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Southern Girl Secret #060: “There are only two reasons someone new comes into your life: They’re either gonna be a blessin’ or a lesson.”  WAR AND PEACH, the newest release in the Georgia Peach Mystery series by Susan Furlong, is chock-full of fun tidbits like this at the beginning of each chapter. Each “secret” while cute, also has a ring of truth to it that I so enjoyed! Susan has created a tight-knit Georgia peach farming family for the feisty protagonist, Nola Mae Harper. No matter what troubles they find themselves in, they know they have the full support of each other. In WAR AND PEACH, Nola’s daddy, Raymond, finds himself in the cross-hairs of the vengeful Sheriff Maudy Payne when she suspects him in the murder of his rival, Clem Rogers. Nola Mae has never understood the antagonistic nature between the two men but as she starts digging into the past to clear her daddy’s name, she uncovers secrets that both her parents have tried hard to keep buried. Despite the circumstantial evidence that is found, she has trust that she will find the truth and her daddy will be exonerated.

Susan Furlong also deftly explores the prejudices Southerners and Northerners have for each other… or any “newcomer”. Apropos for the current events going on in our world today and will hopefully make a reader give pause to consider while at the same time being entertained. The story has a strong plot with several subplots intertwined which connect at the shocking reveal…I just didn’t see it coming! With plenty of suspects to keep the reader guessing I had a very difficult time pausing to take notes for this review and it was nearly impossible to put down to attend to other commitments.

Nola Mae has also just opened her peach shop, Peachy Keen. I adored the clever and humorous names she created for her gift baskets and I want to order some of them! Thankfully, the author includes a few recipes at the back of the book so some of her treats can be recreated at home. Susan has graciously allowed me to share her own mother’s recipe for Ginny Wiggins’s Perfect Peach Cake. Using a boxed cake mix as the base, a few simple pantry and dairy ingredients are added, resulting in a delicious, beautiful dessert! I love knowing that this is an old family recipe and I always like having recipes that riff on boxed cake mixes on hand. Thanks to my granddaughter, Emory, for making this cake for our family! 

Amazon Synopsis

Nola Mae Harper is too busy restocking the jars of preserves and chutney flying off the shelves of her shop, Peachy Keen, to keep up with all the gossip about the upcoming mayoral election, but she does know the debate is sure to be a real barn burner.
 
Local farmer Clem Rogers claims he has a bombshell that could take small business owner Margie Price out of the running. But before Clem can reveal his juicy secret at the debate, his actual barn goes up in flames—with him inside of it. The town casts its vote against Margie, but Nola isn’t convinced the hardworking woman is capable of murder. Now to clear Margie’s name Nola will have to work fast under pressure, before Margie gets taken in by the fuzz…

 

 

A huge thank you to Susan Furlong for providing the choice of any book from her Georgia Peach Mystery series: WAR AND PEACH; REST IN PEACH; or PEACHES AND SCREAM for one lucky winner! Contest ends Monday, February 13, 2017 at 11:59 pm PST. Please use the Rafflecopter box located below the recipe to enter. The winner will be announced on this page and on Cinnamon & Sugar’s Facebook page, as well as notified by email (so check your spam folder!)

 

 

 

 

Using boxed cake mix as a base, Ginny Wiggins's Perfect Peach Bundt Cake is supremely moist and full of a generous amount of canned peaches for convenience.

 

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Ginny Wiggins’s Perfect Peach Cake

Ginny Wiggins’s Perfect Peach Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 cans (15 ounces each) sliced peaches in heavy syrup, divided
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 1 (15.25-ounce) box yellow cake mix

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees (F).
  2. Lightly butter and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
  3. Drain 1 can of peaches and discard the syrup.
  4. Arrange peach slices evenly on the bottom of the Bundt pan and set aside.
  5. With an electric mixer, beat together oil, eggs, vanilla, sour cream, and the remaining can of peaches with syrup and any leftover peaches from the first can.
  6. Add the cake mix and continue to beat the mixture until it’s smooth.
  7. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for approximately one hour, or until cooked through.
  8. Cool completely.
  9. After cooled, loosen cake from the sides of the pan and invert onto a cake plate.
  10. *Hattie’s version: For a little extra kick, Hattie likes to substitute the peach syrup in the batter with 1/4 cup of Peach Jack or dark rum.
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Using boxed cake mix as a base, Ginny Wiggins's Perfect Peach Bundt Cake is supremely moist and full of a generous amount of canned peaches for convenience.

 

 

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Using boxed cake mix as a base, Ginny Wiggins's Perfect Peach Bundt Cake is supremely moist and full of a generous amount of canned peaches for convenience.

