Two Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe
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Two Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe is rich, moist, and full of fresh, sweet peaches. Peach Schnapps also gives this pound cake a lot of boozy flavors!
It is the best Fresh Peach Pound Cake around!
More peach recipes that you’ll love include my 1 cup-1cup-1cup peach cobbler, Peach pecan cobbler, peach cobbler moonshine, and fresh peach cobbler bread.
Two Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe
I’ll be the first to admit that I was skeptical of this recipe. I found it in Southern Living and wanted to try it for my pound cake series.
What are the Two Steps?
This recipe specifies layering all the ingredients in the mixing bowl in a certain order and mixing them. There’s no creaming the
The second step in this Two Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe is simply folding in the fresh peaches. All you have to do now is wait while it bakes if you can. That’s the hardest part!
Traditional Mixing Method
If you don’t trust the ‘two-step’ mixing method, by all means, mix it the traditional way.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, mix together the
butter and sugar until pale yellow and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing until the yellow is mixed in before adding the next egg. - Alternately, add the sifted flour and buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Add the vanilla and juice. Fold in the peaches by hand.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Cook in a preheated 325-degree oven for 1 hour 20 to 30 minutes. Test the cake for doneness with a wooden pick. If no crumbs or dry crumbs are on the pick, the cake is done.
- Let cool on a wire rack for 20 to 30 minutes, then carefully transfer to a serving dish. Pour the hot glaze over the cake.
Two Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe
When I peeked at it baking, the cake was rising tall and fluffy. When I tasted the first bite, this Two-Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe was buttery, moist, and tasted like peaches!
It’s a winner.
In the spirit of full disclosure, this cake recipe contains 1/2 cup of peach schnapps, which definitely gives it a boozy smell and flavor.
If you are not an alcohol fan, use 1 cup of buttermilk or peach-flavored drink and omit the peach schnapps. Your cake will have a slightly less noticeable peach flavor.
The conventional wisdom accepted by just about everyone in the food world is that all the alcohol you add to a dish evaporates or dissipates during cooking. It is wrong. In fact, you have to cook something for a good 3 hours to eradicate all traces of alcohol.
BEST PEACH POUND CAKE
I drizzled my peach cake with a cream cheese glaze, this is optional. I do like the extra little ump it gives the dessert, though.
Because this Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe is so moist and because of the
SOUTHERN CLASSIC PEACH POUND CAKE
Of all theย Pound Cake Recipes I’ve reviewed, this is one of my favorites. It’s super moist. It has a vibrant peach flavor due to the peach schnapps and fresh peaches. Did you know that most of the ‘flavor’ in food comes from the aromas in the nose rather than the tastes in the mouth? Therefore, peach schnapps has a distinct ‘flavor’ because they have a strong smell. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not an overpowering smell, it’s just more prominent than any of the other flavors in this Two-Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake.
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Two Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour sifted once
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups butter room temperature
- ยฝ cup buttermilk
- ยฝ cup *peach schnapps substitutions in post above
- 6 large eggs at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 and ยฝ cups fresh peaches diced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- Spray a 10-inch 16-cup tube pan with Wilton cake release or cover it with solid vegetable shortening and granulated sugar.
- In theย order listed, add flour, sugar, butter, buttermilk, peach schnapps, eggs, and vanilla to a 4-quart bowl of an electric mixer.4 cups all-purpose flour, 3 cups granulated sugar, 2 cups butter, ยฝ cup buttermilk, ยฝ cup *peach schnapps, 6 large eggs, 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- Beat at low speed for 1 minute. Stop the mixer and scrape the sides.
- Mix another 2 minutes at medium speed.
- Fold in peaches.2 and ยฝ cups fresh peaches
- Pour into the tube pan and bake for 1 hour 25 to 1 hour 35 minutes, test the cake with a wooden pick for doneness. The cake is done with no crumbs or dry crumbs on the pick.
- Allow the cake to cool on a wire rack on the counter for 20 minutes before inverting it onto a serving tray. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
- I drizzled this Cream Cheese Glaze over my cake.
Traditiona mixing method:
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar until pale yellow and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time mixing until the yellow is mixed in before adding the next egg.3 cups granulated sugar, 2 cups butter, 6 large eggs
- Alternately, add the sifted flour and buttermilk beginning and ending with flour. Add the vanilla. Fold in the peaches by hand.4 cups all-purpose flour, ยฝ cup buttermilk, ยฝ cup *peach schnapps, 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract, 2 and ยฝ cups fresh peaches
- Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Cook in a preheated 325-degree oven for 1 hour 20 to 30 minutes. test cake with a wooden pick for doneness. The cake is done with no crumbs, or dry crumbs, are on the pick.
- Cool for 20 to 30 minutes on a wire rack, then carefully transfer to a serving dish. Pour hot glaze over cake.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Why is there no baking powder or baking soda in the Fresh Peach pound cake recipe
Traditional pound cakes were leavened with just eggs. It doesn’t need baking powder or soda to rise.