Peaches are excellent eaten on their own or added to fruit salads and other dishes. But, when you have quite a few peaches to use up, you can always find many well-loved peach desserts to make. Peach cobbler, Peach Melba, peach cake, peach pie and peaches in wine are all delicious ways to turn peaches into dessert.

Peach cobbler is a very well-known peach dessert baked in a shallow pan. Sliced fresh peaches are placed in the dish with a brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla mixture sprinkled over them. A tablespoon or so of flour is also usually added for thickening purposes. Then, a crust made from flour, brown sugar, baking soda and/or baking powder and buttermilk or soured milk is dropped in spoonfuls over the peaches. Peach cobbler is easy to make and is delicious served warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Peach Melba is another popular peach dessert and is named after the Australian opera star Dame Nelly Melba. When beginning to prepare Peach Melba, fairly ripe peaches are blanched and then put into ice water before skinning and slicing. The peach slices are put into the fridge, usually with some sugar added to them and some chefs add lemon juice and/or honey. At serving time, a scoop of vanilla ice cream is placed into a fancy dish, then the peaches are placed over the ice cream and raspberry sauce and slivered almonds top it off. Fancy restaurants often add sugar lace or ice sculpture accents to their Peach Melba.

Peach cake can refer to many different types of cakes with peaches added. Some peach cakes used canned peaches while others use fresh peaches. Peach upside down cake is made like pineapple upside down cake and peach pound cakes and tube cakes are also popular. Peach cheesecakes often have almond flavoring added.

Peach pie can be made in two different ways. A double crust peach pie often has a lattice crust, and cinnamon and nutmeg are usually added to flavor the sliced peaches. A single crust peach pie may have a sour cream and peach filling and a crumb topping made with flour, butter, sugar and cinnamon.

Peaches in wine are an elegant French dessert. Any decent drinking wine can be used. Sliced and sugared peaches are left in the refrigerator for about 6-8 hours soaking in the wine. At serving time the peaches and wine can be placed in either nice glasses or in dishes. Whether you use red or white wine depends on your personal taste.