Old-Fashioned Peach Cobbler in a Cast Iron Skillet

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Do you ever crave comfort food that is going to wrap you up in a warm hug like your favorite blanket, serve you a little bit of fruit, and a whole lot of butter? That’s this old-fashioned peach cobbler. It’s really easy to throw together, and you can cuddle up with a bowl of comfort an hour later.

I don’t know about you, but frankly, I just need good old fashioned comfort foods that can be thrown into a cast iron pan and eaten from said pan with a fork. Right? Well, that’s this cast iron peach cobbler.

The Year From Hell

I know things could have been worse, but 2020 really took us for a ride. No, it actually forgot to make sure we were buckled in, and took off with us flying tail over tea kettle out the back and bumping down the road after it.

Few of us are escaping 2020 unscathed, am I right? I was laid off twice, worked my tail off at a job that required 24/7 attention in addition to being the primary parent to a two-year-old who missed seeing her friends and leaving the house.

But we are pretty good at social distancing and staying home. We’ve been doing that for years anyway. So, I guess the silver lining is our introvert super powers came in handy for something.

The other silver lining is that we had lots of opportunities for peach cobbler in the cast iron skillet. And we needed it. I, especially, needed it.

Comfort Food = Old-Fashioned Peach Cobbler

There’s nothing I wanted more than a good, old-fashioned peach cobbler. We got the recipe for a blueberry cobbler from our good friends’ mom. They served it up for their baby’s first birthday, and it was so good, we had to get the recipe.

And when things started feeling rough, all my husband and I could think of was that we just wanted a slab of cobbler. It’s just a bowl of warm and fluffy comfort. It feels like a nice cozy snuggle.

There’s a bit of fruit in it for sure, but it’s mostly just an oven-fried cake. You’ll feel the butter coat your mouth, and the crust is crisp over a fluffy, cakey cobbler. Those bites of peach are juicy and soft. The whole thing, then, is scented with a bit of cinnamon to enhance the overall warmth and comfort of the dish.

Just a little scoop of a nice, old-fashioned peach cobbler is enough to lift your spirits and bolster you for the next bad day. And, even though it’s hardly healthy, sometimes you just need it.

It’s Simple to Make Old-Fashioned Peach Cobbler

The easiest thing about this is everything. You pop a stick of butter into a cast-iron skillet, and then set it in the oven while it preheats. When the signal beeps that your oven’s hot, the butter should be melted.

While that’s going, you can drain your canned peaches (it takes two cans), and mix up the batter. The batter is just sugar, flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and milk. These are easy ingredients that you are likely to have on hand. Just mix it a bit.

You’ll pull the preheated skillet (carefully) out of the oven, and pour in that batter first, then the peaches. You don’t have to mix it any further than that. Just dump in the two other components.

Pop it back in the oven to bake for an hour. In that time, you can do a face mask, paint your toes, and journal a bit. Do a little bit of self-care. Just make sure you have a timer with you so you don’t forget about it.

Then pull out your cobbler, scoop out a portion or two, top it with ice cream if you have it… and settle in with a good movie. Sometimes, you just need a nice comfy bowl of old-fashioned peach cobbler to heal your soul from a rough patch in life.

For whatever you’re going through, I hope this gives you some joy. Please make up a cobbler and let me know how it turns out.

For this recipe, you’ll need:

• Cast iron skillet
• Small mixing bowl

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This blog post was updated with new photos on January 19, 2021.

Old-Fashioned Peach Cobbler

Bake up a skillet of old fashioned peach cobbler with crisp edges gooey fruit, and buttery cobbler goodness.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 8 people

Equipment

• 12-inch cast iron skillet
• 1 small mixing bowl

Ingredients

  

• ½ cup butter
• 16 oz canned peaches (weight after liquid is drained off)
• 1 cup sugar
• ¾ cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp salt
• ¾ cup milk

Instructions

 

• Place the stick of butter in cast iron and set it in the oven. Preheat the oven to 325ºF.
• In the mixing bowl, combine the sugar, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and milk.
• Once the butter is melted in the skillet, pour the batter evenly around the pan. DO NOT STIR.
• Then add the peaches evenly across the top of the batter. DO NOT STIR.
• Bake for 1 hour.
• Cool slightly, and serve warm!

Keyword Cast Iron, Cobbler, Peach

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