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Brown Sugar Peach Cake

This simple cake made with brown sugar and peach chunks and slathered in a caramel icing.
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Cooling Time1 hour
Course: Dessert Recipes
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 Servings
Calories: 328kcal
Author: Laura

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 9x13 cake pan
  • Beat butter and brown sugar together in the bowl of a stand mixer, or in a mixing bowl with and electric mixer
    Butter and brown sugar in a bowl.
  • Beat in milk, juice, and vanilla
    Milk and vanilla added to the mixing bowl.
  • Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl until well combined
  • add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture
    Add dry ingredients to the butter mixture.
  • Fold in the peaches into the cake batter
    Peaches on top of the cake batter ready to be folded in.
  • 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
    Finished caramely icing in a saucepan.
  • Pour on top of the cake and spread evenly. Do this quickly as the icing sets up fast
    Freshly iced cake ready to be cut and served.

Notes

Notes 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.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 328kcal | Carbohydrates: 56g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 239mg | Potassium: 106mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 44g | Vitamin A: 436IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 80mg | Iron: 1mg