9 Easy Recipes For Fresh Summer Peaches

Fresh peach season never seems long enough. From jam and loaf cake to old-fashioned desserts, ice cream, and more, these peach recipes make the most of that sweet, juicy fruit while it’s at its peak. And if you have more peaches than you can use, I’ve got an easy way to freeze them for later, too.

If you’re wondering where to start

• For a quick stovetop recipe: Peach Jam
• For breakfast or snacking: Peach Loaf Cake
• For an old-fashioned dessert: Peach Pandowdy
• For something cold: Peach Blackberry Ice Cream
• For extra ripe peaches: Freeze Them

Small-Batch Peach Refrigerator Jam

My small-batch peach refrigerator jam uses just 1 pound of pitted peaches and makes just under 2 cups. There’s no pectin and no canning involved, so it’s an easy way to use a few ripe peaches before they get too soft.

Peach Loaf Cake with Fresh Peaches

This peach loaf cake with fresh peaches is rich and buttery, with diced peaches baked throughout the loaf. It’s made in a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan and finished with a simple vanilla icing that adds just enough sweetness.

Peach Almond Tart With Vanilla Bean

Fresh sliced peaches sit over a simple almond filling in this peach almond tart with vanilla bean. The flaky pastry crust and almond filling make it a little prettier than a cobbler, but it still has that rustic summer-dessert feel I love.

Old-Fashioned Peach Pandowdy

If you like old-fashioned fruit desserts, try this peach pandowdy. Juicy peaches bake beneath a buttery pie crust that gets pressed down into the fruit as it bakes, giving you pieces of crisp crust along with plenty of peach filling.

Raspberry Peach Crumb Bars

These raspberry peach crumb bars combine fresh peaches and raspberries with a buttery crumb mixture that works as both the crust and topping. They bake in a 13 x 9-inch pan, making them easy to cut into squares for dessert, snacking, or sharing.

Grilled Peaches and Poundcake

For a peach dessert that keeps the kitchen cool, make these grilled peaches with pound cake. The peaches cook on the grill until warm and lightly caramelized, then get served with slices of pound cake and a honey-lime drizzle.

Homemade Peach Blackberry Ice Cream

Fresh peaches and juicy blackberries come together in this creamy peach blackberry ice cream. It’s a good one to make when summer fruit is at its peak, especially when turning on the oven is the last thing you want to do.

Peach Cobbler With Frozen Peaches

You don’t have to wait for fresh peach season to make this peach cobbler with frozen peaches. Frozen peaches work beautifully in the filling, and there’s no peeling, pitting, or waiting for peaches to ripen. It’s also a great way to use peaches you froze during the summer.

Have Too Many Peaches? Freeze Them for Later

When the peaches on the counter are ripening faster than you can eat them, learning how to freeze peaches is one of the easiest ways to save them. You can freeze peaches sliced, diced, halved, or whole, with the skins on or peeled, then pull them out later for cobblers, smoothies, sauces, and other peach recipes.

Peach season never seems long enough, so I usually bake what I can now and freeze a bag or two for later. If you’ve got a few ripe peaches sitting on the counter, the jam and loaf cake are two especially easy places to start.

  

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