Serve a slice of cake with cool fruit juice - peach, apricot or pear would do. Add some ice and a splash of mead for the grown-ups.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword mead, peach, pound cake
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 40 minutesminutes
2 hourshours
Total Time 2 hourshours50 minutesminutes
Servings 8people
Author Giulia
Ingredients
200grams(3/4cups)butter, room temperature
110grams(1/3cups)acacia honey
3eggs, room temperature
2tablespoonsmead
200grams(1 2/3cups)farro flour, or all-purpose flour
10grams(3/4tbsp)baking powder
2ripe peaches, peeled and diced
For the decoration
5ripe peaches, peeled and cut in a half or wedges
20grams(1 1/3tbsp)butter
4tablespoonssugar
Seeds of 1/2 vanilla bean
1tablespoonmead
a few tablespoons sliced toasted almonds
Instructions
Beat the butter with the acacia honey. When they become soft and smooth, add the eggs, one at a time, waiting until the first one has been fully incorporated before adding the next.
Pour in the mead and stir with a spatula to incorporate it.
Sift the flour with the baking powder and gently fold it into the batter.
In the end, add the diced peaches and place the dough in the refrigerator, covered with plastic wrap, for at least two hours. This will prevent the fruit from collapsing to the bottom of the cake, it works with every kind of fruit.
After two hours, preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F and line with a disc of parchment paper the bottom of a 24 cm round non-stick mould.
Peel the remaining four peaches, cut them in half and place them in a pan with sugar, butter, vanilla seeds and mead. Cook on medium flame until the sugar turns into a thick golden caramel.
Arrange the peaches on the bottom of the mould, cut-side down.
Spoon the batter over the peaches, spread it evenly with a spatula and bake for about 35 minutes, until golden brown and firm.
Remove the cake from the oven, immediately invert the cake onto a serving plate, and then sprinkle with sliced almonds.
Let it cool before serving.
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