Late summer means it’s peach time. You may not know Western Idaho has many fruit orchards. I’m partial to Idaho fruit because I grew up eating it. An old friend, who owned an orchard used to bring my Mom boxes upon boxes of fruit. I remember canning fruit until I thought I would die!
Now that I’m the Mom is still can peaches but not as many! Our family enjoys eating them fresh with sugar and cream for breakfast almost everyday during the late summer. Candied Peaches and Cream happen to be another favorite way to eat them.
My college roommate taught me how to make these and I’ve been eating them ever since! You know if we were making them in college they don’t require any fancy ingredients and very little time. We were busy and poor! They were perfect too because boys loved them which meant boys loved us!
Here’s the low down, cut the peach in half and remove the stone. Spoon a little, or lot, of brown sugar in the pit hole. Slice a little butter, set it on top of the brown sugar. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar if you want. Add chopped pecans, coconut or granola if you want.
Throw those babies in the oven for a few minutes until the butter is melted and the brown sugar is a little bubbly. Move them under a low broiler just to finish them off.
You can stop right here! Let’s recap. Candied Peaches begin with a fresh juicy peach and are dripping with butter and caramelized brown sugar. Pretty much…that’s a winning combination any day of the week!
Seriously, Candied Peaches with Cream are simple enough for any week night dessert, after school snack or breakfast. They are also so dang cute and tasty they are also perfect for serving to company. It’s one of those things you will serve and people will say, “why didn’t I think of this”.
Now, for the cream part, it’s important too. You could stop before adding it but then you would have candied peaches, which are dripping with deliciousness too. If you want Candied Peaches and Cream you must use the fun squirty can of whipped cream and pipe a little dollop of whipped cream right on the top. Just make sure it has the “Real Seal” so you know it’s the real deal! (I’m a dairy farmer that’s important to me!)
I bet you can remember how to make Candied Peaches and Cream without a recipe, just in case here’s the printable!
Candied Peaches and Cream
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Candied Peaches and Cream take about 7 minutes to make and who can resist a fresh peach dripping with butter and caramelized brown sugar? Top it all off with a sprinkling of cinnamon and whipped cream!
Author: Amy
Recipe type: Dessert, Breakfast, Snack
Serves: 1
Ingredients
- 1 peach
- 1 tsp brown sugar, I used dark
- ½ tsp butter
- sprinkle of cinnamon
- 2 T. whipped cream
- Optional
- coconut, pecans, granola, mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut peach in half and remove stone.
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Set peaches inside up on baking sheet.
- Spoon brown sugar into the "pit hole" in each half of the peach.
- Top brown sugar with a small slice of butter.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon.
- Bake for 5 minutes.
- Move rack a little lower from the broiler than normal. Mine was 8 inches away. Turn oven to broil.
- Broil peaches for until the brown sugar has finished caramelizing. Watch close. Sugar burns easily.
- Top with whipped cream
- Serve
Fresh peaches are better than canned peaches any day of the week. It is neat we have so much fresh fruit in the supermarkets we can eat them even in the winter months.
I wish we could get fresh peaches all year long. Then we wouldn’t have to gorge on them so much when they are in season! It’s true though, we can get other yummy fruit all winter long!
Yum! I’m gonna try this with the fresh peaches I have sitting on the counter. Thanks Amy!
I bet your kids are going to love them! How can you go wrong with butter and brown sugar?
We loved this:) I bought more peaches today, just for this recipe. But this time I made sure to buy whipped cream! We were out . . . but it was still good with out it!!
Of course you were out of whipped cream, Pyper! You can’t beat a recipe this easy and tasty!
It’s really amazing how fruit can be as much a candy as the stuff you buy in packages. Tried these last night — with pecans! Holy moly, my wife and I almost made ourselves second helpings. Which is fine, since we’ll make them again tonight 🙂
Joe, eating fruit that tastes like candy is a bonus! In my area, peach season is almost over. My kids are bummed because they love eating these for an after school snack. I love it to because it’s so quick for me to make and since it’s fruit I’m calling it healthy:)