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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167 Comments
As I’m typing this I have my third cake of the week in the oven. My family and friends can’t get enough of it!! It’s so easy to put together. Instead of using schnapps, or increasing the buttermilk, I added a half a cup of Peach Nectar! It really amps up the peach flavor. Thanks again for sharing this recipe.
Hi Joyce, It is recommended when baking to use unsalted butter, but I have always used salted. I can’t really tell the difference in taste personally but it is really corrct to use unsalted. I usually don’t use baking powder or baking soda in pound cakes as the eggs are traditionally the leavener and results in that dense texture.
You have to beat the eggs until they are really light and fluffy. They’ll change to a pale yellow. That whips air into them and allows for a fluffy cake.
I was wondering if you would consider peach nectar to be a good substitute for the peach schnapps? I definitely want to try this cake…love pound cakes.
One of my friends made this cake last year & it’s the best; never tasted the peach schnapps, a really good cake. She saw it in Southern Living Magazine. Can’t go wrong. it’s a great cake. Made one for my 88 yr old mom! Was a hit! And she is a tee tolar (sp)
I baked this amazing looking Pound Cake last night. by the picture , your cake was simply beautiful. My Pound Cake came out nicely however, all the freshly diced peaches dropped to the bottom of my tube pan. Did I miss a step in the instructions
before folding the peaches into the batter?
Please help with mistake!
Thanks so much for this delicious recipe.
Michelle
No, in fact my fresh blueberry pound cake did that, all the blueberries sank to the bottom. Sometimes you can toss the fruit in a couple of tablespoons of flour and that’s supposed to prevent them from sinking. That didn’t work for my blueberry pound cake and, in fact I forgot to do it for this recipe. I honestly think it was the type of peaches I used. They were white and not real juicy and heavy. They didn’t sink at all. For next time, you can toss them in flour like I mentioned, you can also place half of the batter in the pan, mix the peaches in the remaining batter and carefully spoon that on top. This should help. ~ Paula
Peach Schnapps is a liquor, most any liquor store has it. I think it really makes this pound cake, but if you can’t find it or if you don’t purchase liquor you can sub a peach drink or simple use extra milk as indicated in the post.
Hi! 2 ques. I like the idea of more peach flavor but not schnapps. To sub what type of peach drink would you suggest? Also can anything replace buttermilk, say regular milk? Why is buttermilk included? Cant buy it where I am. Thnx!
As I’m typing this I have my third cake of the week in the oven. My family and friends can’t get enough of it!! It’s so easy to put together. Instead of using schnapps, or increasing the buttermilk, I added a half a cup of Peach Nectar! It really amps up the peach flavor. Thanks again for sharing this recipe.
I bake a lot of pound cake and use only unsalted butter and add salt and either baking powder or baking soda. Do you use salted butter?
Hi Joyce, It is recommended when baking to use unsalted butter, but I have always used salted. I can’t really tell the difference in taste personally but it is really corrct to use unsalted. I usually don’t use baking powder or baking soda in pound cakes as the eggs are traditionally the leavener and results in that dense texture.
I have tried several Pound cakes with no soda and baking powder they came put packy 5
You have to beat the eggs until they are really light and fluffy. They’ll change to a pale yellow. That whips air into them and allows for a fluffy cake.
So should we beat the eggs this way before starting the recipe?
yes, beat with fork or whisk
Can I use self rising flour in place of all purpose?
I wouldn’t. The only time I tried to sub self rising for all purpose in a pound cake, it cooked out of the pan and tasted awful.
I was wondering if you would consider peach nectar to be a good substitute for the peach schnapps? I definitely want to try this cake…love pound cakes.
Yes, I think peach nectar would make a great substitution. I can’t always et peach nectar, my store only carries apricot nectar 🙁
One of my friends made this cake last year & it’s the best; never tasted the peach schnapps, a really good cake. She saw it in Southern Living Magazine. Can’t go wrong. it’s a great cake. Made one for my 88 yr old mom! Was a hit! And she is a tee tolar (sp)
Hi! looks delicious ,there is no baking powder or baking soda is that correct?
That’s correct. The eggs are the only leavener.
I baked this amazing looking Pound Cake last night. by the picture , your cake was simply beautiful. My Pound Cake came out nicely however, all the freshly diced peaches dropped to the bottom of my tube pan. Did I miss a step in the instructions
before folding the peaches into the batter?
Please help with mistake!
Thanks so much for this delicious recipe.
Michelle
No, in fact my fresh blueberry pound cake did that, all the blueberries sank to the bottom. Sometimes you can toss the fruit in a couple of tablespoons of flour and that’s supposed to prevent them from sinking. That didn’t work for my blueberry pound cake and, in fact I forgot to do it for this recipe. I honestly think it was the type of peaches I used. They were white and not real juicy and heavy. They didn’t sink at all. For next time, you can toss them in flour like I mentioned, you can also place half of the batter in the pan, mix the peaches in the remaining batter and carefully spoon that on top. This should help. ~ Paula
All my 10 in tube pans only holds 8 – 10 cups not 16 cups as indicated.
was that a miss print? Thanks!
where can i buy peach schnapps? What is it
Peach Schnapps is a liquor, most any liquor store has it. I think it really makes this pound cake, but if you can’t find it or if you don’t purchase liquor you can sub a peach drink or simple use extra milk as indicated in the post.
Hi! 2 ques. I like the idea of more peach flavor but not schnapps. To sub what type of peach drink would you suggest? Also can anything replace buttermilk, say regular milk? Why is buttermilk included? Cant buy it where I am. Thnx!