Easy Peach Cake Recipe
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If you love peaches, you’ll want to make this easy peach cake recipe. It’s a great way to use up fresh peaches during peach season, and it’s also a great way to use up leftover canned peaches.
This easy peach cake recipe is a simple and delicious
No Peach Season in Alaska
In Alaska, we don’t have a “Peach Season” because we don’t grow peaches here. Typically don’t grow peaches here. There are outliers here, of course, especially if they’re growing in a greenhouse.
We do, however, sometimes get peaches at a great price in the stores up here. When they go on sale, we buy as many as we can afford. That’s our usual ‘peach season.’
We also have a fruit truck that drives fresh-picked fruit from farms to Alaska. Sadly last year, the truck didn’t come to Alaska, but we’re hoping it comes back this summer!
When to serve this cake
This homemade peach cake is perfect for serving with coffee for a brunch
To make this easy peach cake, you’ll need a few basic ingredients:
- fresh ripe peaches or a can of peaches in juice
- softened butter
- milk
- peach juice from the can OR extra fresh milk if using fresh or frozen peaches
- all-purpose flour
- brown sugar
- unsalted butter
- vanilla extract
- baking powder
- heavy cream
- salt
- stand mixer with a paddle attachment
- large bowl
- medium bowl
- hand mixer or stand mixer
- rubber spatula
- 9×13 pan
- saucepan
About The Peaches
You can use fresh peaches if you have them available to you. If you have homemade canned peaches on hand, you can use them. Or you can use store-bought canned peaches.
You also need the syrup from canned peaches. If you don’t HAVE syrup from the peaches, you can use milk instead!
If you only have sliced peaches, no worries; just cut them into chunks before you add them to the cake batter.
How to peel fresh peaches
To peel fresh peaches, bring a pot of water to a boil. Prepare a bowl of water and add ice. Cut an X in the skin of a peach and drop it in the boiling water. Quickly pull it back out and drop it in the ice water bath. When the fresh peach is cool the skin will just easily peel right off.
Fresh Summery Desserts to try out
Strawberry Dump Cake is a fun way to use a yellow cake mix or try my peach dump cake. We love dump cake recipes around here. They’re a simple
Try a raspberry buckle tender cake, and fresh berries make this summery
How to store this cake
You can store any leftover cake in an airtight container or wrapped in aluminum foil at room temperature for up to 4-5 days.
Brown Sugar Peach Cake
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup butter softened
- ¾ cup milk
- ¼ cup peach syrup use milk if using fresh peaches rather than canned
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ⅓ cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups peaches fresh or canned, if using fresh peel them as described in the notes below
Icing:
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup cream
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º
- grease a 9×13 cake pan
- Beat butter and brown sugar together in the bowl of a stand mixer, or in a mixing bowl with and electric mixer
- Beat in milk, juice, and vanilla
- Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl until well combined
- add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture
- Fold in the peaches into the cake batter
- Spread into the prepared pan
- Bake in center of oven for 25 minutes, until a toothpick insert in the center of the cake comes out clean
- Remove from oven and let cool completely
- When the cake is cool make the icing, combine butter, cream, and brown sugar in a saucepan
- Bring to a boil
- Remove from the heat, whisk in the vanilla and powdered sugar until smooth
- Pour on top of the cake and spread evenly. Do this quickly as the icing sets up fast
Any eggs? I haven’t made it yet.
Thanks!