Air Fryer Peach Cobbler

When the kids are begging you for dessert, this simple air fryer peach cobbler can be prepped in about five minutes. And this recipe uses simple ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen cupboards. This is a classic dessert made even easier and quicker thanks to the speed of the air fryer. It is a perfect dessert for those hot Summer days when you don’t want to turn your oven on. You can use fresh peaches when they are in season, or this works just as well with tinned peaches which are available all year round.

The sweet baked peaches are blanketed in a soft vanilla sponge, perfect for an easy midweek dessert. You can find this recipe on page 189 of The Ultimate Air Fryer Cookbook: One Basket Meals.

PREP 10 minutes

COOK 22 minutes

SERVES 4 people

KIT you will need a mixing bowl, an oven proof dish and an air fryer

Ingredients for air fryer peach cobbler

80g of plain flour

60g of caster sugar

1½ teaspoons of baking powder

80ml of whole fresh milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

30g of butter, roughly diced

10 to 12 tinned peach halves in juice, drained (you’ll need to use 2 x 400g tins, with a couple of halves left over)

To serve:

Demerara sugar, to sprinkle (optional)

Vanilla ice cream or custard, to serve (optional)

Method

First, mix up the batter as it needs to rest for a few minutes. Then put the flour, sugar and baking powder in a mixing bowl. And whisk in the milk and vanilla extract until you have a smooth batter. Then set aside.

Next, put the butter in a glass or ceramic baking dish as wide as possible that will still fit in your large air fryer. Add the drained peaches and pop the dish in the air fryer, set to 200C, for 5 minutes. So this will melt the butter and get the dish and the peaches hot. This will help cook the batter from below.

Once the five minutes are up, give the peaches and butter a quick stir. Then dollop the batter into the dish using a spoon, spreading it out over the dish between the peaches. You want to have a cobbled effect, so you should be able to see some peach between each dollop of batter and it should not be a solid pool of batter on top.

Turn the temperature on the air fryer down to 160C and cook for around 16 to 17 minutes. Or until the batter is cakey, and risen and golden on top and the peaches are meltingly soft.

Sprinkle a little demerara sugar over (or just leave it as is) and serve with ice cream or custard, if you like.

Watch the recipe video on my YouTube channel.