Food Desserts & Baking Easy Cobbler and Crisp Recipes By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on June 16, 2023 Trending Videos Photo: EE Berger 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. 01 of 22 Summer Cobbler EE Berger This recipe, which can be made with any summer fruit, is adapted from Michigan chef Abra Berens' cookbook, Pulp. She suggests serving it with a dollop of sour cream. View Recipe 02 of 22 Five-Spice Plum Cobbler with Orange Biscuits Carson Downing 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. View Recipe 03 of 22 Banana-Fig Skillet Crisp 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! View Recipe 04 of 22 Double Berry Cobbler 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. View Recipe 05 of 22 Apple-Almond Brave Betty Adam Albright 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. View Recipe 06 of 22 Peach Pinwheel Dumplings 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. Our Best Sweet-and-Juicy Peach Recipes View Recipe 07 of 22 Maple-Walnut Apple Cobbler This easy skillet cobbler is bursting with harvest flavor: crisp apples, cinnamon, toasted walnuts and sweet maple syrup. Warm and Cozy Dessert Recipes View Recipe 08 of 22 Chocolate-Cherry Crisp 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. View Recipe 09 of 22 Grilled Peach Cobbler Pumpkin seeds and almond flour add wholesome nuttiness to this summer dessert, which is drizzled with an anise-flavored spirit (or brandy) before baking. View Recipe 10 of 22 Peach-Blueberry Brown Betty 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. View Recipe 11 of 22 Nutty Caramel Apple Crisp 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. View Recipe 12 of 22 Rhubarb Crunch 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. Rhubarb Recipes You'll Love View Recipe 13 of 22 Mini Peach-Berry Cobblers What's better than a warm biscuit-topped cobbler? A warm biscuit-topped cobbler you have all to yourself. View Recipe 14 of 22 Spiced Pear-Cranberry Cobbler 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. View Recipe 15 of 22 Quick Cherry Crisp Crumbled shortbread cookies and toasted pecans top succulent red cherries in this easy-to-make dessert. 25 Quick-and-Easy Desserts View Recipe 16 of 22 Orange-Laced Blueberry-Rhubarb Cobbler with Almond Biscuits 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. View Recipe 17 of 22 Cherry-Nut Cobbler This creative slow-cooker recipe takes advantage of several shortcut ingredients, including muffin mix and canned cherry pie filling, for an easy dessert. Divine Slow-Cooker Desserts View Recipe 18 of 22 Triple-Berry Cobbler 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. View Recipe 19 of 22 Rise and Shine Cranberry-Apple Crisp Spiced coconut streusel adds crunch to healthy apples and berries for this breakfast or brunch treat. View Recipe 20 of 22 War Eagle Bean Palace Pecan Cobbler 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. View Recipe 21 of 22 Ozark Blackberry Cobbler A sugared crispy pastry covers sweet juicy berries in this traditional Arkansas dessert. View Recipe 22 of 22 Ginger-Cinnamon Apple Crisp This crisp tastes like a mix of pecan and apple pie. Thinly slice the apples so they soften in the allotted baking time. View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit