Peach and Nectarine Dessert
By: Anonymous
Published: Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 12:18am

Ingredients




4 lrg Ripe peaches, any favourite variety, yellow, white or black
20 grams Unsalted butter, (¾oz)
60 grams Sugar, (2oz)
4 inches lrg Ripe nectarines stoned and cut  6
20 grams Unsalted butter, (¾oz)
4 tablespoons Amaretto
150 grams Sugar, (5z)
100 ml Water, (3 1/2fl oz)
4 tablespoons Mascarpone
4 sprg mint
Icing sugar

Preparation

1 Preheat the oven to 160 C/300 F/gas mark 2. 2 Make a small incision in the top of each peach, place them on a little ovenproof tray and top each with a little of the buter. Sprinkle the fructose over them then roast in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. 3 For the nectarines saute them for 2 minutes in the butter, add the Amaretto, the sugar and the water then reboil. Set aside. 4 Make sugar cages by making a caramel with the sugar and fructose then shape over the back of a ladle which you will have greased with some groundnut oil. Remove them as they harden slightly. 5 To serve, place the nectarines in the bottom of 4 plates followed by a spoonful of the mascarpone, then a sugar cage followed by a peach, a sprig of mint then another sugar cage.