If you never tried this flavor combination before you're in for a treat, let me tell you. Juicy peaches are mixed with dulce de leche and cream to create a super easy and incredibly delicious dessert. Sort of Eton mess meets a trifle type of recipe. It takes minutes to put together if you have the components ready. The recipe includes variations to make it even easier!
Originally posted in July 2013, as a guest post, it has been updated with images and text to serve you better. The recipe remains the same.
Do I have a treat for you today!
This is one of my favorite flavor combinations and a take on a very traditional dessert from Uruguay called Postre Chajá - in Spanish postre means dessert and Chajá is a bird with fluffy wings.
Ingredients
Cake: citrus cakes are a great companion for the rest of the ingredients. I like to use a simple lemon pound cake or my favorite lemon olive oil bundt cake. Another cake that I used is the olive oil cake from Food52 if you want to add some liquor and orange to the flavor mix.
Dulce de leche: it's a sweet milk jam (literal translation from Spanish) which I love and use a LOT. You can easily buy it online and the links are in the recipe card's Notes, at the end of the post). You can use a butterscotch or caramel sauce, they are not as firm, but they work well.
Meringue: these are the dry meringues that sometimes are called meringue cookies. You want to crumble them so the soft pavlova-style ones are not recommended.
Peaches: the original dessert was made with canned peaches and they work very well. I prefer to use fresh ones when in season, but you can make it year-round and use homemade peaches in syrup or store-bought canned ones.
Whipped cream
Choose a whipping or double cream (sometimes called heavy I believe, depending on the country) that is fresh and good for whipping. I know that sounds obvious, but dairy products vary in the percentage of water content among other things. The more water the less they hold and the easier they curdle in my experience.
I never use light creams for this type of recipe because for me they don't have the right consistency or flavor. But if you like and are familiar with it, by all means, use it.
Sour cream or cream cheese: I always add a few tablespoons to the cream before whipping. They give it more structure and it holds better after whipped for a couple of days. But you can omit it.
Vintage Kitchen Tip
About dulce de leche
It is a milk jam. Milk and sugar are cooked until thick and dark. I use dulce de leche a lot because I'm from Argentina and it's our jam, literally, pun intended.
You can buy it online (see Notes in the recipe card below) or make your own dulce de leche. Spoiler alert: It takes time. But it's so worth it IMO.
Top tips
- Make-ahead: I like to make it 1 hour (or so) so the cake has time to soak the juices and the peaches to soften because I like them better that way.
- Customize: depending on your taste, use more or less cream, or dulce de leche, or even another fruit. This is fantastic also with fresh strawberries.
- Custard: add a layer of vanilla custard instead of, or in addition to, the whipped cream.
- Family-style: make it in a dish or bowl and serve it directly from it. It's great for barbecues and gatherings, even if it's only your family because of the current situation.
Other dessert recipes you might like:
Strawberry Cream Trifle
Lemon Icebox Dessert
Brown Sugar Strawberry Crisp
Old-fashioned Peach Cobbler
Cherry Almond Crisp
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Peaches and Cream Trifle
- Prep Time: 20
- Total Time: 20
- Yield: 1 serving 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Layering
- Cuisine: International
Description
Juicy peaches are mixed with dulce de leche and cream to create a super easy and incredibly delicious dessert. Sort of Eton mess meets a trifle type of recipe. It takes minutes to put together if you have the components ready.
***The quantities are estimative, as with most trifle recipes. That is because it's a matter of personal taste if you like more or less fruit, more or less whipped cream, or even more layers.
Ingredients
Per serving:
- ½ a fresh peach, sliced or diced (the latter is easier to eat)
- 1 slice lemon pound cake, or lemon olive oil cake, or lemon cream cake, see Notes below
- ⅓ cup whipped cream, see Notes below
- 2-3 Meringue cookies
- ⅓ cup dulce de leche
Instructions
- In a glass cup, jar or bowl of your choice start by putting the cake covering the bottom. I tear it up with my hands.
- Add the whipped cream.
- Arrange half the peach slices.
- Top them with the dulce de leche and the rest of the peach slices.
- Crush the meringue cookies on top.
- I like to put it for an hour or so in the refrigerator before serving to allow the juices to soak the cake and flavors to combine,
- Serve cold.
Notes
- Whipped cream: use 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar per ½ cup of cold whipping cream and beat until medium-soft peaks form (it makes 2 servings). Or use the recipe in the Black Forest Tarts which is firmer because it has some sour cream.
- Quantities: as explained in the description, the quantities are estimative. Take the recipe as a reference and add more or less of what you love or don't love. You can't really go wrong customizing a trifle. If you want to make more layers, halve the ingredients and double the layers.
- Cake: use a homemade or store-bought lemon cake. Or any cake that is sturdy. Vanilla flavored is also good, but missing that tang that lemon gives this dessert.
- Dulce de leche: you can use caramel instead. It's more liquid so it will soak the dessert more, but the flavor will still be very good. You can buy dulce de leche online. Or make your own milk jam.
Keywords: peach trifle
Lovely dessert…leaves me drooling!
Tengo que hacer este triffle Paula Adoro el dulce de leche, se ve delicioso, besos
Gorgeous, gorgeous post Paula! Argh, dulce de leche on its own is delicious enough, but I love the idea of adding it to pound cake and peaches. Can't wait to try your recipe xx
Peaches and dulce de leche - what a perfect combination! She has a great blog and so do you.
Thanks for such a brilliant guest post on my blog my friend, while I study, I wish had a batch to keep me going 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I've not had peaches with dulce de leche before and now I'm wondering why the heck haven't I? Fantastic combination! Heading over to check it out!
This sounds yummy Paula! Heading over right now to check out the recipe. Delicious!
Paula, you are ruining my diet! IF I were on a diet...
Oh this looks so delicious
Mary x
You have been a guest posting fiend....and all so lovely and delicious! I especially love this trifle and will pop over to say hi to Uru and see your recipe!
Dream come true! You said easy, right? And this is one elegant trifle. I'm heading over to the sweet spot in Australia to check out your recipe, Paula =)
This sounds like a dream dessert, Paula! I'm heading over to Uru's right now to read (and drool).
Peaches and pound cake smothered in dulce de leche! What a lush dessert! (If there are any leftovers, I'll have one for breakfast!)
This looks so delish!I would love one of these. Yummy!
This looks awesome, as usual. And I love that Uru is blogging while in school! Very impressive... I did make some of your peaches in vanilla syrup, so now there is no excuse, eh? ~ David
There isn´t, even less if you use a good store-bought pound cake...!
Yummy!
Me encanto!!! Las fotos, como siempre, son sensacionales!! 🙂 un beso, feli
Heading over.. such a lovely dessert!
This is such an impressive dessert! I want to serve it at a dinner party. Love that you have homemade peaches in vanilla syrup.
Heading over now to check out the recipe. I can't wait to see the combo of peach and dulce de leche!