These peach cobbler muffins are a delicious mashup of a muffin with everyone’s favorite summer dessert! Each fluffy muffin is packed with juicy peaches and topped with a sweet vanilla glaze, capturing the warm, comforting flavors of peach cobbler in every bite.
Why we love this recipe
Here’s everyone’s favorite summer dessert turned into a muffin: peach cobbler muffins! As cookbook authors and recipe developers, we’ve found that mashup recipes are always fun. Take two great things and put them together—greatness is born!
These muffins are light and fluffy, with the perfect springy crumb from buttermilk. The peaches add a juicy hit to each bite, and the top is drizzled with a simple vanilla icing to mimic the vanilla ice cream traditionally served with peach cobbler. We created these inspired by some ripe peaches on our counter, and our friends and family were head over heels!
Ingredient notes for peach cobbler muffins
These peach cobbler muffins come together simply, but you’ve got to have two star ingredients: ripe peaches and buttermilk. (They can still be good without it, but not as good.) We’ve formulated this recipe to make very tall, soft, and fluffy muffins. Here’s a rundown:
- Peaches: Make sure your peaches are ripe, sweet and juicy. You can’t make up for it with sugar!
- Buttermilk: Buttermilk makes the most consistent texture and rise! A buttermilk substitute can work, but it’s much better with the real thing and is worth a trip to the store (we promise).
- Butter and oil. Butter and oil work uniquely in baked goods. We like using a combination, which makes the best
- Vanilla extract and cinnamon: These add a cozy nuance to the flavor that is reminiscent of peach cobbler.
- All-purpose flour, granulated sugar, eggs, baking powder, baking soda, and salt: These common baking ingredients round out the recipe.
Tips for baking peach muffins
This peach muffins recipe is a riff on our rhubarb muffins, which makes a very tall, fluffy muffin with a large muffin top (which is key with muffins, we think!). Here are a few tricks to this recipe:
- Oil or grease the top of the muffin tins. Because the tops of these muffins are very large, they can extend over the tops of the cups. This makes sure that they don’t stick to the pan.
- Fill the muffin cups up to the top. Here you’ll muffin cups very full up to the top, which makes for beautifully tall and fluffy muffins. You can discard extra batter once all the muffin cups are filled.
- Baking at 375°F makes a taller muffin. A slightly hotter oven makes a taller and fluffier muffin, versus the standard 350°F.
- Use a butter knife to help loosen the muffin tops from the pan when removing them, if necessary.
Vanilla icing and other topping ideas
This vanilla icing adds a nice hit of sweetness to these peach cobbler muffins, and is reminiscent of the peach ice cream you’d use to traditionally top a cobbler. It’s a spin on our 1 minute powdered sugar icing. Here are a few notes about the icing and some other topping ideas:
- Use more or less liquid to get the desired consistency. Add just enough liquid until it is easy to drizzle. We used heavy cream for this recipe, but you can also use milk like in our standard powdered sugar icing.
- Use a fork to drizzle the icing. This helps to make nice thin lines, versus using a spoon (which is harder to control).
- For a different topping, try streusel or cream cheese glaze. Use the streusel topping in these rhubarb muffins, or this cream cheese glaze.
Storing leftovers
These peach cobbler muffins taste great the day of, and they’re best eaten the day of baking. You can store at room temperature covered with a towel about 2 days if iced or refrigerated for up to 1 week (allow to come to room temperature before serving). You can also store frozen without glaze for up to 3 months.
Dietary notes
These peach cobbler muffins are vegetarian. For vegan, use Vegan Blueberry Muffins and substitute peaches, or use a flax egg and non-dairy milk of your choice in the recipe below.
More peach recipes
Got peaches? You’ll love these peach recipes: try peaches and cream oatmeal to start the day, or simple peach burrata salad. Bake up a peach crisp, peach crumble, or fresh peach pie, or try our tasty peach salsa.
Frequently asked questions
You can substitute frozen or canned peaches (no sugar added). For frozen, allow them to thaw until you can dice them, then discard any extra liquid.
If the icing is too thick, add a teaspoon of milk at a time until you reach the desired consistency. If it’s too thin, add a tablespoon of powdered sugar at a time until it thickens up.
Yes, you can use any type of milk you prefer, such as almond milk, oat milk, or skim milk. Start with slightly less than the recipe specifies and add more as necessary.
Absolutely! Chopped pecans, walnuts, or a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg would all be delicious additions.
Yes, you can grease the muffin tin well with butter or cooking spray to prevent sticking.
Description
These peach cobbler muffins are a delicious mashup of a muffin with everyone’s favorite summer dessert! Each fluffy muffin is packed with juicy peaches and topped with a sweet vanilla glaze, capturing the warm, comforting flavors of peach cobbler in every bite.
For the peach muffins
- 2 cups peaches, peeled and finely chopped (2 large peaches; about 1 pound; see notes)
- 2 cups [280 g] all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar, plus 1 tablespoon
- ¾ cup buttermilk (see Notes)
- 5 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
- ⅓ cup neutral oil (grapeseed, canola, or vegetable oil)
- 2 eggs
- ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- Turbinado sugar for topping (or additional granulated sugar)
For the vanilla icing
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ tablespoons heavy cream or milk (plus more as desired)
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Peel and chop the peaches (if the peaches are very ripe you can pull of with your fingers, or go to How to Peel Peaches for our easy method). Save out 1 handful of peaches for a topping. In a small bowl, mix the remaining peaches with 1 tablespoon granulated sugar.
- Place muffin wrappers in 12-cup muffin tins (see Notes). Spray or rub the top of the pan with oil (so the tops don’t stick after baking).
- In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Make a well in the center.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the granulated sugar, buttermilk, melted butter, neutral oil, eggs, and vanilla extract.
- Pour the wet ingredients for the batter into the well in the dry ingredients. Mix gently until just combined and there are no longer streaks of flour.
- Add the bowl of peaches and fold them in with a spatula, taking care not to overwork the batter. Scoop the batter into the muffin papers using a dough scoop: it should fill to the top of the muffin papers. (You may have some batter left over, which you can discard or make very tall muffins.) Sprinkle the tops with the handful of peaches, then add a sprinkle of turbinado sugar (or more granulated sugar).
- Bake until the tops are golden brown and a toothpick in the center comes out with a few crumbs, about 20 to 26 minutes total (rotate the pans halfway through baking). Allow to cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to a baking rack to fully cool, about 30 minutes to 1 hour. If necessary, when removing the muffins use a butter knife to slide under any bits of the muffins tops that stick to the muffin pan.
- When ready to glaze, in a medium bowl mix together the vanilla, cream or milk, and the powdered sugar until a thick icing forms. If the texture is not drizzle-able, add a few more drops liquid and continue stirring until it comes together (if you add too much liquid, even it out by adding a little more powdered sugar). Drizzle a small amount with a fork over each of the muffins. Allow to dry for 10 minutes.
- The muffins taste great the day of, or store at room temperature covered with a towel about 2 days if iced or refrigerated for up to 1 week (allow to come to room temperature before serving). You can also store frozen without glaze for up to 3 months.
Notes
You can also substitute frozen or canned peaches (no sugar added). For frozen, allow them to thaw until you can dice them, then discard any extra liquid.
For the most even baking, you can place the muffin wrappers into every other hole in 2 12-cup muffin tins.
Buttermilk is the magic ingredient which makes the most consistent texture and rise! A buttermilk substitute can work, but it’s much better with the real thing and is worth a trip to the store (we promise).
- Category: Muffins
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Muffins
- Diet: Vegetarian
