This week's SMS was chosen by Andrea of Nummy Kitchen: peach cobbler! I love almost any baked fruit dessert so I was psyched about this week's recipe! That said, I did have my reservations about the peaches. Last year we made a summer fruit galette for TWD and I chose to use only peaches in my galette. The first step in the recipe was removing the skins of the peaches and, to put it mildly, it did not go well for me. It's left me a bit traumatized when it comes to peaches but I was hopeful this experience would go a bit better.
I decided to scale the recipe down quite a bit as I was the only one who would be eating the cobbler. I wound up making 1/4 of the recipe since it was fairly easy to do the calculations in my head. I made the biscuits first and learned that 1/4 of the biscuit recipe was enough for either one large biscuit or two small ones. Due to their cuteness factor, I went with two.
Next came the peaches. I blanched them as I've read I should do but still, those skins just didn't want to come off. If anyone has tips on how to remove the skins from peaches, I'm all ears! Fortunately, since I was only making 1/4 of the quarter, I didn't have to peel many peaches. I used a combination of brown sugar and white sugar in the filling after seeing Holly's post this morning.
After the cobbler baked, I put the world's smallest scoop of vanilla bean ice cream on top and dug in. I really, really enjoyed the biscuits but the filling was a bit too sweet for even me, which is saying a lot. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've found something too sweet. I still ate the whole thing though and thought the vanilla bean ice cream was the perfect accompaniment. I'll definitely make this again once peaches are in season here - I'll just cut back on the sugar in the filling a bit.
Thanks to Andrea for a delicious pick this week! You can find the recipe as well as her adorable heart-shaped biscuits on her blog and you can check out the other bakers' cobblers by visiting the SMS site!
28 comments:
I love fruit cobblers, so great in the summertime! Peach is always a good choice!
this looks good I m gonna try it when I have some peaches :)
Great pics! I loved the addition of the lemon juice - really different, but yummy! :)
That's too bad that the galette from last year traumatized you - one should never be traumatized from fruit! :)
That said - it looks perfect and I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Your tiny biscuits and ice cream scoop are really cute! It's too bad that you were traumatized by peaches, though. I usually use a vegetable peeler when peeling any types of fruits, if that helps. Still, your cobbler looks really yummy!
That looks so perfect! The scoop of ice cream on top has me drooling
love love love this!
Im right there with you on the sweetness of this cobbler. It has way to much sugar. I loved the biscuit part the best. I can't remember where I got my biscuit cutters, sorry. I pick stuff up all over the place. I love finding little kitchen stores when Im out of town.
Your cobbler looks good! And YES peaches are a pain in the rearend to peal.
Oh, that looks so yummy! My cobbler was yummy, though unfortunately we had no ice cream to top it off with. I'm having ice cream envy...
Oh man, I thought I'd seen some good looking cobbler but this has me drooling! I love the cuteness factor, too!
Maybe your peaches need to go another day or two to ripeness? Mine peeled super easy for the peach desserts I made this week. I basically took a paring knife, cut them in quarters from pole to pole and the skin came off of most of them in one piece.
Looks great and I'm glad this one didn't leave you traumatized! I made quite a mess peeling the peaches, too, so I don't have any tips to lend you.
i used less sugar too. i peeled the peaches with a veggie peeler -- i hate peeling everything.
The addition of ice cream is YUMMMMMMM!
I love the little biscuits in there and of course, the ice cream was a perfect match for this dessert.
Your cobbler looks great! I'm in such a peachy mood now after seeing all these SMS blogs!
Very cute. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Your peach experiences sound harrowing. Peach peeling is hard but if your get the water boiling and drop the peaches in for a little longer each time your struggle peeling the previous peach, eventually you will get a peach that the skin slips right off of. Promise. Great blog and beautiful pictures Tracey =)!
mmmm looks so good!
It looks so yummy, Tracey! I agree, peaches are such a pain to peel. Mine weren't ripe enough so I just peeled them with a veggie peeler and it wasn't too bad. My grandmother usually sits down at the table with a bunch of newspaper (so the table doesn't get sticky) a big bowl, and a paring knife and goes to town. I've tried blanching in the past but it's never worked for me. But, I think that the result is worth the peeling, don't you?
Your cobbler looks wonderful! The only way I know of to make the skins come off easier is to blanch them as you said. Maybe leave them in the water a little longer? If you're baking the peaches anyway, it shouldn't matter if they get a little soft.
Here's my tip: after you blanche the peaches, immediately put them in ice water. It's the ice water step that actually makes the skin easy to come off, I think, because of the sudden change in temperature. Either way, once you take the peaches out of the ice water, the skin practically slides off.
Your cobbler and pictures look so good! I was lazy and used frozen peaches, no peeling, LOL.
Your cobbler looks delicious, especially with the ice cream!
Cobblers and crisps are my favorite! Yours came out wonderful. I'll have to try it!
I find that peeling peaches is really hit or miss. I find that the best way to peel peaches is to make somebody else do it! That works pretty much every time!
Tracey, thank you for baking along with me, your mini cobbler with ice cream looks just perfect. I ended up not peeling the peaches, at first I thought about it, but was kind of intimidated, so figured since the variety I used were really thin skinned it wouldn't be a problem to leave them on. If I hear about a fail-proof easy way to peel peaches you are the first one I will tell :)
Looks wonderful!
Love the little cobler. I hear you on peeling peaches, it was arduous.
That peach cobbler looks so good!
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