Campton Place Coffee Cake

At the Withrow Park Farmers’ Market this week, there was a table piled with cookbooks for sale. I was able to pick up Sherry Yard’s second book, Desserts by the Yard. Within in its pages, I found a coffee cake with a filling containing peaches.

Campton Place Coffee Cake

The recipe for the cake is pretty standard: creaming butter, sugar and eggs, then mixing in the flour and sour cream in several additions. The filling has both cinnamon and cocoa, which is a nice combination I hadn’t seen before, but is obvious in retrospect. I omitted the sliced almonds to keep it nut-free, but did use lots of fresh, diced peaches.

Campton Place Coffee Cake

To prepare the Bundt pan, I used plain PAM spray, followed by a dusting of AP flour. Layering the batter and filling requires a bit of patience. The cake batter is thick and is difficult to spread evenly, especially over the powdery filling. You want to cover each layer completely, so that slices of the cake will end up being uniform.

The cake released cleanly from the pan without any trouble. The next day, at work, I dusted the top with icing sugar just before serving. The peach chunks really make this coffee cake a step above the everyday. I’d make this again.

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