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!

Pecan Pie Cobbler Recipe

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!

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.

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!

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.