Homemade Peach Sorbet Recipe 🍑 A Creamy, Refreshing Summer Treat

By Rebecca St.Clair

This homemade peach sorbet is made with fresh peaches and a hint of fresh lemon, for a light, flavour packed dessert recipe perfect for peach season. No artificial flavours—just real fruit in every sunny spoonful.

Peach sorbet is a delicious way to showoff the natural flavours of peaches picked at their peak. Made with fresh or frozen peaches, it’s naturally sweet, extra creamy, and deliciously refreshing.

Fresh, fruity, and incredibly easy, this peach sorbet recipe comes together in no time. Perfect for summer gatherings or healthy weekday desserts. With its velvety texture and sweet, sun-ripened flavour, it’s a refreshing, guilt-free treat you’ll want to make all summer long.

How to store homemade peach sorbet

Freezer

Since this is a frozen dessert, it must be stored in the freezer. Keep the sorbet in an airtight container, stored in the freezer. For best results, use the homemade peach sorbet within 2 weeks.

Homemade peach sorbet can be stored frozen for up to 2 months but you may notice sugar crystals forming the longer it sits, which could alter the smooth texture.

For best results, allow the frozen peach sorbet to soften at room temperature for 10 minutes. This will allow you to easily scoop and serve it.

Homemade Peach Sorbet Substitutions

While this is a classic Italian recipe for peach sorbet, you can feel free to change it to suit your own taste and preferences.

The peaches in this recipe can be replaced by other fruit. The closest fruit to peaches are nectarines and plums. You can also replace the fresh peaches in this recipe with frozen and enjoy this recipe any time of year.

The sugar in this recipe can also be replaced by you favourite sugar alternative. Since not all sugar has the same level of sweetness, use this chart below to get the proper ratio when replacing white sugar.

What is the difference between sherbet, sorbet, and granita?

All of these are delicious frozen desserts, normally made with fresh fruit.

Sorbet is a simple puréed, sweetened fruit mixture. It is churned to a creamy frozen dessert before freezing completely.

Sherbet is a similar sweetened fruit mixture made the same way but with the addition of dairy, for an extra creamy frozen treat.

Granita another classic frozen dessert. This one is not churned, instead frozen and then scraped as it chills for a more snow cone or crushed ice type appearance and texture.

How to make homemade peach sorbet

1. Peel and remove the pit from 4 peaches.
2. Add to a food processor with 1/2 cup of sugar and the juice from 1 lemon.

3. Purée until you have a very smooth mixture.

4. Chill in the fridge 1 to 2 hours.

5. Place the mixture in an ice cream maker, according to the manufacturers directions.

6. Place the peach sorbet in a sealable, freezer-safe container.

7. Freeze for 2 to 3 hours or until set.

8. Serve cold, in a bowl or cone.

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