German Peach Cake Recipe – Oma's Pfirsich-Streuselkuchen

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German Peach Cake Recipe – Oma's Pfirsich-Streuselkuchen

This German Peach Cake recipe, aka Pfirsich-Streuselkuchen, is a bread machine cake recipe for a yeast dough. 

It is then followed by a quick finishing off by hand before baking in the oven. You can make it with streusel topping as shown or omit the streusel.

Edited: I've added how to make the dough by hand.

Servings:

Makes 8 - 10 servings

Ingredients:

Yeast Dough

• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoons salt
• ⅞ cup lukewarm milk
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon soft butter

Topping & Streusel

• 28-oz can sliced peaches, well drained
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup cold butter

Instructions:

1. Put all the Yeast Dough ingredients into the Bread Machine pan. See below for Instructions for Making Dough without Bread Machine, if needed.
2. Use the "dough" setting and start (usually takes about 1½ hours).
3. Grease  a 15x11-inch baking sheet or two 9-inch springforms.
4. Once dough cycle is finished, pat dough onto baking sheet. Pierce dough all over with a fork. 
5. Preheat oven to 400°F.
6. Arrange fruit on dough in rows.
7. Let rise in a warm place about 20 to 25 minutes.
8. Meanwhile, make streusel topping by mixing flour, sugar and cold butter together to get a crumbly mix. Crumble over fruit just before baking.
9. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until yeast pastry is puffed up and streusel is golden brown.
10. Cool slightly in pan then cut into squares.

Instructions for Making Dough without a Bread Machine:

•  Stir 1 teaspoon of sugar into lukewarm milk. Sprinkle yeast on top. Let sit 5 minutes, or until the surface is frothy. If it doesn't get frothy, don't continue with the recipe. Get new yeast with an expiry date far into the future.
• Into a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, and salt.
• Stir the yeast. Lightly beat soft butter and egg into the yeast mixture. Pour yeast mixture into flour, mixing to make a dough.
• On a floured surface, knead dough for about 5 minutes or use a dough hook with your kitchen mixer. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour.
• Continue with #3 above.

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Recipe updated January 20, 2025