Amaretti baked peaches

amaretti cookies

🥗Healthier: almond flour

💰Cheaper: generic cookies

Almond flour provides a gluten-free option while generic cookies can lower costs.

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil offers a dairy-free alternative, while margarine is often less expensive.

Select ripe peaches, apricots, or pears for the recipe.

If peaches are hard, leave them at room temperature for a day or two to ripen.

Separate one egg, keeping the egg white for another use.

Crush amaretti biscuits into fine breadcrumbs using a rolling pin inside a plastic bag.

Add lime zest and juice to the crushed amaretti biscuits.

Sweeten the mixture with about one spoonful of maple syrup and add vanilla extract.

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.

Prepare an oven-proof dish lined with parchment paper.

Carefully cut the peaches in half and remove the stone using a small knife and a teaspoon if needed.

Place the peach halves in the prepared dish, cut side up.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit).

Fill the peach halves with the amaretti mixture.

Bake the peaches in the preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes until soft and caramelized.

Prepare a simple syrup by combining maple syrup and vanilla extract in a saucepan.

Grate the zest of the other half of the lime into a bowl with creme fraiche and add the juice from the lime.

Mix the creme fraiche with the lime zest and juice, and a little vanilla extract.

Reduce the syrup mixture on the stove for a minute until slightly thickened.

Serve the baked peaches warm with the creme fraiche mixture and drizzle with the syrup.

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