Recipe: Peach & Almond Cake

Baked peach and almond cake
21 August 2020

Recipe: Peach & Almond Cake

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This cake is dense and buttery, with a sugary top and will quite happily sit around for days without going dry. It’s good with a cuppa but doubles up as a ‘dessert cake’ with a spoonful of Greek yoghurt or crème fraîche. Why don’t you bake your own show-stopper?

Ingredients

300g butter (at room temperature)

250g golden caster sugar plus some for sprinkling

150g self-raising flour

150g ground almonds

4 eggs

4 or 5 ripe peaches or nectarines

Note: if you can’t get really ripe fruit you can use a tin of peach halves, or some peeled and cored ripe pears

Method

  1. To prepare the peaches score a cross on the top of each one and then drop them in scalding water for a minute, then plunge them into cold water. The skins should slide off easily and you can halve them and remove the stones.
  2. Butter and line a deep 20cm springform tin.
  3. Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  4. Add the flour and almonds and the lightly beaten eggs in 2 halves, mix well. (It is a very thick cake batter, this is what stops the peaches from sinking!)
  5. Scrape your cake mix into the lined tin then place the peaches on top and sprinkle them with a little sugar to glaze them. Place the cake tin on a baking tray as butter might ooze out.
  6. Bake at 175ºc for 30 minutes, uncovered, then cover loosely with foil and bake for another 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out ‘almost clean’, make sure the top has become firm rather than wobbly.
  7. For best results sprinkle the cake with a little more sugar then bake uncovered for 10 minutes extra to make a sugary crust.
  8. Leave in the tin for 10 minutes before placing on a cooling rack.
Cooked peaches
Close-up of peach and almond cake mix
Peach and almond cake mix in a tin
Peach and almond cake slice
Peach and almond cake slice with cream

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