Lyndsey The perfect combination of fresh and sweet to make this easy fruity and tasty dessert.
What better way to celebrate peach season than a fresh dessert dedicated to their delicious flavors? This peaches and cream dessert recipe mixes fresh fruit, ice cream, and a super easy spongey yellow cake. It’s perfect for the summer, get togethers, early fall, or practically any time.
My mother in law makes these sweet peaches every so often, and I just love them. I decided it was time to try my hand at making these. They are so easy to make and super delicious.
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Ingredients
- Fresh Peaches
- Sugar
- Lemon/Lemon Juice
- Vanilla Ice Cream
- Boxed Yellow Cake
- Milk
- Butter
- Egg
About Peaches and Cream Dessert
Peaches – make sure your peaches are ripe. To do this, give your peaches a gentle squeeze when selecting them. They should be slightly soft, and have some give. If they are too firm, they are not ripe and will be tart.
Lemon vs Lemon Juice – honestly for this recipe it doesn’t make a difference if you use fresh lemon or lemon juice. The acidity of the lemon juice (fresh or bottled) is only there to keep your peaches from browning quickly.
Vanilla Ice Cream – I truly believe that the quality and taste of vanilla ice cream can really make or break a dessert. We enjoy using Breyers Natural Vanilla Ice Cream. It’s our favorite flavor!
Yellow Cake Mix – we used Betty Crocker Butter Recipe Yellow Cake. It was so good! I made some alterations to make it a little more spongey and dense, I prefer this to soak up the ice cream and peach juice without getting really mushy. My alterations are based on this box cake, but you can probably use it similarly between.
Layering – we layer our dessert in a bowl with the cake on the bottom, ice cream in the middle, and peaches on top. This allows the cake to soak up the juices as the ice cream melts, and will cover your ice cream with the peaches and peach juice for the wonderful peaches and cream flavor.
Check out the recipe below. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions in the comments below!
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Easy and Fresh Peaches and Cream Dessert Recipe
Equipment
- 9×13 pan
Ingredients
Sweet Peaches
- 5-6 Peaches fresh
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 Lemon juice only
Yellow Cake
- 1 box Yellow Cake Mix
- Milk read directions for amount
- Butter read directions for amount
Additional
- Vanilla Ice Cream
Instructions
Sweet Peaches
- Start by making the sweet peaches. Pit and peel all the peaches, and slice into about 1/2" thick slices. The easiest way to achieve this is to cut your peach in half, twist and pull apart, and remove the pit. If the peaches are ripe enough, the skin may just peel off. Otherwise use a knife to peal off the skin.
- Place your peach slices in a medium to large bowl. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon over top (about 1 1/2 Tbsp if using lemon juice only).
- Pour sugar over top of peaches and mix until well combined. Place a lid or plastic wrap over the bowl and allow these to sit as long as possible. At least 30 minutes, but the longer they sit, the softer and juicier the mixture gets.
Yellow Cake
- Pour your yellow cake mix into a mixing bowl and follow the instructions on the back of the box, with some adjustments below.
- Use milk in place of water when adding ingredients.
- Add about 3 Tbsp of real butter to the cake mix (in addition to the oil and butter already called for). The cake mix I used called for 1/3 C butter, so I did 1/2 C instead.
- Proceed with all other ingredients and instructions as normal. Your cake batter will likely be very thick, that is okay. Smooth it into a 9×13 pan as evenly as possible.
- Bake at the recommended time and temperature, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out smoothly and clean.
- Allow the cake to cool before cutting.
Putting It Together
- Place a piece of cake at the bottom of a bowl.
- Scoop your desired vanilla ice cream amount on top of the cake.
- Add your desired amount of peaches on top. (I did about a half cup of peaches).
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This is a perfect summer dessert. I have an excuse to make these this weekend as we are having company. I didn’t know what I was going to serve them, now I do!
Lyndsey, this looks so delicious! I go to the grocery store this weekend, so I will buy more peaches and cake mix. My girls are going to love this! Thank you for sharing this recipe. I would love it if you shared it over at my new link party that just opened today and runs through Tuesday!
-Steph
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That sounds delicious! I usually “doctor” up cake mixes like too and find they taste so much better with real butter and milk than water and oil.
They do turn out so much better, and make it easy to bake in a pinch, or when you don’t have the time or energy to put into something more.
Ohh! Yum! This looks so good. I love peaches, especially at this time of year.
I do too, you can’t beat fresh and truly ripe peaches!
Hubby loves peaches this way. He also eats them with cottage cheese, not me, just plain 🙂
I bet they would be good with cottage cheese, but I am not a fruit and cottage cheese mixing girl. They are wonderful plain though!
This looks amazing. I LOVE peach season here in Colorado. I’ve got to Pin this and try it. 🙂 Visiting from Tell it To Me Tuesday.
Thank you so much, it was so good!
Visiting again to say thanks so much for linking up at the #UnlimitedLinkParty 126. Pinned.
I’m so glad the peaches have been so good this season. It’s been so wonderful enjoying them in all kinds of dishes. And this recipe looks amazing!
Thank you, it was amazing! The peaches have been great too! Let me know if you give it a try.
Great option to use a box cake to cut down on time, but I am sure a regular white soft cake will also be awesome.
Thank you for sharing your links with us at #276 SSPS Linky. See you again next week.
I bet a regular white cake would be great too!
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