Peach Coffee Cake

Published August 20, 2015. Updated December 14, 2023

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Peach Coffee Cake – made with a buttery and flavorful cake base, layered with fresh peaches, crowned with a tender cinnamon crumb topping, and finished with a sweet vanilla glaze. Oh, so much goodness in one slice of coffee cake!

Slice of peach coffee cake

Peach Crumb Cake

Crumb cake, coffee cake, no matter what you call this moist, streusel-topped dessert… it’s delicious. Coffee cake has got to be one of the best desserts/breakfast treats. It pairs perfectly with tea or coffee, whether you eat it for breakfast, afternoon tea, or for dessert! Hey, you might even want to swap this for your standard birthday cake—it’s that good.

If you are looking for the perfect end-of-summer dessert to treat yourself this is it! Those fresh, sweet, and juicy summer peaches make this cake simply sublime and all the different layers and textures just take it from ordinary to extraordinary. If you want even more summer dessert goodness, serve it with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream!

It may take a few more mixing bowls than a single-layer cake does, but it’s totally worth it!  I already can’t wait to make it again!peach cake batter

How to Make Peach Coffee Cake

This cake may seem like a process but it’s simple and fun to make! Many of these steps are perfect for small hands, so you can make this cake with your kids for a yummy memory of quality time. Here’s a quick breakdown of the steps:

  1. Make the preheat the oven and grease a springform pan.
  2. Prepare the crumble topping.
  3. Make the cake batter, spread into prepared pan.
  4. Top cake batter with a layer of peach slices.
  5. Sprinkle crumb topping over peaches.
  6. Bake, then remove and cool.
  7. Top with glaze.

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Peach Coffee Cake

The perfect way to use up fresh summer peaches! This cake is layered with a buttery flavorful cake, a generous layer of peaches and it's finished with a cinnamon crumble and sweet vanilla glaze. Who could resist a slice?
Servings: 12
Prep30 minutes
Cook50 minutes
Ready in: 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

Crumbs

Cake

Vanilla Glaze (optional)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-inch springform pan with non-stick cooking spray.
  • To make crumbs:
  • In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt until well blended (break any clumps of brown sugar up with fingertips). Pour in melted butter and using a rubber spatula, fold mixture until evenly moistened. Set aside.
  • To prepare cake:
  • In a separate mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 20 seconds, set aside (peel and slice peaches now if you haven't already). In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip together butter and granulated sugar until pale and fluffy.
  • Mix in eggs one at a time adding in vanilla with second egg.
  • Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter/egg mixture and mix just until combined, then pour in buttermilk and mix just until combined. Mix in another 1/3 of the flour mixture and mix just until combined, then mix in sour cream. Finish by mixing in last 1/3 of the flour mixture and mix until nearly combined, then remove bowl and scrape bowl and fold batter just to combined.
  • Pour batter into prepared pan. Top evenly with peaches then evenly sprinkle crumb mixture into very small crumbles over peaches.
  • Bake in preheated oven until center of cake is set (it shouldn't jiggle or sink when touched, and toothpick should come out free of batter), about 50 - 55 minutes. Cool on a wire rack (you don't need to cool entirely, this cake is really good warm), then drizzle with glaze if desired.
  • For the glaze:
  • Whisk together powdered sugar, half and half and vanilla in a bowl until well blended. Add more half and half to thin as desired or more powdered sugar to thicken if needed.
Recipe originally published August 20, 2015 titled “Peach Crumb Cake” recipe title updated January 21, 2020 to “Peach Coffee Cake”.

 

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74 Comments

  • Emily

    How far in advance can this be made? And how should it be stored?

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      You could make a day or two in advance and store in the fridge. Just keep in mind the topping may soften a bit.

  • Janice

    At 50 minutes it was very wobbly. Baked another 5 minutes still not quite done. I let it bake for 60 total minutes. Cooling now have not tried it hopefully it is done. I’m wondering if the color of the pan changes the baking time. My pan was red on the outside and white on the inside.

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Metal pans generally cooks quicker but unless it’s dark the color shouldn’t make much of a difference. Sorry to hear it’s taking a while to bake! I wouldn’t remove early though until it’s set.

  • Betsy S Brown

    Made this cake exactly as written, and it was absolutely fabulous. My company raved about it. Although several previous reviewers said they needed more cooking time, I found the cooking time was spot on as stated in the recipe.

  • Abi Groenewold

    Coffee cake tasted great. Had a hard time cooking the middle of my cake while the sides were burning. Cake also took closer to 60 min to cook.

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Sorry to hear that! Sounds like it maybe needed a little more flour, did you use the scoop and sweep method or a scale to measure? Or perhaps the peaches were very juicy?

  • Micki

    Making this now and omgoodness? My house smells so good! I have about 15 more minutes for this to cook. I thought peach cobbler smelled amazing when cooking. This takes the cake!

  • Алёнка🖤

    It’s so yummy 🤤!
    Turned out delicious!
    Thank you for your recipe🤗

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Unfortunately I haven’t tried, I don’t know if they center would cook through very well by the time the edges are done.