Can you tell I’m looking forward to summer? Earlier this week it was coconut and today it is peaches. While it’s not quite time for the peach crop (depending where you live), it’s never too early to start THINKING about fresh peaches. So pin this recipe or save it for later when you have fresh peaches that are getting a bit overripe and you need a way to use them up. The peach buttercream frosting would also be a great way to dress up a plain vanilla cupcake.
Cathlin came up with this recipe over on Cathlin Cooks. Totally delicious!
Peach Cupcakes with Peach Buttercream Frosting
Cupcakes
2-2 ½ cups unbleached white flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
¾ cup sugar
1 cup fresh peach puree
½ cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2/3 cup water
2 tablespoons vinegar
Buttercream
¾ cup butter, at room temperature
1 ½ cups confectioner’s sugar
¼ cup peach puree
Vanilla, to taste
Directions
Cake
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a muffin tin, or lightly grease and flour a 9-inch round or 8-inch square cake pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar into a bowl. In a measuring cup, mix together the peach puree, oil and vanilla. Add the peach mixture to the dry ingredients and whisk together until combined. At this point, you may want to add some yellow and food colouring to achieve a peachier colour. When the batter is smooth, add the vinegar and stir quickly. The batter will foam slightly where the baking soda and vinegar are reacting. Stir just until the vinegar is evenly distributed throughout the batter. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 20 minutes if making cupcakes, or 25 to 30 minutes it making cake. Allow to cool before glazing or frosting.
Peach Buttercream
Whip the butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and beat until well combined. Add peach puree and vanilla and beat again until smooth.
You may want to add some yellow and red food colouring to achieve a peachier colour.
Can be piped or spread onto cakes.
no eggs are needed?
There is water mentioned in the batter; forgot to mention adding it in the instructions
I couldn’t taste a single bit of peach in the frosting! I even used more than the recipe called for. I ended up having to turn it into lime frosting with the use of a little lime juice.
I feel the same as the others…. water is mentioned in ingredients list but not in the instructions and also no eggs are required? I am half way through this, Shame on me for not reading it through to see the typos and apparent mistakes on this. This is sloppy at best. I wish you would read the comments so you can respond to your readers concerns.
Also the baking time between cupcakes and cakes are different. A a rule cakes should be baked longer. It’s hard to know from the time you posted to bake these which you were choosing but I am going to assume it is cupcakes. This is my fault for seeing all of these mistakes prior to starting this. I am too invested in it to quit now.