Homemade Peach Ice Cream

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Learn how to make homemade peach ice cream using fresh peaches, a few basic ingredients, and your ice cream maker.

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If there’s one homemade ice cream recipe I want you to put on your list for the summer time, it’s this right here recipe for homemade peach ice cream. It’s easy, it’s flavorful, it’s not always around in the grocery store, and it showcases one of summer’s best produce: fresh, juicy, drippy peaches.

Are you drooling yet? I mean, I totally am.

Homemade ice cream is not new here as I’ve got a couple no churn ice cream recipes (no churn coffee ice cream and no churn peanut butter ripple ice cream), but when I wanted to add a summer-centric flavor, a peach ice cream recipe for ice cream maker folks took about 3 seconds of thought before I wrote that bad boy in pen on my editorial calendar!

If you’ve never made ice cream in an ice cream maker, I’m here to tell you that it’s very simple (just ask my praline ice cream fans). You just have to do one thing a bit ahead of time, and that’s freeze your ice cream maker well in advance.

There’s not much worse than gathering your ingredients for a homemade peach ice cream recipe only to discover your ice cream maker is still sitting in the basement. So plan ahead! It will be worth the prep!

You’ll need heavy cream, whole milk, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, and salt to create the base. But first, before mixing up the base, you need to get the stars of the show ready.

You’ll peel and slice the peaches and then allow them to sit in a mixture of sugar and lemon juice for about an hour.

The lemon juice will help soften the peaches and bring out the juices, and the sugar will, well, sweeten the peaches.

Once they’re all soaked and soft, you’ll strain out the juice, which we’ll put back in later to flavor the vanilla ice cream base.

Pulse the peach slices a few times in a blender or food processor. Depending on how soft they are, you might be able to mash them by hand with a fork or potato masher. Use your best judgement on their softness.

You just want to make sure you don’t have too many large pieces of peach floating around in there. The larger peach pieces will freeze pretty hard in the freezer and be hard to bite into. A few are ok, but try your best to get the peaches somewhere between small pieces and not quite puree status.

Once your peaches are fully prepped, you can begin the ice cream base, which will only take about 20-30 minutes in the ice cream maker.

To your ice cream base, you’ll add that reserved peach juice, which is nice and sweet and flavorful and perhaps full of some small peach bits already. This is all exactly what you want and really setting you up for the best homemade peach ice cream recipe on the block.

Once the ice cream base is finished, in go the peach pieces.

Give ’em a good few stirs to really distribute peach bits throughout the ice cream base, and then into the freezer it goes.

Your homemade peach ice cream should be ready in about 2 hours of freeze time, and then it’s time to dig in!

We topped ours with my homemade peach curd, but it is, of course, divine all on its own.

It’s sweet and creamy and truly bursting with fresh peach flavor. And the little peach pieces are perfectly frozen enough to give a little texture without feeling bombarded with peach chunks in every bite.

We loved this easy homemade peach ice cream so much that it was gone, uhh, relatively quickly, just in time for me to make room for a batch of birthday cake ice cream.

It’s perfect for summer but also really great for those of you who do peach picking at the end of the year and then have peaches on hand through all the other seasons.

Plus, any way that I can have something reminiscent of summer/warm weather/sunshine in those darker months is welcome in my book.

So how about sticking this easy peach ice cream recipe in your back pocket for safe keeping, in case you need to transport back to this time in the future? I’ll be right there with you!