Peaches and Cream Cake
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Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup melted butter
  • ½ cup cake flour
  • 1 can peaches in syrup
  • Pastry cream:
  • 2 cups milk
  • 3 egg yolks
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup flour, sifted
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • Topping:
  • 1 cup syrup from the peaches
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1½ tablespoons cornstarch
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350ยบ F.
  2. Beat 3 eggs in the mixer at high speed, with the sugar until tripled in volume. Turn off the mixer. Add the melted butter, mixing with a spatula.
  3. Fold in the flour and pour the batter in a greased and floured baking pan. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes.
  4. Cool in a rack and unmold.
  5. Pastry cream:
  6. Bring one cup milk to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Pur the remaining milk in the vase of a blender with egg yolks, sugar, flour, a pinch of salt, and process until smooth. Pour into the saucepan with the hot milk.
  7. Cook, stirring often, until thick. Add the vanilla and butter, and turn off the heat. Cool for 10 minutes and pour over the cake.
  8. Slice the peaches and put on top of the pastry cream.
  9. To make the topping: Combine sugar and cornstarch in a small saucepan. Add the syrup, stir and cook over medium heat until thick and clear.
  10. Pour the topping over the peaches in the cake.
  11. Cool. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Recipe by PERU DELIGHTS at https://perudelights.com/peaches-and-cream-cake-have-a-peachy-thanksgiving/