Alabama NewsCenter — Dish up the comfort with these 7 cobblers from Alabama cooks

By Lenore Vickrey
Alabama Living

The smell of a homemade cobbler is one of the most delectable and comforting scents to grace our homes. So what exactly is a cobbler and how is it different from a pie? We asked our friends at the Alabama Cooperative Extension System to clear that up for us.

“The defining difference between cobbler vs. pie really comes down to the crust, or lack thereof,” says Elaine Softley, ACES regional extension agent II, Human Nutrition Diet and Health for northwest Alabama. “A pie, whether sweet or savory, always has a bottom crust, while a cobbler doesn’t. A cobbler is a baked fruit dessert without a bottom crust and the top crust is a kind of biscuit dough instead of a traditional pastry or pie dough. While almost all fruit pies need some kind of pie pan, you can bake a cobbler in any kind of baking dish, using almost any kind of fruit.”

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