OH MY WORD. Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce

Oh my heavens, this dessert is beyond incredible. I mean literally...it was euphoric it was so delicious and that was just the maple cream sauce. You absolutely have to try this dessert. It's not time consuming and actually pretty damn easy. The most time consuming was peeling the fresh peaches but I'm sure frozen peaches would work well...you might want to thaw them in a colander though to get rid of some of the juice, so they're not so wet. I could eat this cream sauce drizzled over a variety of things...any and all cobblers, ice cream, pecan pie, blackberries, strawberries, heck I don't even have to drizzle it over anything I could just eat it out of the bowl - yes it's that good. Please give it a try. It's yum! When you get to heaven make sure you come back and comment on your trip.

Ingredients

■5 whole To 6 Whole Fresh Peaches (best When Not Overly Ripe Or Soft)

■1 cup Flour

■½ cups Sugar

■½ cups Light Brown Sugar, Firmly Packed

■½ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon

■½ teaspoons Ground Nutmeg

■¼ teaspoons Salt

■1 stick Butter (1/2 Cup)

■½ whole Lemon

■7 Tablespoons Real Maple Syrup, Divided

■1-½ cup Whipping Cream

■3 Tablespoons Light Corn Syrup


Preparation Instructions

In a medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, light 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.

Peel peaches into a bowl. Add the zest from half a lemon. Squeeze juice from lemon half and stir in with peaches and zest. Add 2 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. Or you can bake for about 25 minutes and then crank the broiler on but DO NOT leave the oven to do something else, you will be forever saddened if you burn this sinfully sweet dessert.

Maple Cream Sauce:

Pour whipping cream into a saucepan. Add 5 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, or set the saucepan into a small bowl of ice (the ice will melt and turn into ice water). Stirring your mixture, it will cool and thicken in about 15 minutes. Drizzle sauce over peach crisp. Serve warm.