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Honey-Lime Peaches with Crème Fraîche Clouds
[Photograph: Caroline Russock]
Nectarines, plums, berries, cherries or even sliced mango can be sweetened in this honey-lime syrup and dotted with fluffy crème fraîche clouds for this gorgeously simple summer dessert.
Reprinted with permission from Plum Gorgeous by Romney Steele. Copyright © 2011. Published by Andrews McMeel. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved.
Honey-Lime Peaches with Crème Fraîche Clouds
About This Recipe
| Yield: | 4 to 6 |
| Active time: | 15 minutes |
| Total time: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
| This recipe appears in: | Bake the Book: Honey-Lime Peaches with Crème Fraîche Clouds |
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup light-colored honey, such as orange blossom honey
- Grated zest of 1 orange
- Grated zest of 1 lime
- 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 peaches, peeled, pitted, and sliced
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup crème fraîche
- Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting
- 6 Kadota or other green figs, quartered
- Additional lime zest, or slivered mint leaves, for garnish
Procedures
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1
Combine the honey, orange zest, lime zest, lime juice, cinnamon stick, and 2 tablespoons water in a medium saucepot; bring to a boil and simmer until syrupy, about 5 minutes. Let cool. Strain over the sliced peaches in a bowl. Add the vanilla bean, cover, and marinate for several hours in the refrigerator.
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Just before serving, whip the cream to soft peaks, and then fold into the crème fraîche, dusting with confectioners’ sugar to taste.
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3
Arrange the marinated peach slices and figs in shallow bowls and add enough syrup to barely cover. Top each serving with a cloud of whipped crème fraîche. Garnish with more lime zest or mint leaves.
