Find the best easy peach recipes to share with the kids, from muffins and oatmeal to smoothies and desserts. Plus: tips for freezing fresh peaches and how to make the yummiest peach popsicles!
When peaches are in season in the summer, we can’t get enough and eat them fresh and in a range of recipes. The ones below are our favorites, and they work for babies and toddlers on up through adults.
Find nutritious, low-added sugar peach recipes to try for breakfast, snack, and dessert—with the easiest cooking methods around.
Peaches are high in fiber and a good source of vitamin C.
You can also make these recipes with frozen peaches, so save this post for all of your peach baking and cooking needs!
(You may also like my Mango Sorbet, Strawberry Popsicles, and Blueberry Sauce as more yummy fruit recipes.)
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Peaches and Cream Oatmeal
I love making all kinds of oatmeal with fruit, but peach oatmeal might be my favorite. It’s fresh, flavorful, and comes together in less than 10 minutes.
With bright peach flavor and an easy method, this Peaches and Cream Oatmeal is a nutritious breakfast to share with the kids. Plus, it reheats well, so you can make it one day and enjoy it for days to come!
Peaches and Cream Oatmeal
Peach Cottage Cheese Smoothie
Combine 4 simple ingredients into a delicious smoothie with incredible creaminess and plenty of protein.
This simple cottage cheese smoothie is easy to make and is super creamy without many ingredients. You can even share it with your kiddo! Be sure to blend it very well to ensure the creamiest texture.
Peach Cottage Cheese Smoothie
5-Minute Peach Puree
Transform ripe peaches into a perfectly smooth Peach Puree that babies, toddlers, and grown-ups will love.
You can use either fresh peaches or thawed frozen slices to make this recipe. Serve it as a baby food or use it to add flavor to yogurt, oatmeal, or even vanilla ice cream.
5-Minute Peach Puree (Fresh and Easy)
Favorite Peach Yogurt
This recipe creates a homemade Peach Yogurt that’s similar to store-bought fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt, but the peach flavor is fresh and bright.
Learn how to make the yummiest Peach Yogurt with just a few ingredients to serve fruit-on-the-bottom style, mixed together, in a pouch, or in a bowl with a spoon. This is such a nutritious yogurt option and comes together so fast.
Favorite Peach Yogurt
Favorite Peach Crisp Recipe
With bright fruit flavor and a simple crisp topping, this recipe comes together with pantry staples and either fresh or frozen peaches.
This crisp recipe feeds a crowd and it’s one of my go-to party desserts. You can always cut the amounts in half and use a 9-inch pie plate to make a crisp that serves about 6.
Favorite Peach Crisp Recipe
Peach Crumb Bars
The bars work really well as breakfast or a snack, and you can also top them with vanilla ice cream or sorbet to turn them into a dessert.
You can make the yummiest Peach Crumb Bars with simple ingredients and fresh or canned peaches. This recipe is perfect for dessert or snack—and is even allergy-friendly, too!
Peach Crumb Bars
Easy Peach Sauce
Whenever we have a lot of fresh peaches, they’re on sale at the market, or I have some frozen ones that need to be used up, we make a batch of peach sauce.
Transform fresh (or frozen) peaches into the most delicious peach sauce with this simple method. It’s a delicious fruit puree to share with a baby or toddler that you can serve on its own or mixed with yogurt or oatmeal.
Easy Peach Sauce
Peach Popsicles
These are easy to make with fresh or frozen fruit—or you can use canned fruit if needed—and are a perfect way to cool off, work as a hydration food, and are a yummy toddler snack on for a vitamin-rich treat.
With an easy method and bright fruit flavor, these Peach Popsicles are refreshing and delicious for any age.
Peach Popsicles
Favorite Peach Smoothie
It’s nutritious, naturally sweet, and easy to adjust for the ingredients you prefer and have on hand.
Blend a handful of nutritious ingredients into a deliciously refreshing Peach Smoothie. With options to make this with banana or without, ways to add protein, and tips for storing leftovers, this post has everything you need to get started. See the Notes for variations.
Favorite Peach Smoothie
Canned Peaches
This recipe for canning peaches in a simple honey syrup is, hands down, my favorite way to preserve peaches.
To make these delicious canned peaches, you’ll need a big pot, pint-size mason jars (wide or regular mouth, though wide mouth is a little easier), new lids, bands, and a jar lifter. Look in the canning section of your market for supplies if you don’t already have them.
How to Can Peaches
Fluffy Peach Muffins
These muffins, which are extra fluffy from yogurt, are tender and so flavorful.
Bursting with fresh fruit, these Peach Muffins are a delicious breakfast or snack option to share with the kids. You can use fresh or frozen peaches and make the muffins in under 30 minutes. So yum!
Fluffy Peach Muffins
Easy Peach Muffins (with Banana)
Made with a base of rolled oats, bananas, and peaches, thesehealthy Peach Muffins are wholesome and kid-friendly.
You can use fresh or frozen peaches in this recipe. Reduce the honey or maple syrup to 2 tablespoons or omit it all together if desired. (The resulting muffins will be a little less moist, but still very moist!)
Easy Peach Muffins (with Banana)
Easy Stewed Peaches
These are a perfect texture for older babies and toddlers to eat as a finger food or with a spoon.
Learn how to transform ripe peaches into delicious Stewed Peaches to serve as a simple snack, over oatmeal, or with yogurt. You can make these with slightly underripe peaches (which is handy if you happen to have a lot of them).
Easy Stewed Peaches
How to Store
See each recipe for tips on storage, though generally you can store these recipes in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days or up to 6 months in the freezer.
Best Tips for Success
- Use fresh or frozen peaches in these recipes. You can purchase frozen sliced peaches at the store, or slice and freeze peaches yourself when you find them on sale or have some leftover that you don’t want to go to waste.
- The flavor of peaches can vary widely in terms of sweetness, so taste them and adjust any added sugar as needed.
- Try different varieties of peaches for different flavors, including white peaches, yellow peaches, and Colorado peaches, which are some of the most flavorful around.