Use Up the Last of Your Summer Peaches

I was lucky enough to have a friend give me a box of Palisade peaches... they are the best! I of course ate a bunch, but wanted to use the rest up before I left for a trip. I scoured by recipe books for the perfect dessert and settled on a peach cobbler from one of my favorite cookbooks, The Fosters Market, by Sarah Foster.

This was such a fun dessert to make and invite friends over to enjoy!

Recipe:
(From Sarah Foster)

The Filling:
8 cups peaches (about 10 peaches) - peeled, pittted and sliced. To see how to pouch and peel watch this video
1 cup sugar
3 T flour
Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon

Crust:
12 T (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted, melted butter
2 1/2 cups four
1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons sugar
2 t baking power
1 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1/4 cup buttermilk

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease a 9x13 baking dish with 2 tablespoons of the butter, set aside.

For the filling toss together the peaches, sugar, flour and lemon (juice and zest) in a large bowl. Set aside for up to 4 hours until use (don't worry if you don't plan ahead that much... just do this first and it will have enough time while you make the crust).

For the crust mix together the flour, 1/4 cup sugar, baking power, baking soda and salt. Slowly add the buttermilk to form a dough. Simple dough right?! Next, flour your dough and roll out to a 12 to 14 inch round, about 1/4 inch thick.

Now for the lattice topping, just take a pizza cutter and make even strips of dough. Pour the peaches into the pan and then weave your dough strips accross to make a lattice topping (see picture below). Brush the top of the strips with melted butter to ensure a golden brown topping.

Bake for 40-45 minutes or until the top is golden and the fruit is bubbling. Feast!