Grilled Peaches and Ice Cream is a simple, healthy dessert, perfect for grilling season! Warm peaches are crisscrossed with char lines, smothered in ice cream, and laced with caramel sauce. The mix of textures and flavors is so good!
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Grilled Peaches with Ice Cream
Once you start grilling these sweet and sunny stone fruits, you’ll be making them all season long! Grilled peaches make the perfect healthy summer dessert, with ice cream and caramel sauce to add a bit of indulgence.
Why you’ll love this Grilled Peaches Recipe:
- Simple: This is a super simple and quick ice cream dessert, with only five ingredients.
- Grilled treat: Cooked straight on the grill, you get these wonderful char lines. It’s the perfect BBQ dessert!
- Your choice: Grilled peaches are a delicious low-calorie dessert on their own. You can also serve them with ice cream and caramel sauce for a decadent treat. Either way, they’re a great mix of textures.
Ingredients
- Peaches – Use ripe, halved peaches with the stone removed.
- Ice cream – Vanilla bean or plain vanilla works great.
- Olive oil spray – You can use lite or regular vegetable spray.
- Toppings – Caramel sauce or butterscotch sauce are delicious on these. You can top with chopped nuts like walnuts or pecans.
How to make Grilled Peaches With Cream
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- Spray peach halves with oil.
- Grill for 5 minutes.
- Serve as is, or top with ice cream, caramel sauce and/or nuts.
Grilling the peaches makes them so tender and brings out all of their juicy flavor and sweetness. Grilled Peaches With Cream would be perfect dessert for the 4th of July or any other Summer BBQ! So delicious.
What are the Best Peaches For Grilling?
Look for freestone peaches that are still firm when squeezed. Super-ripe peaches are sweeter, but that sugar will burn quickly and makes them too tender to manage.
Grilling peach halves, rather than slices, are easier to handle without overcooking. Brush the peach halves with olive oil (or use olive oil spray) so they won’t stick or burn.
How Do You Grill Peaches?
Cooking peaches on the grill, after dinner, when the coals have cooled down, is the perfect time to grill peaches. Use medium heat on the grill and cook the peaches for four to five minutes on each side.
Resist the temptation to reposition the peaches once they’re on the grill — good grill marks on peaches are the result of patience (and clean grill grates). The peaches don’t need much cooking–just enough to heat them through.
How Do You Serve Grilled Peaches?
You can plate them individually. If you’re adding ice cream, put it on just before serving, because the melting will begin quickly.
If you’re serving a crowd, bring a tray of pre-scooped and re-frozen ice cream and spoons to the table, add the warm peaches from the grill to the ice cream, and let everyone dig in. Plan on at least one peach half per person.
If you’re feeling extra indulgent, drizzle some caramel sauce over the peaches and ice cream, and sprinkle with chopped nuts.
But why stop there? Grilled peaches also make a great side with pork. I suggest skipping the ice cream if you serve the peaches as a side dish, but I promise, I won’t judge!
Check out these other delicious desserts with fruit
- No Bake Banana Split
- Classic Pecan Pie
- Pink Grapefruit Cake
- Kentucky Butter Cake with Strawberries and Cream
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Grilled Peaches Recipe
Equipment
- Kitchen Scale (optional)
Ingredients
- 4 ripe peaches
- 1 tablespoon olive oil 13 grams (or olive oil spray)
- 16 ounces vanilla bean ice cream 454 grams
- ¼ cup caramel sauce 80 grams, heated
- ¼ cup chopped nuts 28 grams, optional
Instructions
- Cut the peaches in half and remove the pits.4 ripe peaches
- Lightly brush or spray the inside of each peach half with olive oil.1 tablespoon olive oil
- Place on grill (medium/medium-high heat), cut side down, and grill for approximately 5 minutes. The peaches should be tender and warmed through, but not burnt.
- Top with ice cream, hot caramel sauce, and nuts, if desired.16 ounces vanilla bean ice cream, ¼ cup chopped nuts, ¼ cup caramel sauce
Becky’s Tips
- When buying peaches, make sure they are slightly soft, a dark yellow color and round.
- Brush the peach halves with olive oil to prevent sticking.
- Serve with ice cream, warm caramel sauce and chopped nuts–or any combination of those.
- Plan on at least one peach half per person, but be prepared for seconds!
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Did you make this? Leave a comment!
I used nectarines instead of peaches (my preference) and sprinkled with toasted pistachios.
That sounds so yummy!!
I make this with a little crushed graham crackers over top of ice cream and i used pecans…delish!
These look amazing Becky! Pinned for later!
Thanks Sarah! You are so sweet
Those look incredible! Never tried grilling peaches, but will definitely make these this summer!
Hope you love them Crissy! There’s so much on your site I can’t wait to try this Summer too!
So I’ve never grilled peaches which is just slightly ridiculous! We do pineapple all the time … but I need to make the peaches happen! And with vanilla bean ice cream and caramel … I mean c’mon!
I think salted caramel sauce makes pretty much anything delicious!! <3 Thanks for stopping by Ashley :)