Georgia Peach Pound Cake is a moist and dense pound cake with lots of fresh peach flavor. It's a wonderful southern dessert for peach season. Made with two cups of chopped fresh peaches, there's a little peach in every bite.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Southern
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour15 minutesminutes
Servings 16
Ingredients
1cupbutter (I use salted)room temperature
2cupssugar
4largeeggsroom temperature
1 1/2teaspoonsvanilla extract
3cupsall-purpose flour
1teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonsalt
2cupsfresh peaches, pitted and chopped
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees and butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Or you can use baking spray.
Using a stand mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 6-8 minutes.
Beat in eggs one at a time.
Beat in vanilla. Scrape down the sides of the bowl to make sure everything is evenly mixed.
Set aside 1/4 cup of flour to toss with the peaches and sift together the remaining flour with the baking powder and salt. Add to mixing bowl and mix just until incorporated.
Toss peaches with the 1/4 cup flour and fold into batter.
Transfer batter to prepared pan. Bake for 60 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes and then remove from pan.