Pecan Pie Cobbler

This Pecan Pie Cobbler recipe combines a traditional pecan pie with a cobbler for an easy dessert! The ingredients are layered in a baking dish, and hot water is poured over the top. Once baked, you get a delicious homemade cobbler with a golden crust and gooey pecan filling. It’s easy and best served with a big scoop of ice cream! 

Sometimes the best desserts are the simple ones, and a hot water cobbler is one of the easiest! If you’ve never heard of this type of cobbler, I’m so excited to share it with you. It’s easy and delicious.

Hot Water Cobbler Recipe

Some cobbler recipes have you mix up a batter to pour over a filling in a pan. However, a hot water cobbler is totally different.

For this type of dessert, you layer melted butter with pecans and the dry ingredients in a baking dish, pour boiling water over the top, and it turns into the most fantastic cobbler once it’s baked!

For this version, we’re making a Southern pecan pie cobbler. It takes a pecan pie filling, combines it with a cobbler batter, and turns it into a warm, gooey cobbler. So there’s no pie crust to worry about and no complicated steps.

Sometimes it’s called crazy crust pecan pie because when you get all of the ingredients in the pan, you’ll think, “there’s no way this will work!” But it does, and it magically forms three distinct layers: a pecan filling with an amazing caramel sauce, fluffy soft cake, and a golden crust. It tastes like a crustless pecan pie with cake. In other words, it’s so good!

Ingredients

Unsalted Butter: Cut it into tablespoon slices

All-Purpose Flour: Be sure to measure it correctly

Granulated Sugar: Sweetens the cobbler topping

Baking Powder: This helps the cobbler be nice and fluffy.

Salt: Needed since we started with unsalted butter.

Milk: This is our cobbler binder. You can use regular, 2%, nonfat, whole milk, or non-dairy milk.

Vanilla: Adds flavor to the pecan mixture

Chopped Pecans: You could leave them in halves if you prefer.

Brown Sugar: This makes the gooey pecan pie filling, like a Brown Sugar Pecan Pie. Be sure to pack it in your measuring cup.

Boiling Water: This is the magic of the cobbler! During baking the water mixes with all the cobbler ingredients and creates a soft and fluffy cobbler!

How to Make Pecan Pie Cobbler

1. Mix the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt with a wire whisk in a large bowl.
2. Next, whisk in the milk and vanilla. Set aside.
3. Place the sliced butter in a 9×13” baking pan and place it in the oven while it preheats.
4. Once butter is melted, remove the hot pan from the oven to your work surface and drop the flour mixture by the spoonful evenly over the melted butter.
5. Sprinkle the chopped pecans over the top of the flour and butter, and then sprinkle the brown sugar evenly over the pecans.
6. Lastly, pour the boiling hot water over the top of all the ingredients.
7. Bake until puffed and set.

Recipe Tips

• When you melt the butter in the pan, be careful transferring it back and forth to the oven. The pan will be hot!
• It’s delicious served hot or warm, but you can also serve it at room temperature. Don’t forget to add some whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
• You can store the cobbler at room temperature for up to two days or in the refrigerator for up to three days. Just keep it loosely covered with plastic wrap.

FAQ

The only crazy thing about this pecan cobbler is how delicious it is! You might not go back to a regular pecan pie once you try it – it’s so easy. Enjoy!

Other Pecan Pie Desserts

• Mom’s Pecan Pie
• Pecan Pie Dip
• Pecan Pie Cookies
• Pecan Pie Baklava

Pecan Pie Cobbler Recipe

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This Pecan Pie Cobbler recipe combines a traditional pecan pie with a cobbler for an easy dessert! It’s so easy and best served with ice cream!

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Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour

Yield 12 servings

Serving Size 1 serving

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Ingredients

 

• ▢ 6 tablespoons (91g) unsalted butter , sliced into tablespoons
• ▢ 1 ¼ cups I155g) all-purpose flour
• ▢ ¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
• ▢ 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt
• ▢ ⅔ cup (158ml) milk
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 2 cups (228g) chopped pecans
• ▢ 1 cup (200g) packed brown sugar
• ▢ 1 ½ cups (355ml) boiling water

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Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°F. While oven is preheating, place the butter in a 9×13-inch baking dish and place the pan in the oven so the butter can melt as the oven is warming.
• Whisk flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium sized bowl. Whisk in milk and vanilla extract.
• Once butter is melted, carefully remove hot pan from the oven. Drop spoonfuls of the flour mixture evenly all over the melted butter.
• Sprinkle the chopped pecans over the top of the batter, then sprinkle the brown sugar evenly over the pecans.
• Carefully pour the boiling water evenly over the top of the cobbler.
• Place the cobbler back in the oven and bake until the cobbler is golden brown all over, about 25-35 minutes.
• Cool slightly before serving. Store loosely covered for up to 2 days on the counter or 3 days in the refrigerator.
• Serve hot, warm, or room temperature with whipped cream, ice cream or plain.

Recipe Notes

• Milk: You can use regular, 2%, nonfat or any non dairy milk.
• If you use salted butter, reduce the salt by ¼ teaspoon.
• You can boil the water in a kettle or do what I did: microwave it in a microwave safe measuring cup for about 3-5 minutes or until it boils. Be careful; the measuring cup will be hot to the touch.

Recipe Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 340kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 111mg | Potassium: 194mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 206IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 76mg | Iron: 1mg

Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Author Dorothy Kern

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This Pecan Pie Cobbler is a delicious homemade cobbler with a golden crust and gooey pecan filling – it’s the perfect flavors of pecan pie but in a cobbler!