 

 

 

 

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** If you read the recipe then watched the video you will notice Emory and I didn’t follow the directions exactly. Somehow we both missed the part where you beat everything together EXCEPT the cake mix, then add the mix in…lol! No worries though, it turned out super yummy anyway! 

 

 

I received a copy in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

 

 

 

 

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72 thoughts on “Ginny Wiggins’s Perfect Peach Bundt Cake”

  1. I absolutely love this series and can’t wait to read War and Peach. I would love to win a copy of this book. Thanks for the chance to win.

  6. Thank you so much for the recipe. And for the chance to win War and Peach. My family is so in love with peaches that I rarely can get a batch ready to use in a recipe. Example. My son is often up before I am. He will peel, slice, sugar a peach. Then cook some cream of wheat, Malto Meal or oats and pour it over the peaches. My daughter gets up. Peels a peach and throws it into the blender with some yogurt and eggs and dash of milk. Her idea of breakfast. My hubby will grab and start eating. He doesn’t even rinse off half the time. And how often have I said. I plan to make a cobbler guys. They all agree. But. I turn my back. Those six peaches have become four peaches. The only way I can make something with peaches is to buy them in the can. Wait until winter. Then make something. Fresh is so much better. And they agree. But do I get the chance to use fresh peaches in a cobbler, cake, cookies or something? NNNOOOO (Uh. sorry. cranky this morning. But thought I’d leave it. as a note on the trials and tribulations of a peach lover who rarely gets a chance sometimes to even eat what she has bought.)

  7. I can just imagine how wonderful this tastes with peaches.
    Would love to win a copy of War and Peach.

  8. I love anything peach related. Thank you for sharing this recipe. And thank you for the chance to win this book. I really enjoy this series.

  9. I would like Rest in Peach. I’m going to make that peach Bundt cake for my family! Thank you for the giveaway!

  12. I haven’t read any of the series yet, but plan to buy the books. And love the recipe for the peach cake. Printed it out and must make! Thanks so much.

  15. I haven’t read these books so I will randomly choose Peaches & Scream. Thanks for the delicious recipe and great giveaway!
    Happy Valentine’s Day!
    Conne
    cps1950(at)gmail(dot)com

  19. This cake sounds so easy and so yummy, I think I’ll try it Sunday evening and bring it to work Monday. I love this series and can’t wait to read this one! Thanks for the chance to win too!

  20. I think I would really like Hattie’s cake version. Thanks for a chance to win a copy of War and Peach.

  22. I just love peaches in fact during the summer we picked up a big box of peaches and my husband made peach jam for me. I printed this recipe and will pass to my husband so he can also make this. He is laid off till April so his next fav thing to do is cook if he can;t do his garden so cooking is the winter. The least fav is cleaning out the basement and that is what he is doing now. The book I would love to win is this new release War and Peach. I went to the library and they said due to that they are a new library they won’t be getting this one in . Plus they don’t have any of the other ones written by you Susan I asked her . So i would love to win a print copy of this new one thank you for the chance. Kim thank you for getting the authors and listing print books to win I really enjoy the chance!

  28. Recipes look yummy. I would love the chance to read War and Peach. Thank you for having such great books featured on your blog.

  33. Thank you for the giveaway, and sharing the recipe with us. Love the series & would love to win War & Peach in print.

  36. What a wonderful sounding series. Susan is a new author to me and I would love to win a copy of Peaches and Screams. Thanks for the chance to win. I am going to make the peach cake, my mom would love it.

  44. New series for me so the earliest book would be better. I’m excited to start reading, going to look on Amazon right now.

  46. If I won, I would love the first book Peaches and Scream, I have been wanting to get started on this series and haven’t bought it …yet. Thank you for the recipe, it sounds amazing, I love peaches….I know, then why haven’t started the series yet? I don’t know, not enough hours in the day? LOL.

  62. I LOVE YOUR BOOKS AND WOULD BE THRILLED TO GET A COPY OF “WAR AND PEACH’. THANK YOU FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN.

  63. I would love to win War and Peace. I have blessed to have the others all signed from the author. And would love to continue this wonderful series that way. Happy reading!

  64. I haven’t started this series yet–so I’d like to win Peaches and Scream. That recipe sounds easy and good—my kind of baking!

  65. That cake sound delicious. i am going to make it and hope I don’t eat it all at once. I am looking forward to reading this series.

  66. This peach cake sounds yummy, I can’t wait to try it! This is a new to me series, and I’m looking forward to reading it. I would like to win War and Peach please.

  69. I love anything with peaches in it. The cake looks amazing. I would chose Peaches & Scream since it’s the first book in the series. Thanks for a chance to win!

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