“Peaches and cream” cake

You won’t find many packaged foods in my kitchen – I make homemade salad dressing, marinades, and tomato sauce.  Cookies, cakes, and frosting are from scratch.  And I have a deep-seated fear of anything Sandra makes “Semi-Homemade”.  Ok, I do use store-bought chicken stock…  But that’s about it.

I make an exception, however, for this recipe for peaches and cream, even though it requires a box of cook-and-serve Jell-o pudding mix.  I guess I figure it’s grandfathered in, since this recipe dates back to the eighties.  It’s a recipe my mother used to make, and I have to admit, it’s still pretty darn good – a custard-like cake, sliced peaches, and a topping of fluffy cream cheese and cinnamon sugar.

Someday I’ll figure out how to make this entirely with “real” ingredients – according to the packaging, it looks like I’d mostly just need sugar and cornstarch to replace the mix – but in the meantime this justifies keeping a couple of boxes of pudding in my pantry.