Grilled Peaches in a Butter Rum Sauce Over Ice Cream

I have to warn you that I am a peach fanatic.  I love peaches, peach pie, peach blend fruit drinks, peach wood, peach, peach, peach.  I love all things peach. We did Peachy Ribs two different ways – Peachy Sweet Spares and Peachy Sweet Ribs (these are distinctly different).  I couldn’t resist going with this one because it gave me a chance to put this hot buttered rum in it. Scroll down for Grilled Peaches in a Butter Rum Sauce recipe. 

Grilled Peaches Ingredients:

4 tbsp butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup rum
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
Ripe peaches
Vanilla ice cream

First make up the sauce to pour over our grilled peaches by combining everything except the peaches and ice cream in a pot and bring to a boil before dropping down to low:

Now over to the peaches part of the recipe.

Slice the peaches into sixths. The more surface area to peach ratio the better:

A lot of people cut them in half or even quarters and grill, which is fine.  But if you cut them in sixths then you get a higher char to peach flesh ratio and thus more caramelization of the sugar as the grilled peaches brown:

Now on to the grill. Make sure the grill is very hot. If your gas grill does not get flaming hot, don’t try this dish. The peaches will stick and turn to mush long before there are any good char marks.

And the peaches go right on my blaster furnace hot grill:

Wait until the peaches release from the grill grates. Don’t try to force them off the hot metal. Once they sear and char, they will slide off easily. You can rotate or flip to get good those great grill marks:

Remove the peaches from the grill, place over ice cream and drizzle some of that thick sauce over the top:

Here they are plated, or should I say bowled? Glassed? That’s a martini glass:

I’ve done this recipe in the past with tart peaches and it didn’t turn out well. If you intend on grilling bad peaches, you will finish with bad grilled peaches. The sauce is heavenly and can mask a lot, but not bad peaches so let those babies ripen.

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Grilled Peaches in a Butter Rum Sauce Over Ice Cream

Peaches, grilled and covered with a warm buttered rum sauce and served over cold ice cream

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: BBQ

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp salted butter
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup rum
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp salt
• ripe peaches
• vanilla ice cream

Instructions

• Put the butter, brown sugar, rum, cinnamon, and salt in a pot
• Slice the peaches into quarters and discard the pit
• Set up the grill for high heat grilling (450-500 degrees)
• Place the pot over the coals to melt the ingredients of the sauce, stirring often
• Place the peaches over the fire
• When they get some nice grill marks, flip them over
• Once charred on each side, place the slices over a scoop of ice cream
• Spoon the sauce over the peaches and ice cream and serve immediately when the peaches are still warm, ice cream is still cold and the sauce brings it all together

Scott Thomas

Scott Thomas, the Original Grillin’ Fool, was sent off to college with a suitcase and a grill where he overcooked, undercooked and burned every piece of meat he could find. After thousands of failures, and quite a few successes, nearly two decades later he started a website to show step by step, picture by picture, foolproof instructions on how to make great things out of doors so that others don’t have to repeat the mistakes he’s made on the grill.

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This article was initially published on: August 20, 2010