Homemade Peach Ice Cream with Dried Sour Cherries

Homemade Peach Ice Cream with cherries is made with canned peaches in lite syrup, dried sour cherries, and pure maple syrup. This is a simple recipe that sets up fast for a delicious, quick dessert. It yields 12 servings making it a wonderful treat for a family, or to serve at your next get together.

Sweet peaches and bright, sour cherries dance together for a delicious mix of contrasting flavors. The base of the ice cream is made with half and half and heavy cream for a silky, thick frozen cream that has the perfect texture.

How do you make fruit ice cream not icy?

Creamy, silky ice cream is always the goal when making homemade peach ice cream. You may think that you can add your choice of fruits to the ice cream mixture, and simply let it set. The problem is that fruit holds a lot of water, and will likely result in an icy consistency to your finished ice cream.

To avoid making an icy ice cream, you need to cook out any extra water from the fruit. This is an added step that many wish you avoid, which is where canned fruit comes in.

This homemade peach ice cream uses canned peaches for the added sweetness, and the ease of use. Canned peaches are already sitting in a thick syrup, so you don’t need to cook them down and build a syrup yourself.

A frozen peach treat is a fresh, bright dessert that can be made anytime of the year. Best of all, you can make it straight from the pantry.

Is homemade ice cream better with or without eggs?

We have a large selection of homemade ice cream recipes on the blog. Some use eggs, some do not. This old fashioned homemade peach ice cream does not use eggs which keeps it simple and lighter in overall calories.

Eggs will give the ice cream a smooth and creamy texture, while helping to prevent ice crystallization; but, we also love an egg free ice cream every now and then. This homemade peach ice cream is not lacking even without the use of eggs, and we love how simple and quick it is to make.

Are ice cream makers worth it?

I bought my Cuisinart ice cream maker last summer and have used it to make all of the scrumptious homemade ice creams you can find on the blog. Homemade ice cream is so easy nowadays. An electric ice cream maker is very easy to use and takes very little time.

There are so many options, styles, and price ranges to choose from you don’t have to worry about not finding one that’s right for you. Most ice cream makers are low profile and easy to store, while also being large enough to make a good amount of ice cream for you to enjoy.

Just load them up and turn them on, the ice cream maker does it all.

The best homemade Peach Ice Cream recipe

Homemade Peach Ice Cream is so good. You can omit the dried cherries if you don’t have them handy, but I hope you will make this recipe with the cherries. The sour cherries are the crowning touch in this recipe. They really bring out and enhance those yummy sweet creamy canned peaches.

The Peaches

Use canned peaches in a light syrup. The extra sweet of heavy syrup is unnecessary and will make a very sweet ice cream. If all you have is heavy syrup peaches, reduce the maple syrup so that you don’t end up with an over powered sweetness.

Selecting the right cherries

This recipe uses dried Montmorency cherries. The peaches, cream and maple syrup blend beautifully with the dried sour cherries, and the firm texture of the cherries brings a welcomed richness to the texture of the finished ice cream.

Can I use fresh fruit in this recipe?

You can use fresh fruits in this ice cream, but we recommend keeping a few things in mind for best results.

• Use diced sweet cherries, not sour pie cherries. If you are looking to use another dried fruit in place of the sour cherries, maybe try dried cranberries. They will have a similar tart flavor.
• Make sure any fresh fruit is very ripe, you need the sweetness and juiciness of very ripe fruits to make a reduced sauce and cook the excess water out.
• You may need to increase the maple syrup when using fresh fruits, depending how the fruit reduction tastes.

If you have frozen cherries or peaches they will work in this recipe. Just add them straight out of the freezer bag into your ice cream mixer and mix until soft set. If they are in large chunks, maybe chop them up before adding to your ice cream mixture.

Frozen juices with your fruits will make a solid pack, and you will need to at least partially defrost the fruits so you can break or cut the fruits into small (1/2 inch) pieces.

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