Spiced Peach Bread is the recipe that Lucia makes every summer and early fall when the most beautiful and most deeply golden and most juicily fragrant ripe peaches arrive at the market and she wants to honor the most beloved and most perfectly warm-spiced combination of summer’s sweetest fruit and the most autumnally cozy spices in a single extraordinary quick bread that fills the kitchen with the most completely irresistible fragrance of cinnamon and allspice and nutmeg and cloves all wrapped around the most naturally sweet and most juicy fresh peach pieces from the moment it enters the oven.
She creams the dark brown sugar and room-temperature butter for the most full five minutes to achieve the most beautifully airy and most silky batter that bakes into the most perfect crumb, beats in the eggs one at a time, alternates the most aromatic spiced flour mixture with the most creamy and most tenderizing cultured buttermilk, folds through two full cups of most generously diced fresh peaches with the skins left on for the most beautiful color and the most authentic peach character, and finishes with the most elegant sprinkle of coarse sparkling sugar for the most beautiful twinkle and crunch on top.
Spiced Peach Bread is the most easy and deeply aromatic moist buttermilk quick bread made by creaming butter and dark brown sugar 5 minutes beating in eggs alternating flour with cinnamon allspice nutmeg cloves and buttermilk folding in 2 cups diced peaches baking at 350°F for 50 to 55 minutes topped with sparkling sugar. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful bread recipes and easy seasonal baking favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
This Spiced Peach Bread recipe is the most completely extraordinary seasonal quick bread that straddles the most beautiful boundary between the most vibrant summer freshness of ripe juicy peaches and the most deeply warming and most completely autumnal comfort of cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves in the most single and most irresistible moist loaf that is equally magnificent as a summer stone fruit celebration and as a transitional early fall baking project.
The most important technique for the most extraordinary spiced peach bread is the full five-minute creaming of the butter and dark brown sugar. This extended creaming period produces the most beautifully airy and most silky batter that bakes into the most perfect and most tenderly crumbed bread texture. Cutting the creaming time short produces a denser and less elegant result. Dark brown sugar rather than granulated sugar adds the most beautiful molasses depth that complements the warm spices most perfectly. Our Lemon Rhubarb Bread makes a beautifully equally moist and equally fruity-loaf companion for a complete and wonderful quick bread collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
- 1 cup Dark Brown Sugar, packed
- 1 cup (2 sticks / 226g) Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- 3 large Eggs, room temperature
- 1¾ cups Cake Flour (or all-purpose flour)
- 1½ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Ground Allspice
- ½ tsp Freshly Grated Nutmeg
- ¼ tsp Ground Cloves
- ½ cup Cultured Buttermilk
- 2 cups Diced Fresh Peaches, skin on (approximately 3 smallish peaches)
- 1 tsp Coarse Sparkling Sugar for the top
How to Make This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly butter a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan and line with parchment paper with long ends overhanging so the bread can be lifted out most effortlessly after baking.
Put the packed dark brown sugar and room-temperature butter into a stand mixer and cream until the most light and most beautifully fluffy mixture forms — a full 5 minutes. Make absolutely sure to get all the brown sugar lumps out during this creaming period, cara mia.
Beat in each of the room-temperature eggs one by one, ensuring each egg is fully incorporated before adding the next. Continue beating for a further 2 to 3 minutes after the last egg until the batter is the most light and the most beautifully fluffy.
Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves in a separate bowl. Add the flour mixture to the mixer alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Finish mixing by hand to ensure everything is thoroughly combined without overmixing. Fold in the diced fresh peaches.
Turn the batter into the prepared pan, spreading evenly. Sprinkle the top lightly with the coarse sparkling sugar for the most beautiful twinkle and most satisfying crunchy top. Bake on the center rack for 50 to 55 minutes until fully risen and a toothpick inserted near the center comes out without wet batter. Moist crumbs are completely correct.
Allow the bread to cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove using the parchment paper handles. Slice warm or allow to cool completely before slicing.
How to Serve This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
Serve warm from the oven with a generous swipe of softened salted butter melted over the most beautifully golden and most crystalline sparkling-sugar-topped surface for the most completely extraordinary warm spiced peach bread serving moment. The warm bread with melting butter and the most fragrant cinnamon-peach steam is one of the most genuinely sensational home baking experiences imaginable.
For the most impressive summer brunch presentation, slice and arrange on a beautiful wooden board alongside fresh peach slices and a small pot of honey butter for the most completely charming and most naturally seasonal spread. Our Banana Bread Recipe makes a beautifully equally moist and equally warmly spiced companion for a complete and wonderful quick bread collection.
How to Store This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
Store covered tightly at room temperature for up to 3 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Freeze the completely cooled and tightly wrapped bread for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator. Place a loose sheet of foil over the top of the bread towards the end of baking if the crust begins browning too aggressively before the center has fully cooked through.
Tips to Make This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
Cream the butter and dark brown sugar for the full five minutes without cutting the time short. The extended creaming creates the most essential air bubbles that produce the most beautifully airy and most properly risen quick bread. Rushing the creaming produces a denser crumb that is less elegant than the most perfectly airy result the full five-minute cream achieves.
