35 Best Summer Desserts
This is the ultimate collection of summer desserts, from no bake recipes like peanut butter pie, to fruity favorites like the best blueberry muffins and peach cobbler cheesecake. Whether you’re hosting a backyard cookout or just craving something sweet, you’re bound to find your new favorite summer dessert recipe here!
NO BAKE DESSERT RECIPES
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
These homemade peanut butter cups taste just like a Reese’s, but without any processed ingredients. These cups are healthy, gluten free, vegan, and refined sugar free.
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. As the pie chills overnight, the cookies soften to create incredible layers. Each bite is met with creamy sharp lime and tender buttery cookie, making it the best key lime pie you’ll ever have!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Treats
These easy no bake marshmallow treats are like extra gooey rice krispie treats with chocolate and peanut butter melted in! They’re so quick to make but yield a thick and rich marshmallow treat that tastes way better than any basic version.
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. A few secret ingredients and essential baking tips make this the most life-changing peanut butter pie you’ll ever have!
Strawberry Pretzel Marshmallow Treats
These strawberry marshmallow treats have all the delicious flavors of a classic strawberry pretzel salad! Crunchy roasted pretzels and flavorful freeze dried strawberries are mixed into the most ooey gooey rice krispie treats. It’s a fun spin on this traditional no bake treat!
SUMMER CAKE RECIPES
Coconut Soaked Lime Cake
This incredibly fluffy lime cake is soaked in sweetened coconut milk and topped with coconut whipped cream. Think of a cross between a tres leches cake and a poke cake, where it’s not as drenched as tres leches but the soak isn’t thick enough to produce the poke cake effect – all while producing a delicious texture. It’s also incredibly light and not too sweet, making it the perfect easy cake for Summer!
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! It eliminates the need to assemble individual servings. Just scoop in and enjoy!
BEST Vanilla Cake
Truly the best vanilla cake you can make at home! It’s so plush and bouncy with an incredibly moist consistency. Tirelessly tested, this recipe consists of specially selected ingredients as well as a unique baking technique to create a bakery-worthy vanilla cake recipe.
Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake
This strawberry cake is incredibly moist and made with FRESH strawberries! No mixes, no food coloring, just natural strawberry flavor with a silky strawberry cream cheese frosting.
Funfetti Cake
This is the PERFECT funfetti cake recipe! It’s super moist, soft, loaded with sprinkles, and covered in creamy and sweet vanilla buttercream. With the perfect birthday cake texture and flavor, this is the right cake to make for any special celebration.
SUMMER CHEESECAKE RECIPES
Peach Cobbler Cheesecake
Peach cobbler cheesecake baked with a layer of roasted peaches and crumble in the center, and topped with a pile of even more juicy roasted peaches.
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. It’s the perfect way to celebrate cherry season!
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 lime zest is mixed into the middle layer to inject even more of that bright flavor.
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.
Roasted Strawberry Cheesecake
This strawberry cheesecake is made extra special with fresh roasted strawberries! The process of roasting brings out such a sweet and rich strawberry flavor and with roasted strawberries both in the batter and on top, it creates a VERY strawberry cheesecake.
SUMMER 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. With ribbons of jam throughout each cookie, each bite is met with soft cookie and jammy strawberry.
BEST M&M Cookies
These are the BEST M&M cookies! They’re buttery, chewy, and loaded with both mini and crushed M&Ms. There’s also no down time, just mix and bake.
Lemon Sugar Cookies
These lemon sugar cookies have everything a good sugar cookie should have – plus the bright and zesty flavor of fresh lemon! They’re rich, tender, soft, buttery, and balanced with lemon zest, juice, and a lemon zest sugar crust. With only 20 minutes to chill the dough, these cookies are ready to eat in under an hour!
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
These are seriously the BEST White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies. Using a few secret ingredients, this recipe is an elevated version of a classic. They’re the perfect balance of salty and sweet with a thick, soft, and chewy texture. This recipe is also no-chill, can be mixed by hand, and can be frozen to keep for months on end!
Salted Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I will never turn down an oatmeal raisin cookie, especially one that’s perfectly chewy with just the right amount of raisins. These oatmeal raisin cookies check all the boxes as they’re full of flavor, easy to make, and incorporate a few baker-secrets to take these to the next level. You’re going to love them!
EASY SUMMER DESSERT 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. The slices bake into the most perfect tender texture with a jammy and sweet filling. Serve it up with vanilla ice cream or dig straight in! It’s delicious any which way.
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
This is the BEST chocolate chip zucchini bread! It’s super moist with a crispy crust and is loaded with melty dark chocolate chips. This easy recipe makes the softest and most delicious zucchini bread!
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. It’s also not overly sweet so it’s perfect to pair with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
BEST Blueberry Muffins
These are seriously the BEST blueberry muffins. Not only do they bake with the most perfect muffin tops, but they’re also incredibly moist and flavorful. They’re also made with extra blueberries, so there’s a burst of fresh berries in every single bite.
Double Chocolate Popcorn Puppy Chow
This double chocolate popcorn puppy chow is the perfect balance of sweet and salty! With only a few ingredients, this delicious snack mix comes together in no time. It’s bound to be your new go-to snack!
Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake
This blueberry coffee cake is so moist and loaded with fresh blueberries! The sour cream makes this cake so lush, while the brown sugar crumble topping adds a delicious layer of sweetness. It can also be made with fresh or frozen blueberries.
NO CHURN ICE CREAM RECIPES
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-Churn Churro Ice Cream
Easy no churn churro ice cream with baked churros, dulce de leche, and homemade cinnamon ice cream.
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. This recipe can also be made regular or gluten and dairy free!
SUMMER BARS AND BROWNIES 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.
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. They’re sweet, rich, tart, creamy, buttery, and so dang good.
Easy Fudge Brownies
Influenced by the rising cost of chocolate, this easy brownie recipe gets its chocolate richness from just cocoa powder. Along with a few pantry-staple ingredients, you likely already have everything you need to bake these! But don’t be fooled by the ease (and don’t be scared by the mayo), as these brownies are just as rich and fudgy as any made with expensive chocolate.
Oatmeal Cream Pie Bars
These oatmeal cream pie bars are essentially one giant oatmeal cream pie sliced into the most delicious wedges! The oatmeal cookie batter is formulated to remain nice and soft, just like the classic packaged snack, with a cream filling that stays intact when baked. You won’t want oatmeal cream pies any other way after trying this recipe!
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. Plus, since they’re so thin, they cool quickly so they’re ready to slice in under 2 hours!
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.
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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!
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