Peaches Foster Recipe | Epicurious

If you’re going to cook a perfect peach, give it the Foster treatment. Where the retro New Orleans dessert’s boozy, warm-spiced brown sugar sauce and caramelized banana feels a bit seasonless, using stone fruit as the star plants this version firmly in summertime. Coming together in about 10 minutes in just one pan—take that, long-baked pie and crumble!—it’s ideal for warm summer nights. It actually comes together so quickly it’s very important to have all the ingredients measured and ready to go as soon as you turn on the heat.

Flambéed dark rum provides another layer of earthy-sweet flavor to the caramel sauce; if that scares you, don’t abandon ship just yet. Add the liquor over a low heat and you can skip the fireworks altogether, gently simmering the sauce for a couple extra minutes to meld the flavors.

Make sure that both the butter and peaches are at room temperature before starting; if added cold, the sauce will bubble furiously and could split. If this happens, you can save it by reducing the heat to low and cooking slowly, swirling the pan occasionally, until it turns silky again.