Peach-Nut Coffee Cake

(8 servings)

  • For The Coffee Cake:
  • 2 cups prepared biscuit mix
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 egg - slightly beaten
  • 1 can (4 and 3/4 ounces) strained peaches for babies*
  • 1/4 cup milk

  • For The Topping:
  • 1/3 cup dark brown sugar - firmly packed
  • 2 Tablespoons flour
  • 1/2 cup canned chopped toasted almonds
  • 1/3 cup melted butter or margarine
Combine the biscuit mix, sugar and cinnamon. Add egg, strained peaches and milk; mix until dry ingredients are just dampened. Turn into greased, 8-inch square pan.

Combine topping ingredients; spoon over batter.

Bake in hot oven (400 degrees) for 25 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool slightly in pan on cake rack; cut into squares.

Other strained fruits for babies may be substituted for peaches.


Vintage 1954 CANCO Brunch Ad


This retro recipe is from a 1954 advertisement from the American Can Company titled, Manhattan Brunch. According to the ad, "You don't have to get up at dawn to make (brunch). It's quick as a wink with the convenient foods that come in Canco cans made by the American Can Company. Just wait till you try that luscious peach-nut coffee cake made with strained canned fruit!"

From this same classic ad, also see a recipe for Corned Beef Hash a la Waldorf.

* You can replace the baby food with a fresh peach that's been pitted, peeled and pureed.


This vintage coffee cake recipe has an unusual ingredient: peach baby food. That might sound weird but, in reality, it's just mashed fruit. From a 1954 advertisement for the American Can Company.


Mr Breakfast would like to thank Mr Breakfast for this recipe.

Recipe number 3172. Submitted 4/3/2013.