These easy summer desserts are sweet, refreshing, and fun to make. You’ll find 60+ recipes including no bake treats, baked goodies, chocolate favorites, and red white and blue fruity desserts with apple, blueberry, and angel food cake. Whether you're planning for a BBQ, a party, or a crowd of kids, there are healthy and gluten-free options everyone will enjoy. Pin this now so you always have the best desserts for summer ready to go!
Red, White, and Blue Desserts
Layered Red, White, & Blue Jello
This red white and blue finger jello is made with layered jello, creamy condensed milk, and bright white jello for a fun, festive look. It’s the easiest patriotic dessert for your 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, or summer holiday party. Serve as jello jigglers or bite-sized treats for a no-mess 1776 party idea.
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No Bake Berry Trifle
This 4th of July trifle dessert is made with simple layers of angel food cake or pound cake, fresh strawberries, blueberries, and mixed berries. It’s an easy no bake red white and blue trifle that looks beautiful in a trifle bowl and works for Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day, or any summer party. Great for desserts for kids or party food for adults, and made dye free using real fruit.
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Mixed Berry Fruit Tart
This fresh fruit tart is an easy red white and blue dessert with a flaky crust, sweet cream cheese filling, and loads of juicy summer berries. It’s light, healthy, and festive enough for the 4th of July, Memorial Day, or any summer party or BBQ. This berry dessert recipe is great for a crowd, simple to make, and a hit with kids too.
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Red, White, & Blue Fruit Salad
This simple and easy red, white, and blue fruit salad with honey lime dressing is the best recipe for your summer holiday parties and picnics from Memorial Day and July 4th to Labor Day and even Flag Day. The star shaped peaches and watermelons are sure to be showstoppers at every meal!
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Ice Cream
Homemade Rocky Road Ice Cream - No Churn Recipe
This homemade rocky road ice cream recipe is creamy, chocolatey, and packed with marshmallows and crunchy nuts. It’s a no churn chocolate ice cream made with condensed milk, heavy cream, and no eggs—just mix and freeze. You’ll love how simple this DIY dessert is to make at home without a machine or maker.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
This best strawberry cheesecake ice cream recipe is creamy, rich, and packed with real cheesecake flavor—and it’s unbelievably easy to make! With no eggs, no cooking, and just a few simple ingredients, this homemade ice cream comes together quickly in an ice cream machine for a smooth, dreamy dessert.
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Homemade Root Beer Float Ice Cream
Homemade Root Beer Float Ice Cream tastes just like a brown cow with 3 simple ingredients. This is my new favorite sherbet recipe, and it's quick and easy to make!
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Easy Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe with No Eggs
This homemade vanilla ice cream is unbelievably creamy and made with just 5 simple ingredients in an ice cream machine—no eggs, no cooking required! With a basic vanilla base, whole milk, and a touch of vanilla bean paste, you’ll get the best old-fashioned dessert in no time. Learn how to make your own ice cream for a rich and easy treat everyone will love. Pin this homemade ice cream recipe to enjoy all summer long!
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Homemade Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream - No Churn Recipe
This homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream is rich, creamy, and made with just 5 simple ingredients. It’s a no churn dessert recipe with heavy cream, condensed milk, and no eggs—no cook and no machine required. You’ll learn how to make mint ice cream at home in minutes for a sweet treat everyone will love.
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No Churn Butter Pecan Ice Cream
This easy homemade butter pecan ice cream is rich, creamy, and full of buttery toasted pecan flavor. It’s a no-churn butter pecan ice cream made with heavy cream, condensed milk, and no eggs—no cook and no machine required. You’ll see how to make homemade ice cream with simple ingredients and bold flavors in a DIY dessert that’s quick and satisfying.
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Pineapple Ice Cream - Copycat Dole Whip Recipe
Cool off with this soft serve pineapple ice cream recipe that is a perfect Copycat for Disney Dole Whip with just 3 common ingredients. Whip it up in your food processor or blender for a quick and easy frozen dessert.
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No Churn Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream
This Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Ice Cream recipe is so good and so easy to make at home without an ice cream machine! This classic ice cream is a quick, no churn recipe with all the flavors of your favorite Little Debbie Nutty Buddy cookie bars: creamy peanut butter and crispy chocolate wafers in a rich vanilla base.
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No Churn Cookie Dough Ice Cream
No Churn Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a sweet, creamy treat with homemade chocolate chip cookie dough chunks and an easy vanilla ice cream base. No ice cream maker required for these step by step instructions.
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No Churn Cheesecake Ice Cream
This quick and easy no churn recipe has everything you love about sweet and savory cheesecake combined with the frosty joy of homemade ice cream. No ice cream maker necessary for this incredible cream cheese treat!
