Vanilla Roasted Peaches is a beautiful and easy Summer peach dessert recipe. Peaches are roasted in a vanilla butter sauce then placed in an angel food dessert cup and topped with mascarpone cheese. Garnished with raspberries and mint = restaurant quality easy baked peaches 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.
About Colorado Peaches
Colorado peaches are most famously grown on our Western slope in and around the town of Palisade. Colorado peaches are known for being extra juicy and extra sweet, thanks to the long sunny hot days and cool Colorado summer nights. That equals perfect conditions for fruity sugars to develop. Peaches have been grown in this area since 1881.
Once the farmers in this area realized how rich in nutrient the soil was in this area, growing expanded to include apples, pears, grapes, apricots and cherries. Today Palisade Colorado is home to thousands of acres of orchards, farms and vineyards.
Why We Love This Recipe
If you’re looking for Desserts with Mascarpone Cheese, and sweet mascarpone recipes you’ve got to give this baked peaches recipe a try.
This easy dessert is one of my favorite things to make during peach season.
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.
Where I Learned To Make This Recipe
Years ago, Whole Foods Market was featuring Colorado peaches and serving up bite-sized servings of this roasted peaches dessert during an in-store demo for easy desserts using fresh peaches.
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.
Easy to make, let’s take a look:
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Fresh Raspberries
- Fresh Peach Halves
- Lemon
- Butter
- Sugar
- Mascarpone Cheese
- Vanilla
- Dessert Shells
Ingredient Substitutions
- Raspberries. Substitute strawberries, blueberries or blackberries for the raspberries.
- Sugar: For a richer vanilla butter sauce, substitute brown sugar or even maple syrup for the granulated white sugar.
- Mascarpone Cheese: Substitute whipped cream or Cool Whip for the Mascarpone. A dollop of vanilla ice cream would also be a sweet treat. Try Greek Yogurt for a healthier option.
- Dessert Shells: You can also use a slice of Angel Food Cake in place of the Dessert Shells.
Roasted Peaches with Mascarpone – How To
- Step 1: Preheat that oven. We’re going to get that oven nice and toasty to caramelize the peaches. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Step 2: Prepare the vanilla flavoring for the peaches In a shallow baking dish or baking sheet pan, combine melted butter, lemon juice, sugar and vanilla. Add peeled and pitted peaches and turn to coat with butter mixture. Arrange, cut side down in a single layer.
- Step 3: Baby those peaches Roast until peaches are tender and cooking liquid is syrupy, 15 – 20 min, brushing with cooking liquid halfway through.
How To Build This Dessert
- Step 1: Place the vanilla dessert shells on dessert plates.
- Step 2: Place a roasted peach cut side up on each dessert shell.
- Step 3: Top each peach with a dollop of mascarpone cheese.
- Step 4: Drizzle each dessert with a big spoonful of the vanilla butter sauce from the baking pan.
Presentation Tip
Finish the dessert by garnishing with a mint leaf and sprinkle fresh raspberries around the dessert shell. Sprinkle a few dots of the vanilla butter syrup along the perimeter of the dessert shell.
Fill a medium sauce pan 3/4 way full with water. Bring water to a boil then turn down to a simmer. Lower ripe peaches into the simmering water and blanch them for 1 minute. Remove peaches from the water, place in an ice bath and the skins will fall right off.
These baked peaches will store easily and are delicious the next day. Place roasted peaches in an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 – 4 days. Microwave them individually for about 30 seconds to warm them up.
You can roast the peaches up to a couple of days in advance. Store the peaches and the syrup in an air tight container. Either bring the peaches and syrup to room temperature, or microwave in 15 second increments until the syrup is back to melted stage and peaches are warm. Proceed with the recipe.
Recipe for Roasted Peaches with Mascarpone Cheese
I hope you give this easy mascarpone dessert with baked peaches recipe a try. It’s a lovely fresh peach recipe for entertaining. And it’s easy.
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Vanilla Roasted Peaches with Mascarpone and Raspberries
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 lemon
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 whole peaches firm/ripe/halved
- 8 ounces mascarpone cheese room temperature
- 1 pint raspberries
- 4 Vanilla dessert shells
Instructions
- 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 and starting to turn a golden color. 15 – 20 min. Brush with vanilla butter sauce halfway through.
- Place a roasted peach in a dessert shell. Fill the center with a dollop of room temperature mascarpone cheese. Drizzle some of the vanilla butter sauce. Garnish with mint leaves and scatter a few raspberries around the dessert shell.
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Vanilla Roasted Peaches with Mascarpone and Raspberries…It’s What’s for Dessert.
It’s peach season here! So this is really timely. Terrific flavors, recipe. Thanks!
Still looks very good and I haven’t seen those dessert cups in a long while. As a kid, mom used them for strawberry shortcake.
roasted peaches are one of my weakness…i dollop them on everything!! LOL!!
I’m beginning to think the same way Vianney.
I’m not much of a dessert person but you’ve totally got me hooked on this one!
I’m not a dessert person at all, but do love fruit type desserts. And especially strawberry shortcake with whipped cream.
Alexis loves anything with mascarpone but this would really float her boat!
Mascarpone 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.
Wow. Just wow. Picture is tantalizing!
Thanks Dan
amaZING! 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.
We all go through a peach frenzy every year in August. Ohmy they are good.
Gorgeous…I just picked up some white peaches this morning…yum!
I’ve never tried white peaches Cathy. Next time I see them in the market, I’ll have to pick a couple up.
I 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.
LOL Barb…. oh you just wait, I’ve actually baked cookies. :::gasp
Oh, yum! When I get my hands on some good peaches, these are going on the grill!
I have grilled them also for this dish. You just don’t get the syrup.
Colorado peaches are the best. What beautiful colors.
I agree about those Colorado peaches.
That’s a great dessert. I also ate grilled Colorado peaches for dessert today. Did you ever try to actually grill them on the barbeque?
I have grilled them Kirsten. They are fabulous.
Looks super good LA. Hard to beat good freash peaches and raspberries.
It’s just flat out hard to beat a Colorado Peach.