Brown Sugar Baked Peaches ~a Health{ier} Treat

There's just not much better than a fresh-from-the-orchard peach.  Unless it's a fresh-from-the-orchard baked peach.  With brown sugar and a touch of cinnamon sprinkled on top.

It's the height of peach season in my neck of the woods ... and I just so happen to be fortunate enough to have a husband who drives by a peach stand every day on his way home from work.  And I just so happen to be fortunate enough to have a very sweet husband who surprised me the other day with a big ol' box of fresh peaches.  They.  Are.  So.  Good.

We eat a lot of our fresh peaches 'straight up,' just cutting them into big juicy pieces and popping them in our mouths.  And I love to bake with them, too.  But, this time around I just didn't feel like making my usual peach treat - brandied peach cobbler.  So, I whipped up a ginger-peach chicken dish (... which was a bit disappointing ... it needs some tweaks), followed by these Brown Sugar Baked Peaches for dessert.

Well, let me tell ya ... these baked peaches were not at all disappointing.  They were fabulous!  I found the recipe over here, and decided I needed to give them an immediate try because ...

1.   They're easy.

2.  They're low calorie.  Yup, the recipe said they're only 95 calories per peach.  Now, I calculated it to be 120 calories per peach ... but I had huge almost-big-as-your-head peaches.  So, we'll just say you can have all this delicious peachiness for just about 100 calories.  Score!

All you do to pull these together is slice some fresh peaches in half, remove the pit, and place them in a baking dish.  Then, in the hollow of each peach half, put 1/2 teaspoon of butter ...

... and 1 or 2 teaspoons of brown sugar.  The original recipe called for 2 teaspoons of brown sugar, but I only put 1 and it was totally tasty.  So, choose based on your sweetness preference.

Then give them a little cinnamon sprinkling, and they'll look this ... all ready for the oven:

Pop them in the oven 'til the peaches are soft and tender, and the butter and brown sugar are all melty-gooey.  Yum.

Serve these little beauties warm straight from the oven.  For a little extra decadence, add a dollop of whipped cream or creme fraiche on the side.  Oh, so good.  And at just around 100 calories (even with the extra dollop if you use Cool Whip Lite), it's a beautiful and delicious health{ier} treat!

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Brown Sugar Baked Peaches
Source:  Adapted from In Him We Live and Move and Have Our Being

Ingredients
Per serving:
1 fresh peach
1 tsp. unsalted butter, divided
2 to 4 tsp. brown sugar, divided
Sprinkling of ground cinnamon, to taste


Directions
1.  Halve peaches and remove pit.  Place in baking dish, skin side down. 

2.  Place 1/2 teaspoon butter in the hollow of each peach, top each peach half with 1 or 2 teaspoons brown sugar, and sprinkle with cinnamon. 

3.  Bake at 375 degrees until peaches are tender, about 30 minutes.  Serve warm.

Enjoy!


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