Caramel Baked Peaches

A ripe peach is truly one of life’s greatest gifts, immediately transporting me to a sun-soaked summer holiday, toes dipped in a swimming pools and a napkin held up to your chin to catch the sweet juices of the season’s best pick. Sorry, where were we? Ah yes, baked peaches with caramel sauce and roasty, toasty almonds. Another magical sort of dessert, it starts off feeling like not much will happen, but by the end the peach juice, butter and cream have created a sticky, amber caramel to pour over everything. The cardamom is optional, but I do love and highly recommend it.