Best Peach Ice Cream Recipe

Peachy keen. Peaches and Cream. Georgia Peach. Lots of peachy sayings grace our Southern vocabulary. I promised you Peach Ice Cream and here I deliver.

Whether you use fresh peaches – which I highly recommend – or ones that you have previously frozen, this recipe delivers on peachy flavor.

Did you know that ice cream starts with a simple vanilla custard? Then you enhance it by adding flavoring, fruits, chips, nuts, and any garnish you like.

Last week, I shared one of my all-time favorite peach recipes – Peach Clafouti. I couldn’t resist sharing one more yummy peach recipe. In fact, this peach ice cream will pair beautifully with the Peach Clafouti.

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Preparing the Peaches

Start by gathering all your ingredients – this is called mise en place.

This homemade peach ice cream has a little secret ingredient. I didn’t put it on the sheet pan with the other ingredients.

Peel and chop your peaches.

Add 1/2 sugar and lemon juice to the peaches.

Now you can add the secret ingredient – 2 tablespoons of peach brandy.

Combine, cover, and place in the refrigerator for 2 – 3 hours or overnight.

After a few hours, remove the peach mixture from the refrigerator. Drain the juice into a cup. Return the peaches to the refrigerator.

Make the Ice Cream Custard Base

In a medium bowl, whisk the egg yolks.

Bring the heavy whipping cream, milk, vanilla extract, and 3/4 cup sugar to just below a boil.

Whisk in about 1/3 of a cup of the whipping cream/milk mixture to the whisked egg yolks. (I like to use a ladle.) Then add that mixture back into the cream/milk mixture and continue to stir; this is what makes the custard.

Using a fine mesh sieve, strain the thickened custard into a bowl. This method eliminates any bits of cooked eggs getting into the ice cream.

Add the reserved peach juice.

Place the bowl of custard into a larger bowl of ice water to chill the custard. Once the custard mixture is cool, cover and place it in the refrigerator until the custard is very cold, for several hours or overnight.

Once the custard is very cold, from 2 hours to overnight, pour it into your ice cream maker.

My ice cream maker is a Krups that I’ve had for years. It does a great job of churning the custard into ice cream. As with all ice cream makers, the bowl has to stay in the freezer.

When the ice cream is thick, transfer it to a container and place it in the freezer until ready to serve, up to overnight.

The Peach Ice Cream Recipe

This peach ice cream would be a perfect start to summer at a Memorial Day party, a 4th of July party, or the perfect end to summer ending at a Labor Day celebration. Be ready by stocking up on some peaches.

What makes this peach ice cream the best? It has the flavor of peaches from three sources: fresh peaches, marinated peach juice, and peach brandy.

I hope you love this peach ice cream and will PIN IT.