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 (60ml) fresh Orange Juice
- 1 Tablespoon (15ml) Sugar , or to taste
- 2 Tablespoons (1 ounce or 30ml) Gin or Vodka , optional
- optional - dash of peach bitters
- ice
- 1/2 cup (120ml) Club Soda
Instructions
- Peel, pit, and core out the peach's rough pit flesh (if needed).
- Place 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.
I just bought some peaches yesterday and I’m staring at them trying to figure out what to do with them… I think this week I found my inspiration!
We also have trouble keeping our dog away from the raspberry bush. As you probably know, dogs gingerly taking fruit, like little bear cubs, is often too adorable for one to muster a convincingly harsh tone.
Drink looks lovely. I just discovered a Peach Basil Sangria, which got us through the recent heat wave in the Pacific Northwest.
Wow, that peach tree is amazing and your drink looks so refreshing! We just planted two peach trees last year and picked a total of 4 peaches from them but I hope one day our trees may look like yours. As for that gorgeous looking Peach Cooler…..sigh. I had bought a bag full of lovely peaches I had intended on using in a peach pie but I think I need to try out that cooler of yours for our guests this weekend!
Deborah
Adorable picture of your dog. Love peach drinks1
Okay, I think you guys need to mix things up a bit, like putting up a crappy post because EVERYTHING you post looks f’ing AWESOME and just makes me sad that I don’t live next door to you (or in your backyard – we’ve discussed this before). I have a flat of peaches in my house and I can guarantee that they are nothing near as amazing as yours – wahnnnnnn! Miss you guys, terribly. Even though I get to tweet w you and email you, that doesn’t give me my Dante and Sierra fix! Love you guys! xxoo
Yum – that is brilliant! And I have a case of BC peaches that are all perfectly ripe RIGHT NOW. Perfect timing – I’m starting to tire of rhubarb tea and Nanking cherry lemonade! I never think to drink my peaches!
Absolutely gorgeous images! Just want to keep staring at them! And since peaches are one of my fav fruits, you know I’ll be trying this cooler recipe soon. And your post made me realize how much I’d LOVE to have a couple of peach trees in my own future garden!
Wow this looks like it would really hit the spot today. I didn’t realize until recently that peaches are a surprisingly wonderful addition to tabbouleh. I certainly wish I had the problem of having so many peaches that I didn’t know what to do with them!
If I fruits blooming like that in my garden…I doubt if they’d make their way into coolers or any thing..I would eat them as it is..beautiful pics, beautiful presentation
oh my word, your photos are so very lovely.
great ideas, thanks for sharing!
happy summer.
🙂
I ended up making a pitcher of this because it was SO GOOD.
I’ve never heard of dogs wanting to eat stonefruits! I’m glad our cats don’t like it! We don’t have enough room in our garden to grow any fruittrees, but the stonefruits are all over the stores right now, so they are plenty!
The Italian dish- Our white peach is semi-free stone, or almost free stone. Compared to out other stone fruits, which cling tightly to the seed, the white peach appears to release very easily.
beautiful as always, i just made peach frozen yogurt and when we get the house i have lots of planning for a garden!
You guys have no idea how I am trying to contain it…Dudes!! If I lived any closer I’d be in your yard all the time picking up fruit and playing with more dogs!! Bailey ate the lettuce and half the tomatoes already!
Beautiful pictures, delicious cocktail… Aced it once again!
I need one of those right now! Hot and humid in VA – would have been perfect after schlepping books around at work all day!