Ingredients:

• 3-4 ripe peaches
• 2-2.5oz of black chocolate
• 6-7 shortbread cookies
• 1/4 inch of fresh ginger root
• 1 egg yolk
• 3 tbsp of red wine
• 3.5 tbsp of butter
• 1 cup of peach juice or 1 cup of water + peach pure
• 1 tbsp of sugar (if chocolate isn’t sweet)
• Powdered sugar to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients: I used russian shortbread cookies, but I think any other will work just as good; also I had unsweetened chocolate so used a bit of sugar, if you use sweet chocolate sugar can be skipped; and the last note but not least: put chocolate to the freezer for a couple hours before cooking, it will be much easier to grate if it is frozen:

   

2. Start of by crushing shortbread cookies (first I broke them with my hands and then crushed with flat side of meat tenderizer):

   

3. Grate all chocolate on medium side slots:

   

4. Remove skin from ginger and grate it on small slots:

   

5. Separate egg yolk from egg white (you will not need egg white for this recipe, just yolk). If you use sugar, mix it with egg yolk first, until sugar disolved totally (this is easier to do with teaspoon by rubbing mix toward a bowl side):

   

6. Then add yolk and sugar mix to the main mixing bowl:

   

7. Add about 3 tablespoons of red wine:

   

8. And mix stuffing thoroughly:

   

9. Now take a baking pan, slice each peach in half and remove pit (which is much easier to do if peaches are ripe). Slice a bit off the round part of each peach half so it can stay straight on flat surface and arrange all peach halves in the baking pan:

   

10. Using teaspoon, stuff each peach half with chocolate-ginger stuffing:

    

11. Evenly distribute stuffing between all halves:

    

12. Melt all butter (in microwave oven or any other way) and evenly splash each stuffed peach half with melted butter:

    

13. Pour peach juice (or as I did puree of peach half with a cup of boiled water) in baking pan:

    

    Warm up oven till 330F, put pan in for 25 mins.
14. Serve baked stuffed peaches warm. Before serving powder each peach half with confectioner’s sugar:
    

    

    

    

    
    
15. And if you wish sprinkle each peach with juice produced while baking (but in this case sugar will get wet and will not look so festive). Serve baked peaches with chocolate and ginger stuffing warm as dessert: