TheLadyEve: **About Buckles**: So what the heck is a buckle, you might ask? A **Buckle** is a dessert that is made with a cake batter layered with fruit. As it cooks, the fruit sinks a bit while the batter rises. It typically has a crumb topping, to boot. In this way, it’s similar to non-yeast coffee cake. It’s often made with blueberries. Buckles have been around since the colonial era, and they’re easy to make with ingredients that you often have on hand. Other, similar desserts you might have heard of include:
**Brown Betty**: Fruit baked layered with sweetened breadcrumbs.
**Cobbler**: Fruit topped with a biscuit-like dough and baked.
**Clafoutis**: Fruit, often cherries, topped with a thick, sweetened batter and baked.
**Crisp**: Fruit filling topped with a sweetened crumb topping, often including oats. This is basically the same thing as **Crumble**. Some people argue that one has oats and the other doesn’t, but I don’t find that distinction to hold up in reality.
**Pandowdy**: Fruit, usually apples, cooked in a pan/skillet and topped with a rolled crust dough.
**Grunt**: Stewed, sweetened fruit topped with a baking powder raised dumpling dough that is then steamed. This is very similar to another dessert called a **Slump**.
**Recipe**
Source: [Southern Living](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFKHlMlNrA8)
**Topping**
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
**Cake**
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup whole milk
1 cup peeled chopped fresh peach (about 1 large peach), divided
1 cup fresh raspberries, divided
**Step 1**
Preheat oven to 350°F. Prepare the Topping: Stir together flour, chopped pecans, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and salt in a medium bowl. Stir in butter until well combined. Chill until ready to use.
**Step 2**
Prepare the Cake: Beat sugar and butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until mixture looks sandy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add egg, and beat until well combined. Beat in vanilla.
**Step 3**
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Alternately add flour mixture and milk to butter mixture in 5 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until combined after each addition. Gently fold in 1⁄2 cup each of the chopped peach and raspberries.
**Step 4**
Transfer batter into a greased (with butter) and floured 9-inch springform pan. Arrange remaining 1⁄2 cup each of the chopped peach and raspberries in an even layer over top of batter.
**Step 5**
Sprinkle chilled Topping evenly over the fruit. Bake in preheated oven until browned and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes.
**Step 6**
Cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Run a knife around edge of pan to loosen Cake from sides. Remove sides of pan. Cool on wire rack about 45 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
EatItUpTV: This looks so good!
seacrestfan85: Yeah that’s a no from me dawg. NEXT