Prep time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 1kg ripe peaches, peeled, cut into chunks (stones removed)
• ½ cup caster sugar
• ¼ tsp each of ground nutmeg and cinnamon
• 3 tsp cornflour
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• 30g butter, cubed

Topping

• 1 ½ cups self-raising flour
• ⅓ cup caster sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 125g butter, chopped
• ⅓ cup buttermilk
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
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Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C, fan-forced. Grease medium baking dish.
2. Place peaches, sugar, spices, cornflour, lemon juice and butter into baking dish. Mix gently to combine. Bake in oven for 15 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, make topping. Place flour, sugar and salt into bowl electric mixer bowl. Mix on low until combined.
4. Add butter, mix until like large breadcrumbs. Add buttermilk and vanilla and mix until just combined.
5. Remove peaches from oven, drop small spoonful of topping over peaches. Don’t worry if there are gaps. Bake 40-45 minutes or until golden.

Tip

Peel with ease!

Cut a cross into skin on base of each peach. Plunge peaches into boiling water, simmer for about 1 minute or until skin starts to lift at the cut. Drain, add to bowl of iced water. When cool enough to handle, skin should peel away easily.