Fresh Peach Cake (Extra Peaches!)

This straightforward recipe for recent peach cake is an excellent strategy to showcase candy peaches after they’re in season. Tender and tender with a creamy crumb, and that includes 2 layers of juicy peaches for further peach taste in each chew, this cake wants no topping or adorning (although a dusting of powdered sugar is all the time welcome). It’s the right deal with to get pleasure from on a porch swing with a glass of iced tea—or wherever you discover summertime bliss.

This straightforward but spectacular recent peach cake is the right fast & straightforward dessert to make when peaches are in season, whether or not you picked them straight from a tree… or from a roadside farm stand… or from the grocery retailer after they have been on sale. I really like peach pie, however generally you want a easy recipe for a dessert that may be able to eat within the subsequent couple of hours. This peach cake is simply the factor!

(Peach crisp and peach cobbler are each fantastic choices as properly, in fact. Particularly should you occur to have vanilla ice cream in your freezer.)

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The whole lot You’ll Love About This Recent Peach Cake

• Tremendous moist, tender, smooth cake with juicy cinnamon-spiced peaches
• Nice strategy to showcase recent peaches throughout peak peach season
• Fast & straightforward—no mixer required, no separate topping to make, and also you don’t even must peel the peaches!
• All of the flavors you’re keen on in peach pie (with much less time & effort)
• Not overly candy, so the fruit’s pure sweetness shines
• Greek yogurt makes for a creamy-like crumb, identical to it does in lemon berry yogurt cake
• You would use dairy-free yogurt to make this a dairy-free recipe
• Don’t have to attend hours for it to chill utterly earlier than consuming
• Transport and serve proper from the baking pan

And as a welcome bonus, there’s no difficult adorning required. Simply give it a shimmy-shake of confectioners’ sugar excessive earlier than serving—this peach cake is a pure magnificence!

Key Components You Want & Why

1. Flour: All-purpose flour types the bottom for this cake’s construction.
2. Baking Powder & Baking Soda: With so many moist elements, we’d like each baking powder and soda to assist elevate this cake so it’s not heavy and flat.
3. Salt: For its flavor-enhancing superpowers.
4. Oil: Utilizing oil as a substitute of butter in muffins makes for a supremely moist crumb. You should utilize olive oil, vegetable oil, or melted coconut oil right here—baker’s selection.
5. Sugar: Granulated sugar is the sweetener for this cake. You don’t want so much, as a result of the peaches are already candy on their very own.
6. Eggs: Eggs present construction, stability, and richness.
7. Vanilla & Almond Extracts: You’ll love the flavour this combo gives. It’s the identical duo used to taste basic sugar cookies.
8. Greek Yogurt: You’ll discover that I exploit yogurt or bitter cream in quite a lot of my cake recipes. Each convey a slight tang (very gentle) and brilliantly creamy moisture. I examined this cake with nonfat and low-fat Greek yogurt, common yogurt, and bitter cream—all have been glorious. Greek yogurt added a bit extra tang and construction, although. You would additionally use a dairy-free yogurt to make this cake dairy free.
9. Lemon Zest & Juice: Lemon brightens the whole lot up, and provides some recent taste. Style testers stated the cake was missing with out it.
10. Peaches: You want about 2 cups of sliced recent peaches (peeling them first is non-compulsory). See the FAQs beneath for extra info on the most effective sort of peaches to make use of.
11. Cinnamon: Completely non-compulsory.

Overview: How one can Make Recent Peach Cake

The cake is layered with peaches. Half batter, half peaches, remaining batter, remaining peaches.

There’s no mixer required for this recipe. Whisk the batter collectively, after which toss the peach slices with a bit sugar to assist them launch some juices.

Then I prefer to toss HALF of the sugared peaches in cinnamon, so the fruit slices within the heart of the cake mingle with creamy cinnamon swirls (much like this peach fast bread). The opposite half of the peaches (with out cinnamon) create the highest layer of the cake. Once more, the cinnamon is non-compulsory. You may merely toss ALL of the peaches with the cinnamon, or go away it out totally.

Right here’s the creamy batter, and heart layer of cinnamon-sugar peaches:

As you’ll be able to see, the cake is brimming with recent peaches. A 9-inch springform pan (what you employ for cheesecake) is right for this one-layer cake.

Right here’s the cake earlier than and after baking:

And whereas this pure magnificence wants no further gildings, I prefer to sift a bit dusting of confectioners’ sugar excessive simply earlier than serving. And, in fact, whipped cream is all the time a welcome adornment.

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