Oven Roasted Peach Cakes
These spectacular Oven Roasted Peach Cakes are a twist on the plum version Marcel Desaulniers baked up for Julia Child.
These Peach Cupcakes are literally made in cups or ramekins. Mini cakes are portion-controlled but so delicious, that you’ll want seconds!
Why You Must Make
- Everyone gets their personal dessert!
- It’s a recipe from my favorite baker, Marcel Desaulniers.
- It’s a seasonal dessert that is made with peak-of-the-season fresh peaches and a rich butter cake batter!
How to Make
- Make the buttery batter, then top with ripe peaches to create mini-masterpieces.
- A final sprinkling of brown sugar assists the juices in caramelizing and results in these most delectable mini-cakes.
- I made half a batch, baked them in 8-ounce ramekins, and topped each with half a peach, sliced and slightly fanned.
Expert Tips
- For the best results, make these when you have access to fresh seasonal peaches.
- The original recipe was made with plums, so feel free to swap out the peaches for any favorite stone fruit including apricots and nectarines.
- I also added a few raspberries since I love the pairing of peaches and raspberries.
- To remove the peach skin, cut an X through the skin on the non-stem end. Drop the peaches into a pan of boiling water and cooked for 3–60 seconds. Remove to a bowl of ice water, then use a paring knife or your fingers to easily remove the peel.
- I used 8-ounce ramekins for these.
Frequently Asked Questions
cream or whipped cream and fresh berries. Marcel Desaulniers also recommends a topping of bittersweet chocolate sauce. So if you have any stone fruit in the house, bake up your version of these oven-roasted peach cakes whether with plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines, or, my favorite, peaches!
First, let the cakes cool for about 8-10 minutes so the edges can solidify. Any longer than that, and they may get stuck in the dishes. Run a small metal spatula (or a blunt knife) around the edge of each cake. Maneuver the spatula to help release the bottom and use it to lift the cake out of the dish and onto a dessert plate.
If wrapped airtight, they can be kept at room temperature for a day. After that, move them into the refrigerator and bring them back to room temperature or gently warm to serve. They’ll last another 2-3 days. Note that the moisture of the fruit will precipitate spoiling, especially in a warm, humid kitchen (which is common during peach season).
A ripe peach will have a fruity, peach aroma. It will give slightly with a gentle squeeze. If the peach’s skin has green areas, it was picked too early and may never ripen. Look for yellow to peachy orange peel.
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The recipe for oven-roasted plum cakes can be seen here.
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Oven Roasted Peach Cakes Recipe
Individual peach cakes recipe that's easily adapted for other stone fruit
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon minced orange zest, optional
- 1⁄2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 2⁄3 cup brown sugar, divided
- 2 large eggs
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 cup buttermilk
- 4 ripe peaches, peeled, halved, pit removed, then sliced
- Whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 8 ramekins and place them on a rimmed baking sheet.
- Combine the sugar and orange zest well.
- Cream the butter, 2 T of brown sugar, and the granulated sugar mixture for 6 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add the vanilla and mix well.
- Add the flour and baking soda and beat on low speed for only 15 seconds.
- Pour in the buttermilk and beat for 30 seconds more.
- Remove from mixer and use a spatula to finish blending the ingredients if necessary.
- Place slices of peaches into each cup. This recipe was written for plums, so you may not want to use all the slices since peaches are larger than plums
- Spoon the batter into the ramekins, dividing the batter among them evenly.
- Sprinkle the remaining brown sugar evenly over each cake
- Bake 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake portion comes out clean.
- Cool the cakes 10 minutes.
- To serve, top with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.
Notes
Use any favorite stone fruit instead of peaches.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1 baby cakeAmount Per Serving: Calories: 357Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 85mgSodium: 260mgCarbohydrates: 52gFiber: 2gSugar: 39gProtein: 5g
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39 Comments on “Oven Roasted Peach Cakes”
These were so good. I’m a huge peach lover so I had to try these.
Really amazing cake recipes! Everyone at my house loved this dessert!
This dessert did not disappoint at all!
Beautiful, Liz
These little cakes are adorable, Liz! I bet they’re amazing for breakfast too 🙂
These look absolutely beautiful!! I love peach desserts…but I also love that you can use any fruit and make these with winter fruits as well. Will be saving the recipe for these 🙂
I can see why you wanted to make these! Love the swap to peaches too.
Oh I’ll take these with peaches rather than plums any day! What a beautiful little treat!
Cutie Patooties and I wouldn’t need any extra glam!
These look wonderful. I love peaches no matter what shape they take, but especially as a dessert.
Wow…you made THAT just as you were about to head out the door for a mini vacation! Awesome!
What darling little cakes, I’d like one for breakfast! 🙂
Wish the computers had taste-o-matic feature! This is gorgeous!
Those look delicious! Yum!
Beautiful! They look delicious!
They are so cute, love the mix of fruits, peach and strawberrys, so yummy!!
Those look great! I still have the plums that I never used for that recipe…. Hmmmmm. =)
I love my own individual dessert. These are totally scrumptious! And the best part is there is no sharing involved!
These little peach cakes look aaaaaaaaaaaawesome!
Oh my those look good! I have some peaches on the go right now – might have to make these!
These are such pretty looking cakes. It’s quite a coincidence but I’ve just posted a recipe on my blog with bananas that are caramelised in brown sugar. Okay, so totally not similar and not a Dorie recipe but a little similar xx
Lizzy,
These peach cakes looks scrumptious. My hubby would eat half a dozen at a time.
Annamaria
Hi Liz, what a beautiful dessert, you can tell it’s delicious! love Dorie’s recipes.
Desaulniers never disappoints, nor do you. I always know when I click to visit your website I am going to love what I see. I’ve never made a recipe of yours that wasn’t a success.
Your peach cakes need no glomming up, Liz. The sweets resemble the ones gazing out of Parisian patisseries!
they could not be any cuter! So dainty and sweet. I love this!
My mouth is watering over these beauties, Liz! Peaches are definitely my favourite stone fruit to bake with. I can almost taste how delicious these are!
What cutie patooties! These look delicious and I bet the roasting imparted such a honeyed-flavor!
These really do look like a masterpiece dessert, Liz! I would say you definitely did need this extra dessert in the house!
Beautiful Liz! I bet they were absolutely delicious made with peaches. I can almost taste them looking at your lovely photos.
Liz, these mini peach cakes are stunning!! absolutely beautiful! I didn’t know who Marcel Desaulniers was . . but now I do!!
I can almost taste the goodness of these peach cakes. Truly decadent. I would be willing to give up my “must include chocolate” rule for one of these.
Funny, Marcel Desaulniers served them on a “puddle” of chocolate sauce, when he made these on “Baking with Julia”, now airing on PBS.
Well if he served it with chocolate, I’m game!
Dorie’s recipes are wonderful !
And these peach cakes look beautiful!
And all your recipes are absolutely georgeous Lizzy:)
xo
Mmm, another excuse to use my ramekins!
They look like they’d be great for breakfast too:@)
Oh my GOSH Liz! Your desserts always look like masterpieces in my book, but my jaw absolutely dropped with this one. That buttery crumb! I love it and am totally saving this one on file. Tuesday with Dorie sounds so fun! Love it!
I would be very tempted to drop a little scoop of vanilla ice cream with these cakes 🙂
I dare say Desaulniers never disappoints, and I’m sure he’d be thrilld with this. Your little ckaes are beautiful. Brava!