Amidst of having writer’s block and almost zero motivation in blogging, there’s glimpses of hope and celebrations. Four reasons for this positive outlook:
Reason #1: You. My wonderful friends and readers who constantly motivate me with your thoughtful comments and emails. While we are on this subject, allow me to clear one very important misconception — I’m not quitting blogging. Not just yet 😉
Reason #2: Yesterday marks India’s Independence Day!!! Woohoo!!
Reason #3: Have you ever woken up to a buzzing sound on your phone? I’m not talking about alarm. But sounds of endless tweets and facebook alerts. Let me back up a little. I had a very hard time sleeping the night before. So when I finally dozed off, it was very late. And that meant, I would awake pretty late the next day.
Lo and behold, I rose to endless tweets and facebook notifications buzzing on my phone!
I was recently nominated at Indiblogger in “best food blog” category and won! Thank you so much for the honor and well-wishes. I can never forget the day I woke from a much needed sleep through social media alert notifications on my phone.
Wow. What happened to regular alarm? 😀 Forget about it. Let’s just celebrate!!
Makes a 6 inch cake
Ingredients:
- 2 peaches, sliced
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 4 tbsp butter (for brown butter)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- pinch of salt
Directions:
- In a bowl, add sliced peaches, 1 tbsp brown sugar and cornstarch. Stir and allow to maserate for at least 15 minutes.
- Make brown butter by heating a non-stick skillet on medium. Once skillet is hot, add 4 tbsp of butter and stir until butter melts and begins to simmer. Cook until butter emits a nutty fragrance and browns. It took me about 2 minutes.
- Remove brown butter liquid from heat to cool at room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 350F and lightly butter a 6 inch cake pan. Arrange and layer sliced maserated peaches to fit in the bottom of buttered cake pan.
- In a bowl, sift all dry ingredients (almond flour, whole wheat pastry flour, baking soda and salt).
- Combine cooled brown butter with the rest of wet ingredients (light brown sugar, egg and vanilla extract).
- Gently add sift ingredients into wet ingredients and fold to combine. Do not over mix.
- Pour batter over arranged sliced peaches and smooth the top with a spatula.
- Bake cake for 30 minutes.
- Remove to cool for 1 hour. Run a knife on the sides before gently flipping the cake onto a cake stand/platter.
- Optional garnish: edible flowers and chopped pistachios.
Reason #4 is simple yet satisfying: Peaches. Devour as much as you can, while it lasts. Have a great weekend, friends 🙂
Have you celebrated recently? What and how did you celebrate?
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Congratulations Kiran!! Beautiful pictures and a lovely dessert. Have a great weekend.
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How gorgeous, Kiran! I love everything about the food styling, photos, and cake itself. All perfection!
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Divine! your props are so pretty.
Have a wonderful weekend, dear friend.
Cheers,
Rosa
Rosa — thanks a lot, sweet friend 🙂
Congratulations Kiran 🙂 love your prop so pretty and voila time to celebrate…
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Congrats on your win, what a great cake to celebrate!
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Congratulations, my friend.Delicious sounding cake.
Maybe I need to make this cake for my hubby’s birthday next week. He loves everything peaches and butter.
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Tanvi — thanks so much, my dear. wishing your hubby a very happy birthday. And if you do bake this cake, let me know how it tastes 🙂
Congratulations! That’s a terrific way to wake up. I totally hear ya about blogging and lack of motivation. I find myself dragging for a few months, then perk up, then back to dragging. Wish we could have a blog with just pictures and no words….
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Laura — thank you so much, my dear 🙂 that would be photoblog and i wish it was that simple for us too! le sigh!
How exciting, congrats on the win!!! It would be a shame if you gave it up. You have such an eye for food styling. Every time I’m here, I’m always either hungry or thirsty. This cake looks sublime Kiran. Gorgeous as always!
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Anne — awww, thanks so much for such thoughtful comments, my friend. you made my day 🙂
Congratulations on your win! That’s something to celebrate, and there’s no better way than with peaches :).
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Congrats again Kiran! What a lovely way to wake up. And I love #4, the best reason of all.
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Brown butter and peaches?!?! Have I died and gone to heaven?! That sounds amazing!
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Angie — haha! nope! and you must give this a shot 🙂
Congratulations!
Your alarm, poor thing! Got all the bashing his whole life for waking you up and the lady is celebrating social media notifications waking her up after a long night! Haha!
