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!
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 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
Curious to know if you measure flour after you sift it.
Yes, but you might use milk or peach juice instead of the water. I’m not a fan of adding water to recipes when you can use something that will give it more flavor.
My cake didn’t fully cook, the middle of the cake collapsed, could it be that my pan was not big enough? Can we use cultured buttermilk instead of buttermilk? Although the part that did cook was delicious, will definitely try again.
Made this cake twice, both times the cake did not fully bake on the inside, in the oven for two hours, followed the recipe step by step, don’t know what I did wrong.
Are you at a high altitude?
Could I use canned peaches or peach pie filling instead of fresh peaches? If so how much should I use?
YOu can use canned peaches drained in the same as listed in the recipe
You also did not mention how to make the icing that goes on top of the couch cake because I have no clue how to make does anyone have any ideas
In the recipe there are no comments or directions on how long to cool the pound cake before taking it out of the pan could you please help me with this I would greatly appreciate it thank you in advance
I thought I’d inform you just the alcohol in in here Doesn’t bake or cook out , so I wish you’d put in the recipe not to give this to kids or anyone taking meds
I know for a fact it Doesn’t cook or bake out
Curious to know if you measure flour after you sift it.
Sift then measure
Couldn’t you just swap the liquor out and use a 1/2 cup of purée peach’s to get a stronger peach flavor if one is choosing to not use the liquor?
Yes or peach nectar (but nectar is hard to find sometimes.)
Sift first them measure.
I don’t have fresh peaches. Can I use frozen?
yes
Tried this recipe and loved it! Would change anything!
Could I use a 3oz pkg of peach jello and 1/2 cup of water to punch up the peach flavor and
leave out the schnapps?
leav
Yes, but you might use milk or peach juice instead of the water. I’m not a fan of adding water to recipes when you can use something that will give it more flavor.
My cake didn’t fully cook, the middle of the cake collapsed, could it be that my pan was not big enough? Can we use cultured buttermilk instead of buttermilk? Although the part that did cook was delicious, will definitely try again.
You can use cultured buttermilk. Light versus dark pans will make a difference as well as if it’s smaller. Also, you might want to calibrate your oven. https://www.callmepmc.com/how-to-calibrate-your-oven/
Not sure if my previous question went through
Oven rack middle or bottom for this cake?
Thank you
Put the rack in the middle of the oven.
Made this cake twice, both times the cake did not fully bake on the inside, in the oven for two hours, followed the recipe step by step, don’t know what I did wrong.
Are you at a high altitude?
Could I use canned peaches or peach pie filling instead of fresh peaches? If so how much should I use?
YOu can use canned peaches drained in the same as listed in the recipe
You also did not mention how to make the icing that goes on top of the couch cake because I have no clue how to make does anyone have any ideas
It’s in the post. Cream cheese glaze recipe> https://www.callmepmc.com/the-best-cream-cheese-frosting/
In the recipe there are no comments or directions on how long to cool the pound cake before taking it out of the pan could you please help me with this I would greatly appreciate it thank you in advance
What can I use instead of liquor
I thought I’d inform you just the alcohol in in here Doesn’t bake or cook out , so I wish you’d put in the recipe not to give this to kids or anyone taking meds
I know for a fact it Doesn’t cook or bake out
Noted. Thank you, Betty.