Mmmm, Peach Cake! This sweet, sugary cake recipe is a simple and easy summer dessert! Made with fresh peaches, this cake is like a glorified cobbler recipe – for all of you peach lovers out there, this is the cake for you. Best served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Best Homemade Peach Cobbler Cake
If you thought “well, here’s a wonderful treat that I will prepare for my guests on the next coming together”, please forget that immediately. Not because of the fact that this beautiful dessert is not tasty because this is a really awesome treat for all peach lovers. The main reason is that there is no way to cut a quality peace of this peach cake and that it stays in one piece :). It is simply impossible. What you will get on your plate is a pile of peaches and dough, but when you try the first little spoon of this pile, the first thing you will see next is a guaranteed empty plate.
A few days ago I got the permission to interfere in my husband’s diet.
“Maybe a light cake” he was acting like he was angry even though I had already caught him a few times swallowing chocolate and sweets of all kind like it was nothing 🙂
OK, we will find something with fruit” I was pretending like I understood his pain although I knew that the diet was over and the days of chocolate are coming back to my kitchen.
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And on the table, there were 10 beautiful peaches smiling at me. I have them at my house all the time since my son Marco simply adores them.
“Great, finally something the whole family could eat – Peach cake ”. I was very happy and I ran to find a few recipes on Pinterest that I saw much earlier.
And really, everything looked so simple and I took to work immediately. Sugar, eggs, peaches and a few small things and everything was ready to be baked in the hot oven.
And so, in 70 or 80 minutes on my table was a beautiful cake with a beautiful smell which was spreading around the kitchen.
But after the cake got cold, I tried to get a slice out, nut, the slice flew all over the plate.
“Doesn’t matter, I will be much more careful from now on” I thought while I was cutting the second slice, but the result was the same.
But when my “gourmands” jumped on the cake, nobody mentioned it once. You could just hear mumbling and munching and the forks hitting the plate. The cake was really heavenly delicious and yet refreshing.
Well, OK, it doesn’t always have to look like it’s going to be at an expo, but if somebody has an explanation for this problem, please call me!!!
Just Simple Peach Cake
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Cook Time: 55 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Yield: 8 slices 1x
Category: Dessert
Method: Oven
Cuisine: American
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Mmmm, Peach Cake! This sweet, sugary cake recipe is a simple and easy summer dessert! Made with fresh peaches, this cake is like a glorified cobbler recipe – for all of you peach lovers out there, this is the cake for you. Best served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg and 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/3 cup butter-melted and cooled
- 1/2 cup al- purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 6 Tablespoon whole milk-room temperature
- 6 peaches- peeled and chopped into chunks
- Powdered sugar and whipped cream or vanilla ice cream-for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 355° F, grease 9-inch springform pan and sprinkle the inside of the pan with a little brown sugar. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper and wrap the outside of the springform pan with aluminum foil and place on a baking sheet.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and baking powder, set aside.
- Mix eggs and sugar until it is light and fluffy, add vanilla and (cooled!!!) melted butter, mix until combined.
- First add milk and mix, then whisk in flour mixture.
- Gently fold peaches into the batter.
- Pour in to the prepared pan and bake for 50-55 minutes.
- Cool completely in the pan. Once cooled, refrigerate in the pan before serving.
- Dust with powdered sugar and served topped with sweetened whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
37 comments
Hello,
In step one, you state to grease the pan and sprinkle with brown sugar followed by line the bottom of the pan with parchment. I am not a baker, so please excuse myquestion. Should these instructions be reversed? Insert pachment, grease and sprinkle with briwn sugar? I wiuld like t make this for Saturday’s dessert. I’ll be using thawed frozen peaches.
Thank you.
Hi Jane, thanks for pointing that out, my mistake. Fist grease the pan, then line the bottom of the greased pan with parchment paper, and then sprinkle the sugar.
Thank you for your quick response, Vera! The recipe looks easy for me and the cake looks pretty and light. I always stress about making desserts and usually resort to something from the store. I am venturing out.
Hi Vera!!!
