Brandied Peach Cobbler

With its piddling flavor striking from brandy, Brandied Peach Cobbler is the BEST peach cobbler ever!

It's that fourth dimension of yr inward the South ... peach season!  Believe it or not, I'm actually non that large a peach fan.  But when I acquire them fresh from the tree, that seems to change.  Juicy, ripe, straight-from-the-tree peaches are wonderful piddling fruit jewels.  And I'm fortunate plenty to alive where I tin campaign right upward to a peach farmer's roadside stand upward together with catch a handbasket ...

Peaches at the farm stand

... or, alternative my own.  Mark together with I tend to become alternative our own.  We stimulate got 4 local peach orchards inside a fifteen infinitesimal campaign of our house, together with y'all tin campaign your machine right into the orchard!  How tardily is that?  I pocket-sized fry y'all not, from leaving our door to coming dorsum dwelling solid through it, it takes us all of most 45 minutes to an lx minutes to alternative our produce total of fresh peaches.  I'm spoiled.  Definitely spoiled.

We alternative our own!

My favorite means to relish fresh peaches is inward this Brandied Peach Cobbler.  (Well, afterward learning most chocolate vincotto, cobbler may live on my second favorite means to relish fresh peaches ... but nosotros won't quibble.)  The peaches inward this cobbler are spiced upward amongst simply a affect of brandy together with set down cloves, lending a totally amazing flavor to the peaches.  The topping is a chip dissimilar than your typical cobbler, also - it's similar a saccharide cookie dough that y'all drib on inward spoonfuls.  Absolutely delicious.

Slice upward closed to peeled fresh peaches together with toss them amongst a piddling sugar, cornstarch, brandy, together with set down cloves.  Bake them until they starting fourth dimension to unloosen juice ...

... together with and then drib on actually yummy saccharide cookie-like dough.

Bake that until it's golden brown.  Then dish out a large ol' bowl together with dig in!  You tin overstep it amongst vanilla H2O ice cream or whipped cream, but I'll live on honest - I similar mine best simply plain.  I stimulate got ane piddling dab of this pan left, together with I'm going to become destination it upward right now!  Yum.

Brandied Peach Cobbler

Source:  Adapted from The Best Recipe cookbook, yesteryear the Editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. fresh peaches
• 1/3 c. granulated saccharide
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 tsp. cornstarch
• 1 1/2 T. brandy
• pinch of set down cloves
• 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 c. granulated saccharide
• 8 T. unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 large egg yolk

Directions

1. Prepare the Filling: Peel together with pit peaches; cutting into thick slices. Combine amongst sugar, cornstarch, vanilla, set down cloves, together with brandy.
2. Please inward a greased baking dish; comprehend amongst foil together with bake at 400 degrees until peaches laid about to unloosen liquid - most fifteen minutes. (Note: Let the peaches become the total fifteen minutes. I tried to rush this ane time, together with my topping didn't gear upward correctly. I intend the peaches demand to live on fully heated through when y'all position the topping on.)
3. Prepare the Topping: While the peaches bake, mix flour, baking powder, together with tabular array salt together; laid aside.
4. Beat softened butter together with saccharide until lite together with fluffy, most 1 minute. Beat inward egg yolk together with vanilla. Stir inward dry out ingredients simply until combined.
5. After the peaches stimulate got cooked for most fifteen minutes, take away them from the oven together with stir them.
6. Drop topping dough yesteryear tablespoons evenly over the fruit (it won't comprehend every topographic point completely!). Return baking dish to the oven, uncovered, together with bake until the topping is nicely browned together with peaches are bubbly, most xl minutes more.

Enjoy!

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