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Take advantage of a great peach season with this simple spoon cake.

This is a good year for Canadian peaches.

In British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, fruit trees are recovering from the droughts of recent years. And friends are raving about the quality of this season’s crop emerging from Ontario’s largest growing region, the Niagara Peninsula.

I have not come across a dry, mealy or otherwise disappointing peach this summer. There are plenty of recovery options if you do find yourself in this situation: Chop and add it to a batch of jam (peaches pair well with any jam-friendly fruit), pop it into a smoothie, or freeze and grate it over yogurt and granola.

When you have a perfect peach, juicy enough to dribble down your arm as you bite into it, it’s hard not to just eat it as

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