Showing posts with label peach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peach. Show all posts

Friday, April 11, 2014

Best Baked from scratch Peach Cobbler!



Peach Cobbler

 
 
 
 
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 Delicious Peach cobbler! A year round treat for desserts ideas. Great idea for Christmas, Thanksgiving potlucks. Bring something scrumptiously different to this fall table besides the pumpkin everything.

Ingredients

  • Non-Stick Cooking Spray
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • Dash of ground nutmeg
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 4 cups sliced fresh or frozen peaches OR 1 canned peach include the juice (omit sugar and water)

Directions for filling:

Heat oven to 400°F. Coat an 8x8-inch baking dish lightly with no-stick cooking spray.
Combine the sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg and water in medium saucepan. Add peach slices. Cook over medium-high heat until mixture comes to boil, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Stir in almond extract. Pour into prepared baking dish. Place in oven to keep warm while preparing topping.

 TOPPING:

  • 1 cup  All Purpose Flour
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup  Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening OR 1/4 stick of  Baking Sticks Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Vanilla Ice cream or whipped cream (optional)

Directions:

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine milk and vanilla. Pour over flour mixture, stirring just until moistened. Remove baking dish from oven. Drop biscuit mixture in 9 mounds on top of hot fruit. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.

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Friday, March 7, 2014

Fast and Easy Peach Strudel Forced to Use Frozen Puff Pastry Once Again

There are two ways to make strudel, the right way, and the way I make it in this peach strudel video recipe. This fast and easy version uses puff pastry, instead of the homemade dough thats stretched paper-thin over kitchen towels, and rolled up into the multilayered masterpiece invented in Austria centuries ago. While Austria gets credit for its origins, the word "studel" is German, and most consider this to be a German pastry.

Back in culinary school I remember being so excited to learn we were going to be taught this impossibly flaky, and airy puff pastry. We rolled and folded, and rolled and folded in all that butter, and when we were done our puffy pa
stry looked nothing like the stuff the chef had made. Mine was flat, tough, and so not flaky.

So, like most cooks do, I eventually resigned myself to the fact that puff pastry would just be one of those products I would be forced to buy. It was something that was going to take more practice time to perfect than I had to devote - especially for something I would use only occasionally.

If you are in a big city, you may find a bakery or patisserie that sells it frozen. But, if not, take comfort that every frozen food case in the country has boxes of Pepperidge Farms puff pastry. Its a decent enough product, and when used to wrap up a filling this delicious, no one with any decency will complain. Just dont invite any Austrians over. Enjoy!

Click here for ingredients and transcript
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Random Kitchen Scenes How to Slice a Ripe Peach

Ive been playing around with the idea of posting short, random kitchen tips and techniques, and this "how to slice a ripe peach" is a little experiment along those lines. Inspired by a classic sushi cut, this two-part slice is great for precise cuts on soft juicy fruit. Just make sure your blade is sharp, and try not to shave off your fingertips. Enjoy!


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