Boozy Peach Coolers – Refreshingly Summer
This peach cooler cocktail recipe post was one of our first recipe posts back in 2009. It’s fun to see how our photography and travel stories have changed over the years!
Peach Cooler Cocktail
When we started our first garden over 13 years ago, we knew exactly what we wanted to plant. We didn’t wait and dived head first into fruit trees. The two most important categories that topped our list were citrus trees and stone fruit trees. We wanted the garden to burst with citrus glory in winter. And in the Summer, a sweet, nectary bounty with all the stone fruits. We have a current collection of stone fruit trees. Ranging from white peaches, yellow peaches, Dapple Dandy pluots, two weeping Santa Rosa plums, and the Spice-Zee nectaplum, we’re wanting to plant more. Summer just isn’t complete without stone fruits. When they’re ripe and ready at the market or dropping like baseballs off your backyard trees, stone fruits signify the years most bountiful season. If you live in the right climate zone and have room in your balcony/backyard/land/or ranch, you must plant a stone fruit tree. There’s nothing more satisfying than picking a tree ripened peach, nectarine or what ever stone fruit off your own tree. Bite into it and the soft flesh will explode with sweet juice and the flesh will melt in your mouth.
Fresh Garden White Peaches
What to do with all the garden fruit? The only minor problem to having a healthy, fruiting trees is that all the fruit will ripen at once! When that happens, be prepared for the onslaught of fresh fruit. They’re all for eating, cooking, canning, grilling and giving away to neighbors and the mailman. Maybe even your boss will appreciate a basket of peaches and give you that raise that you’ve always wanted! Last two years we had so much fruit, we couldn’t keep our dogs off the tree! 
The sweet smells from the sweet fruit had our dogs camping out underneath the tree, waiting for them to fall from the sky for dinner. They would even go as far as nudge them, lick them and leave bite marks on the fruit while still on the tree!
Drinking the stone fruits is one of our favorite ways to help deplete our huge bounty of fruit. Bellini’s are one of our favorites but a more kiddie friendly version are peach coolers. Even without the booze, these refreshing peach coolers are equally wonderful, satisfying for the whole family to enjoy. Everyone under 21 can celebrate summer’s peach drinking fest! But we’re never without options and have included an option for adding Gin or Vodka for all the adults!
Having a batch of fresh peach puree is so versatile and it’s the perfect summer staple for all your outdoor parties. The puree can be added to your iced tea for a naturally sweet boost, or mixed with soda water and a little bit of sugar for that quenching beverage on a sweltering hot day. The possibilities are endless and it just doesn’t end with peaches, but plums, pluots and apricots make a fine and delicious puree as well.
Happy Summer fruit eating to you all! Hope you enjoy our boozy peach cooler cocktail!
-diane and todd
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Boozy or Virgin Peach Cooler Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 medium ripe Peach
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) fresh Orange Juice
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) Sugar , or to taste
- 2 Tablespoons (30 ml) Gin or Vodka (1 ounce) , optional
- optional - dash of peach bitters
- ice
- 1/2 cup (120 ml) Club Soda
Instructions
- Peel, pit, and core out the peach's rough pit flesh (if needed).
- Place peach in blender or food processor with orange juice, and sugar. For the boozy version, add the gin or vodka and add the peach bitters if desired. Puree until smooth. (If your peach isn't super ripe and juicy & won't puree very easily, add a touch more orange juice to thin it out.)
- Put ice in a glass and pour in peach mixture. Slowly pour the in the club soda, then gently stir everything to combine. Garnish with a slice of peach and a sprig of thyme if you want to get fancy.
What wonderful fortune to have a peach tree at one’s disposal! I get the most delicious peaches from the local farmers market, but at $4/lb (and worth every penny I might add), I can’t bear to cook/mash/puree them. Mixing them with blueberries and plain yogurt is about as fancy as I get! But this drink sounds unbelievable…
Your photograph is beautiful! Here is my entry this week, I make my Simple Almond Cake with tree fruits all the time. In this example it is made with rhubarb (not a tree fruit), but I often make it with chopped plums, peaches or apples. Happy Summer!
Mm, bellinis…or coolers sound good, too!
Wow. Gorgeous.
I wanted to stop by and just thank you both for doing all this with me and the rest of the crew. It has been so exciting for me (the garden blogger oddball in the lot) to get to meet so many of your wonderful readers..and the recipes they are sharing are really impressive.
Now off to find some really juicy peaches for a boozeless treat.
Stunning photos. You do peaches justice!
This cooler sounds like the perfect way to enjoy peaches. We’re having great peaches in Ontario this year and I’m going to try as many variations as I can!
Love the picture of the pooch licking the peach! That is hilarious- it is as if he knows stealing the whole fruit would be big trouble so he’s just sneaking a taste! We have a big box of peaches and I can’t wait to try your cooler recipe. It sounds perfect for warm weather!
Summer Fest and nectarines. A great combo!
your photos are beautiful.. one of the things i miss most about living in cali…picking fruit and avocados off a tree in the backyard! here’s my contribution this week:
Those drinks look so refreshing. Great for a summer evening on the porch.
Wow, I’m so jealous of your fruit trees! Being novice gardeners (and in a rental flat) we didn’t go down the fruit tree route. Will definitely be growing plums when we have a place of our own though! I’m not sure how well peaches grow in the UK.
OOOOHHH lookeee who’s stealing fruit!? LOL that’s the cutest picture ever.
Those are some gorgeous looking drinks! I live in the city so I don’t have a huge yard but I would love to find a way to squeeze a peach tree in!
Those drinks look fantastic! Here in Ontario, Canada we had a very disappointing strawberry season but our peaches this year are great! Last night I made a peach and tomato salad with basil and mache. So good!
Peach trees in your own backyard! Wow! I would love to have the dilemma of too many fresh peaches 🙂 And these coolers look fantastic!
What a beautiful peach tree! It must be great fun, the competition to get to them between the two legged and four legged members of your family. Do you all lurk around corners and eye each other? 😉 The drinks looks refreshingly delicious!
I swear, peaches are my favorite part of summer.