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This old fashioned, homemade peach cobbler with canned peaches has just 7 ingredients and is ridiculously easy to make. Blanketed in a buttery, simply sweet cake topping, canned peaches never tasted so good.

If you are looking for more mouth-watering cobbler recipes, try my 4 ingredient peach cobbler with fresh peaches and my old fashioned blackberry cobbler. You’ll definitely want to add these to your summer dessert menu.

It’s not quite peach season, so no fresh peaches, and I couldn’t find frozen peaches. So, that left me with the dreaded canned peaches to make this old-fashioned peach cobbler recipe.

Yes, life was throwing me canned peaches… and I’m sure glad it did. Because, this old fashioned, southern peach cobbler with canned peaches turned out knock your socks off, slap yo mama good. So good, that I lost all self control and couldn’t stop sampling it.

So why don’t you do what I did and give canned peaches a chance by whipping up this easy, delicious canned peach cobbler recipe.

How To Make Peach Cobbler Video

Tools Used In Easy Peach Cobbler

Ingredients For Peach Cobbler With Canned Peaches

butter
all purpose flour
baking powder
salt
milk – room temperature
sugar
canned peaches – if possible use canned peaches with no added sugar.

How To Make Peach Cobbler With Canned Peaches

Drain your peaches.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Put a stick butter in the 9×13 baking dish and place in the oven to melt.
While butter is melting, mix together flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
Stir the milk and sugar in the flour mixture to make a batter.
Remove the 9×13 dish with the melted butter from the oven and pour in the batter.
Spoon the peaches over the batter.
Place the dish back in the oven and bake until cobbler is golden brown and has risen up and around the fruit, about 30 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool 15 to 30 minutes or just dig in.

Tips For Making The Best Peach Cobbler

You can use this recipe with fresh peaches to make a delicious fresh peach cobbler. To do so, use 2 cups of fresh peaches.
You can also use frozen peaches in this recipe for peach cobbler. Make sure they thaw a bit before spooning them over the batter.
This recipe will be best using canned peaches with no sugar added.
If you want an even peachier cobbler, use 2 1/4 cups to 2 1/2 cups canned peaches.
You can sprinkle a cinnamon sugar mixture (1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon) over the top of the cobbler batter before baking it.
You can swap the peaches out for other fruit, such as blueberries, blackberries or strawberries. It will make a delicious cobbler whatever kind of fruit you choose to use.

Homemade Peach Cobbler Recipe With Canned Peaches

Easy Peach Cobbler With Flour, Sugar, Milk

This southern style peach cobbler is so easy. It’s what we here in the South call “Cuppa, Cuppa, Cuppa Cobbler”.

Yes, it’s a cup flour, cup sugar and a cup milk mixed together. Pour that into your baking dish that’s full of melted butter and spoon your peaches on top.

You can’t get any eazier than that. It’s the perfect dessert for a lazy baker to whip up.

Can You Make Peach Cobbler With Canned Peaches

In my family peach cobbler is one of our very favorite peach recipes. Of course, we’d prefer our peach cobbler with fresh peaches. Fresh peaches definitely make for the best peach cobbler recipe.

However, unless it’s between mid June and mid August, fresh peaches aren’t an option. That’s when you have to bake outside the box and use frozen peaches or canned peaches.

Some bakers say not to use canned peaches in cobbler, that canned peaches can result in a sickly sweet cobbler. However, other bakers, like myself, recognize there are reasons for using canned peaches in cobbler and are all for it.

According to this article by Taste Of Home, you can use canned peaches for most baked recipes. However, canned peaches are cooked, so they’ll be softer and more tender compared to a fresh or even frozen peach.

This cobbler probably would have been a bit better with in season fresh peaches. However folks, the canned peaches were delicious. They tasted so peach-tastic, especially blanketed in that buttery crust. You can rest in peach that this homemade peach cobbler using canned peaches will impress.

Peach Cobbler For Breakfast

This might sound crazy, but I love serving cobbler for breakfast or brunch and that includes peach cobbler. I so enjoy having friends over for brunch and along with all my favorite breakfast foods I love serving a pound cake and/or a cobbler.

Cobblers go so well and mix in just perfectly with sausage, bacon, eggs and biscuits. What a delicious way to top off your breakfast or brunch. Yes, the breakfast of champions.

How To Store Peach Cobbler

You’ve just enjoyed some of this indulgent homemade canned peach cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream and there’s a bit leftover. So, what to do with those delicious peach cobbler calories. Can you store them? Yes, you can and here’s how.

Cover it with plastic wrap or aluminum foil and store at room temperature up to 12 hours.
Cover it with plastic wrap and aluminum foil or place in a suitable airtight container and store in the refrigerator up to 3 days.
Put it in a freezer safe storage container and store in the freezer up to 3 months.

How To Reheat Peach Cobbler

If you’ve stored your old fashioned peach cobbler in the fridge or the freezer and now you’re ready to pull it out and reheat it, this article by Food Guy helps us out.

The key to reheating any kind of cobbler is reheating it slowly.

To reheat your homemade cobbler in the oven:

Preheat your oven to 250F
Remove the cobbler from the fridge or freezer and transfer it to an oven-safe dish.
Once the oven has completely heated place the cobbler in the middle rack to reheat.
If reheating for individual serving sizes reheat for 10 – 15 minutes. If reheating the whole cobbler reheat for 30 – 45 minutes (depending on the size of the cobbler).
Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack for 10 minutes and then indulge.

To reheat your homemade cobbler in the microwave, microwave in 30 second increments for individual serving sizes or 90 second increments for the whole cobbler.

How To Make Peach Cobbler With Canned Peaches

Why Make Easy Canned Peach Cobbler

This old fashioned peach cobbler recipe with canned peaches is up there with grandma’s old fashioned peach cobbler recipe (sorry grandma). The peachy flavor combined with that buttery crust and topped off with a scoop of vanilla ice cream will have your family and friends fighting for seconds.

In case you have any queries regarding the recipe feel free to reach out via the comment section or the contact page. Also, if you have tried this recipe, I would love to hear about your experiences.

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