Fresh Peaches & Cream Cookies
We went peach and berry picking not too long ago. That was a fun and...interesting experience...with a five year old. The tractor ride to the peach orchard definitely was high on his list, and getting to pluck the fruit off the tree was a fun novelty for him.
That quickly wore off after he decided his basket was getting to heavy, so of course I ended up carrying two baskets of peaches, several empty berry containers...and my fifty pound camera.
Note the sarcasm.
Sometimes I wish I didn't feel the need to bring my camera...everywhere. But then I'd miss out on photos like these.
Now that I've really stimulated your appetite, on to the recipe!
I decided to do something different with my peaches, and experimented with a peach cookie. I really like how these turned out. Soft, dense, and full of sweet peach chunks. After I diced my peaches, I drained them on a paper towel to help remove some of the excess moisture. This helped keep the cookie from being soggy. I drizzled them with a little cream sugar glaze, but they were just as good on their own.
Fresh Peaches & Cream Cookies
Yield: 24 Printable recipe
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup fresh, diced peaches (skin removed)
Glaze:
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1-2 tbsp cream (or enough to make a drizzle consistency)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir together and set aside.
Using a sharp knife, remove the skin from peaches and cut into small chunks. Place the diced peaches on a paper towel and set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla, beat until combined. Add flour mixture and beat on low speed until well incorporated. Gently fold in the diced peaches.
Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon, drop in rounded spoonfuls on cookie sheets, leaving plenty of room between cookies to allow for some spreading. Bake for about 10-12 minutes until light golden brown. Cool about 1 minute on cookie sheets and then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
If using glaze: Mix together the powdered sugar, cream and vanilla until smooth. Drizzle lightly over the cookies while still warm, allow to cool.
Serve with a cold glass of milk and enjoy!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
13 comments:
Love the idea of these cookies, bursting with fresh peach flavour.
Peach cookies!! FRESH peach cookies - love it! Add some ice cream....
What delicious looking cookies. Since they contain peaches and cream, I'm going to try baking some for a beauty treatment!
How lovely is to make something with fresh peaches.. Your cookies look really really good!
Always looking for more ways to use lovely, fresh peaches. These cookies look soooo yummy!
Loving this combo!
These look and sound just heavenly. I love the pretty glaze on top.
Such a great idea for a cookie Amber! :)
LOve to try this cookie recipe soonest...Great to use the berries that you yourselves picked. Gives the cookie more personality.
By the way, Myfudo here...
I do have some wonderful news to share with you, I hope you don't mind? We are moving to a new domain http://www.yumgoggle.com, (previously myfudo.com) this has been a project we have been working on for almost a year now. We just launched our new gallery submission site, and we are just thrilled. Unique and interesting bloggers like you will make the Yumgoggle gallery more fun and exciting.
We'd love you to join the latest virtual shindig that is all about food photography, food in general, recipes, and culinary trends. We’d be proud to have your work as part of our growing collection to continue to have a larger reach and further inspire all fellow food lovers out there! Please sign up and check us out (it's free) www.yumgoggle.com/gallery . We look forward to seeing your wonderful pictures, as always.
p.s. We are hosting a Kitchen Aid Mixer Giveaway to celebrate our new Yumgoggle site, coming soon in our launch post, we hope you'll participate =)
Love peaches and cream. Will definitely try this recipe!! :-)
These are gorgeous! I am on the lookout for some peaches now, I haven't had very many yet this summer!
Um, I kinda, sorta love you right now.
To inlcude peaches in cookies makes totally sense to me. Now...where do I get nice and ripe peaches from? :)
- Annika
Post a Comment