Easy Apple Cobbler

Apple Cobbler is a classic apple recipe, filled with warm spices, rich brown sugar, and tender apple filling, topped with a sweet, buttery biscuit made perfectly golden brown in the oven.

What You’ll Love About This Recipe

This easy apple cobbler recipe is one that is made completely from scratch, while still using simple ingredients. Plus, this is a great way to use up apples from a family apple orchard visit. Most any apple will work for this original recipe.

We love to mix different apple varieties to create a more complex flavor combination for this classic fall dessert recipe and serve it with a delicious scoop of ice cream (and this homemade vanilla can’t be beat).

Looking for more tasty apple dessert recipes? You will love our apple hand pies, Cracker Barrel cinnamon apples, and our favorite dessert comfort food, Dutch apple pie.

Key Ingredients

Any type of apple will work for this recipe. Different apples will give a different flavor to the cobbler and a slightly different texture. Granny Smith apples will be more tart (and are popular in apple pies), while Fuji apples offer a sweet flavor and tend to be popular in a lot of apple tart recipes. You can also combine different types of apples, as well. In this recipe, we used Honeycrisp, which has a sweet yet tart flavor.

Brown sugar and cinnamon will give you a great flavor combination to go with the juicy apples, and the cornstarch will helps thicken up the sauce for the apples to give it an apple pie-like texture.

The flour mixture and butter make the best biscuit-like topping that is similar to an apple crisp, but with a fluffier texture that’s softer underneath and a crispier golden-brown on top.

Equipment Needed

For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:

• Saucepan (Large)
• Baking Dish (9 x 13)
• Mixing Bowl (Small)
• Peeler
• Cutting Board
• Chef Knife
• Spoon (Wooden)

How To Make Apple Cobbler

1. Peel the apples and slice them into thin pieces, and then set them aside. 
2. Combine the apple filling ingredients, along with the apples, into a large saucepan and bring them to a simmer until the apple slices are fairly tender.
3. Preheat your oven to 350℉ and lightly grease your 9×13-inch baking dish. 
4. Pour the apple mixture into the baking dish. 
5. In a large bowl, combine flour, cane sugar, and baking powder. 
6. To the dry ingredients, add the melted milk and melted butter. Stir until just combined and then spread the buttery sweet biscuit mixture over the top of the apples. 
7. Bake the apple cobbler for 40-45 minutes or until the biscuit topping is golden brown.
8. Cool to room temperature before serving.

 Substitutions and Variations

• Add in a little bit of clove or other favorite spices to the apples for another burst of flavor to mix into the tart apples.
• Make this recipe gluten-free by swapping out the all-purpose flour with a gluten-free alternative.
• Switch the whole milk for heavy cream to make a rich, coarse crumb.

Expert Tips

• Bump up the apple flavor by using apple juice instead of water; however, then you will want to use less sugar.
• Cobbler is best served with caramel sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. 
• If you want to prep the apples earlier in the day, soak the apples in water with some lemon juice to stop the oxidation process when preparing the easy recipe. 

Frequently Asked Questions

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