Our Best Peach Desserts

Showcase two of the South’s most beloved products—peaches and pecans—in this old-fashioned peach cobbler.

Turn to this top-rated Southern Living recipe whenever you have a basket of fresh peaches and want to make homemade ice cream. It’s been a favorite of the magazine’s readers for years.

A crisp streusel topping studded with walnuts and pecans perfectly accents sweet summertime peaches.

Nothing says summertime like a homemade peach pie. The filling mixture is thickened with both tapioca and cornstarch, and a sprinkling of sugar over the crust adds a bit more sweetness.

Roasting fresh fruits brings out even more of the fruit’s natural sweetness and is an easy way to make a quick dessert.

If you’ve already got the grill going for dinner, you might as well grill dessert, too. Sprinkle fresh peaches with sugar and ginger, grill, and then coat them in a mixture of honey and lime juice.

Capture the flavor of summer in this refreshing homemade ice cream that’s perfect for casual summer entertaining.

Use a packaged pound cake and instant vanilla pudding mix for this layered make-ahead dessert.

In this peachy version of strawberry shortcake, you grill the peaches and spoon them onto squares of citrus-flavored shortcake, and then top with sweetened Greek yogurt.

For this peach cobbler recipe, you press the pastry dough into the bottom of a 2-quart baking dish, add the fruit mixture, then fold the pastry dough over the top of the fruit. There’s no need to crimp and seal or fool with fluting the edges of the dough.

Online reviewers claim that this is their favorite peach cobbler recipe and that it tastes like the peach cobblers their mothers and grandmothers used to make.

Ripe peaches don't need much more than a little spiced sugar and butter to turn them into a grand topping for cake and ice cream.

You don’t need a tart pan for this double-fruit dessert because the crust is simply folded up over the peaches and nectarines before baking.

Let the rave reviews begin when you churn out a freezer of this homemade ice cream that’s basically a cross between peach ice cream and butter pecan.

This rustic fruit pie features a free-form pastry crust that's filled with fresh peaches and blueberries. If the fresh fruits are not in season, you can use frozen.

Top a shortcake with two summertime favorites, fresh peaches and basil, for an amazing dessert flavor combination.

Top fresh sauteed peaches with a mixture of granola and frozen yogurt for an easy peach dessert.

These invidual cups of peach cobbler are easy to make and perfect for summer entertaining.

When peaches are ripe and juicy, this divine tart from Christy Rost, cookbook author and host of the public television series A Home for Christy Rost, goes together quickly and looks fabulous in a cast iron skillet—perfect for your next picnic or casual gathering.

This colorful and light fruit dessert features fresh peaches, strawberries and blueberries that are tossed in a sweet and tangy dessert vinaigrette.