Easy Peach Butter
Updated March 26, 2019
Easy Peach Butter-when life gives you lots of peaches, make this simple peach butter! It is great on toast, pancakes, waffles, or stirred into oatmeal or yogurt!
Maxwell is a pretty good sleeper. I usually feed him around 2:00 a.m. and 5:00-6:00 a.m. Once I am done feeding, Josh takes the baby and puts him back to sleep. Josh and Maxwell have no trouble falling back asleep after the 5:00-6:00 feeding, but it is hard for me to go back to sleep. I am a morning person and once the clock strikes 5:00, I am up for the day…even if I am super tired.
Last week, I was up at the crack of dawn feeding the babe and I was going to go back to bed, but the pile of peaches on our kitchen table started staring me down. They wouldn’t let me go to sleep until I did something with them:) So, I made homemade Peach Butter. It made sense at the time, but looking back I should have ignored the peaches and got some shut eye. Except, then we wouldn’t have any peach butter and I LOVE peach butter so the lack of sleep was worth it!
I wasn’t planning on blogging about this recipe because it is so easy, but I shared a photo on Instagram and several people asked for the recipe, so here you go! I aim to please!
Speaking of pleasing, we need your feedback. We post recipes on our blog every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It’s been that way FOR-EVER…saying that in my best Sandlot voice:) We also post a weekly lifestyle post on Thursdays, This and That.
Ok, back to the peach butter! This recipe is super simple, I basically made it in my sleep. I think I had one eye open:) Peach butter is great on toast, pancakes, waffles, stirred into oatmeal, yogurt, or even as an ice cream topping. Vanilla ice cream with peach butter…yes, please!
I just made a small batch for us to enjoy, but if you are into canning you can double, triple, or quadruple the recipe and do some major canning!
Put your peaches to good use and make a batch of Easy Peach Butter! It is so good!
Easy Peach Butter
Ingredients
- 6 cups chopped peaches skin and pits removed
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar more or less depending on sweetness of peaches, adjust to your taste
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place the chopped peaches in a large pot. Stir in the sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Heat the mixture over medium heat for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure the mixture doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
- Using an immersion blender, puree the peach mixture until desired consistency. I like to leave a few small chunks, but you can puree it until perfectly smooth if desired. If you don't have an immersion blender, you can use a blender or food processor. Let the peach butter cool to room temperature and transfer the peach butter to a blender or food processor and puree.
- Let the peach butter cool completely. Pour into jars and store in the refrigerator. It will keep for about two weeks.
- Note-this peach butter can be canned. Peach butter is great on toast, biscuits, pancakes, waffles, stirred into oatmeal, yogurt, or used as an ice cream topping!
Have you tried this recipe?
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Can you substitute apricots for peaches
Can you substitute apricots
I haven’t tried it, but if you love apricots, I am sure it would work. Just a different flavor.
I canned nectarines, pineapple and candied ginger …turned out fantastic
I love making the butter mainly because it uses less sugar and very simple to make.
Delicious, I substituted granulated sugar and lemon juice for honey and lime juice ‘cause that’s what I had. I didn’t use an immersion blender; my peaches were overly ripe so I just squished them with a fork and left it a little chunky. Thank you for this recipe!
Would this work with peaches that I have frozen?
How you can the speech better
This peach butter was amazing!! I stirred it in plain Greek yogurt and then added granola. It tasted as if I were eating peach crisp! I also made some homemade sweet rolls and, instead of putting brown sugar and cinnamon in the middle, I spread peach butter on the dough and then rolled it up. Super! I’m glad you woke at five and concocted this recipe 🙂
How much does this make?
Can this be frozen?
And what is process time if canning?
Can it be water bath canned
How many pints does this make?
This is delicious! Thanks so much for sharing.
Hello,
Totally off the wall question here- but can you substitute the peach butter for ‘normal’ butter in a cookie recipe? Or, to be more concise, how would you incorporate this into a cookie that ended up like a Toll House chocolate chip cookie texture NOT CAKEY? I ended up with a flat of the most humongous peaches and all the cookie recipes I have tried thus far have had two problems. #1 CAKEY. (Bleh! I wasn’t looking for a muffin recipe…. )
and #2 peach flavor dissipates to almost nothing. Sigh!
I haven’t tried using the peach butter in a cookie. It is similar to applesauce and not real butter. I am guessing it will make cookies super moist and cakey.
It sounds wonderful. I’m new at this and need the canning instructions. 🙁
I’d follow instructions from ball for their peach butter on the canning time
Really easy. Taste so delicious
Made this recipe with 28lbs of peaches added a little ginger canned made 32 pints of peach butter delicious !
Amazing!
Is peach butter thick enough that it can be used as a cake filling?
I haven’t tried it as a cake filling.
I have not tried this recipe for cake filling. However, I do a lot of raspberry filling for cakes. I use seedless raspberry preserves with raspberry jello. I warm the preserves and add the jello. Spread the warm mixture over each cake layer. It is wonderful.
do you have the receipe for canning the peach butter
I don’t because I am not a canner:) I know others have canned it though.
I went strictly by recipe and I found it too runny and not thick enough. Taste good though.
Be sure to let it fully reduce for best results. Really good with cheese!
I love this simple recipe with less sugar than others out there. I like to taste the peaches goodness so I left out the cinnamon and vanilla. I doubled recipe and got 4 pints.
wonderful recipe
Thanks!
Delicious peach butter Thank you!!! I used possibly a half cup of cane sugar and filled 6 jars! Great way to enjoy the wonderful flavor of peaches year round. I did water bathe them! Jarred sunshine❤️
Yes!!
Such a great, easy recipe, perfect way to use peaches that are a little past their prime! At the end I felt like it needed a little “something” but I didn’t want to add more sugar–a good pinch of kosher salt was exactly right. I’ve got a pot of nectarines simmering right now, should be just as good.
Yes! I love using the not so perfect peaches for this recipe.