there are recipes that i will post here where are some i have never cooked or prepared but seem like they may come out quite tasty. others are ones i have cooked before and were very good to eat. for the ones i have never prepared if you do try them out then please let me know how they turn out.
the background history to this first dish is i cooked my first thanksgiving dinner a few years ago for friends and family over at the sae house that jenny and i live in now. I had eaten a cherry dump cake for dessert in a bbq place before but i really liked the taste of peaches better. so for a dessert i decided i wanted a peach cobbler but needed something that was easy to prepare and was basically a no fuss dessert. it was a very memorable experience for me but i want to improve this recipe and make it my own.
PEACH DUMP CAKE: the original recipe consisted of peach pie compote in a baking dish and was topped off with flour and butter for the topping.
DESSERT: GRILLED PEACH DUMP CAKE
i still want this to be an easy recipe to fix but with more flavor and a little spirit. for those who know how to make pie filling from scratch then i would say go ahead and do that then just everything else in the recipe to finish it off. i don’t know that process, yet! but my idea is to take pie compote and grilled peaches and make a layered dump cake with a little bit more flavor.
take peaches cut into halves and remove the pits. brush with grand marne and then rub with brown sugar. grill the peaches pit side down over a medium heat so as not to burn the sugar on the peach but to carmelize it on the peach and create a sweet smokey flavor. after the peaches are cooked slice them and start layering them with the compote into a baking dish. the topping for the dump cake is usually flour and butter. i would say try mixing some brown sugar, all spice, and cinnamon with the flour. for the butter add a tablespoon of honey to sweeten it up. to finish the dish off sprinkle with a little powdered sugar.
i hope someone tries this dish out and let me know if it works or how it tastes.
This sounds good. I like the idea of the sweet smokey flavor of the peaches. Sorry, I’m not into cooking in an adventurous way or even in an unadventurous way to be perfectly honest with you. I wish I was but can’t seem to get interested.
Peaches? Fresh peaches with pits? There’re a long way off in this neck of the woods, but Costco will bring them eventually. But, I have to say the grilled thing does sound yummy.
We’ll have lots of peaches at the farmer’s market this summer & I’ll definitely try this, Garrett. Maybe the peaches could marinate for awhile in the Grand Marnier before grilling. I’ve eaten grilled pineapple before. Yum. I don’t know if I would put the grill peaches in a cake or just top them with homemade ice cream. . .
My lazy-daisy of making a Peach Dump Cake is
2 cans of peaches including the juice
1 box dry cake mix
1 cup shredded coconut (optional)
1 cup nut meats
2 sticks melted butter
In 9 X 13 baking dish, empty the 2 cans of peaches. Spread the dry cake mix over this.
Sprinkle the coconut and nuts over the top of this. Melt the 2 sticks of butter and pour over the top. Bake at 350* for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
To the above ingredients, you could add any spices you wish. Don’t know about grilling the canned peaches. I guess you could drain the juice and save in a container while you marinate the sliced peaches and grilled them, then add them and the peach juice and peaches. The juice is what bubbles up and cooks the dry cake mix.
Let me know if anyone tries this and how it turns out for you.
Forgot to say either white or yellow dry cake mix for the Peach Dump Cake.
Either one will do. Most of the time I use yellow cake mix with peaches. With other fruits I may choose white cake mix. I have used other canned fruits to make dump cakes such as various types of canned berries, pineapple, cherries, fruit cocktail etc. Depends on what I’m craving at the time. You can also combine two different kinds of fruit. Whatever kinds of fruit you like combined will work. Just be sure you use the juices with the fruits.
For example a friend thought the juice from two cans of peaches was too much, so she didn’t use all of the juice. Results: burnt cake with not all of the cake mix cooked because there wasn’t enough juice to cook the cake mix. Do use all of the fruit juice in the cans.