This one was a bit of a bust. It turned out correct, but it just wasn't all that good. It wasn't very flavorful, and I left thinking, "I could have just made a white cake from a box and dumped in some peaches." So here's the recipe:
3 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 ¾ cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs, room temperature
1 vanilla bean, split, seeds (I used vanilla extract)
1 cup sour cream
1 ½ cups diced fresh peaches (I used canned peaches)
Mix it all together and bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes. I don't have a bundt pan so I used two round cake pans instead.
While cake is baking, make syrup. Combine peach puree, sugar, and
orange juice in a small non reactive saucepan and cook over medium heat,
stirring until the sugar dissolves, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove pan from
heat. Using a pastry brush, dab syrup generously all over surface of
the warm cake, allowing it to soak into the cake before reapplying. Let
the cake cool completely. THIS WAS A BUST. It never turned into a syrup for me. It was more like peaches in sugar water. Whatever.
Tell me other people have had recipe fails?!?
I made zucchini bread once, using a recipe from a church cookbook. IT WAS A BUST! I re-read the recipe and noticed that the person who write it had left out sugar! So, I'd made it according to the recipe, but it was missing an important ingredient. Disappointing!
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