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
how can this be the “go to” recipe for so many people when fresh peaches are only in season for a brief time each summer? does one use frozen in the absence of fresh?
Frozen peaches work well.
When I use them, I let them thaw in a colander. Frozen peaches, in my opinion, hold on to too much liquid, making the batter thin.
I’ve also used quality peaches that have been canned.
I made this twice, but only made 1/2 of the recipe both times. In place of the schnapps (the first time) I used Torani peach flavoring syrup ( you can find it in the coffee aisle). The second time, I used 1/2 of the syrup and 1/2 peach nectar. It came out great both times. The only problem I had, is that it didn’t rise very much. The second time I added some baking powder and it rose much better. Oh, and both times I used heavy whipping cream in place of the buttermilk because that’s all I had on hand.
This is my favorite pound cake! I am so happy to have found it! I wonder if I could use mangos and mango snachnapps ? I have a perfect peach pound each time by following PMC receipe exactly how it is written!
I tried this recipe on a trial…OMGoodness…so moist and flavorful. Made a small one to try cause I don’t have the large fluted pan yet…my grand son tried to eat the whole thing…and needless to say he called with a request for another. This is my go to pound cake recipe now…luv how easy it was too…
Has anyone actually tried this? It came out as a huge fail for me. I wondered if there was a typo in the measurements. Way too much liquid. Never set up as cake-like. More like a cobbler.
how can this be the “go to” recipe for so many people when fresh peaches are only in season for a brief time each summer? does one use frozen in the absence of fresh?
you can use frozen peaches
Frozen peaches work well.
When I use them, I let them thaw in a colander. Frozen peaches, in my opinion, hold on to too much liquid, making the batter thin.
I’ve also used quality peaches that have been canned.
Dying to give this a try. Can you recommend a replacement for the peach schnapps? Peach fizzy drink or peach juice? Thanks
I like using canned peaches and including the syrup they come in 😀
Can the 2 step peach pound cake be frozen after completely cooling?
Yes, seal tightly and freeze up to 3 months
I made this twice, but only made 1/2 of the recipe both times. In place of the schnapps (the first time) I used Torani peach flavoring syrup ( you can find it in the coffee aisle). The second time, I used 1/2 of the syrup and 1/2 peach nectar. It came out great both times. The only problem I had, is that it didn’t rise very much. The second time I added some baking powder and it rose much better. Oh, and both times I used heavy whipping cream in place of the buttermilk because that’s all I had on hand.
This is my favorite pound cake! I am so happy to have found it! I wonder if I could use mangos and mango snachnapps ? I have a perfect peach pound each time by following PMC receipe exactly how it is written!
Thank you!! I think mangos would make a wonderful pound cake!!
Cake was moist but thought the peach schnapps was too over powering.
There’s no baking powder or baking sofa in this recipe…. how does the cake rise?
the eggs are the leavener. Traditional pound cakes didn’t have baking powder or baking soda, that’s a relatively ‘new’ thing
I tried this recipe on a trial…OMGoodness…so moist and flavorful. Made a small one to try cause I don’t have the large fluted pan yet…my grand son tried to eat the whole thing…and needless to say he called with a request for another. This is my go to pound cake recipe now…luv how easy it was too…
Has anyone actually tried this? It came out as a huge fail for me. I wondered if there was a typo in the measurements. Way too much liquid. Never set up as cake-like. More like a cobbler.
Hw long do you let it cool in the pan before releasing?
I always wait 20 minutes