Forbidden Peach

This dessert is a refreshing summer treat with lots of visual appeal, and it is simplicity itself — that is, once you have mastered the caramel cages. I have had many students accuse me of withholding some secret when it comes to making these fragile decorations. It looks easy enough when they watch my demonstration, but they have all kinds of problems when they first try to make the cages themselves. Well, as a colleague of mine writes in his book, “It is a little difficult to master at fi