Cinnamon & Peach Coffeecake

I should have taken a picture before we tasted this - but I didn't.

It was good! Really, really good!!

Ingredients:

1 can juice packed sliced peaches
1 package Cinnamon Streusel muffin mix
1 egg
*water*

1 - Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare baking dish, recommended dish is a 8-inch square or 9-inch round...so of course we used a bundt pan.

2 - Drain peaches, reserving juice. Add enough water to reserved juice to measure 3/4 cup of liquid.

3 - Combine muffin mix, egg, and 3/4 cup juice-water mixture in a mixing bowl until just blended. Gently add peaches. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.

4 - Top batter in baking dish with streusel topping from muffin mix.

5 - Bake at 400 degrees F for 35 to 40 minutes in the bundt pan, 25-30 minutes in the round pan, or until a fork inserted into the cake comes out clean.

6 - Excellent served warm.

7 - Amazing served cooled.

Enjoy!!

Peach & Blackberry Crumble

Ingredients:

...fruit filling...

1 (16 oz) bag frozen sliced peaches
2 (5.6 oz) containers fresh blackberries, cleaned and dry
1 tsp grated lemon peel
1/3 cup light brown sugar
2 TBS cornstarch

....crumble topping...

1/2 cup AP flour
1/2 cup sliced almonds
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup light brown sugar
6 TBS butter, cut into small pieces

* Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare a square baking dish with cooking spray.

* Combine peaches, blackberries, lemon peel, 1/3 cup brown sugar and cornstarch in a bowl and mix well. Pour into prepared baking dish.

* Using a food processor, first combine AP flour, almonds, salt, 1/2 cup brown sugar using the pulse setting. Next add butter pieces and continue to pulse until the consistency of the mixed ingredients has become chunky.

* Top the fruit mixture in the baking dish with the crumble mixture from the food processor.

* Bake at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes.

* Let cool for a minimum of 10 minutes before serving.

* To score big, serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

Disclaimer: Apparently today is the day I couldn't read a recipe to save my life. 3 different times I messed this dish up and was sure it would be inedible. The dish was quite tasty, but I give you fair warning so you can learn from my mistakes....read the recipe, read it again, and then read it one more time. It can't hurt! Happy cooking!!

Cinnamon & Peach Coffeecake

I should have taken a picture before we tasted this - but I didn't.

It was good! Really, really good!!

Ingredients:

1 can juice packed sliced peaches
1 package Cinnamon Streusel muffin mix
1 egg
*water*

1 - Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare baking dish, recommended dish is a 8-inch square or 9-inch round...so of course we used a bundt pan.

2 - Drain peaches, reserving juice. Add enough water to reserved juice to measure 3/4 cup of liquid.

3 - Combine muffin mix, egg, and 3/4 cup juice-water mixture in a mixing bowl until just blended. Gently add peaches. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.

4 - Top batter in baking dish with streusel topping from muffin mix.

5 - Bake at 400 degrees F for 35 to 40 minutes in the bundt pan, 25-30 minutes in the round pan, or until a fork inserted into the cake comes out clean.

6 - Excellent served warm.

7 - Amazing served cooled.

Enjoy!!

O. M. Goodness Grilled Peaches

I've never grilled peaches before, and I really really wanted to try them.

Lucky me, my local store that sells everything had some beautiful peaches, right there by the cash registers yesterday.

It was fate!

With Jon's help, the peaches were cut in half, and then again in quarters...but that was mostly because I couldn't get them apart.

Oops.




Then we dipped the cut sides of the fruit in brown sugar and wiped off the excess.



On to the hot grill pan they went. About medium heat. Not too hot, that brown sugar and the natural sugars of the peach could get ugly real fast if the heat was too high.



I grilled both sides of the peach quarter that hard brown sugar. I let them cook 3-4 minutes on each side. That's a lot longer than it sounds!

I knew they were ready when the peach began to soften and the sugar had caramelized on the peach.

Success!! These were absolutely wonderful! My 12 year old thought he would refuse to try one. He was wrong. He went back and got 2 more.

These boys!!