Hey Steemians!

At the moment my house is full of fruit that we have bought for the Christmas season. I have more peaches than I can eat at the moment due to buying them in a bulk pack. To make use of them before they spoil I decided to bake and caramelise them in the oven. You can eat them on their own, or even use them as a topping or side dish for a pavlova or other dessert (as we did for our Christmas). 

Ingredients

• 6 whole peaches
• 12 small cubes of butter (don't need to be regular in geometry)
• 2 tablespoons of rice malt syrup
• 3 tablespoons of brown sugar (or just enough to sprinkle over each peach half)
• Desired quantity of sour cream (to serve with if you eat them on their own).

Method

1) Take 6 peaches and cut them in half and remove their stones.

2) Place the peaches neatly into a baking dish with their cut pitted faces facing upwards.

3) Place a cube of butter into the pits of each of the peaches.

4) Drizzle a desired quantity of rice malt syrup over the peaches.

5) Sprinkle brown sugar over the peaches.

6) Bake in the oven for 30mins at 180 degrees. 

7) Serve with sour cream.

The peaches should soften and absorb the caramel flavour from the butter, syrup and sugar. Peaches alone are quite sweet but the caramel sauce and butter gives it a certain richness that I find delicious! If I am eating these on their own I will serve them with sour cream. I use Bulla sour cream that is available here in Australia. It is only slightly sour in taste but has a very creamy texture!

Thanks for your readership! Please upvote and resteem if you like my work.

~La Dolce Firma~