easy Peach Cobbler Recipe adapted from Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen by Trisha Yearwood (c) Clarkson Potter 2008

Bake Trisha Yearwood’s easy peach cobbler recipe for dessert today.