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No Churn Red Velvet Ice Cream
This easy red velvet ice cream recipe is a creamy no-churn recipe! This simple recipe combines your favorite red velvet cake crumbs with smooth homemade vanilla ice cream made without an ice cream machine.
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No Churn Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream
This no-churn pumpkin pie ice cream recipe creates a creamy, rich pumpkin treat that’s full of deliciously spiced fall flavors. No machine is needed to make this simple and easy gluten-free frozen dessert.
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Popsicles & Other Frozen Treats
Homemade Oreo Ice Cream Pie
This 4 ingredient Oreo ice cream recipe is one of our favorite summer desserts because it is so easy to make from scratch without an ice cream machine. Add a 2 ingredient Oreo crust, and it makes the perfect simple dessert recipe for parties, picnics, and barbecues, too.
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Homemade Root Beer Float Popsicles
Classic root beer float popsicles are quick and easy to make! Only 2 ingredients, these delicious frosty root beer ice pops are a perfect summer treat! Great frozen treat for a sunny summer day!
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Dirt Pudding Pops
Let your kids eat dirt with these fun & easy homemade Oreo pudding pops! Chocolate pudding, crushed Oreo cookies, and gummy worms turn these popsicles into a delicious and fun summer treat!
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Frozen Chocolate Covered Banana Popsicles
These healthy and easy chocolate covered frozen banana pops are the best summer treat – gluten-free and dairy-free and only 4 ingredients! Frozen bananas get dipped in rich chocolate and then sprinkled with roasted salted peanuts or sprinkles for a creamy, sweet treat. Frozen bananas are a fun dessert to have on warm days. Simple, refreshing and the perfect cool and creamy treat. Kid-friendly and adult-approved!
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Oreo Ice Cream Popsicles
These cookies and cream popsicles are creamy and delicious because they're loaded with crushed Oreos, healthy yogurt, and sweet cream. This is an easy low sugar treat that kids can help make. Even adults will love this frozen treat! Pull out this recipe for any summer BBQ, holiday picnic, or 4th of July party!
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Sweet Tea Peach Popsicles
Sweet Tea Peach Popsicles are the perfect treat for the whole family because they're full of delicious summer flavors! Make these simple and easy frozen treats with 3 ingredients in a few minutes, then freeze and have a yummy dessert or snack on hand for any hot summer day.
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Microwave Campfire Banana Boats Sundaes
Banana boats have long been a campfire tradition, but now you can bring all that gooey deliciousness indoors using the microwave! With bananas, chocolate chips, marshmallows, and ice cream, how can you go wrong?
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Homemade Shamrock Shake Recipe
This Copycat Shamrock Shake Recipe is better than the McDonald's original! Easy to make with only 4 ingredients and blended to creamy perfection in under 5 minutes. No need to leave the house to enjoy this amazing mint milkshake that we all love so much. It's the perfect St. Patrick's Day dessert for the whole family!
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Cookies, Brownies, & Bars
Easy Key Lime Pie Bars
Love key lime desserts? This easy key lime pie bars recipe features a buttery cookie crust, sweet and tangy key lime filling, and a creamy cream cheese topping for the best-ever three-layer treat. Whether you bake them in a 9x13 pan for squares or make mini bites, these key lime cheesecake bars are a must-try for any citrus lover.
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Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecakes
These mini peanut butter cup cheesecakes are rich, creamy, and loaded with chocolate peanut butter flavor. Each bite features a Reese’s peanut butter cup base, a smooth peanut butter cheesecake filling, and a decadent chocolate ganache topping. Get an easy, gluten-free recipe for the best ever peanut butter cup cheesecake cupcakes—a must-try for cheesecake lovers and fans of peanut butter cups.
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Inside Out Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
These Inside Out Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are soft peanut butter cookies stuffed with gooey chocolate centers for the ultimate indulgence. With flavors just like Reese’s or your favorite PB cup, they’re a delicious twist on classic chocolate peanut butter cup cookies.
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Mini Strawberry Almond Tarts
These mini strawberry almond tarts combine a buttery almond flour filling with a sweet strawberry icing for an irresistible bite-sized dessert. They’re simple to make, elegant to serve, and ideal for Christmas tarts and tartlets.
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Easy Monster Cookies
These easy monster cookies are packed with peanut butter, M&Ms, chocolate chips, and hearty oatmeal for a soft, chewy treat. Learn how to make thick, jumbo, bakery-style cookies that are big on flavor and fun. This small-batch recipe is the best ever for quick baking sessions that deliver large, original cookies every time.
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The Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
How to make the very best ever homemade chocolate chip cookies from scratch - This simple and easy recipe makes cookies that are crisp on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.
