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Peach Muffins

The other day when I was at Trader Joe’s, I noticed the most unusual fruit in the freezer department. Now, when it comes to fruit, I always like to have fresh on hand for eating and frozen on hand for baking. After all – it can be difficult to get wild blueberries (which I adore in all kinds of cakes, muffins and scones) in January. The fruit I found on this particular occasion was sliced, peeled peaches that were passion fruit flavored – by which they seemed to mean that the stone fruit slices had been soaked in passion fruit juice before freezing. I didn’t think that you can go too far wrong with either peaches or passion fruit, so I bought a bag.
When still cold, but slightly thawed, I could taste both fruit flavors in the peaches and they went splendidly with yogurt. Sticking to my original plan, however, I dutifully chopped up some of the slices and folded them into a batch of muffins. The passion fruit flavor didn’t quite carry over in the way I had hoped, but I like to think it was there in a (very) subtle way.
Despite the lack of passion flavor and the rather plain look of these muffins, they were actually very good. I added a fair amount of vanilla, which blended nicely with the fruit. The peaches worked out perfectly and had a great texture – far, far better than what you’d get with any canned peach and much easier than working with a fresh one (especially in the off-season!).
The only change I would make to this recipe is that I would add a sprinkle of coarse/raw sugar to the top just to make them look a bit prettier

Vanilla Peach Muffins
1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
2 large eggs
¾ cup sugar
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract*
1 ½ cups peeled, diced frozen peaches (unthawed)
coarse sugar, for topping

Preheat oven to 350F and line a 12-cup muffin tin with baking cups.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
In a large bowl, whisk/beat together eggs and sugar for about a minute at high speed, just until fairly smooth, then add in oil and vanilla. Add in flour mixture and stir until just combined. Briefly stir in peach pieces. Divide evenly into muffin cups and sprinkle with coarse sugar.
Bbake at 350F for 18-22 minutes, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
These are best on the day they are made.
Makes 12 muffins.

*Vanilla paste, if you can find it, is a great substitute, since it will add attractive vanilla specks to your muffins.

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11 Comments
  • Claire
    March 1, 2007

    Yum! I’ve never had a peach muffin. I bet there are great!

  • Cupcake Chick (Cheryl)
    March 2, 2007

    That sounds good and really refreshing. Makes me want Spring to come even sooner.

  • Izzy's Mama
    March 2, 2007

    I have been on a muffin making kick. I will have to add these to my repertoire.
    Any excuse to go to T.J’s.

  • Helene
    March 3, 2007

    I really wish we had a T.J here but no such luck.
    These look so soft and nice for an afternoon tea or coffe break.

  • Peabody
    March 4, 2007

    I have had really good luck with all of TJ’s frozen fruits. I haven’t seen those yet, but now I will be on the look out.

  • Foodie
    March 4, 2007

    Oh, these sound terrific!

  • Anonymous
    April 5, 2010

    Hi,

    Is 2 tbsp vegetable oil enough for the recipe? Can I replace it with Butter instead? Any milk required?

    Thanks!

  • neeta
    July 30, 2010

    Nicole – I made these but I think they are missing some liquid so I did add some milk to the batter. We’ll see how they turn out!

  • April Dulude
    April 7, 2012

    I just put these muffins in the oven! I didn’t have enough peaches, so I added some diced strawberries. And since you can never have enough chocolate in your life I also added some white chocolate chips! Will see how they turn out.

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