Easy Summer Cinnamon Baked Peaches

It’s summertime and that means there are tons of fresh, healthy fruits available. Well, except for in the Arizona desert. You can find them around here if you really look, but it’s definitely not like the rest of the country, and not in the summer.

My husband brought home a lot of peaches from the store. Like a bag of 10 or so. He typically doesn’t do the grocery shopping and I knew we would never get through all these peaches. Our son doesn’t like them, probably because of the texture. Peaches aren’t my favorite either, but I’ll eat them occasionally. I know my husband loves them, as he always picked his own peaches growing up with an orchard just hours away from his old hometown and if we are back there during the right time of year, we make sure to stop for some.

I hardly bake anymore. Especially from scratch. With all my dietary restrictions, it’s just a pain sometimes. There are only so many substitutions you can make to a recipe before it turns into mush. I’m a busy mom. I work full-time, have a preschooler, a side hustle and I’m likely training for some kind of running event, so I prefer simple recipes with a delicious, unforgettable taste.

Well, the day after my husband brought home all these peaches, I randomly came across the idea to make baked peaches while browsing my Facebook feed. Coincidence, or is my phone really reading my mind and listening to our conversations? It doesn’t matter now because this is the way I like my peaches.

Simple Baked Peaches Recipe

Prep time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

2 ripe peaches

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp brown sugar

2 tsp butter or butter substitute, divided

Directions:

Heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Cut your peaches in half and remove the pit. Place them fuzzy side down in a baking dish.

Combine the cinnamon and brown sugar in a small bowl and mix well.

Top each peach half with ½ tsp cinnamon sugar mixture.

Add ½ tsp butter or butter substitute to each peach half.

Bake the peaches in your oven for 45 minutes, or until a fork is easily inserted in the peach.

Let the peaches cool until they are comfortable enough to eat. This is usually about 10 minutes for us.

Eat the peaches alone or add a scoop of ice cream. This time, I opted for Halo Top’s dairy free sea salt caramel flavor, because Halo Top is usually lower in sugar than other brands (and I was already adding sugar to this recipe). Plus, that flavor sounded like it would go well with the peaches, since the store was out of vanilla.

So, it’s summertime and you don’t want to use your oven? I get that. No problem. Use your slow cooker. Follow the recipe above, but set your slow cooker on high for 1.5 hours. Your fork will want to easily slide into the peaches like with the oven recipe. Cool and serve as desired.