Summer Desserts: 30+ easy, sweet treat recipes for your summer
Summer is the perfect season to enjoy fruity, fresh sweet treats. Our easy recipes include both baked and no-bake desserts, as well as frozen treats. Just try them all!
With the arrival of summer, nothing is better than a fresh dessert that is delicious and easy to make. This hot season is inspiring for lovers of sweet recipes thanks to its wonderful seasonal products. Strawberries, blueberries, peaches and cherries are usually the main ingredients of cakes, cheesecakes and refreshing frozen sweet treats.
Summer desserts are mouthwatering and super easy to make. The most popular, classic ones include baked strawberry cake, blueberry pie, and peach cobbler. On the other hand, if you don't feel like turning on the stove, try our quick, easy no-bake summer dessert recipes such as strawberry cheesecake or tiramisu, or the delicious lemon icebox pie. Craving a sweet treat to cool you down on a hot summer day? Don't miss our frozen desserts! Must-haves include ice cream, nice creams, or sorbets.
Here, we put together for you the most loved desserts of all time – they are more than 30, but you can choose your top 10! You can make them in advance and enjoy with friends during the hot season. Light, fruity, and refreshing, these dessert recipes are perfect to serve from the beginning until the end of summer. What are you waiting for? Try them all!
Strawberry Cake is an easy dessert recipe perfect for spring and summer. Packed with fresh, juicy strawberries, it's sweet, while the texture is moist and fluffy.
Blueberry pie is an easy, summery dessert recipe. A sweet, juicy blueberry filling seasoned with cinnamon and lemon tucked away in a tender, flaky, buttery crust.
Easy peach cobbler is a simple-to-bake dessert that's bursting with the flavors of beautifully ripened summer peaches. Cobblers are a delightful traditional recipe that can be made with any number of fresh fruits, depending on what's in season, that's topped with biscuits, batter, or dumplings.
Peach pie is an easy, delicious dessert recipe perfect for summer. Filled with sweet, juicy peaches, it has a buttery, flaky bottom crust and with a lattice crust on top.
With their fresh berry flavor and lighter-than-air texture, there's nothing quite like whipping up a batch of homemade strawberry shortcakes. These delicious treats are simpler and quicker to make than your classic strawberry cake and feature delicious layers of biscuits, sweetened strawberries, and homemade whipped cream.
If you're a keen home baker with an undeniable sweet tooth, you'll love this easy cherry cake recipe. Each bite has a rich, sweet cherry flavor and a light, moist, and tender texture. Cherry cake is made with glacé cherries, ground almonds, almond milk, sugar, eggs, and butter.
Lemon bars are an easy dessert recipe, perfect for summer. A buttery shortbread crust is topped with a thick, creamy lemon curd filling that is sweet and slightly tart.
The soft strawberry tart is a greedy and good-looking dessert, ideal for the spring season. A soft and light base baked in a special tart mold is filled with a delicate ricotta cheese cream and fresh strawberries. Perfect for any occasion, it is a very simple cake to prepare that will be very popular with adults and children.
Key lime pie is a very quick and easy recipe everyone will love. This pie stands out with its creamy filling and crisp base crust, creating a great play of texture with every bite.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake is incredibly moist and fudgy but surprisingly quick and easy to make with extra zucchini. It’s dense, chocolaty, and speckled with moist zucchini for flavor and texture. Make this cake with yogurt for extra moisture, as well as flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, cinnamon, and grated zucchini.
Lemon tart is a tart yet sweet dessert recipe which is also known as tarte au citron in French. It has a buttery, flaky crust and a smooth, rich, lemony custard-like filling.
Blueberries and lemon are a wonderful summery pairing that tastes fantastic in so many desserts. But for summer barbecues, picnics, and other get-togethers, there's nothing quite like a pie. Lemon blueberry pie is an amazing dessert to enjoy with your friends.
If you're a fan of lighter-than-air cakes and baking with seasonal fruits, this cherry upside-down cake is just for you. This beautiful cake is part angel food cake, part pound cake, with a rich buttery flavor and tender crumb topped off with lightly caramelized cherries.
Blueberry muffins are soft, tender and moist on the inside, with a crunchy sugar crust. Perfect both with fresh or frozen blueberries, enjoy them for breakfast or as a snack.
Peach muffins are an easy dessert recipe perfect for summer. High, moist muffins are made of simple pantry ingredients and canned peaches for a delicious flavor.
Combining two desserts is just the solution when you have a craving for something sweet but can’t decide what you want. This blueberry cheesecake crumb cake will just become one of your new favorite desserts. It’s a combination of a classic crumb cake (a cake made with a sweet crumb on top) and a blueberry cheesecake.
Eton Mess is a classic British dessert you can prepare in no time and enjoy all spring and summer long. Easy and refreshing, this recipe is packed with sweet and delicate flavors because of its 3 ingredients.
There’s definitely a time and place for warm baked cheesecakes. Unlike baked cheesecakes that are often cumbersome to make, this no-baked Blueberry Cheesecake is super easy to make. Crushed biscuits and butter make a quick and crunchy crust, while the filling is blended to create a smooth and creamy texture.
Lemon icebox pie is a no-bake Southern dessert served with whipped cream. It has a sweet, tangy flavor, and a creamy, lemon filling set in a crunchy graham cracker crust.
Think it’s impossible to make a delicious dessert with only 3 ingredients? Think again! These Strawberry Jello Parfaits are not only quick and easy to make, but they’re also very elegant. And you only need three ingredients.
Trifle is a traditional British dessert consisting of layers of fruits, sponge cake pieces, cream, and sometimes even a bit of alcohol. This Strawberry Trifle is a perfect dessert recipe for spring. It celebrates the freshness of the season thanks to ripe strawberries, and the sponge cake and whipped cream add just the right amount of sweetness.
If you want to make the best Fruit Sorbet, then this recipe is for you. Homemade Fruit Sorbet is super easy to make. Not only is there an endless variety of flavors to choose from, but you also control the amount of sugar you add, which means it’s much healthier than store-bought sorbets.
It is pretty unfortunate that so many pre packaged or premade frozen yogurts you can purchase contain no yogurt at all. Made with primarily chemicals and artificial flavors, frozen yogurt you may find in the store can be very unhealthy, loaded with sugar and containing nothing of any nutritional value.
The chocolate semifreddo is a fresh and summery dessert, perfect to enjoy in a hot afternoon or to serve at the end of a dinner with friends. Easy and quick to make, you need just a few ingredients to make a dessert that will conquer young and old.
Ice cream sandwiches are a quick, easy, freezer-friendly recipe perfect for summer. Two thin, chewy cookies are sandwiched between a creamy ice cream filling.
Piña coladas just scream summer. But what if you really like ice cream too? In this recipe, we combined two of our summer favorites—welcome the Piña Colada Ice Cream Sandwich. This is possibly the best ice cream sandwich you will ever have and it’s an easy sweet treat to make at home.
By following our recipe and the preparation advice, you will obtain a soft and creamy product, to be envied even by the best ice cream parlors. So let’s see how to make blackberry ice cream.
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