Traditional Peach Cobbler

My roommate was celebrating a friends birthday this week and her friends favorite dessert is peach cobbler.  Since I have never made a cobbler before I offered to make it for her.  I wasn't too sure what a cobbler was so I looked in the dictionary for a precise definition.  The dictionary referred to it as 'a dessert consisting of a fruit filling poured into a large baking dish over a batter that rises through when baking. The batter forms as a dumpling within the cobbler as well as a crust for the top.'  So when I started looking up recipes for cobblers, a lot of the recipes had directions to put the fruit in the baking dish first then pour the batter over top of the fruit.  Although these recipes sounded good and got a lot of reviews, I wanted to make the birthday cobbler the traditional way and watch the batter rise through the fruit. 

Then I sumbled on Paula Deen's fabulous recipe at food network.  This recipe turned out great and the cobbler was just what I expected.  I was a little worried at first because you don't mix the batter with the butter or the fruit in the baking dish before it goes in the oven but it all came together in the oven on its own!  The dough rose nicely and had a sweet biscuit flavor while the fruit was soft and sweet.  For this recipe you have to use self-rising flour or else the batter will not rise.  The only thing I changed was adding 1 tsp of cinnamon into the batter instead of sprinkling it on top of the mixture.  For my first time cobbler I thought it turned out really well and I will be using this recipe again in the future.  Here is the recipe from the famous Paula Deen and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Ps.  I wasn't too sure what catagory of dessert to put it under so it is linked under both breads and cakes incase you are looking for it!