Peach Almond Cake Recipe

This peach almond cake recipe reminds me of Grandma’s warm embrace and infectious smile. It’s the peach cake you lounge on the sofa with as the afternoon sun tickles your cheek and spreads warmth all the way down to your toes.

Easy Peach Almond Cake

Mark Twain once wrote, “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

Well, Mr. Twain, can we also add good food to that list? Because good food, like this peach almond cake recipe sure makes for an ideal life!

This cake recipe is very similar in concept to an upside down peach cake with the peach slices nestled in the top of the cake, except there’s no flipping needed here.

Instead, this peach dessert is really straightforward and easy to make. And should you decide to make this at another time in the year when peaches aren’t in season, well, you can really choose your pick of fruit!

In the early fall, use plums or figs. As the season progresses, swap in persimmon or pears. And as you head into spring, feel free to use fresh strawberries!

Peach Almond Cake Gluten Free

Cinnamon, fresh peaches, and toasted almonds come together to deliver a perfumed, delicate cake whose sweetness is subtle enough to pass as a meal for breakfast, but pleasurable enough to lose yourself in every single bite.

While the cake batter can be made with almost any fruit (like nectarines), there’s something particularly gratifying about this cake when it’s paired with peaches.

The sweet, juicy peaches just go so well with the moist and tender almond cake.

Technically, you could use regular flour to make this cake, but I really don’t think it would be the same.

While I didn’t set out with the intention to make a gluten-free cake recipe (I don’t necessarily adhere to a GF diet), I think the almond flour is integral to this recipe.

The almond flour contributes a tender crumb and incredible almond aroma and flavor.

While this peach almond cake was baking, I basked in the glorious smell of summertime in a baker’s kitchen, wishing my home could always smell like this.

When this summer dessert was finally cool to cut into, I was rewarded with the taste of sweet vanilla and almond flooding my senses, the aroma you’d expect from any good almond flour cake.

The baked peaches were smooth and creamy against the light and tender, buttery crumb.

In a way, Mark Twain’s quote remains relevant, even without the addition of “good food” in his quote.

As I relished in each and every bite of this peach almond cake, I could feel my conscious getting sleepier and sleepier with sheer bliss over each and every bite!