Dessert Recipes - Peach Melba Softie Recipe

Ingredients

• 60 ml/4 tbsp medium-fat soft cheese Icing (confectioners') sugar, to taste

• Finely grated rind of 1/2 orange (optional)

• 4 ripe peaches, skinned, halved and stoned (pitted)

• 300 g/11 oz/1 medium can of raspberries, drained, reserving the juice

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Method:

1. Sweeten the cheese to taste with icing sugar and flavor with the orange rind, if liked.

2. Sandwich the peach halves together in pairs with the cheese and place in four small glass dishes. Chill.

3. Pass the raspberries through a sieve (strainer) to remove the seeds, then thin the puree with a little of the juice to give a smooth pouring consistency. Spoon over the peaches and serve.