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!
This recipe specifies layering all the ingredients in the mixing bowl in a certain order and mixing them. There’s no creaming the butter and sugar, no adding the eggs separately, and no alternating the dry and liquid ingredients. You simply dump all the ingredients in the bowl and mix.
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 cream cheese glaze (if you decide to use the glaze), you’ll want to store this cake in the refrigerator. It’ll be good in the refrigerator for 5 to 7 days, but it won’t last that long.
SOUTHERN CLASSIC PEACH POUND CAKE
Of all the 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.
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 flavor!
In the 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, ½ cup buttermilk, ½ 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 ½ 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.
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, ½ cup buttermilk, ½ cup *peach schnapps, 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract, 2 and ½ 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
*The conventional thought 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.
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.
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the instructions in your blog say to put things into the bowl in a certain order. The ingredients list includes butter and buttermilk but the directions say… flour, sugar, butter milk, peach schnapps, eggs and vanilla. Where do I put in the butter? Or should there be a comma between the butter and milk?
If the ingredients are listed on facebook they should not be, someone copied them without my consent and could have put anything. The ingredients here are correct.
in the recipe for the two step fresh peach cake is whole milk but in the instructio you say buttermilk which is it and do you stiff the flour and how many time please let me know
Can you use frozen peaches?
Yes, you can use frozen or canned peaches (canned peaches would need to be drained).
What is your cream cheese glaze recipe? Thx!
Hi Lynn, here it is: https://www.callmepmc.com/the-best-cream-cheese-frosting/
Do I measure 4 cups of flour and then sift it, or do I sift enough flour to equal 4 cups?
Hi Cheryl, I sift then measure the flour. Hope you like the cake! ~ PMc
Can you make this in a loaf pan?
Are the peaches peeled or do you leave the skin on?
Hi Andrea, they’re peeled. I always peel peaches, I hate the fuzzy skin. 🙂
the instructions in your blog say to put things into the bowl in a certain order. The ingredients list includes butter and buttermilk but the directions say… flour, sugar, butter milk, peach schnapps, eggs and vanilla. Where do I put in the butter? Or should there be a comma between the butter and milk?
Thanks Aislinn, I fixed it. Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you ma’am, I am certainly looking forward to trying it. 🙂
Can the liquor not added? Maybe peach flavoring?
On FB, listed 1/2 c. whole milk but on website, it asked for 1/2 c. buttermilk. Which is it?
Also on FB it listed1/2 c. peach schapps but in your narrative on website blog, you mentioned 1/4 c. Again, which is it?
Am gettng ready to put in oven – using FB listing of ingredients. Hope it turns .
If the ingredients are listed on facebook they should not be, someone copied them without my consent and could have put anything. The ingredients here are correct.
in the recipe for the two step fresh peach cake is whole milk but in the instructio you say buttermilk which is it and do you stiff the flour and how many time please let me know
I used buttermilk and sifted the flour just one time. Thanks for asking, I have corrected the recipe.
What could be substituted for the schnapps?
Buttermilk she said