Use ripe but firm peaches for the most beautiful texture and the most properly maintained individual peach pieces throughout the baked bread. Very soft overripe peaches dissolve too much into the batter during baking rather than maintaining the most beautiful distinct and most deeply flavored individual peach chunks.
Helpful Notes for This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
Leave the skins on the peaches rather than peeling them before dicing. The peach skins add the most beautiful natural color variation throughout the baked crumb and the most authentic peach character in both flavor and visual appearance. Peeled peaches produce a paler and less visually interesting result.
If cake flour is unavailable, make a homemade substitute by removing two tablespoons from one cup of all-purpose flour and replacing them with two tablespoons of cornstarch, then sifting everything together twice. This homemade cake flour substitute produces the most tender crumb most closely approximating the result of store-bought cake flour.
Variation of This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
Maria made a version adding a quarter cup of chopped toasted pecans folded through the batter alongside the peaches for the most beautifully nutty and most deeply satisfying pecan spiced peach bread. Teresa tried substituting two teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice for the individual spices for the most convenient and most deliciously warming single-spice version.
For a caramelized peach version, toss the diced peaches with one tablespoon of dark brown sugar and allow to macerate for ten minutes before folding into the batter for the most completely extraordinary and most deeply caramelized and most intensely peach-flavored version. Our Easy Banana Bread makes a beautifully equally moist and equally warmly flavored companion for a complete and wonderful quick bread collection.
FAQs About This Spiced Peach Bread Recipe
Can I use canned or frozen peaches instead of fresh?
Yes. Canned peaches should be thoroughly drained before dicing and using. Frozen peaches should be thawed and drained of excess liquid before dicing. Both canned and frozen peaches produce a delicious and most properly flavored spiced peach bread. Fresh ripe peaches in season produce the most vibrant and most deeply fragrant result of all three options.
Why does the recipe use dark brown sugar rather than granulated sugar?
Dark brown sugar provides the most beautifully deep molasses flavor that complements and deepens the warm spices — cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves — most naturally and most harmoniously. Light brown sugar can substitute for a slightly milder version. Granulated sugar produces the least complex and least spice-complementary sweetness in this particular recipe.
How do I prevent the crust from over-browning before the center cooks?
Loosely place a sheet of aluminum foil over the top of the bread during the final 10 to 15 minutes of baking if the crust is browning too aggressively before the center has fully cooked through. The foil deflects some of the direct oven heat from the top crust while allowing the interior to continue cooking to the most properly set and most beautifully moist result.
Conclusion
This Spiced Peach Bread is the most completely extraordinary and most deeply seasonal moist quick bread that makes every summer morning and every early fall gathering feel genuinely and completely warm and beautifully spiced through the most juicy fresh peach chunks and the most aromatic cinnamon allspice nutmeg and cloves and the most beautifully crunchy sparkling sugar top in every single golden and completely irresistible spiced peach bread slice. We hope it brings the same deeply joyful summer-into-fall seasonal baking warmth and the same completely satisfied table to your kitchen that it has always brought to ours. Make it, share it, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
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Spiced Peach Bread The Most Easy Moist Cinnamon Allspice Buttermilk Quick Bread You Will Bake
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most easy and moist Spiced Peach Bread made by creaming 1 cup packed dark brown sugar and 1 cup room temperature butter in stand mixer a full 5 minutes until completely light and fluffy beating in 3 room temperature eggs one by one continuing 2 to 3 minutes then whisking 1 3/4 cups cake flour baking powder salt and warm spices separately adding flour mixture alternately with 1/2 cup buttermilk beginning and ending with flour finishing mixing by hand folding in 2 cups diced fresh peaches with skins on turning into buttered parchment-lined 9×5-inch pan sprinkling top with coarse sparkling sugar and baking at 350°F for 50 to 55 minutes until toothpick shows no wet batter. A completely extraordinary spiced peach quick bread recipe.
Ingredients
1 cup Dark Brown Sugar packed
1 cup 2 sticks 226g Unsalted Butter room temperature
3 large Eggs room temperature
1 3/4 cups Cake Flour or all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground Allspice
1/2 tsp Freshly Grated Nutmeg
1/4 tsp Ground Cloves
1/2 cup Cultured Buttermilk
2 cups Diced Fresh Peaches skin on approximately 3 smallish peaches
1 tsp Coarse Sparkling Sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 9×5-inch loaf pan. Line with parchment with overhanging ends.
2. Cream packed brown sugar and room temperature butter in stand mixer full 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Get all lumps out.
3. Beat in room temperature eggs one by one ensuring each fully incorporated. Continue beating 2 to 3 minutes until light and fluffy.
4. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and all spices in separate bowl.
5. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk beginning and ending with dry. Finish by hand. Do not overmix.
6. Fold in diced fresh peaches.
7. Turn batter into prepared pan spreading evenly.
8. Sprinkle top with coarse sparkling sugar.
9. Bake center rack 50 to 55 minutes until fully risen and toothpick shows no wet batter. Place foil loosely over top if browning too fast.
10. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove using parchment handles.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Breakfast, Quick Bread, Fall, Summer
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 302
- Sugar: 21g
- Sodium: 131mg
- Fat: 17g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 35g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 82mg
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