Gold Orchards

Walked into the kitchen at Gold’s and the aroma of thousands of peach pies has been baked into the very walls. They should charge admission just to walk inside.
There are no mass produced peach pies here. They have authentic grandmothers baking these pies. Worth every penny.
The peach bread is good also. And the peach ice cream.

Beautiful fresh produce, ice cream, and fresh baked goods! Delicious. There’s a cobbler in my future.

On the way back to Fort Worth from Fredericksburg, we stopped and got some peaches and peach ice cream. The peach ice cream is soooo good. I’ve ordered peach preserves from them before and it’s delicious. Their preserves is the only thing they ship. I’m over due for an order of peach preserves.
If you are ever down around Fredericksburg, stop and get you some peach ice cream!

a friend from austin brought me a peach pie from gold orchards all the way to far west texas, and it was the best peach pie i’ve ever had. seriously.

Update: we decimated the peach cobbler. It was delicious! I cannot even imagine how amazing it would have been served a la mode fresh from the oven. The cobbler alone is worth the trek out there, and I thoroughly enjoyed the bag of fresh peaches we purchased, too. I’ve eaten more peaches this week than anything else.

You walk into the bakery and the smell of peaches and cinnamon is Amazing! The peach tart and peach coffee cake are delicious as are the bucket of fresh peaches we took home. Definitely going back!

We stopped here on our way back to Round Rock. I had seen it on our way into Fredericksburg, but the weather was hot and we decided if it was opened when we came back we would stop. So on the way home, we missed the sign and had to turn around… karma tells me we should have kept going. The pie was $ 18 and it wasn’t even a full crust (please how much is flour, water & lard???). Anyway, we bought it since we did go out of our way, but I was stunned at the price. The lady behind the counter had these ultra long fingernails, and I was hoping she did not make the pie, because they didn’t look very hygienic. The inside of the store is a large room, with a kitchen & register behind a counter. There is a kitchen table in the middle and people just sitting around the table. She told me not to stop anywhere b/​c the peaches would ferment in an instant… I am starting to worry about my 2 hr trip home.
Now, inside of the pie was flavorful, but the crust was not very good at all, very mushy on the bottom and hard around the edges. Marie Callender’s turns out much better and so do my own, when I get up the gumption to make it from scratch. All in all, I have had much better pies from the Amish and even pie making friends. My favorite is peach and even though the flavor was good, the peaches were all chopped up and my particular preference is sliced. This was no $ 18 pie!!!

We stopped in here on a Sunday morning to buy some peaches. The people working outside were nice enough, but the old woman working inside was an absolute crab. She griped because they were so busy. (This is bad?) She even told us that MOST people don’t even know that peach season is finished by late August.
She’s right: I didn’t know that peach season is finished by late August. Why would I? I don’t work in the peach business.
What I DO know is that this woman needs to spend less time with a bad attitude and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. She could learn a valuable lesson about customer service.
The peaches were good, but we won’t go back to this place when there are so many great fruit stands in the area who also have great customer service.

On our way from Pedernales Falls to Enchanted Rock, we start seeing signs for orchard-​picked peaches all along the highway. The thought of a bag of fresh, ripe peaches after a hot summer day of hiking was too good to resist. With the sun going down we quickly pull into one stand after another, only to find them closed! Finally, we pull into Gold Orchards just as they start to pull their merchandise in. It’s a family affair and they happily hand us a bag of delicious peaches. We step inside the storeroom to pay for the bag, when we’re suddenly greeted by the most amazing smells you can imagine! The back of the store is a full on kitchen and arrayed on the counter are fresh baked peach pies, beer breads, peach ice cream, and so much more. We spent 30 minutes in there, just soaking up the aromas and talking with the incredibly friendly staff. That evening, sitting on top of Enchanted rock, basking in the last lights of the day, we passed around the peaches and sat in content silence until the stars came out…