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Gluten-Free Coconut Macaroons
The best coconut macaroon recipe is soft and chewy on the inside and crisp and golden on the outside. These gluten-free cookies are low in sugar and simple, quick, and easy to make!
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Cocoa Powder Brownies
How to make the best fudgy cocoa powder brownies - This simple and easy recipe uses Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder with eggs, flour, sugar, butter, and oil to make the best moist homemade chewy chocolate fudge brownies from scratch. One bowl recipe.
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Lemon Sugar Cookies
Old-fashioned lemon sugar cookies are delightfully citrusy, thick & chewy, and have a touch of sweetness. They're a crowd favorite that you can make at Christmas or any time of the year. Easy to freeze for later.
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Caramel Turtle Brownies
Thick and fudgy Caramel Turtle Brownies are rich brownies layered with caramel and pecans. This easy turtle brownies recipe is a decadent dessert ready in less than an hour. Share this quick brownie recipe with friends and family for Christmas, Easter, summer picnics, or anytime!
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Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownies
This is the best peanut butter cheesecake brownies recipe! Featuring a simple fudge brownie made from scratch and a layer of decadent peanut butter cheesecake, these easy and delicious peanut butter cream cheese brownie bars will become your new favorite brownie recipe!
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Secret Hershey Kiss Sugar Cookies
Secret Hershey Kiss Cookies are perfectly soft and chewy sugar cookies, coated in sweet powdered sugar, complete with a delicious hidden chocolate surprise inside. They're the perfect Christmas cookie!
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Thumbprint Sugar Cookies with Jam Centers
These thumbprint sugar cookies with jam centers are the best! Perfectly soft and chewy cookies filled with strawberry jam are the absolute perfect treat for any time of year. Easy, versatile, classic Christmas cookie that everyone loves.
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Toasted S'mores Bars - Starbucks Copycat Recipe
These quick & easy s’mores bars have the perfect combination of buttery graham cracker cookie crust, creamy milk chocolate, and toasted gooey marshmallows in every bite! This recipe only has 5 simple ingredients and is super fun for kids to help make.
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Cakes, Cobblers, & Pies
Homemade Raspberry Pie
Homemade raspberry pie is very quick and easy to prepare with a refrigerated pie crust. This raspberry pie filling recipe uses just a couple of ingredients and produces perfectly thick, rich, and sweet results every time!
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Fresh Cherry Almond Pudding Cake
How to make the best fresh cherry almond clafoutis - This simple and easy pudding cake recipe uses sweet black or red cherries (fresh or canned) with a homemade, made from scratch vanilla almond cake. It is amazing with ice cream and real whipped cream!
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Old Fashioned Blueberry Cobbler
How to make the best easy blueberry cobbler - This simple recipe uses fresh or frozen blueberries to make a homemade, made from scratch cobbler with a quick crumble topping.
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Cherry Cheesecake Brownies
These cherry cheesecake brownies combine rich chocolate brownies with a creamy cherry cheesecake swirl made from canned cherry pie filling. This easy recipe is great for baking from scratch, offering step-by-step instructions for fudgy brownies. Learn how to create the gluten-free option and whip up a crowd-pleasing dessert for any occasion.
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Triple Chocolate Cake with Homemade Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting
This triple chocolate cake with homemade chocolate butter cream frosting is the cure for any chocolate craving. With cake mix, pudding, and chocolate chips, it's the perfect cake to make for any special occasion.
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Banana Upside Down Cake
This is the best easy banana upside down cake recipe. This simple and tasty recipe starts with a boxed cake mix and adds ripe bananas, butter, and brown sugar to make a gooey caramelized topping. It's going to be your new favorite dessert!
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Chocolate Cherry Cake
This chocolate cherry cake or Black Forest Cake is made from scratch with gluten-free or wheat flour, cherry pie filling, and homemade chocolate frosting, so it is moist, rich, and delicious.
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Pineapple Upside Down Cake in a Skillet
This pineapple upside down cake recipe is made with yellow box cake mix but turns out unbelievably moist and buttery! Baked in a cast iron skillet, it’s an easy, quick dessert featuring sliced pineapple, caramelized brown sugar, and a soft, fluffy cake base. Whether you choose Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker, this box recipe delivers the best ever flavor with minimal effort.
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Orange Creamsicle Cake
Orange Creamsicle Cake is an easy and refreshing poke cake recipe with orange Jello, orange soda, and vanilla pudding mix. Light and citrusy, this doctored cake mix with orange vanilla frosting is the perfect Dreamsicle cake for summer.
