Peach Crisp

This is my effort to post some of the easiest recipes and/or some good substitutions for people who miss certain foods or are transitioning to a grain free diet.  

This is super easy!  I made this in stages because it was late at night and baking it last night would have meant staying up way past midnight.  So one of my time saving strategies to get wholesome, home made foods in our lunches and other meals is to bake things in the morning while I get ready.  Typically, it takes me 30 minutes to an hour to get ready depending on what I'm doing, where I'm going, and who else is getting ready!  So this is just enough time to put something in the oven and let bake.  How efficient!  Anyway, I cut up the peaches and made the topping last night and left it in the baking dish ready to go into the oven.  I put it in the oven this morning.  By the time I was ready to have my coffee, magically it was ready!  If you have the time all at once, of course, you can bake it right away. 

Use a 9 x 9 baking dish.  

I used about 3 large peaches, so that the baking dish was nice and full with peaches, but still had room for the topping. 

Topping:

2 1/2 cups of almond flour

1/4 tsp of sea salt

3 TBS palm shortening

2-3 TBS of maple syrup

1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract

Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl.  Make sure the palm shortening and wet ingredients are nicely distributed and mixed in with the almond flour.  Spread this on top of your peaches! Disclaimer: I actually didn't measure the ingredients exactly - this is kind of a ball park figure on this.  I like my peach crisp to have lots of topping so I always add more almond flour than typical recipes ask recommend.  Elana's Pantry for example, call for 1 1/4 cup of almond flour.  The beauty of a crisp is that it is so easy and you can adapt it to your particular tastes.  It's really hard to mess up. 

Also this is the vegan version - but using softened butter tastes delicious.  You can use butter (softened) instead of the palm shortening - and you can play with the sweetener (using more or less), and use agave or honey, depending on what you prefer. 

Bake for about 40 minutes.