To me, nothing says summer like fresh peaches. Plump and juicy they pair well with both sweet and savory dishes. This cake is an oldie but goodie – tender vanilla cake topped with fresh sliced peaches – finished with cinnamon sugar and freshly whipped cream! It works well with apples, pears, plums and nectarines too – so you can adapt this recipe as the seasons change. Not only is this great for dessert, but it works well for brunch or in place of a coffee cake!
Old-Fashioned Fresh Peach Cake
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
enough milk added to egg and vanilla to equal 1/2 cup
4 cups peeled and sliced peaches
1 cup white sugar (or 1/2 white sugar and 1/2 brown sugar)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Sift together in a large bowl flour, baking powder, 2 tablespoons sugar and salt. Cut butter into dry ingredients until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Beat egg and vanilla together in a measuring cup and add in enough milk to equal 1/2 cup. Add to dry ingredients. Dough will be stiff. Press into a greased 9 or 10 inch round cake pan (I used a spring-form). Top with peaches, arranging however you like. Combine 1 cup sugar, cinnamon and melted butter and sprinkle over the fruit. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes – or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Serve warm with freshly whipped cream. Enjoy!
This recipe is adapted from the Joy of Cooking and cost $1.91 to make (not including the whipped cream) – not a bad price for a dessert or coffee cake! My grocery store sells coffee cakes for $3.99 and up and they don’t even include fresh fruit!
Do you have a favorite cake recipe using fresh fruit? I’d love to hear from you!
Mmmm.. I love anything that has peaches in it. Looks great!
Me to, anything peach and anything cake! 🙂
I would love to have some with my coffee right about now.
🙂 It does make a great breakfast cake!
My very FAVORITE FRUIT….yes to peaches!!!!!! Thanks for the great post.
I’m allergic to peaches (and all pit fruit), but am wondering if I could make this cake with strawberries. Yum!
I think so – any berry would work well, I’m thinking raspberry/blueberry/blackberry combo, and change up the topping to a crumb topping and it would be fantastic! 🙂
I agree with the commenter above. Anything with peaches in it is delicious. I will definitely have to add this recipe to my entertaining arsenal. If I make it on an average night I will eat it all.
🙂 We ate it pretty quickly!
oh wow this looks amazing! i love julia… i just made a chocolate almond plum cake that was extraordinary… if i do say so myself…. Also, i like your blog!
Love peaches as well, although over here it is not peach season yet. Will try it with cherries.
I didn’t even think of cherries! Please let me know how it turns out – I’d love to know!
This looks absolutely delicious!!! I want to go home and bake up some of this yummy, peachy goodness right now! 😉
🙂 Thanks! If you do – let me know how you like it!
I agree completely about peaches and summer! This looks amazing – I will definitely try it. I saw a recipe in Southern Living recently that had a similar look to it, only it was for pancakes! I thought the idea was genius!
WOW -pancakes with peaches would be amazing! Definitely on the must try list – I think that would be a great weekend treat! 🙂
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Thank you so very much! How lovely! I really appreciate that! 🙂
No peaches here as it is winter… but come summer when the orchard up the road is selling ripe to bursting fresh sweet summer kissed peaches for a couple of dollars a kilo I am SOOO going to make this cake! 🙂
🙂 Great! Let me know how it goes! You can also do this with apples and pears for the fall/winter season, I’ve tried both and they are equally good!
Loving your recipes and your blog! What an inspiration. 😀
Thank you so much! Glad to have you stop by! 🙂
.. I have to try this. Definitely.
I’d love to hear what you think of the recipe!
This looks so moist and delicious! I even wish you had more pics for me to drool over:]
🙂 Thanks!
OMGoodness that looks SOOOOO good! I’m going to pin this on pinterest. 🙂
🙂 Thanks! It’s really yummy – and so easy to put together!
I bet, it looks like it! 🙂 I’m so gonna make some once hubby and I get settled into our new home.
This sounds delicious! I love peaches and can’t wait to try this with some from my local farmers market! Yum 🙂
I would love to hear how you like it!