25 Best Fourth of July Desserts
All of the best Fourth of July dessert recipes in one place! From gooey Six Layer Peanut Butter S’mores Bars to a no-bake Key Lime Cookie Pie, these easy summer desserts are sure to make your Fourth of July celebrations sparkle.
FOURTH OF JULY COOKIE RECIPES
Strawberry Jam Sugar Cookies
These strawberry sugar cookies were inspired by a delicious combination of sweet strawberries and smooth vanilla! Soft and buttery sugar cookie dough is swirled with fruity strawberry jam and baked to soft and tender perfection.
Snickerdoodle S’mores Cookies
These snickerdoodle s’mores cookies combine two of the best flavors – a soft and tender snickerdoodle cookie with a gooey and messy s’more. The base is a delicious snickerdoodle cookie dough which is then mixed with marshmallows and chocolate.
Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies
These soft frosted sugar cookies are WAY better than Lofthouse! Made with a combination of butter and oil, the cookies are super tender and soft throughout. They’re then topped with a smooth vanilla butter cream and, of course, sprinkles!
Toasted Milk Chocolate Cowboy Cookies
Traditional to cowboy cookies, these contain oats, coconut, pecans, and chocolate chips – but we’re adding toasting the coconut and pecans and mixing in milk chocolate and toffee bits!
FOURTH OF JULY CAKE RECIPES
Peach Cobbler Cheesecake
This peach cobbler cheesecake is everything you love about cheesecake! This peach cheesecake is baked with a layer of roasted peaches and crumble in the center, and topped with a pile of even more juicy roasted peaches.
Coconut Soaked Lime Cake
This incredibly fluffy lime cake is soaked in sweetened coconut milk and topped with coconut whipped cream. It’s a cross between a tres leches and a poke cake, but it’s incredibly light and not too sweet, making it the perfect easy cake for Summer!
Banana Pudding Cheesecake
This banana pudding cheesecake is NEXT LEVEL! Sweet and creamy roasted banana cheesecake is baked in a Nilla wafer crust and topped with banana slices, vanilla pudding, and a cloud of soft whipped cream on top.
Strawberry Shortcake Cake
Say hello to an entirely new way of enjoying strawberry shortcake! This strawberry shortcake cake is baked with a layer of soft vanilla cake, topped with whipped cream cheese, and piled with sweet tender strawberries – all in one dish!
Key Lime Cheesecake
This key lime cheesecake has all the incredible flavors of a key lime pie wrapped up in a delicious and creamy cheesecake. It’s also baked with DOUBLE the amount of graham cracker crust, where more bright lime zest is mixed into the middle layer!
Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake
This strawberry cake is incredibly moist and made with FRESH strawberries! It’s made without any artificial flavorings – no mixes, no food coloring, just natural strawberry flavor with a silky strawberry cream cheese frosting.
FOURTH OF JULY BARS RECIPES
Six Layer Peanut Butter S’mores Bars
Ok buckle up because these s’mores bars are NEXT LEVEL with six layers of: graham cracker chocolate chip cookie, chocolate, peanut butter, graham cracker, marshmallow fluff, and more cookie dough on top. They’re a lot…but in the absolute best way.
Fresh Cherry Cheesecake Bars
These cherry cheesecake bars are so rich and creamy with a layer of fresh cherries baked on top! The sweet flavor of the cherries paired with almond flavored cheesecake and an almond crumble take these to the next level.
Peach Cheesecake Bars
These Peach Cheesecake Bars have a buttery brown sugar shortbread crust and crumble topping layered with creamy cheesecake and warmly spiced peaches. They’re soft, buttery, creamy, and packed with juicy peach flavor in every bite.
Brown Sugar Berry Crumble Bars
These berry crumble bars have the most delicious and jammy triple berry filling with a sweet and buttery brown sugar crumble! They’re so quick and easy to make and are the perfect way to celebrate berry season.
Raspberry Cheesecake Crumble Bars
These raspberry bars look impressive, but are so easy to make! Layered with buttery crumble, sweet cream cheese, homemade raspberry jam, and even more crumble, each bite hits every single texture and flavor mark.
FOURTH OF JULY NO BAKE RECIPES
Banana Pudding Ice Cream
Banana pudding meets ice cream with this simple and easy no churn recipe! It’s so rich and creamy with all the sweet vanilla banana flavors of banana pudding, including whipped topping and vanilla wafers.
Key Lime Cookie Pie
Beat the summer heat with this delicious no bake key lime pie! Not only is it filled with zesty, tangy, and fresh key lime cream, but it’s stacked with layers of crisp and buttery vanilla cookies. The pie chills overnight, creating incredible soft, zesty layers!
Creamy Chocolate Fudge Pops
These chocolate fudge pops are just like the ones my mom used to make when I was a kid, only these are dairy free! Just blend, pour, and freeze into the most delicious and creamy pudding pops that are perfect to snack on all summer long.
No Bake Peanut Butter Pie
This no bake peanut butter pie is light and airy, yet so rich and creamy! The filling has the silkiest consistency, and it’s bursting with lots of peanut butter flavor. This the most life-changing peanut butter pie you’ll ever have!
No Bake S’mores Cheesecake
This s’mores cheesecake is the perfect EASY dessert made with a graham cracker crust, no bake cheesecake filling, chocolate ganache, and a cloud of toasted marshmallow meringue on top. The flavor tastes just like a s’more in cheesecake form!
EASY FOURTH OF JULY RECIPES
Fresh Peach Cobbler
This fresh peach cobbler is THE dessert of the summer! Fresh peaches are sliced and baked with brown sugar and toasted pecans, alongside a fluffy brown sugar cobbler topping. It’s the most perfect tender texture with a jammy and sweet filling.
Wild Blueberry Crumble Bars
These wild blueberry crumble bars have perfectly thin layers of buttery crumble and jammy lemon blueberry filling! They’re so quick and easy to make using frozen berries and melted butter. These bars cool quickly and they’re ready in under 2 hours!
Mini Apple Hand Pies
These delicious apple hand pies take all the work out of making apple pie. The filling is just 6 simple ingredients, and the crust is store bought pie dough with a coating of cinnamon sugar – baked and ready in under an hour!
Blueberry Cream Cheese Cobbler
This blueberry cobbler is a southern-style version with a soft and cake-like batter with loads of fresh blueberries scattered on top. To take things up a notch, this cobbler is baked with brown butter and pieces of cream cheese scattered throughout!
Lemon Puppy Chow
This lemon puppy chow is bright, sweet, and impossible to stop snacking on. Crispy cereal is coated in creamy white chocolate and fresh lemon zest, then tossed with crushed lemon cookies and dry lemon pudding mix for the ultimate sweet snack!
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I’m the creator, baker, and photographer behind Butternut Bakery. Here I share desserts for every diet because I believe everyone should have a chance to indulge!
