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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169 Comments
Is the oven temp 325? I didn’t see it on the recipe? Thanks!
Thank you for the recipe; it sounds nice. However, it is an old wive’s tale that alcohol cooks out. Some does, but not all of it, even when it is lit, such as for Cherries Jubilee, or Bananas Foster. Tests have been done on various methods, and plenty of alcohol still remains. If you google this, the information should come up. So, you should not serve this cake to children or people with problems with alcohol.
You can use fresh, frozen, or canned peaches. However, they need to be drained. I don’t think peach pie filling will work. It would be too sweet and too much liquid unless you can drain them really well and use just the peaches.
Is the oven temp 325? I didn’t see it on the recipe? Thanks!
yes, it is, it is in the instructions.
Hey, I was just wondering if Splenda could be used instead of sugar & if so would it make a drastic change in the final product.
I have never used artificial sweeteners when baking, I’ve read they don’t react the same but I have not tried them.
I would try Truvia Baking Blend, it’s completely natural and you can use half as much as you would sugar.
Thank you for the recipe; it sounds nice. However, it is an old wive’s tale that alcohol cooks out. Some does, but not all of it, even when it is lit, such as for Cherries Jubilee, or Bananas Foster. Tests have been done on various methods, and plenty of alcohol still remains. If you google this, the information should come up. So, you should not serve this cake to children or people with problems with alcohol.
So, I’ve been looking at your other pound cake recipes and they have baking powder; this one does not. I baked it as written, hoping that is correct.
It is correct. I prefer the old classics that don’t have baking powder but some of them do. This cake is sooooo goooood, I hope you like it.
Should the frozen peaches be defrosted??
I allowed mine to thaw as I allowed the butter to come to room temp
I bet it would be good to use pineapples. mmmm
Oh my, I have to try that!
Could you puree the peaches before folding in?
No, I roughly chop them into 1/4 to 1/2 inch cubes.
Can you use peach pie filling in place of peaches.
You can use fresh, frozen, or canned peaches. However, they need to be drained. I don’t think peach pie filling will work. It would be too sweet and too much liquid unless you can drain them really well and use just the peaches.
Absolutely divine. Super moist & yum! I used self raising flour. Thank you for sharing!
I have a Bundt pan. The batter comes all the way to the top. Is this going to spill over