No-Peel Easy Pear Cobbler
No-Peel Easy Pear Cobbler is a recipe make with Bartlett pears (not peeled), an easy dessert served warm with vanilla ice cream or gelato.
Friends, fall time is the perfect time to invite people into your home, and serve this No-Peel Easy Pear Cobbler. No-peel, as in you don’t have to peel the pears. So it’s a quick and easy recipe!
No-Peel Easy Pear Cobbler
This simple Pear Cake recipe is so moist and delicious, and I love it served warm. It’s the perfect cake to have with tea, coffee, a great breakfast cake, or serve for dinner dessert.
Pear Cobbler ingredients:
All you need are these simple ingredients.
- Pears (we use Bartlett)
- Sugar
- Butter
- Flour
- Baking powder + salt
- Mlk
- Cardamom + cinnamon
- Powdered sugar
How to make no peel pear cobbler:
Easy fresh pear cake will quickly become a favorite cake, especially when you see how easy it is to make!
- Combine the pears and sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil; simmer.
- Place the butter in a 9×13 baking dish and place in oven to melt.
- Mix remaining sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, cardamom, cinnamon. Add milk slowly to prevent clumping. Pour mixture over melted butter. Do not stir.
- Spoon warm fruit and syrup on top. Sprinkle the top with remaining cinnamon.
- Bake; the batter will rise to the top during baking and will look like a cake/cobbler.
- Slightly cool and dush with powdered sugar.
- To serve, scoop onto a plate and serve with vanilla ice cream or homemade gelato!
Cozy hospitality
I like to think of cozy hospitality as being friendly, kind, generous—providing a warm space for our neighbors and friends. Of course that means family, too. Always family.
This is a great recipe to take if you’re bringing a meal to someone. You can make it in 2 8×8 pans, or 1 9×13 pan.
We are all called to live hospitable lives. And here’s the beauty of hospitality—you take it with you everywhere you go. It is not just hosting in your home.
Hospitality is not always cooking up a big meal. It can be as easy as inviting people in for dessert!
No-Peel Easy Pear Cobbler
For fall or winter, we love this Easy Pear Cobbler recipe.
My mom made a lot of cobblers with this simple method. You can also try these cobbler recipes:
Best Blueberry Cobbler (you can use frozen blueberries)
What is hygge?
Two years ago my husband and I traveled to Berlin, Denmark, and Norway. We loved the European hospitably that we experienced, specifically hygge, in Denmark. The Danish people are great when it comes to getting cozy and practicing hospitality.
Hygge translates to a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. It’s the “art of creating intimacy” or “coziness of the soul” or “taking pleasure from the presence of soothing things,” and my favorite … “cozy togetherness.”
To sum it up, hospitality means being present, keeping things simple, focusing on gratitude, and savoring the simple pleasures in life.
Having people over for dessert for our family is a simple pleasure. It doesn’t cost a lot of money, it just takes a little time.
Serve just dessert
Fresh Pear Cake with a dusting of powdered sugar on top is lightly sweet and terrific served for breakfast, brunch or dessert!
Cooking a meal can be an amazing gift to others, but a simple dessert can also accomplish the same goals!

Get the Recipe:
No-Peel Easy Pear Cobbler
Ingredients
- 6 pears, cut into 1-inch chunks (do not peel)
- 1 ½ cups sugar, divided
- ¼ cup water
- 8 Tbsp. butter
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 1 tsp. cardamom
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, divided
- Powder sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine the pears, 1 cup sugar, and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat.
- Place the butter in a 9x13 baking dish and place in oven to melt.
- Mix remaining sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, cardamom, ½ tsp. cinnamon, and milk slowly to prevent clumping. Pour mixture over melted butter. Do not stir.
- Spoon fruit on top, gently pouring in pear syrup. Sprinkle the top with remaining cinnamon.
- Bake for 35 to 45 minutes. The batter will rise to the top during baking and will look like a cake/cobbler.
- Cool and dust with powdered sugar.
- To serve, scoop onto a plate and serve with vanilla ice cream or gelato!
Can I use monk fruit in this instead of regular sugar and if so is it cup for cup serving
Hi, Jeannette. I think you can, but we have not tried it. Sorry I can’t be exact on the measurements!
Could I use this recipe substituting the pears for pineapple?
Hi, Anna. I have never tried pineapple! Let me know if it works!