Oh, and did I say wonderful pics as usual. Please don’t quit blogging ever cause we love your pics, and your writing and ya recipes too! 😉
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Lol! I chuckled at your comment about my old alarm. It’s not forgotten, I assure you.
I’m still blogging because of friends like yourself who always say the right thing to put a smile on my face 🙂
Congratulations! That is fantastic news! And this cake looks wonderful too, I can’t wait for peach season!
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I love the thick layer of peaches here! Congrats on your award, it’s fully deserved. Your recipes and pictures stand out from the crowd.
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Congratulations Kiran! Such a gorgeous cake…love the almond flour in this cake too…yummmm!
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Ina — thank you, friend 🙂
Congratulations Kiran! Love your photos.
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Congratulations Kiran!! The cake looks divine!
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Angie — thanks so so much, friend 🙂
Quit? You can not. Why? Posts like THIS. This is gorgeous and sounds divine. Yummalicious even!
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Barbara — awww, thanks my sweet friend. Not quitting thanks to encouraging comments from friends like you 🙂
Congrats my friend 😀
And loving this delicious cake, it’s propped beautifully!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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I think this is a great way to celebrate India’s Independence Day. The best peaches I have ever had have been in India!
Natasha @ The Cake Merchant recently posted..One Bowl Vanilla Cake with Quick Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Natasha — thank you so much! peaches in India? how cool 🙂
yum… so funny I just ate a peach yesterday after like a year, it was soooooooo juicy. And I just watched Giada make a Peach Cake, diff version of course. Maybe it’s time I make a peach cake. Don’t quit blogging… I love your blog.
And congrats on the win, well deserved!
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Nisha — lol, thanks a lot! and it’s time for peach cake my friend. all the signs are pointing 😀
So stunning! A truly festive cake to celebrate the height of summer and all the marvelous treats and produce that goes with it!
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Before I only use pineapples for upside down cakes, now you given me a new idea. Love to try this!
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Raymund — thanks and yes, the possibilities of upside-down cakes are endless 🙂
Congratulations on the nomination! I hope you win, you so totally deserve it!
And what a pretty cake. It looks so comforting!
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Putputt — thanks my dear. it’s a win announcement not nomination 🙂
OH! lol, silly me. In that case, here’s an even bigger CONGRATULATIONS! 🙂 Extremely well-deserved!
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Putputt — awww, that’s OK. and thank you so much 🙂
Congratulations on your award! Your pictures are always beautiful and all your hard work shows. I’m sure this cake was as tasty as it is pretty. : )
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Oh, this looks wonderful! The photos are so beautiful, I love the layer of peaches on the bottom. Mm. <3
xx gemma @ andgeesaid
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Congratulations on the award – so well deserved!
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Congrats on your win Kiran! This peach upside down cake looks like the perfect way to celebrate. I sleep through my notifications but the phone does buzz loudly!
Love the vintage look photos.
Nazneen
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Nazneen — thanks a lot friend. i could sleep through notifications, but not through the ones that keeps buzzing non-stop for a few minutes. lol!
Congrats on the award! And congrats on this fabulous looking dish, too – it’s gorgeous. And the recipe looks wonderful. Thanks so much.
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Your peach upside down cake looks amazing and anything with brown butter is always delicious! Yum!
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Serena — thanks and ditto about brown butter 😉
Congratulations Kiran! and what a beautiful way to celebrate the win!
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CONGRATULATIONS!!! Very well deserved…you have such an adorable blog…this delicious peach upside down cake is the fifth reason to celebrate…it looks gorgeous and made with browned butter…
irresistibly scrumptious…HAVE A GREAT DAY!!! 🙂
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Kumar — thank you so much!! you too, have a great weekend 😀
Yeeeeeeesss! Congratulations Kiran!! So happy to hear you won! And great delicious cake to celebrate this very very special win. Oh I’m so happy for you!! xoxo
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Nami — you are the sweetest!! thank you so so much, my dear friend 🙂 xoxoxo
Omigosh those look soooo good.
Cquek — thank you!!
Aw Kiran. I am so sorry about the writer’s block. I know exactly how you feel, though you generate much more awesome content than I do (I don’t know how you manage to maintain the energy and inspiration… it’s completely understandable to have down times every now and then). This is a gorgeous post, as is every single post you write and photograph. I’m glad that you’re getting some recognition for the amazing work you create. You deserve the Indiblogger award and more! Take care beautiful. love you! xx
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Laura — thank you so much! friends like you motivates me so much, to do what I do. love you too! xo
Congratulations that is a beauuty of a cake to celebrate with. GREG
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Congrats Kiran, the award is well deserved! Loving the peach upside down cake and yes social media alerts on the phone do wake me up but luckily I fall right back to bed or sometimes just don’t hear the phone vibrate.
