Cornmeal Shortcakes with Peaches & Cream
Cornmeal Shortcakes with Peaches & Cream
A wonderful way to celebrate peach season
Ingredients
- Cornmeal Shortcakes
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (you will need extra flour when you roll out the dough)
- 0.5 cup sugar (you will need extra sugar to sprinkle on top of biscuits)
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 0.5 teaspoon Salt
- 0.5 cup yellow cornmeal
- 8 tablespoons butter, unsalted (1 stick), cut into 1/2" cubes
- 0.5 cup buttermilk (you will need extra buttermilk to brush on top of the dough)
- Peaches
- 6 peaches, ripe, peeled and sliced
- 0.5 cup sugar
- 0.25 teaspoon cinnamon
- Whipped Cream
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 0.5 cup sugar
- 0.5 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Shortcake
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Sift all dry ingredients for the shortcake together except cornmeal.
- Add the cornmeal to the sifted dry ingredients and blend well.
- Add in the butter and blend until a coarse meal is formed.
- Add in the buttermilk and blend only until a dough is formed, it should still be crumbly.
- Do not over mix or the biscuits will be tough.
- Turn the dough onto a well floured table and gently press flat to about 1" thick.
- Dust the top of the dough with flour.
- Roll the dough to about 3/4" thick using a rolling pin.
- Cut into 3" rounds with a biscuit cutter.
- Place the biscuits onto a non-stick baking sheet or line it with wax paper.
- Brush the tops with buttermilk and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let the biscuits cool completely and store in an air tight container.
- Toss the peach sliced with the sugar and cinnamon.
- Let the peach mixture sit for 15 minutes until the peaches start to release juice.
- Toss again to ensure the sugar and cinnamon are evenly distributed.
- Whip the heavy cream until soft peaks form.
- Add in the sugar and vanilla and whip to stiff peaks.
- Cut the biscuits in half.
- Place the bottom on a plate cut side up.
- Spoon some of the peach slices with juice onto the biscuit.
- Dollop some whipped cream on the peaches.
- Top with the biscuit top.
- Garnish with whipped cream and some nice peach slices.
- Mint is optional.
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