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During the summertime, we love making fruity, frozen, and no-bake desserts! This collection of summer desserts includes all of our favorites!
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Summer Sweets to Love!
In the summer I love cold and fruity desserts! No-bake treats are also a bonus during hot summer months to keep heat out of the kitchen.
I’ve rounded up my best summer desserts for all of your picnics, BBQs, and summer soirees.
Why we love summer sweets:
- Something for everyone. You’ll find desserts perfect for formal parties as well as backyard cookouts.
- No oven, no problem. We have a variety of no-bake recipes that don’t require turning on the oven.
- Fruity flavors and beyond. You’ll love the colors and flavors that summertime fruits add to so many of these desserts!
Dessert Toppings
Summer produce. Whether you’re making a delicious cobbler, filling yummy pies, or want to top a Pound Cake with fresh berries, using your favorite summer fruits is delicious, easy, and cost-effective.
- mango, orange, peaches, lemon, nectarines, kiwi, banana, melons, cherries, or rhubarb
- fresh strawberry, raspberry, blackberries, or blueberry
- zucchini
Toppings. These ideas will send your desserts over the top!
- Drizzle with Caramel Sauce, White Chocolate Fudge Sauce, Hot Fudge Sauce, or Strawberry Sauce.
- Add a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream or cold sorbet.
- Top with a dollop of Whipped Cream.
- Balance your sweet treats with some salted chopped nuts and pretzel bits, or use dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate.
Keeping desserts cold
- Cooler. Keep them in a cooler with ice, or a block of dry ice until you’re ready to serve.
- Ice bowl. Fill a tray/bowl with ice cubes and nestle the dessert right on top.
See individual recipe posts for more specific tips, tricks, and storage information.
Transporting Desserts
- Carriers. Use cupcake and cake carriers, or pans, boxes, and bins.
- Keep them at the right temperature. Use a cooler packed with heating pads or ice packs depending on what type of dessert you have.
- Prevent spilling. Set desserts on the floor where they cannot tumble off the seat. Use a yoga or other non-stick mat or place a blanket or towel around the container to keep it snugly in place.
- Chill desserts. Use dry ice in a cooler to keep it frozen.
Best Summer Desserts
There’s nothing better than a chilling treat to enjoy during our summer parties and BBQs. We’ve rounded up our favorites – ones we make all season long!
1 Jello Poke Cake Recipe
2 Oreo Ice Cream Cake Recipe
3 Dirt Cake Recipe
4 Easy No Bake Cookies
5 Ice Cream Sandwich Cake Recipe
6 Angel Food Ice Cream Cake Recipe
7 Lemon Lasagna Recipe
8 No Bake Cheesecake
9 Fruit Pizza
10 Peach Cobbler
Easy Summer Desserts
Keep it simple with some of our easiest summer treats! Also, check out our easy dessert recipes for kids.
11 Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
12 Easy Tres Leches Cake Recipe
13 Rice Krispie Treat Recipe
14 Dessert Parfait Recipe
15 Dessert Kabobs Recipe
16 Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs Recipe
17 Coconut Poke Cake
18 Cherry Dump Cake Recipe
19 Blueberry Dump Cake Recipe
20 Peach Dump Cake Recipe
21 Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries Recipe
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23 Mud Pie
24 Oreo Pie Recipe
25 Strawberry Shortcake Poke Cake Recipe
26 Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
No Bake Summer Desserts
No need to heat the house with an oven, these no bake sweets are musts for enjoying all summer long.
27 Scotcheroos
28 Sand Pudding Cups Recipe
29 Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie Recipe
30 No-Bake Cheesecake Bars Recipe
31 Oreo Fluff
32 No Bake Chocolate Oat Bars
33 Strawberry Shortcake Trifle Recipe
34 No Bake Snickers Cheesecake Recipe
35 No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe
36 No Bake Oreo Cheesecake
37 Strawberry Icebox Cake Recipe
38 No Bake Energy Bites Recipe
39 Vanilla Pudding Recipe
40 Frozen Strawberry Dessert Recipe
41 No-Bake Strawberry Nutella Cheescakes Recipe
42 Buckeyes Recipe
43 Oreo Truffle Balls
44 Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding
45 Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
46 Chocolate Pudding Recipe
More Summer Dessert Recipes
Enjoy even more summer desserts, perfect for a hot summer day! Whip up a batch of mini Key Lime Pie Bars, or any of these favorites.
47 Lemon Icebox Pie
48 Banana Pudding Cake Recipe
49 Cream Puff Cake Recipe
50 Strawberry Shortcake Bars Recipe
51 Fruit Tart Recipe
52 Orange Cookies Recipe
53 Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe
54 Chocolate Tres Leches Cake
55 Blueberry Pie Recipe
56 Easy Banana Cream Pie Recipe
57 Lemon Cupcakes Recipe
58 Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe
59 Fruit Pizza Cookie Recipe
60 Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipe
61 Strawberries and Cream Angel Food Cake Recipe
62 Brownie Delight Recipe
63 Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes
64 Cherry Pie Recipe
65 Root Beer Float Ice Cream Cake Recipe
66 Strawberry Pie Recipe
67 Blueberry Delight Recipe
68 Lemon Sheet Cake Recipe
69 Key Lime Cake Recipe
70 Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe
71 Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
We All Scream for Ice Cream
And why not ice cream cake?!
Oreo Ice Cream Cake makes for the perfect no-bake dessert during warm summer months. Best of all, it only takes 5 simple ingredients!
Here is the recipe:
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Ingredients
- 1 (13.29-ounce) package Oreos, crushed (see notes)
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- ½ gallon cookies and cream ice cream, softened
- 1 (16-ounce) jar hot fudge, warmed
- 1 (8-ounce) carton whipped topping, thawed
Instructions
- For crust, stir melted butter and crushed cookie together in a small bowl. Reserve ½ cup dry cookie crumbs for garnish. Press mixture into the bottom of a 9×13 pan.
- Once ice cream is softened, spread over crust, and freeze for 2 hours
- Drizzle warm chocolate fudge sauce over ice cream, then freeze for 1 hour.
- Spread on whipped topping over ice cream, and sprinkle Oreo crumbs on top. Freeze again for at least 2 hours. Before serving, let sit out for 15 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Sweet Summer Desserts
We hope you enjoy this collection of some of our favorite summer desserts. When it’s warm outside we especially love to make no bake treats and satisfy our sweet tooth with some yummy chilled desserts!
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The fruit pizza is a family favorite. My husband especially loved it for fathers day yesterday.
I truly love the variety of cool desserts on this site. So much to choose from. I love the flavors of summer.