A beautiful dessert for those fresh peaches you just bought. Peaches are roasted in vanilla and butter. All you need for a beautiful presentation is a dessert shell and some mascarpone cheese. Garnished with raspberries and a little mint and you’ve got a restaurant quality peach dessert.
Colorado Western Slope Peaches are making abundant appearance in our grocery stores, farmer’s markets and our kitchen. Beautiful fuzzy fruit full of wonderful juicy flavor. We’ve been cherishing every single bite. With our record-breaking hot summer temperatures and traditional Colorado cool evenings, this year’s crop has seemed even better than ever.
This dessert is one of my favorite things to make during peach season. Years ago, Whole Foods was serving up bite-sized servings of this dessert during an in-store demo. Quite a frenzied crowd had gathered, but with persistence, I managed to get a dribble by dribble description of how to make this at home.
Simple fresh flavors that work so well together. Caramelized peaches flavored with vanilla, lemon and butter and topped with a big dollop of creamy mascarpone cheese most certainly makes for a wonderful treat. Let’s take a look.
And if you’re looking for more peach dessert ideas, don’t miss this one for Peach Clafouti
- 2 Tbs unsalted butter melted
- 2 Tbs fresh lemon juice 1 lemon
- 2 Tbs sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 whole peaches firm/ripe/halved
- 8 ounces mascarpone cheese
- 1 package raspberries
- Vanilla dessert shells
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large shallow baking dish combine butter, lemon juice, sugar and vanilla. Add peaches and turn to coat with butter mixture. Arrange, cut side down in a single layer.
- Roast until peaches are tender and cooking liquid is syrupy, 15 - 20 min, brushing with cooking liquid halfway through. Serve peaches warm or at room temperature topped with a dollop of mascarpone and raspberries in dessert shells. Drizzle with cooking liquid.
Looking for more Peach Dessert Ideas? How about:
Vera’s Peaches and Cream Pie Recipe
Vanilla Roasted Peaches with Mascarpone and Raspberries…It’s What’s for Dessert.
Larry says
September 5, 2012 at 7:09 pmLooks super good LA. Hard to beat good freash peaches and raspberries.
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:20 amIt’s just flat out hard to beat a Colorado Peach.
Kirsten@ My Kitchen in the Rockies says
September 5, 2012 at 8:46 pmThat’s a great dessert. I also ate grilled Colorado peaches for dessert today. Did you ever try to actually grill them on the barbeque?
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:19 amI have grilled them Kirsten. They are fabulous.
Karen Harris says
September 6, 2012 at 6:42 amColorado peaches are the best. What beautiful colors.
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:19 amI agree about those Colorado peaches.
Karen says
September 6, 2012 at 10:57 amOh, yum! When I get my hands on some good peaches, these are going on the grill!
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:18 amI have grilled them also for this dish. You just don’t get the syrup.
Barbara | Creative Culinary says
September 6, 2012 at 2:11 pmI love this combination of flavors Lea Ann…and well I’m impressed…you know you and a DESSERT!
I am a grillaholic though…so I grill some the cakes and grill some peaches and add those together with raspberries and whipped cream. I’ll bet these are fabulous though with that syrup. I just got peaches. I HAVE to try this.
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:18 amLOL Barb…. oh you just wait, I’ve actually baked cookies. :::gasp
Cathy @ Noble Pig says
September 6, 2012 at 3:27 pmGorgeous…I just picked up some white peaches this morning…yum!
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:17 amI’ve never tried white peaches Cathy. Next time I see them in the market, I’ll have to pick a couple up.
Vickie says
September 6, 2012 at 6:06 pmamaZING! This looks like a flavor explosion and the picture is fabulous. I am so impressed but sad that we don’t have Western Slope Peaches.
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:17 amWe all go through a peach frenzy every year in August. Ohmy they are good.
dan says
September 7, 2012 at 10:06 amWow. Just wow. Picture is tantalizing!
Lea Ann says
September 8, 2012 at 6:15 amThanks Dan
Chris says
September 8, 2012 at 1:02 pmAlexis loves anything with mascarpone but this would really float her boat!
Lea Ann says
September 9, 2012 at 12:57 pmMascarpone is pretty darn special. However, I tried a slather of it on a bagel the other morning and thought it was awful. Definitely has it’s place on certain dishes and flavors.
Rhonda says
September 10, 2012 at 10:06 pmI’m not much of a dessert person but you’ve totally got me hooked on this one!
Lea Ann says
September 11, 2012 at 6:48 amI’m not a dessert person at all, but do love fruit type desserts. And especially strawberry shortcake with whipped cream.
vianney says
September 16, 2012 at 9:16 pmroasted peaches are one of my weakness…i dollop them on everything!! LOL!!
Lea Ann says
September 17, 2012 at 6:40 amI’m beginning to think the same way Vianney.