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Easy Cobbler and Crisp Recipes

By Midwest Living editors Updated December 28, 2022
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Five-Spice Plum Cobbler with Orange Biscuits
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Mix and match your favorite fruits—cherries, plums, blueberries, peaches and more—in cobblers and crisps. These easy desserts bake under either biscuit-like toppings or crumbly streusel, and they can be served hot or cold.

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Five-Spice Plum Cobbler with Orange Biscuits

Five-Spice Plum Cobbler with Orange Biscuits
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Plums release their sweet-tart ruby goodness in this dessert bake. It is flavored with Chinese five-spice—a blend that typically includes fennel, peppercorns, star anise, cloves and cinnamon.

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Banana-Fig Skillet Crisp

Banana-Fig Skillet Crisp
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Toast oats, coconut and macadamia nuts, set them aside, then warm bananas and dried figs in brown sugar and rum. Put the two together and you've got crisp, no oven required!

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Double Berry Cobbler

Double Berry Cobbler
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Handy shortcuts make this recipe a breeze. Cooking the fruit in an oven-safe skillet cuts the bake time (and the number of dirty dishes). Refrigerated biscuits form the simple topper.

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Apple-Almond Brave Betty

Apple-Almond Brave Betty
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We gave a classic dessert a new name, in honor of all the people who have cooked in servitude or fought for social justice over the centuries—and we updated the flavors, too, with almond cookies and a splash of bourbon.

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Peach Pinwheel Dumplings

Peach Pinwheel Dumplings
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The biscuits absorb some of the cooking liquid, but this is still a very juicy dessert. The syrupy liquid tastes divine with vanilla ice cream. The recipe comes from Rendleman Orchards in Alto Pass, Illinois.

Related: Our Best Sweet-and-Juicy Peach Recipes

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Maple-Walnut Apple Cobbler

Maple-Walnut Apple Cobbler
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This easy skillet cobbler is bursting with harvest flavor: crisp apples, cinnamon, toasted walnuts and sweet maple syrup.

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Chocolate-Cherry Crisp

Chocolate-Cherry Crisp
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Chocolate chips in a cherry crisp! Why didn't we think of this earlier? Whole wheat flour lends a nutty flavor to the rich topping—and vanilla ice cream is the perfect finishing touch.

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Grilled Peach Cobbler

Grilled Peach Cobbler
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Pumpkin seeds and almond flour add wholesome nuttiness to this summer dessert, which is drizzled with an anise-flavored spirit (or brandy) before baking.

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Peach-Blueberry Brown Betty

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Traditionally made with apples, a brown Betty is the low-maintenance cousin to cobblers, pies and crisps. Drizzled in butter and dusted in sugar, plain bread cubes morph into dessert croutons that deliciously soak up the peach and blueberry juices.

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Nutty Caramel Apple Crisp

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A double dose of caramel—baked in with the fruit and drizzled on top—elevates the humble crisp to new levels of indulgence. Mix two types of apples for the best texture. The tender apples cook down and create a sort of thick sauce; the firm apples hold their shape. Boiled cider, which you can purchase at specialty stores or online or make using our recipe, adds an extra splash of apple flavor.

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Rhubarb Crunch

Rhubarb Crunch
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Similar to an apple brown betty or fruit crisp, this rustic dessert has a cinnamon topping that blends graham cracker crumbs and pecans with sugar, butter and bread crumbs.

Related: Rhubarb Recipes You'll Love

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Mini Peach-Berry Cobblers

Mini Peach-Berry Cobblers
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What's better than a warm biscuit-topped cobbler? A warm biscuit-topped cobbler you have all to yourself.

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Spiced Pear-Cranberry Cobbler

Spiced Pear-Cranberry Cobbler
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You can almost remember a misty-morning trip to the orchards and bogs when you taste this riff on a Midwest favorite. A pumpkin-cornmeal biscuit crowns the sweet-tangy fruit duo.

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Quick and Easy Dessert Recipes—Quick Cherry Crisp
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Crumbled shortbread cookies and toasted pecans top succulent red cherries in this easy-to-make dessert.

Related: 25 Quick-and-Easy Desserts

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Orange-Laced Blueberry-Rhubarb Cobbler with Almond Biscuits

Orange-Laced Blueberry-Rhubarb Cobbler with Almond Biscuits
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Barbara Estabrook of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, tops a juicy base with so-tender drop biscuits tasting of almonds from a mix of regular and almond flours. 

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Cherry-Nut Cobbler

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This creative slow-cooker recipe takes advantage of several shortcut ingredients, including muffin mix and canned cherry pie filling, for an easy dessert.

Related: Divine Slow-Cooker Desserts

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Triple-Berry Cobbler

Triple-Berry Cobbler
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Bubbling blueberries, raspberries and blackberries cook along with a batter flavored by cinnamon and nutmeg. Top with ice cream or whipped cream if you like.

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Rise and Shine Cranberry-Apple Crisp

Rise and Shine Cranberry-Apple Crisp
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Spiced coconut streusel adds crunch to healthy apples and berries for this breakfast or brunch treat.

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War Eagle Bean Palace Pecan Cobbler

War Eagle Bean Palace Pecan Cobbler
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Using the beloved pecan pie as a guide, cooks for the restaurant at the top of War Eagle Mill near Rogers, Arkansas, fashioned this cobbler, adding oat flour for a different flavor in the crust. The buttery crust layers in the middle of the syrupy filling, for a variation on the usual crown of topping. A generous measure of pecans adds crunch.

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Ozark Blackberry Cobbler

Ozark Blackberry Cobbler
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A sugared crispy pastry covers sweet juicy berries in this traditional Arkansas dessert.

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Ginger-Cinnamon Apple Crisp

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This crisp tastes like a mix of pecan and apple pie. Thinly slice the apples so they soften in the allotted baking time.

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    1 of 21 Five-Spice Plum Cobbler with Orange Biscuits
    2 of 21 Banana-Fig Skillet Crisp
    3 of 21 Double Berry Cobbler
    4 of 21 Apple-Almond Brave Betty
    5 of 21 Peach Pinwheel Dumplings
    6 of 21 Maple-Walnut Apple Cobbler
    7 of 21 Chocolate-Cherry Crisp
    8 of 21 Grilled Peach Cobbler
    9 of 21 Peach-Blueberry Brown Betty
    10 of 21 Nutty Caramel Apple Crisp
    11 of 21 Rhubarb Crunch
    12 of 21 Mini Peach-Berry Cobblers
    13 of 21 Spiced Pear-Cranberry Cobbler
    14 of 21 Quick Cherry Crisp
    15 of 21 Orange-Laced Blueberry-Rhubarb Cobbler with Almond Biscuits
    16 of 21 Cherry-Nut Cobbler
    17 of 21 Triple-Berry Cobbler
    18 of 21 Rise and Shine Cranberry-Apple Crisp
    19 of 21 War Eagle Bean Palace Pecan Cobbler
    20 of 21 Ozark Blackberry Cobbler
    21 of 21 Ginger-Cinnamon Apple Crisp

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