OHHHHHH MYYYYYY GAAWWD!!! You know how some ppl try and make a weekly dinner chart for each day of the week….well, U guessed it, with ALL these mouthwatering summer dessert recipes you’ve shared with us…..DESSERT COMES FIRST at Suppertime in MY house…LOL!!! 1. Strawberry white chocolate cookies, 1. Strawberry Pound cake 3. Simple Peach Cake & I haven’t finished “thumbing” thru your blog Miss Vera to finish up the other 4 days of the week…but I WILL!!! luv ya, Lynda A.
This was the best peach dessert that I’ve made in a very long time and everyone loved it!
Thanks Jo Kat, I’m so hppy that you like it 🙂
Here would be my remedy for the “looseness” of this cake. Call it pudding-cake and pass out spoons! It seems to me the complexity of the texture would be totally minimized by the divine flavor. I’m going to make this “pudding-cake” immediately. Thank you!
how many does this serve?
Hi Adele, about 12 servings
Can I use frozen peaches? This recipe looks amazing.
Hi Kathy, I wouldn’t recommended frozen peches because this cake is really gooey even with fresh peaches.
Do you line just the bottom of the pan with parchment paper (which would require one cutting a circle out or have edges of parchment paper come up into sides of pan (inside). Is this to contain pie or to keep pan clean? Thanks.
Hi Melanie, just cut the circle and line the bottom of the pan.
Could you use a different kind of pan to bake this in. Thank you
Hi Pat, you can use it but you might have a problem to take out a slice of cake.
you might try a piece of parchment or wax paper on the bottom of the springform pan so it doesn’t stick. the reason it stuck is because o fthe sugar and the juices from the peaches.
Hi, plz tell me how many servings in this case?
About 12
I used nectarines, and drained them. No runny cake…Very nice taste.
I was looking for a simple peach recipe and decided to use yours. What a great decision, it came out delicious. I followed the directions except for the sprinkling of brown sugar and using parchment paper. The cake had a bread pudding consistency, just wonderful. The next time I will add raisins. Thanks.
Thanks Shelley 🙂
I found this too sweet for my taste. I’d recommend half the sugar. Other than that, it was hard to get the cake to bake all the way through to the middle without burning on top. There is a lot of liquid from the peaches. Next time I’ll try adding a few extra tablespoons of flour and leaving out the milk.
I cut the sugar in 1/2 and used pure maple syrup for the other 1/2, and added a pinch of nutmeg. I served w/warm vanilla sauce made w/a butter/flour/milk sauce, exchanging maple syrup for 1/2 the sugar, lemon juice, vinegar, and vanilla. Delicious!
WILL ALMOND FLOUR WORK?
Why not bake it in a 8×8″ or 9×13″ baking dish and just scoop it out with a spoon? It’s sounds like a peach crisp.
Should this cake be refrigerated for storage? Also, in the off chance that it doesn’t get eaten in one day, about how long should it keep for?
Hi Jen, keep it in the fridge 2-3 days.
I forgot to add the 6 Tblsp of milk. The cake was still delicious and I could cut it into wedges. I would definitely make this again and maybe forget the milk again.
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I wonder if using a bit of tapioca would help it to hold together better. Just a thought.
Have made this twice now and it was a total hit every time. I put whipped cream on top when serving, easy to put together and tastes great, Thank You for a fine recipe !
Made this for company and they loved it. I refrigerated it over night and it sliced beautifully. I sprinkled some sliced, roasted almonds on top and served with whipped cream, a slice of peach and a sprig of mint for decoration. Although it is beautiful just the way it is. I love that it is not too sweet. Thanks for a great recipe!
can i used frozen peaches? I just put up a bunch in the freezer and forgot to leave some out. Thanks!
This is absolutely delicious! Everyone loved it! It was gone in one day. I made the first one with half the milk. I am making a second one today with no milk to see if it sets up a little firmer. Thanks so much for this recipe!
There is a way to present this elegantly to guests.
Just butter 8- 1 cup ramekins.( parchment not necessary.) Sprinkle with brown sugar per directions. Divide mixture equally between the prepared dishes. Obviously less time will be required to bake.
Serve with ice cream or whipped cream as suggested .
Never baked in the center. Too much liquid from peaches. Your recipe calls for 6 peaches. Is that small, medium, or large? It would be better to give the measurement in cups, rather than # of peaches. My peaches were large. I think it was way to many peaches. Tapioca, extra flour in peaches may have helped. I had high hope, but was very disappointed.