Life's a peach with these 7 desserts, including pie, ice cream and cake

We’re keen on these peach dessert recipes, including deep-dish pie, fritters with a decadent sauce, and grilled with mascarpone whipped cream.

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Peach Almond Slump (Scott Suchman; food styling by Lisa Cherkasky/Both for The Washington Post)

Peaches are a strong contender for fruit of the summer, with their unique combination of sweetness and acidity. As much as I enjoy eating a ripe peach over the sink, juices dripping down my chin with each bite, I also love that the fruit can be transformed into a number of marvelous desserts. If you find yourself with a bounty of the stone fruit this summer, these peach dessert recipes are sure to please. For more peachy ideas, browse our database filled with more than 10,000 recipes.



Above. Sometimes also referred to as grunts, slumps “are typically made on the stovetop and feature dumplings that steam in cooking,” recipes editor Becky Krystal wrote. In this peach version, the sweet fruit mixture is topped with almond dumplings. Get the recipe.




These fritters call for both chopped fruit and preserves for a double dose of peach flavor. A maple-bourbon sauce adds extra decadence, but you can swap it out for a dusting of cinnamon and powdered sugar, if you prefer to abstain from alcohol. Get the recipe.




This pie, adapted from Edna Lewis’s “The Taste of Country Cooking,” uses both fresh and canned fruit and is designed to feed a crowd. (For fewer servings, try this Peach Crumble Pie.) Get the recipe.

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