Apple Cobbler

Content… Easy Dessert All Year Round Recipe Ingredients How to Make It Recipe Variations Tips and Tricks Make-Ahead Instructions Serving and Storage Instructions FAQs What to Serve More Luscious Apple Recipes to Try Conclusion

Easy Apple Cobbler All Year Round

Even though this is a quintessential fall recipe as far as flavors go, I love to make apple cobbler all year round. It’s super easy to make. And while apples are in season in the fall, you can get them any time.

1. 🌞 Apple cobbler is a great all-American dessert after a barbecue on a hot summer’s eve. (Especially when you top it with some cold vanilla ice cream!)
2. 🌱 I would definitely reheat apple cobbler for breakfast on a chilly spring morning.
3. ❄️ It’s delicious hot out of the oven on a cold winter’s night too.

See? Ideal for any season!

Recipe Ingredients

1. Filling Ingredients – A couple of pounds of apples of your choice, butter, sugar, warm cinnamon, nutmeg, a dash of cornstarch, lemon juice, and a teaspoon of vanilla extract, and you’ve got all the magical ingredients that make for a steamy, saucy apple filling.
2. Topping Ingredients – For your cobbler crust, you’ll need flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, butter, buttermilk, and that secret ingredient I talked about earlier…crystallized ginger. 🤫

How to Make Apple Cobbler

Apple Filling

• Prep Baking Dish – Spray a 9×13-inch baking pan with cooking oil or coat with a thin layer of butter and set aside.
• Melt Butter – Next, add the butter and sugar to a saucepan on medium heat and let them get nice and melty. (Photos 1-2)
• Simmer Apples – Then, add apples, lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and cornstarch and stir until combined. Reduce the heat and let it cook for about 7 minutes. The apples should be firm but tender when cooked. (Photos 3-4)
• Cool – Remove the apple filling from the stove and let it cool.

Cobbler Crust

• Dry Ingredients – While the filling is cooling, mix the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl. (Photo 5)
• Butter – Add butter to the flour mixture and mix it with your hands until it resembles coarse crumbs. (Photos 6-7)
• Buttermilk – Gently stir in the buttermilk until everything is moist but don’t overwork the dough. (Photo 8)

Assemble and Bake the Cobbler

• First, the Filling – Pour the apple pie filling into the pan. (Photo 9)
• Topping – Then scoop the dough out over the apple pie filling spreading it evenly across the pan. Sprinkle the top with crystalized or brown sugar. (Photo 10)
• Bake at 350℉/177℃ for 40-45 minutes or until the topping is cooked through and the filling is bubbly. Remove and let it cool slightly for serving.
• Add Ice Cream – Optionally, serve with vanilla ice cream. (But come on, is ice cream on cobbler really optional? I didn’t think so. 😆)

Recipe Variations

1. Swap up the fruits! If you love apple cobbler, I know you love peach cobbler. How about blackberry or pear cobbler? Try making cobbler with any fruit you love that’s in season.
2. Make this apple cobbler recipe gluten-free by swapping out all-purpose flour for a gluten-free blend.

Tips and Tricks

1. You may use a mix of sweet and tart apples for a more complex-tasting cobbler. Try one of these combos: Pink Lady with Granny Smith or Braeburn with Golden Delicious. So tasty! 😋
2. Always peel and core the apples to achieve a better texture and consistency in your apple cobbler.
3. When baking the cobbler, place the pie pan in the oven on top of a baking sheet. That will keep your oven clean in case the cobbler bubbles over a bit.

Make-Ahead Instructions

Apple cobbler can stay in the fridge for 3-5 days with no problem and reheats nicely in the oven. So, go ahead and get this ready a day or two in advance if you’d like!

You can also freeze apple cobbler. Just thaw it out the night before you want to serve it, and heat it up in the oven before plating.

Serving and Storage Instructions

If you can, serve apple cobbler right after it cools a bit. It will still be steamy and warm and will get that vanilla ice cream you put on top perfectly melty. 🤤

Store leftover cobbler, if you have any, in the fridge for 3-5 days or freeze baked cobbler for up to 2 months. Warm it up before serving. To reheat your apple cobbler, set it in the oven set to 350℉/177℃ for about 10 minutes or until it is warmed. Keep an eye on the cobbler crust, so it doesn’t burn. If you want to heat up a single serving quickly, just pop it in the microwave for a minute or two.

FAQs

What Goes with Apple Cobbler?

Serve apple cobbler with a dollop of homemade whipped cream or a healthy serving of vanilla ice cream on top. Either way, it’s to die for. Don’t forget to offer your guests a cup of hot coffee (or pumpkin spice latte) to go with their cobbler, too – it’s the perfect combo to finish off a meal.

This apple cobbler also makes a great holiday dessert. Serve it alongside pecan pie, ambrosia salad, and rum cake.

More Luscious Apple Recipes to Try

• Apple Bread
• Apple Crumble
• Apple Pie
• Apple Dumplings
• Apple Galette

Conclusion

There you go, my friend! This scrumptious and super-easy dessert is one you can make for just about any occasion. Already an apple cobbler fan? Let me know what you think of this recipe and if you have any top-secret tricks to share too! 😉

This blog post was originally published in November 2018 and has been updated with additional tips and new photos.