Sweet Peach Cornbread Cake

This sweet peach cornbread cake recipe started out as a peach upside down cake recipe but as I was eating that cake, it occurred to me that a sweet cornbread cake was something I had never had and wanted to try very badly. So before my first cake had even cooled, I was on to the next.

For a couple of days, we had two peach cakes in the house and while both disappeared at the same rate, the cornbread cake was the one that actually got better with age. Not talking fruit-cake-age, of course, but the cornbread cake improved after a couple days in the fridge and I don’t know of any other cake that can say that.

To make it, I started with my apple cake recipe from autumns past, cut back on the spices and swapped cornmeal for half the flour. Voila! Cornbread cake. I added fresh chopped peaches on top, similar to my peach cobbler method.

Make this pronto while peaches are perfect. And if you have more peaches to eat, lucky you. Try these other peach recipes:

Peach Tomato Salad (my version has an interesting twist)

Peach Ice Cream (with cream cheese and honey)

Peach Bacon Salad (with arugula and smoked almonds)