What Sets Marie Callender's Cobblers Apart From Its Pies?

Ever since the 1940s, Marie Callender's has had a history of baking pies. Now known for offering a collection of frozen dinners, including chicken and beef pot pies, bowls, and sides, the brand began with a focus on dessert pies and continues to excel in the space. Not only does Marie Callender's have tons of cream pies, fruit and seasonal pies, and mini pies, but it also has two cobblers: Apple Crumb Cobbler and Peach Cobbler.

Marie Callender's cobblers are different from its pies in that they are rectangular rather than round. While the brand's pies come in 18 variations, including Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel, Cherry Crunch, and Key Lime, its cobblers are available in only two flavors. You can even find a sugar-free pie, but no such option exists for the cobblers. While cobblers don't typically have a bottom crust, Marie Callender's options do, making them more pie-like (and delicious) than most.

Like the Dutch Apple Pie and the Lattice Peach Pie, the Apple Crumb Cobbler and Peach Cobbler are filled with their star fruit and several other ingredients. These include sugar, water, cornstarch, salt, ascorbic acid, citric acid, and the same Marie Callender's crust (although the apple options also include a dough conditioner for improved texture). The apple cobblers and pies also feature the same crumb topping, made with flour, brown sugar, palm oil, sugar, salt, spice, and dextrose.

Marie Callender's website describes the Apple Crumb Cobbler as having a "deep-dish, extra-flaky, made-from-scratch cobbler crust filled with sweet apples, sugar, and cinnamon." It also mentions an extra-flaky, made-from-scratch crust when explaining its Peach Cobbler. But between the two, shoppers on the brand's official website prefer the apple, giving it a 3.6 rating — just a smidge above the 3.4 rating given to the peach version.

In comparison to the pies, the cobblers rank higher than the Lattice Peach Pie, which has a 2.7 rating, and lower than the Dutch Apple Pie, which sits at 4.3. On its website, Marie Callender's touts its Dutch Apple Pie as a "classic pie made with cinnamon and sweet apples baked in our signature extra-flaky, made-from-scratch pastry crust and topped with crunchy brown sugar streusel."

Whether you choose to go with the fan favorite or opt for one of the cobblers, fans online recommend topping it with ice cream. And, of course, don't forget to serve it warm.