There's no better way to use those juicy, fresh peaches than in a delicious muffin. Perfect for weekend brunch!
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❤️ Why you'll love it
- Tastes like peach cobbler in muffin form!
- Crunchy crumb topping drizzled with a fragrant bourbon glaze—YUM.
- The best muffins to share with all the peach lovers in your life!
Studded with juicy, fresh peaches and made in only one bowl, these delicious muffins are perfect for breakfast, lunch, dessert, and late-night snacking.
My family can't decide if the best part is the streusel topping, creamy white chocolate chips, puffy muffin tops, or warm glaze—it's all too good.
🧾 Ingredients
This is an overview of the ingredients for this peach muffin recipe. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the green recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.
🔪 Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. Full instructions are in the green recipe card at the bottom of the page.
- Peel the peaches with a vegetable peeler. Then, dice them.
- In a large bowl, combine the muffin batter.
- Gently fold in the chopped peaches and white chocolate chips.
- Spoon batter into muffin cups or paper liners and add crumble topping.
🥫 Storage
The best muffins are enjoyed warm right out of the oven. However, you can store leftovers in an airtight container for about two days. Just be sure to refrigerate the muffins, since they contain fresh fruit pieces.
You can freeze muffins and microwave them whenever you want a fresh bite of summery deliciousness. To do so, wrap room-temperature peach muffins individually in plastic wrap and store them in a freezer bag. They'll last about three months.
📖 Variations
- Once peach season ends (sad face!) you can use frozen or canned peaches instead of fresh.
- Some people like to replace the vanilla extract in this peach muffin recipe with almond extract.
- You can use almond milk or other non-dairy milk in place of cow's milk. The texture may be slightly different.
- When making your muffin batter, if you notice you've run out of milk, you can use the same amount of sour cream in a pinch!
- You can replace the bourbon in the glaze with equal amounts of cream or milk.
💭 Things to know
Expert Tip: To tell ripe peaches from those not yet ready, give them a gentle squeeze. If the peach is firm, that means it's not ripe. The best peaches will feel softer with a gentle squeeze, smell fragrant, and be free of any bruises.
- When dicing peaches, you might want to use a cutting board with a crevice around the edge to catch any excess juices. It makes clean-up a lot easier and prevents sticky countertops!
- For super tender, fluffy muffins, mix your dry ingredients really well. However, once you add the wet ingredients, only mix as much as necessary to combine everything together.
- Use an ice cream scoop for easy, even portioning of the muffin batter into the tin!
- You can use either paper liners or reusable, silicone muffin liners. I like paper if I'm taking my peach muffins to a gathering, but I prefer the reusable ones if I'm just baking for my family (they're BPA-free and eco-friendly!)
- If your glaze is too runny, let it sit for a few minutes, then stir again. It thickens and hardens as it sits.
- For mess-free drizzling, spoon your glaze into a zip-top plastic bag. Then, cut off a small corner of the bag to create a makeshift piping bag!
👩🍳 FAQs
You don't have to. Some people like the added texture of the peel. Though, since these are very soft and moist muffins, I prefer to remove the peel to preserve that tender bite all the way through.
Nope! Juicy peaches are perfect, and that sweet, summery nectar adds even more delicious peach flavor to the muffins. (If you're using canned or frozen peaches, however, I'd strain the excess juice.)
Nope! The phrases are used interchangably—a regular-sized, 12-count muffin tin is the same as a regular-sized, 12-count cupcake tin.
📚 Related recipes
- Another one of my favorite peach recipes, Blueberry Peach Cobbler is topped with a sweet, Southern biscuit topping.
- Peach Bread is soft, moist, and just sweet enough that it's perfect as breakfast or dessert. Don't forget to serve with butter.
- Peach dessert made as easy as pie, er, cake—this Southern Peach Dump Cake tastes like a cobbler and takes only minutes to prep!
🍽️ Serve with...
- Mock Devonshire Cream is so good on these - it's creamy and tangy so it balances the sweet peaches perfectly.
- Ginger Peach Sorbet is another great way to use peaches.
- Bourbon Peach Tea in a Pitcher - what can I say? It's summer.
📞 The last word
There aren't too many things that are more welcoming than muffins for breakfast -- at least not in my opinion. Muffins say welcome home, I went to a little trouble but not too much.
Muffins are basic love food... like cookies.
Fresh peach muffins are definitely best when peaches are in season but they're awfully good made with canned peaches, too. If you're a peach lover you've definitely got to try this!
If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need. Don't forget that you can click on "add to collection" to save it to your own, private recipe box!
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Fresh Peach Muffins with White Chocolate Chips
Print Pin Recipe SaveEquipment Needed
- muffin tin
Ingredients
Muffins
Topping
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup flour
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon ginger
- ¼ cup butter
Glaze
- ½ cup confectioner’s sugar, , more as needed to get consistency
- 1 tablespoon cream
- 1 teaspoon bourbon
Instructions
Before You Begin
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Put paper liners in muffin cups or use the silicon liners that are available.
Muffins
- Combine flour, sugars, baking powder, salt in a bowl.
- Stir in milk, egg, butter, and vanilla.
- Fold in the white chocolate and peaches.
- Divide batter evenly between muffin cups.
Topping
- Combine the dry topping ingredients in a bowl.
- With cold fingers rub butter into dry ingredients until the mixture is crumbly and looks like coarse crumbs.
Glaze
- Mix the confectioner’s sugar, bourbon, and cream together to create a runny glaze.
- Set aside.
To Bake
- Sprinkle the topping on the muffins.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool muffins in pans for 5 minutes. Remove to a wire rack.
- Place waxed paper under the wire rack and drizzle the glaze over the top of the muffins.
- Serve warm.
Notes
- When dicing peaches, you might want to use a cutting board with a crevice around the edge to catch any excess juices. It makes clean-up a lot easier and prevents sticky countertops!
- To tell ripe peaches from those not yet ready, give them a gentle squeeze. If the peach is firm, that means it's not ripe.
- For super tender, fluffy muffins, mix your dry ingredients really well. However, once you add the wet ingredients, only mix as much as necessary to combine everything together.
- Use an ice cream scoop for easy, even portioning of the muffin batter into the tin!
- You can use either paper liners or reusable, silicone muffin liners. I like paper if I'm taking my peach muffins to a gathering, but I prefer the reusable ones if I'm just baking for my family (they're BPA-free and eco-friendly!)
- If your glaze is too runny, let it sit for a few minutes, then stir again. It thickens and hardens as it sits.
- For mess-free drizzling, spoon your glaze into a zip-top plastic bag. Then, cut off a small corner of the bag to create a makeshift piping bag!
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Lindsay
Do they freeze well?
Marye
Yes. 🙂
Trish @ Rhubarbarians
Oh man, these look SO DELICIOUS! I am a sucker for peach anything! 🙂
Marye Audet
Thanks Trish!
Marye Audet
Thank you so much!
Diana Johnson
These look amazing! Wish peaches were in season right now...
Marye Audet
We're just beginning to get them here in Texas
Taylor Kiser
I would love these for a quick breakfast or an afternoon snack! They look delicious!!
Marye Audet
They are. I love the peaches in this.
Michelle | A Dish of Daily Life
I am absolutely drooling over these! This is the kind of baking I can handle. Going on my MUST TRY list!
Sabrina
I love peach desserts! I'm always drawn to those dishes on menus!
Faith (An Edible Mosaic)
I love muffins! And I agree with you, they're the perfect "welcome home" thing. I frequently make then when we have overnight guests! Love the use of peach here and that glaze takes these over the top!
Marye Audet
Thanks! They're so good.