Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe

My Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe is made from scratch is a delicious way to use up your cherry harvest or all those fresh cherries from the grocery store. Save it so you can make it when the cherries are in season!

This year was the first year we received a harvest from our dwarf cherry trees and it was amazing. We planted our little trees back in 2020 and three our of the four lived and two of the trees produced enough fruit that I was able to make Homemade Cherry Cobbler made from scratch!

When I first bought all the fruit trees and laid out the plans for our garden, I envisioned a day when the garden itself would work more like a food forrest in permaculture concepts. And while we don’t have that exactly, we do have a beautiful variety of fruit trees and summer vegetables as well as plenty of herbs and hopefully someday grapes. (The apple trees should giveway to our first harvest this year too.)

My cherry mix

There’s two parts to making any kind of cobbler. The first part is the fruit mix. In this case, I used the cherries from our Dwarf Cherry Trees, which have a tart but slightly sweet flavor. I’ve found that slightly tart fruits tend to make better cobblers and pies because the fruits that are already very sweet get a little too sweet for me. However, you can use your favorite kind of cherry for my Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe. Either tart or sweet will work. 

To begin you will need to pit 4 cups of cherries. I have a simple cherry pitter similar to this one {HERE}. Although, it does look like there are some fancier ones on the market that will pit multiple cherries {HERE} or provide a nifty pit catcher {HERE}. As our cherry trees grow, I’ll have to invest in one of these.

Besides the cherries, there’s just a few other ingredients for making the mix including sugar, corn starch, vanilla extract, lemon juice and almond extract. 

Making the cobbler for my recipe

My cobbler in my Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe is a little more cake-like. My family loves it and it soaks up all of the cherry juice nicely. It will actually bake into the cherry mix and it’s a bit like eating a soft, sugar cookie with the cherry filling. It’s incredibly delicious! It was gone within 24 hours of making it. Kevin continued to eat it out of the baking dish with a fork all night. (He tends to snack at odd hours. We call him the raccoon.)

This is also simply made and does not contain any eggs. It simply uses flour, sugar, milk and butter. I also flavor it with a bit of vanilla to give it more of a dessert flavor. Together with the cherry topping (and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream) it’s truly an unbeatable dessert. 

All of this gets mixed together in a bowl and then spooned onto the cherry mix like drop biscuits. There is no evening it out or making it smooth. Just mix, drop and bake. 

Tips for making my Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe

• As I mentioned, I use a more tart cherry for this recipe but you can use whatever you like. You can also use frozen cherries to make the cherry filling mix, which can be helpful if you want to make this Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe in the off season. 
• You can substitute the milk with any other kind of “milk” that can be used for baking. I always use whole milk because that is what we drink. But skim or any plant based milk that can be baked can be used too. Although, if you’re not adverse to it I do recommend whole milk for the texture, volume and flavor. 
• A cherry pitter is a must for this if you are working with fresh cherries. Again, this one {HERE} is similar to mine. It took me about 10 minutes to pit my 4 cups.
• I recommend using a white CorningWare dish to bake this in. I think I received mine for our wedding shower eons ago so I don’t have a link to it. However, this one {HERE} is similiar.
• I recommend making this fresh but you can try making this one day ahead of time and putting it in the refrigerator. Hold off on adding the topping to the cherry mix and put the baking dish together right before putting it in the oven. 
• To save, cover the Homemade Cherry Cobbler and put it in the refrigerator. It will keep for about 72hours but it probably won’t last that long. 

Looking for other summer dessert ideas? 

If you’re on the hunt for more summer desserts, try these!

• Homemade Angel Food Cake {HERE}
• Three Berry Trifle {HERE}
• No Bake Chocolate Lasagna {HERE}
• Blackberry Lavender Lemon Ice Box Cakes {HERE}
• Peach Oatmeal Cobbler {HERE}

Thank you so much for stopping by today, friends! I hope that you love my Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe and hope that you come back again. You can find the full, printable recipe below. 

Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe

My Homemade Cherry Cobbler recipe is made from scratch and a delicious way to use up your cherry harvest or all those fresh cherries from the grocery store. Save it so you can make it when the cherries are in season!

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cherry cobbler, cherry cobbler made from scratch, homemade cherry cobbler, made from scratch cherry cobbler

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes

Cooling: 10 minutes

Author: Rachel

Equipment

• 1 casserole dish

Ingredients

Ingredients for the cherry cobbler filling

• 4 cups pitted cherries
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp. corn starch
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/8 tsp. almond extract

Ingredients for the cobbler

• 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/3 cup of milk + 2 Tbsp
• 1 stick of salted butter
• 1/2 Tbsp. vanilla
• Additional sprinkle of sugar for topping
• Butter or cooking spray for the bottom of the baking dish
• Additional 1/2 Tbsp. of sugar for topping after 30 minutes of baking
• Optional: Vanilla bean ice cream

Instructions

Instructions for the Cherry Mix

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Pit the cherries and then add them to a large skillet pan over low heat. Add in sugar, corn starch and fresh lemon juice. Mix and simmer for 5 minutes. Then add in the vanilla and almond extracts and simmer another 5 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and whisk. Or use a sifter. Then make a hole in the middle and add the milk, vanilla and melted butter. Mix together with a wooden spoon or your hands.
• Use a little butter to coat the bottom of a deep, oval baking dish. Or you can use cooking spray. Then add the cherry mix and drop the cobbler dough on top.
• Bake for 30 minutes and then sprinkle a little additional sugar on top. Continue to bake for another 10-20 minutes. Total time should be around 50 minutes or when the top of the cobbler dough is starting to turn golden.
• Let cool for 10 minutes and then serve with vanilla bean ice cream!