I love reading everyone’s week 1′s comment on the Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Cookie Frosting! Honestly, those cupcakes are my favorite. I just love the salty sweet peanut butter chocolate combo. Last weeks cookbook club winner is Lan. Congrats, you’ve won a Starbucks or Amazon $15 gift card. If you’re new to this discussion, we are having an online cookbook club for 6 weeks cooking out of the SAVORY SWEET LIFE cookbook. Each week we are discussing the featured recipes and I’m also giving away a $15 e-gift card to Starbucks or Amazon just for the fun of it. Feel free to join us, I would love to have you!
Moving on to Peach Croissants, this week 2 recipe is seriously easy. I can put these together in about 5 minutes and everytime I make them people always rave. The cookbook suggests cutting the puff pasty into four squares but the peaches I’m seeing at the store lately are on the smaller side so I’ve been cutting them into 9 squares to make them mini-sized. I’m definitely in love with the smaller version. Last time I made these were for a tv segment and the crew gobbled them up in about 30 seconds. One woman came up to me afterward shocked at how easy they were to assemble yet tasted so good.
Hope you enjoy making these this week. With peaches in season, it’s the perfect time to make these – if not for someone else, make them for you! Feel free to share your thoughts about them below. I’ll pick a winner by Sunday. Next week we will move on to a savory Asian inspired dish: Thai Marinated Grill Chicken Skewers and Peanut Coconut Sauce on page 86.
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Oh. My. I just discovered your blog today, searching for a dak bulgogli recipe and I’m smitten – I’ve just about used up my son’s entire naptime reading! My family lives overseas in South Korea and it is PEACH SEASON right now – all over the marketplace – so this is a perfect recipe to stumble upon. Absolutely perfect and I definitely am a fan of the “mini” version, as you shared! Thanks for the wonderful food blogging, looking forward to keeping up with your blog!
Hi Alice ~ Karen from The Art of Doing Stuff featured you on her blog today. I’m so glad she did because I know I’m going to love following your blog. I’ll be purchasing your new cookbook on Amazon as soon as I finish writing this comment. I have several fruit trees on my property, peaches being among them. I can’t wait to make the Peach Croissants. My family will enjoy the change from the usual peach pie and peach jam.
I also follow Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman). I must say I really admire you gals. Thank you for sharing your talents with everyone.
Wow………………..what a lovely chocolate with cookies. Its was really awesome and this cookies are my favourite.
Thanks
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As a Savannah transplant turned Eastside Mama I was really looking forward to making your peach croissants. My family is definitely missing certain aspects of living in the South (warm beaches!!!!) and I thought it would be nice for them to wake up with a bit of Georgia on their breakfast plates. However, my 3-year old woke up extra early, gorged herself on most of the peaches and decided the rest would be better used as soccer balls…so goes my life.
As the peaches were no longer edible I substituted apples for peaches and they were delicious! The croissants were very easy to make and looked beautiful. I will be making these again this weekend, cannot wait to try them with peaches!
The Colorado peaches are coming to Kansas. Guess that means I need to get the
ones in the freezer from last year used up. Love peach cobbler and just made peach jam a few weeks ago.
I’ve been looking through your cookbook – but have to be careful since it’s part of a prize basket for our library summer reading program.
Wow! I didn’t know you were doing this and I just bought the cookbook (I love it) this will give me motivation to cook the recipes!
ohgoodgolly the last time I had homemade croissants was years ago when my Dad went through his “French baking phase”…they were amazing! He never filled his with anything, but I’m sure he would have loved to try a peach-filled version…and probably all sorts of other fruity variations.
The book looks fabulous! I’m new to your blog, so I’m off to explore the rest of it. Cheers!
I missed the discussion yesterday about the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes. Oh OH they look so good and how AMAZING the frosting looks like a peanut butter cookie. YUM!
Now, onto today’s – peach…….peach peaches peaches, OH how I love peaches and a recipe that involves peaches AND it’s an easy recipe…..I’m all over it!
thank you!
Suzanne
Do you have any tricks on using peaches before they go free stone? I can barely even eat them before they do – it’s just so messy!
I made the Peach Croissants as dessert for a dinner party I gave a few weeks ago (I made these the same week I made the Choc peanut butter cupcakes)
They were ridiculously easy and the perfect end to a somewhat heavy meal.
I wanted something that was light, used local peaches (as I just purchased a 1/2 bushel at the market ) and quick. This fit the bill.
We enjoyed them with sweet tea and port on the porch.
I have to say that mine were NO WHERE near as pretty as the ones Alice made and some were downright pitiful looking as I did not get the center to seal and hold on several, but no one cared because they tasted so great!
I really believe that the quality of the peach is the secrete here.
I am going to try the same recipe with mixed berries next.
Thanks!
I made these yesterday for the kids, and they were so incredibly easy!! My next challenge will be to find puff pastry on sale though, lol. I like the idea of cutting them into 9 squares, and will try that next time. Thanks again Alice for another fabulous recipe! Here’s a picture of mine: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/amanda823s/Recipes/005.jpg
Loved this recipe! Easy to make, very good, although mine definitely weren’t as pretty. I think next time I’ll try apple just to make it different.
Embarrassingly easy and simply scrumptious! Especially with fresh, local peaches. I’m going to add this recipe to my Christmas morning menu, perhaps filling them with high qualuty chocolate. I think thinly sliced heirloom tomatoes sprinkled with Parmesan cheese would make a nice savory version.
Yay, I won! I emailed you Alice, but not sure if you got it? Let me know if I need to resend
I was not able to participate with last week’s project, maybe this week I can. Good luck everyone!
Lan
I just made these. They aren’t as pretty and I over baked them a tad but they are still delicious. I wish I would have read the comment about cutting the pastry into 9 pieces as they were a too big for the peaches I used. Oh-Well there will be a next time
I posted a pic on my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=344176532326543&set=a.262688840475313.60017.226728554071342&type=1&theater
Are you sharing the recipe online?
I am a week behind your challenge, I know, but I just made these. As soon as I saw this recipe in the book I knew I would be making these soon! Delicious, fresh tasting and not too sweet. My peaches were smaller so I used 4 slices per square. I could barely wait for these to cool a bit before tasting!