Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce

This is a terrible picture because I was too lazy to go get the camera, and used my phone instead. This is what I deserve for my efforts.

What first attracted me to this recipe was the Froberg's Farmers Market near my house. This is the season for ripe, sweet, juicy fresh peaches, and Froberg's has them in abundance! After several trips there to buy as many peaches as we could eat in a week, I knew I had to try something I had never liked before: a baked peach dessert. Canned peaches disgust me, but I had a feeling that fresh, ripe peaches would make a huge difference. I was right! The Maple Cream Sauce in this recipe is the stuff dreams are made of. Sweet, cream-filled, peachy dreams.



Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce

6 Whole Fresh Peaches
1 cup Flour
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup dark Brown Sugar, Firmly Packed
1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 stick Butter (1/2 Cup)
1/2 whole Lemon
9 Tablespoons Real Maple Syrup, Divided
1 1/2 cup Whipping Cream
3 Tablespoons Light Corn Syrup

In a medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt using a fork or pastry cutter. Cut butter into small pieces and gradually add to flour mixture until evenly mixed and slightly clumpy.
Peel peaches and slice into segments. Add to a bowl with the zest from half a lemon. Squeeze juice from lemon half and stir in with peaches and zest. Add 3 tablespoons real maple syrup to peaches, stir well.
Pour peach mixture into a small pan (8” or 9” square) and cover evenly with crumb topping. Cover with foil and bake at 350ºF for 15 minutes. Remove foil and bake for an additional 20 to 30 minutes or until crisp and brown on top.

Maple Cream Sauce:
Pour whipping cream into a saucepan. Add 6 tablespoons real maple syrup, 3 tablespoons corn syrup and stir over moderate heat until thickened and reduced by about one-third, approximately 15 minutes. Refrigerate mixture until it is cold and thick. Drizzle sauce over peach crisp. Serve warm.

Recipe slightly adapted from The Pioneer Woman.