Grilled Peaches and Cream

A fabulous neighbor dropped off some peaches at my house tonight.  I really have the most thoughtful neighbors.  This summer I've noticed a few different recipes in my cooking magazines for grilled peaches so I decided to try my hand at it tonight.  What a fun, fresh, and quick dessert! 

Ingredients:

4 ripe peaches, sliced in half, pits removed

1 oz plain cream cheese, softened
1 T. chopped pecans (optional)

vegetable oil

brown sugar
honey

Directions:

Brush each peach half with vegetable oil.  Sprinkle with brown sugar.  Pour a few tablespoons of vegetable oil on a paper towel and rub the paper towel on a warm grill.  Place the peaches, pit side down on the grill.  Cook on low for 5 minutes.  Turn peaches and cook on the other side for an additional 3 minutes.  Sprinkle peaches with additional brown sugar and place a small dollop of cream cheese on top of the peach.  Drizzle with honey.

In my test kitchen:

I really do love a good crunch so some chopped pecans mixed into the cream cheese would have been so yummy!  I also think honey (maybe 1 T.?) mixed into the cream cheese rather than just drizzled across the top would have been better. 

Overall this was a pretty fun dessert to experiment with!

~Happy Cooking!