Summer Peach Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2011, America's Test Kitchen TV

Loading a cake with fresh peaches sounds like a great idea- until the flavor fizzles out and the crumb is drenched in juice.

SERVES 8 to 10

TIME 2¼ hours, plus 2½ hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To achieve the right texture for our Peach Cake, we sprinkled the peach slices with sugar and baked them in a very hot oven until they lost most of their moisture. Tossing the cooled peaches with crushed panko bread crumbs sopped up the goo...

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