prepare the cream cheese icing

Yesterday my mother-in-law gave me a bag full of fresh-picked peaches, ripe and ready to eat. I wanted to make something with them out of stuff I had on hand. With my littlest one being sick this past weekend, I didn’t feel up to a trip to the store for special ingredients. That and my grocery budget doesn’t replenish until the 1st of next month. So… since I pretty much always have enough stuff to whip up some bread, that’s what I decided to do Video.

My thought process went something like this: “Hmmm… the peaches would blend nicely with carrots… I’ve always loved peaches and cream oatmeal growing up… I also love spiced breads with veggies hidden inside… But would peaches, cream and carrot taste weird together and spiced? Well, there’s always icing. So, if it tastes weird, I’ll just drench it in icing and it will be good no matter what. Oh, and I have that cream cheese icing recipe I got from a girl at work. YES. This is going to be GOOD.” So, yeah. I sort of combined several of my food-related loves into one yummy treat and that’s how I ended up with this recipe — Peaches and Cream Carrot Bread with cream cheese icing. I think you’re going to love it. It’s a great way to use up peaches that are on their last day and a sneaky way to get the kids to eat some veggies investment immigration. (I think my daughter had about 4 slices today)

A couple cooking tips: I used a food processor to dice the peaches and shred the carrots. This made for tinier chunks which I prefer but big chunks of peaches and carrots might be good too so it’s totally up to you how you want to prep those. Also, I used a hand mixer to blend the bread mix and used it again to prepare the cream cheese icing Ring Coffee Mill. (YUM)