Summer Desserts: 30+ easy, sweet treat recipes for your summer

There’s no reason why cooks should be a hassle to make. This fresh Strawberry Cake is an easy dessert recipe perfect for spring and summer. Packed with fresh strawberries, quick to whip up, and delicious to eat—it’s everything you want in a homemade cake.

This summer, treat yourself and your loved ones to a homemade blueberry pie made with ripe, in-season blueberries. This outstanding yet easy-to-make blueberry pie has it all: a sweet, juicy blueberry filling seasoned with cinnamon and lemon tucked away in a tender, flaky, buttery crust. Each pie is so dreamy.

It's all in the name – 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 dish that can be made with any number of fresh fruits, depending on what's in season, that's topped with biscuits, batter, or dumplings. Some cobblers are savory, but if you're looking for a fantastic way to use fresh fruit, the sweet cobbler is the way to go. Fresh peaches are always best for this recipe, but if you're wondering “how do you pick the right peach?” we have you covered! The perfectly ripe peach should be slightly soft, but still firm to touch, with a gorgeous aroma, and rich yellow, orange, and red color. The batter is wonderfully easy to prepare and uses staple ingredients like flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. Easy peach cobbler is a stunning dessert with a bright summery taste, the ideal something sweet on a balmy evening.

If you love fruit desserts, then this peach pie will be one of your favorite. Filled with sweet, juicy peaches, and with a buttery, flaky crust…what’s not to love? This homemade peach pie recipe is easy to make and is the perfect summer dessert. Unlike a peach cobbler, the peach pie has a buttery bottom crust.

Cherry pie might be one of the all-time best summer desserts out there, especially when made with ripe, in-season cherries. With its tender, flaky, buttery crust and sweet, juicy cherry filling, there's nothing like sinking your fork into a slice of freshly baked cherry pie topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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. It's moist and buttery with a subtle almond flavor that complements the cherries beautifully. Homemade cherry cake is perfect for the holidays, as a delicious tea cake for afternoon tea, or as a delectable snack that everyone is sure to enjoy.

Fresh, lemony desserts are perfect for summer. It’s light, refreshing, but still sweet enough to satisfy your craving for dessert. These classic lemon bars (or lemon squares) are just what you need for an easy dessert recipe.

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, from a snack to a birthday party, it is a very simple cake to prepare that will be very popular with adults and children. So let’s find out how to make the strawberry tart by following our recipe step by step.

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. It's a dessert that combines its sweet flavor with the tartness of key limes. Garnish with whipped cream and thin slices of key lime.

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.

With the perfect balance of tart and sweet, this refreshingly tangy lemon tart is a gorgeous dessert to make when the weather's warm outside. Boasting a buttery, flaky crust and a smooth, rich, lemony custard-like filling, lemon tart, or tarte au citron, as it's known in French, is an elegant, delicious dessert for any occasion.

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. Unlike the classic blueberry pie, with a bold layer of blueberry filling layered over a zesty, fresh lemon layer all set in a perfectly flaky pie crust. What sets this phenomenal pie apart from the rest is its mouthwatering streusel topping. This lemon blueberry pie is as beautiful as it is delicious, making it ideal for those occasions when you want to show off your baking skills to friends and family without making a classic lemon blueberry cake.

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. It's the perfect way to make the most of cherry season this summer, especially if you're searching for a simple recipe with a greater wow factor than a classic cherry cake. Serve it with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop or two of whipped cream and don't be surprised if people come back for seconds!

Once you try this easy blueberry muffin recipe, you may find yourself whipping them up regularly. These wonderful blueberry muffins are incredibly soft, tender, and moist on the inside, with a delicious crunchy sugar crust that makes them hard to resist. They're perfect as a light breakfast or tasty snack when you're in the mood for something sweet and homemade.

We love a tasty muffin. It’s so easy to make, you can customize them as you want, and you can easily add them to a school or work lunchbox. These peach muffins are easy to make. The recipe makes it a large, high muffin recipe—perfect for summer. The flavor makes you think of a peach cobbler. The texture is moist, with a fresh flavor that screams summer.

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. The flavor is sweet and slightly tart from the blueberries. The texture is crunchy with a super creamy filling. Like other crumb cakes, you can even serve the Blueberry Cream Cheese Crumb Cake for breakfast (we won’t tell!). Spoil your friends and family with this sensational dessert!

