The idea for wrapping the unpeeled peach in dough for baking came from the first recipe; and the basic ingredients for a simple caramel sauce from the second.
The peach I used was really big. I don't know what kind it was, but it was at least four inches in diameter.
You'll need one large peach, enough phyllo dough strips to wrap the peach loosely, either some melted butter or some butter flavored cooking spray to help moisten the dough for wrapping and to prepare the baking dish. For the caramel sauce, you need brown sugar, butter, light corn syrup, and your flavoring extract of choice (like vanilla, brandy, rum, orange, etc.) Cooking foil to tent the cooking peach after the phyllo begins to brown.
Wash and dry the peach. Do not peel it. Either spray or brush the phyllo dough, which you've cut into strips, with cooking spray or melted butter. Wrap the peach loosely, placing it in a lightly greased baking dish. Put dish in oven and THEN preheat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Cook for an additional 35 minutes beyond the time required to preheat the oven. Watch closely in the early minutes of cooking, as you will need to make a foil tent to protect the crust from browning too quickly. Once it begins to brown (after about 5 minutes...this may happen in the preheat stage of things), tent the peach in foil for the remainder of the cooking time.
Once it is tented and baking, get a saucepan and combine 1 Tablespoon brown sugar, 1 Tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon light corn syrup, and 1/2 teaspoon flavoring. Cook on medium heat till it boils and thickens.
I sauced the peach straight out of the oven, but you could wait until you split and pit it. This is where you decide if it is to be one or two servings. You can put the pitted peach in a bowl and pour the sauce over it. I know that vanilla ice cream or whipped cream would be good on this. However, with the sauce, it really is fine without the extra calories, if that's an issue.
Of course, too, you could be waaaay more fancy with the dough wrap. It's too bad that peach season is a while away now. I think I may have bought the last one of the summer.
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| Smelled too great to go crazy with presentation. Yum. |
