Cheesecake Stuffed Peaches

ATTENTION: Siulin's Kitchen has finally found her direction! Posts from now on will be mainly about recipes made with FRUITS as one of the ingredients, topics such as how to choose the best fruits, fun facts about fruits etc. 

I hope this is an area that will interest everyone and let's celebrate the reborn of Siulin's Kitchen with today's dessert... Cheesecake Stuffed Peaches! I have to confess that the next couple of posts will probably be all about peaches since I still have a basket of peaches in my fridge ;P Peach lovers, stay tune!

This is a relatively healthy cheesecake recipe as the amount of cheesecake stuffing is little and each serving (half of the peach) is small but satisfying after a meal. Not a lot of sugar has to be added as peaches carry some natural sweetness. You can make the stuffing in advance, and all you have to do is take it out of the fridge for half an hour or until it softens, cut the peaches into halves, spread the stuffing and pop them into the oven! Great and impressive looking desserts to serve guests. Original recipe suggested to sprinkle the peach cheesecake with granola, but I preferred without.

Recipes adopted from Food.com

Servings: 6 (12 havles)

Ingredients

6 fresh peaches, halved and pitted

1/4 cup butter, melted

3 tablespoons cinnamon sugar (3 tbs sugar combined with 1 tsp cinnamon)

1/2 (4 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions

1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees, line the baking pan with parchment paper.

2) Trim a very thin sliced from the rounded side of each peach half, so the halves can stand flat on the baking pan.

3) Dip peach halves in melted butter to coat. Sprinkle cut sides of peaches with cinnamon sugar; set aside.

4) In a medium mixing bowl, beat softened cream cheese with a mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add sugar, egg yolk and vanilla. Beat until combined.

5) Spoon cream cheese mixture into peach centers.

6) Bake for 30 minutes or until lightly browned and softened. 

7) Serve warm. (I burnt my tongue, so watch out folks!)