Name: Amaretti peaches with honey & chocolate
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 6large just ripe but firm peaches; 15 loose (or 9 paper-wrapped) amaretti biscuits; scant blanched almond; 85g dark chocolate (minimum 60% cocoa solids), roughly broken; 1large egg beaten; 2 tbsp honey – clear or set; 500g tub crème fraîche or mascarpone; a little cocoa powder

6large just ripe but firm peaches
15 loose (or 9 paper-wrapped) amaretti biscuits
scant blanched almond
85g dark chocolate
(minimum 60% cocoa solids), roughly broken
1large egg
beaten
2 tbsp honey
– clear or set

To serve

500g tub crème fraîche
or mascarpone
a little cocoa powder

Method

step 1
Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Halve and stone the peaches, then dig out a little flesh from the centre of each half, using a sharp-edged soup spoon. Put flesh and peaches to one side.
step 2
Tip the amaretti, almonds and chocolate into a food processor and pulse until the mixture is like coarse gravel. Add the spooned-out peach flesh, egg and honey and whizz for just a second or two to combine – don't over-process.
step 3
Spoon the stuffing into the peach halves, mounding it up a little. Arrange the peaches in a single layer in a heavy baking tin, then bake for 25-30 minutes or until the flesh is tender and the stuffing nicely browned. Serve hot, with a dollop of mascarpone or crème fraîche and a dusting of sifted cocoa powder.