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Cherry Almond Cake
How to make the best easy gluten-free cherry almond cake recipe - This simple recipe uses a homemade cake from scratch and a can of cherry pie filling to create an amazing dessert!
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Fruity Pebbles Cake
This Fruity Pebbles Cake is an easy & fun layer cake recipe made with Fruity Pebbles cereal. Festive & creative cake recipe perfect for birthdays or any occasion! Made from scratch with standard pantry ingredients and includes homemade vanilla buttercream.
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No Bake Peanut Butter Pie
This no-bake peanut butter pie is rich, creamy, and packed with peanut butter pie filling made from Cool Whip and cream cheese in a chocolate crust. Whether you use an Oreo crust or a graham cracker base, this easy Reese’s dessert is a must-make for chocolate peanut butter pie lovers. With just 5 ingredients, this no-bake PB pie is a quick dessert for Easter, holidays, or any sweet craving.
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie
This nostalgic Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie is filled with a creamy no bake peanut butter filling, chopped peanuts, strawberries, a sweet layer of strawberry jam, and topped with lots of whipped cream and more strawberries! It's a little slice of heaven for peanut butter lovers!
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Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake
Baked to a golden crisp, cherry pineapple dump cake is a tasty and delicious homemade dessert you’ll crave. This simple and easy dump cake requires 4 ingredients and is ready to go in the oven in under 5 minutes. Layers of pineapple, cherry pie filling, cake mix, and butter create the best dessert recipe.
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Chocolate Fudge Pie
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Easy S'mores Cheesecake
This is the best easy s'mores cheesecake! A smooth and creamy cheesecake filling is stuffed with rich chocolate and gooey marshmallows, with a crunchy graham cracker crust. It's going to be your new favorite dessert.
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Cupcakes & Other Mini Desserts
Pistachio Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Grinch Cupcakes are perfect for any Grinch movie night, Christmas Party, Dr. Seuss birthday Party, or just any old day! Easy pistachio cupcakes are frosted with homemade French vanilla buttercream that's been dyed green and topped with the Grinch's little red heart. These cute Grinch Heart Cupcakes will be a hit!
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Watermelon Cupcakes
These adorable watermelon cupcakes are the perfect summer dessert! You will taste watermelon flavor in every bite of these moist, delicious cupcakes. With pink watermelon-flavored frosting and mini chocolate chips on the top to represent the watermelon seeds, these super cute cupcakes make the perfect dessert for any summer gathering you attend.
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Mini Chocolate Bundt Cakes
These delicious chocolate mini bundt cakes couldn’t be any easier! Combining a brownie mix and a chocolate cake mix gives you a moist, rich chocolate cake with the perfect crumb. Drizzle it with velvety chocolate ganache for a quick but impressive dessert. It's the perfect recipe for Valentine's Day, birthdays, or any holiday!
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Heart Shaped Cherry Hand Pies
Heart shaped cherry hand pies are perfect for your sweetheart or kids on Valentine's Day or any time of the year! You only need 4 ingredients to make these festive mini pies with a flaky crust and juicy filling. Baked in the oven, not fried.
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Other Easy Summer Desserts
Mandarin Orange Fluff Salad
This classic mandarin orange fluff salad is made with juicy mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, orange jello, instant vanilla pudding, and Cool Whip but no cottage cheese. The result is a delicious jello salad that is the perfect dessert for any meal or potluck. Grandma's vintage recipe!
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Pistachio Fruit Salad AKA Watergate Salad
The best easy Watergate salad recipe with pistachio pudding, pineapple, marshmallows, and pecans. Pistachio fruit salad is a classic dessert salad recipe similar to ambrosia that’s perfect for holidays and potlucks. Pistachio fluff salad is a creamy pistachio delight that's ready in just 5 minutes.
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Fresh Raspberry Sauce for Ice Cream, Cheesecake, or Shortcake
The best recipe for easy raspberry sauce which can be used as a dessert topping or as a filling in cupcakes, crepes, or other baked goods. Use only 5 ingredients and 20 minutes to make this homemade fruit coulis. This decadent vegan sauce can be made with fresh or frozen berries. Use it to top ice cream, cake or cupcakes, pancakes, cheesecake, shortcakes, hot biscuits, toast, and much more. Pipe it into the center of a cupcake for a sweet filling. It is also great as a reduction on nice cuts of steak, grilled chicken and pork chops.
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Sparkling Pink Lemonade with Berries and Mint
Sparkling Pink Lemonade with berries and mint is so refreshing during hot summer days and is always a huge hit with adults and kids. You’ll love the sweet mixed berries, tart lemons, and sparkling water stirred together with simple syrup! As written, this lemonade is great for kids, but it's easy and delicious to add a shot of vodka for a hard adults only drink.
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