Finely chopped peaches deliver their peak summer flavor in these tender-crumbed loaves enriched with cornmeal. The recipe comes from Lisa Donovan, who was the pastry chef at Husk in Nashville when Peach Truck owners Jessica and Stephen Rose were delivering Georgia fruit to the restaurant.

Layer cakes are formative for Southerners: They grace wedding tables, shiva gatherings, quinceañeras, baptisms and funerals. Because of this — and because layer cakes may be as close as some will ever get to a holy experience — they’re often called church cakes.