Foodie Friday: Baked Peaches and Cream
- Christine
- Sep 11, 2015
- 2 min read
I spoil my man. I mean absolutely spoil him. This past weekend, we celebrated our annual tradition of spending Labor Day Weekend together, and I decided to tackle a dessert recipe on my Pinterest board. The entire weekend was full of delicious meals (all of which will appear on the blog, so keep your eye out!) So Saturday morning we woke up, and after a lovely breakfast, we headed to the local farmer’s market, which is one of my favorite places to go on the weekend. The orchard nearby has a stand every week, and they sell an assortment of tasty, seasonal items, and this past weekend, they were selling apples and peaches. The recipe I wanted to make, baked peaches and cream, was the perfect excuse to splurge on these locally grown goodies. It wasn’t even that much of a splurge! We got five large peaches for $3.50, and we helped support a local business!
Anyway, I’m getting carried away. The link to this amazing recipe can be found at: http://www.madefrompinterest.net/baked-peaches-cream/
Now, here is the list of ingredients and directions. They’re both short and sweet, and completely easy to follow!
Ingredients
4 Peaches
Butter
Honey
1 cup mascarpone
½ cup Heavy whipping cream
1tsp vanilla extract
flaked almonds
cinnamon sugar
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350°. Cut the peaches in half and remove pits. Place in a baking dish. I used a cast iron skillet.
Place a pat of butter on each peach half and drizzle with honey.
Bake for 25-30 minutes. Make sure to keep an eye on them so they brown but don't burn. The time is dependent on the size of your peaches.
While they are baking and browning, mix your cream, mascarpone and vanilla extract. Lightly toast almonds in pan.
When your peaches are baked and browned remove them from the oven.
Place peach on plate. Spoon remaining butter and honey in pan and pool over the peach. Place a heaping spoonful of mascarpone cream on peach and top with almonds and cinnamon sugar.
Serve and enjoy!
My Tips & Tricks:
Since I was only baking for Jake and I, we only used two peaches.
We added more vanilla than called for in the recipe, but we did not measure it. I would guess we used about half of a tablespoon.
We skipped out on the almonds because well, we’re both college kids.
I used tupelo honey, and it gave the cream a wonderful flavor
My Review:
I absolutely loved these peaches. They were decadent, yet light. Although we had a few mishaps, like when we took the lid of the mascarpone cheese and found that the plastic had been pealed back and there was a finger shaped dent in it, I would make these again in a heartbeat. They even reheat nicely when setting the microwave at half power for about 45 seconds. The warm peaches tasted amazing in contrast with the honey-vanilla flavored cream. I’m so glad that I chose to tackle these peaches out of all the peach desserts I have pinned on my board!
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