FRUITS AND VEGGIES MONDAY|PALEO PEACH COBBLER AND PEACH ICE CREAM

Fruits and Veggies Monday is a great community started by @lenasveganliving. This week's host is @plantstoplanks , yeah. Today I decided to feature peaches. I live in the great Peach State of Georgia, plus I love peaches.

This is one of my old cobblers loaded with sugar, butter, and crust made with flour. It was to die for.

Peach cobbler is one of my favorite deserts. It falls in there right below Pound Cake and German Chocolate Cake. But when I start eating on the Paleo plan, I had to cut out refined sugar, grains, such as wheat oats and barley. Sugar was needed to sweetened the peaches and grains for flour, were needed to make the crust for the cobbler. I had to solve the sugar and flour problem in order to make a paleo peach cobbler.

I put my paleo twist on it and decided to use coconut sugar as my sweetener. The only thing with coconut sugar is that it turns everything dark. When I make candied yams with coconut sugar, the yam turn dark. The taste is not affected by the darkness. Then I decided to use Birch & Benders Paleo Pancake Mix for my batter for the topping. I went from there and created a tasty peach cobbler without refined sugar or grains.

These are the ingredients that I used for the peach cobbler.

I cooked the peaches in coconut sugar. I did not add any water to the pot because once the peaches thaw out they will create a little water. Also the coconut sugar will created water. I cooked the peaches until almost done then added cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and lemon extract, and ghee. Cooked for another 5 to 8 minutes.

I transferred the peaches to a small Pyrex dish and prepared the batter from the paleo pancake mix for the topping.

I spread the topping over the peaches and baked it in a 325 degree oven for 45 minutes until the crust was lightly browned.

While the cobbler was baking I decided to make some peach ice cream to accompany the cobbler. I added 1 can of coconut milk to my Nutri Bullet, added 2 tsps. of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup of maple syrup, dash of salt, and 1 cup of frozen peaches. After blending, I added some chopped peaches to the mixture so that it would have small chunks of peaches in the ice cream.

Then I poured the mixture into my Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker for about 20 minutes and I had peach ice cream.

Now it was time for desert.