Food & Cooking Recipes Dessert & Treats Recipes Peach Cobbler 4.0 (131) Martha waits all year to make this classic dessert—and for good reason. Prep Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Servings: 8 Jump to recipe Martha's easy peach cobbler is a summer dessert worth turning your oven on for. The juicy fruit base gets a subtle kick from a teaspoon of fresh grated ginger and couldn't be easier to pull together (no peeling involved!). The buttery biscuit topping, meanwhile, is flavored with vanilla bean and made extra tender from a cup of heavy cream. Serve the cobbler warm with something cool and creamy like a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of freshly whipped cream. If there’s a better way to cap off a summer meal, we don’t know what it is. 12 Peach Recipes You’ll Want to Make Before the Season Ends Credit: Bryan Gardner Choosing Peaches for This Cobbler Yellow peaches are juicier than white varieties and will hold their shape better when cooked, so seek them out for this recipe. Since ripe stone-fruit will provide the best flavor, choose peaches that are fragrant and yield just slightly at gentle pressure. Freestone or clingstone? To make prepping the fruit as fuss-free as possible, buy freestone peaches (as opposed to clingstone). Like its name suggests, the stone—or pit—in a freestone peach pops out incredibly easily. If all you can find are clingstone peaches, however, don't stress—just use the tip of a paring knife to pry the pit out before slicing. Don't toss the scraped vanilla bean. Instead, use it to infuse sugar or salt or steep it in a pot of tea or coffee. It may be a bit less potent once scraped, but will still contain plenty of flavor. Directions Heat oven; make filling: Preheat oven to 375°F. Place peaches and 1/3 cup granulated sugar in a large bowl, sprinkle with lemon juice and toss to coat. Add cornstarch, light-brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and ginger, if using. Toss until well combined, then transfer filling to an 8-inch baking dish. Combine dry ingredients; cut in butter: In another large bowl, combine flour, remaining 1/3 cup granulated sugar, the baking powder, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt. Using a fork, two knives, or a pastry blender, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Alternatively, pulse the dry ingredients in a food processor, then add the butter and pulse until mostly broken down. Then add the cream (see next step) and pulse until dough just comes together. Stir in cream; roll dough and cut out rounds: Scrape the vanilla bean seeds into the cup of cream. Slowly add the cream to dry ingredients; mix with a fork until dough just comes together. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and pat or roll out to 1/2-inch thickness. Use a 3-inch biscuit cutter to cut rounds of dough. Top filling with biscuits: Place biscuits on top of peach filling in baking dish. Brush lightly with remaining 2 tablespoons heavy cream and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Place baking dish on a parchment-lined baking sheet and transfer to the oven. Bake until golden; let cool briefly: Bake until biscuits are golden brown and juices bubbling, 55-70 minutes. Transfer baking dish to a rack, and let cool slightly before serving. What to Serve With Our Easy Peach Cobbler Serving a bowl of warm, fresh-from-the-oven peach cobbler with something cool and creamy makes for the ultimate summer dessert. Ice cream: It doesn't get more classic than vanilla ice cream, whether store-bought or homemade. Check out this recipe if you've got an ice cream maker or try this one if you don't. Whipped cream: Fancy some whipped cream instead? It'd be heavenly dolloped on this dessert. Skip the can and make it yourself with these tips, which will have you whipping up the silkiest, fluffiest topping in no time. Cold heavy cream: For the easiest option of all, put out a small carafe of heavy cream—still cold from the fridge—and let each person drizzle a bit on their cobbler. It's fun, rustic, and unbelievably delicious. 5 More Fantastic Fruit Cobblers to Try Strawberry Cobbler Sour-Cherry Cobbler Apple Cobbler Cast-Iron Huckleberry Cobbler Raspberry Cobbler Updated by Esther Reynolds Esther Reynolds Esther Reynolds is an experienced recipe developer, recipe tester, food editor, and writer with over a decade of experience in the food and media industries.