Peach Dumplings

What a delicious way to enjoy summer's bounty of peaches. This recipe encases ripe peaches, seasoned with brown sugar and warm spices, in butter-crisp puffed pastry. As they bake, the juices release to form a rich sauce. I served these golden beauties warm with homemade vanilla ice cream and sauce spooned over all. My daughter loved this dessert so much that she literally licked her bowl clean. :)

• Ready In: 55 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 4  peaches, large and very ripe
• 1  sheet puff pastry
• 1⁄4 cup brown sugar (loose, not packed)
• 1⁄4 sugar
• 2  tablespoons butter, softened
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon, ground
• 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg, ground
• 2  tablespoons butter, melted
• 1  teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Onto a flat work surface lightly dusted with flour, unfold one sheet of puffed pastry. Lightly dust the surface of the pastry with flour. With a rolling pin, lightly roll until square spreads to the size of a 12" x 12" square. Slice into four evenly sized squares.
3. Remove skins from peaches, slice in half and remove pits. Set aside.
4. In a small mixing bowl, combine brown sugar, sugar, butter, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. The mixture will be crumbly.
5. Into one half of each peach, spoon 1 tbs. of the sugar & spices mixture into where the peach pit once was. Sandwich with other half of peach.
6. Place peach onto one puffed pastry square. Gently fold each corner to the top-center of each peach. Repeat with each peach.
7. In a small bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon.
8. With a pastry brush, brush melted butter over each pastry-covered peach. Then dust each with sugar. Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar over each peach.
9. Bake for 30 - 40 minutes or until lightly browned and crispy.