Peach pound cake with peach and cream cheese icing
Peach pound cake with peach and cream cheese icing recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon almond flavoring
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 3 cups self rising flour
- 3 cups peeled and diced ripe peaches
- 1 cup chopped nuts, optional
- 1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
- Peach and cream cheese icing:
- 1, 8 ounces, package cream cheese
- 1, 1 pound, box confectioners sugar
- 1 peeled peach, pureed or well mashed
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, beat oil and sugar thoroughly.
- Mix in almond and vanilla flavorings.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour.
- Fold in diced peaches, nuts and coconut and mix well.
- Spoon batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
- Meanwhile, prepare icing.
- Peach and cream cheese icing:
- In a mixing bowl, combine half the cream cheese, half the confectioners sugar and some peach puree.
- Mix well with blender, then add remaining cream cheese and confectioners sugar and enough peach puree to make the desired thickness.
- If the peach is very ripe and juicy, use less puree, so the icing does not become too thin.
- When cake is done, remove and cool for 10 minutes, then turn out.
- Cool and add peach icing.
- Spread on cake and refrigerate.
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