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How to Make Fresh Peach Platz

How to Make Fresh Peach Platz

September 11, 2012 by Liz Gardner Leave a Comment

Take the time to bake fresh peach platz always a family favourite. This is another easy bake recipe that has floated around in a cookbook for a couple of decades which has had a few changes to the original, but still is a great dessert or afternoon snack with coffee. It is an excellent way to use fresh fruit for a quick dessert. Other fruit to substitute for the peaches would be sliced apple (add a little cinnamon to the streusel) or Italian (purple, prune) plums and of course there is always rhubarb and raspberry or kiwi platz.  All super simple and delicious.

plums and apples for platz
Plums and apples for platz

Peach Platz Ingredients

  • ½ cup Sugar **
  • 2/3 cup Plain yoghurt (or milk)
  • 1 ½ cup Spelt flour (or Whole Wheat)
  • Two Small eggs
  • 3 Tablespoon  Butter – melted
  • 2 Teaspoon  Baking powder
  • Pinch Salt
  • Four Peaches (approximately) sliced
Mix of base ingredients
Mix of base ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a soft dough with the above ingredients and spread with a spoon into a lightly oiled cookie tray or dish (Size 8 x 11)
  2. Cover with sliced fruit

Streusel Top

  • ¾ cup Spelt flour
  • ½ cup sugar **
  • 1/3 cup Butter – soft
Apple platz waiting for streusel mix
Apple platz waiting for streusel mix

Directions

  1. Simply spread the streusel mix on top of the fruit and batter
  2. Bake at 325 F degrees for 25 to 35 minutes until golden brown (extra 10 minutes for smaller pan)

This scrumptious dessert is a favourite to serve up warm or cold, with whipped cream or ice cream.  Just like Oma used to make – well almost!

Peach platz
Peach platz – the favourite

Notes

  • Bake double the recipe and make two trays – 1 fresh and 1 to freeze!
  • The original recipe calls for white flour – substitute spelt or another non processed baking flour.  Whole wheat flour does have a taste of its own but this recipe still rated a 9 out of 10 by the critics
  • If using smaller tray / pan add at least 10 minutes to cooking time.  Test for doneness with a toothpick
  • Substitute home canned (drained) fruit if no fresh fruit on hand
  • A special treat …
apple platz kuchen
Apple platz kuchen
“Cook for yourself, your family, your friends.
Cooking is not a luxury, it’s a necessity”
~ Dr Robert Lustig, Endocrinologist, University of California San Francisco

Update: Summer 2018

  • A great fruit to use for this recipe is 2 cups of fresh, chemical-free blueberries
  • ** I have substituted Baking Stevia for 50% of the sugars in this recipe
Fresh Blueberry Platz & ice cream
Fresh Blueberry Platz & ice cream

Links & References:

  • Processed Food – an Experiment that Failed – JAMA, Dr. Lustig, 2017
  • “Treat Sugar Like Tobacco …” by Dr Aseem Malhotra, Cardiologist, 2016
  • “Reversing Type 2 Diabetes” by Dr. Sarah Hallberg, 2015, video

 

 

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About Liz Gardner

Live in Canada's Pacific Northwest. Dual nationality & personality. Happy gardener all my life. Love my grandkids & our West Coast beaches. Passionate about all things "healthy". Life long learner & asker of "how". Encourager - we all need a little help sometimes. And a sense of humour. Every day is a gift. Read More…

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