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Congrats, my dear friend!
You do us proud!! I am so happy that you, a dear friend, won, you so deserve it with tasty recipes, your lovely humour & fantastic appetizing pics too!
This celebrating peach cake sounds really tasty too! A must make! xxx
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AWESOME! These are all such great reasons to celebrate, and what better way than through cake?! The pictures are gooorgeous, too!
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YAY!!!! Hurrah!!!! Congrats on winning Indiblogger!!!
So happy for ya!
And what an awesome cake to celebrate! Thanks for sharing!
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Can I come over and raid your food photography props someday? You have the best stuff! Brown butter + peaches sounds like a wonderful combination!
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Great post Kiran with this beautiful shots and delicious recipe!
Would love to have one piece of this cake right now 🙂
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Congratulations Kiran,
This looks so pretty! I love your props and photos. Simply exquisite.
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Congrats Kiran!! I am not surprised by this development…you do have an amazing blog…keep it going 🙂
I love peaches however I have never tried peaches in my cakes. Your beautiful post is motivating me to.
EFS — awww, thanks so so much my dear. you need to try peaches in cakes. mind-boggling in a very tasty way 🙂
Congrats on winning Indiblogger, wishing many more win in the coming days.
Beautiful Peach upside down brown butter cake, I love brown butter in the cake a lot.
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Congratulations Kiran! Lovely dish to celebrate. Gorgeous photos.
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Congratulations Kiran! It was well deserved! Always a pleasure to read your blog and try the recipes
Janaki — thank you so so much! i’m so glad you’ve been enjoying this space and the recipes 🙂
A big congratulations on your award, how cool!
I have yet to bake with peaches this month and now I’m feeling sad about that…and missing a delicious peach dessert..but your cake is beautiful and will have to hold me over until I have time to make one for myself 😉
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Patty — thank you so much my dear. and yes, summer is just flying by. i’m still struggling to enjoy everything summer has to offer, i.e cherries, plums, nectarines. i can truly relate how you feel 🙂
Congratulations!!! Well deserved! And this peach cake is a gorgeous and fitting way to celebrate. I was waiting for you to come back to blogging (but heaven knows we all need a break every now and then!)
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Jamie — thank you so so much, sweet friend. i did not took a break from blogging, per say. just took a much needed break from everything in between like planning, setting up shoots, styling and then there’s social media havoc that never cease to stop. took a break from all the chaos 😉
Beautiful cake with my fruits which are among my top three favourite. You have scared me! I hope you don’t consider stopping really.
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Oh wow, sorry for the late congratulations—but CONGRATULATIONS! Well-deserved 🙂
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Congrats Kiran!!! Such a lovely cake to celebrate the occasion and I am sure the blogging block fell apart since you heard the great news!!!
Shibi — thank you so so much, friend. the blogging block felt non-existence at one point 😉
Wow, my hearty congrats on your big Win. And you truly deserve it 🙂
I made the classic pineapple upside down cake this summer and my family loved it to bits. A peach version is next on my mind…and pls dont quit blogging 😉
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Manju — thanks so much and yes, the classic pineapple upside-down cake is definitely the best. peaches aren’t that bad either 😉
as of now, i’m not quitting blogging. not just yet.
Big congrats and very well deserved! 🙂 This is a wonderful cake to celebrate for the occasion. I just got the last batch of peaches from my in-laws. Guess this would be The Cake to make with those sweet and juice peaches. Have a happy Friday and a great weekend ahead.
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Congratulations Kiran!! Well deserved 🙂 Definitely don’t quit blogging, I really enjoy your photos!
I am posting a peach/brown butter cake soon. Such a good combination!
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Brandon — thank you so so much, friend. not quitting blogging. at least, not for now 😉 your peach/brown butter cobbler is to die for!
Hey really sorry for missing out this post-only back to blogging full swing now, BIG CONGRATS my friend! Malaysia Boleh !! Really happy for you on the winning , more to come:-)
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thanks my friend! Lol, Malaysia Boleh 😉
Lots of things to celebrate here ! Congratulations on your well-deserved nomination and happy belated Independence day for India !
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Congratulations, you clever woman! I love, love, love this cake. I think this might be “it” for Thanksgiving.
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