This strawberry cheesecake is a light, no-bake dessert that's less dense than a baked version. This cheesecake is made with a crunchy base of dry biscuits, a smooth yet firm filling of cream cheese, sugar, cream and a topping of fresh strawberries.

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. Eton Mess is similar to a strawberry shortcake in glass version as it is made of crunchy meringues, juicy strawberries and soft whipped cream. The Eton Mess is so called because it is served at Eton College's annual cricket match, although it is still unclear who made it. According to a popular story, the "mess" was made by a dog when it sat on a meringue and strawberry pie enough to crush it.

There’s definitely a time and place for warm baked cheesecakes. But in summer, no-bake desserts are just the thing you need to cool off. 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. The blended blueberries create a deep blue color in this cheesecake, so it’s a real show stopper. This summer, this will be the only recipe you need. A beautiful Blueberry Cheesecake with all the blueberry flavor!

For a luscious, silky smooth dessert that's perfect for spring and summer, there's nothing like old-fashioned lemon icebox pie. This no-bake lemony dessert is made with few ingredients and takes virtually no time to put together.

Strawberry tiramisu is the fresh, light variant of the classic Italian tiramisu perfect for spring and summer season. This sweet, soft recipe calls for fresh juicy strawberries, ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese – no alcohol or coffee needed.

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: fresh strawberries, strawberry jello, and cool whip—and of course, not counting the water.

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. The flavor is sweet and light, while the texture is creamy. While the dessert is super easy, it’s perfect to serve to guests, as the layers make this strawberry trifle very impressive. Just what you need on your dining table this Spring! You only need a handful of ingredients (pudding mix, whipped cream, strawberries, powdered sugar), and by assembling the ingredients in layers, you will have a beautiful dessert in no time!

What could be better than a refreshing strawberry and yogurt popsicle on a hot day?

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. Well, don't worry! This recipe is not only extremely simple to make but it is packed with real fruit, Greek yogurt and sweetened only with honey. This is a much tastier and healthier frozen yogurt than you will ever find in the store!

Frozen yogurt is the perfect dessert for the summer season. A sort of yogurt-based ice cream that is prepared in just a few minutes and that will refresh you even when the heat is unbearable. It is a light variant of the most known and consumed ice cream.

If you’re looking for a delicious vegan alternative to ice cream, then Nice Cream will become your next favorite! This recipe not only contains no milk, but it’s also much healthier than classic ice cream. Perfect for summer when you need something cool, light, and refreshing. Unlike traditional ice cream, which contains many expensive ingredients, you only need a handful for this Banana Ice Cream recipe: frozen bananas, frozen berries, and almond milk. It’s important to add bananas, as they are the special ingredient to make this Nice Cream ultra-creamy! Not only is it creamy, but it’s also sweet and fruity. You will love this Banana Ice Cream!

It’s summer and that means it’s officially popsicle time! Popsicles are great for cooling you down on a hot summer’s day, and there’s an endless variety of popsicles you can—try a new one each weekend. These Homemade Watermelon Popsicles are easy to make and are also super refreshing. The name comes not only from the watermelon as the main ingredient, the popsicles are also creatively made to look like watermelon slices. They even have chocolate chip “seeds”. Using a food processor, or blender, it’s quick to make. Simply fill your popsicle maker, and wait to freeze. Each bite is a pop of fruity flavor—it might just be your new favorite!

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.

Looking for an easy, freezer-friendly ice cream recipe perfect for summer? Then this recipe for homemade ice cream sandwiches is just what you need.

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. To make it, you need typical piña colada ingredients: pineapple and rum. The sweet pineapples are soaked with rum, which adds so much flavor. Combine it with smooth, creamy ice cream and a handful of toppings, and you’re good to go. It’s a no-bake recipe too, which is great for summer. Who has time to stand in front of a hot oven, anyway? Try out this Piña Colada Ice Cream Sandwich today!

Blackberry ice cream is perfect for the summer season. Fresh and delicious, this ice cream has a consistency very similar to that of a sorbet. Prepared without adding milk, replaced with water, it becomes a healthy and genuine snack, perfect not only for kids but also for people intolerant to dairy products. 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.