65+ Easy Summer Dessert Recipes

In the mood for some easy desserts? Then you’ve come to the right spot. Enjoy 65 dessert recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth all Summer long!

Short Collage of Summer Dessert Recipe photos with pink banner and title

During the warm-weather months, the last thing you want to do is be stuck in the kitchen with a hot oven. These desserts will have you in and out of the kitchen quickly. You can enjoy fresh fruits, chocolate, cakes, and pie without too much work.

There are lots of excellent recipes that don’t require an oven. You’ll also love the homemade ice cream, salads, and other cooling recipes.

1/65

Easy Fruit Salad

Easy Fruit Salad recipe for a refreshing dish with assorted ripe fruits, fresh berries, and simple dressing made of citrus juice and honey.
Check out this recipe
2/65

Sour Patch Grapes - Healthier than the Candy!

With only two ingredients, these candied grapes come together in seconds and taste like you threw deliciously tart green grapes into the machines at the Sour Patch Candy factory!
Check out this recipe

3/65

Easy Strawberry Shortcake

Easy Strawberry Shortcakes with freshly made sweetened biscuits, homemade whipped cream and lightly sweet strawberries in less than an hour.
Check out this recipe

4/65

How to make S'Mores (4 Ways!)

How to make the perfect S'mores that will take you back to your childhood on the stove, in the microwave, in the oven and on the grill.
Check out this recipe

5/65

Vanilla Ice Cream

Vanilla Ice Cream made from fresh cream, sugar, and vanilla extract is indulgently sweet, creamy, and the PERFECT classic dessert.
Check out this recipe
6/65

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Chocolate Covered Strawberries are a sweet, no-bake dessert made with fresh strawberries and melted chocolate, ready in just minutes!
Check out this recipe
7/65

Mixed Berry Pie

Mixed Berry Pie with homemade crust, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries together make the most amazing berry pie you've ever tasted!
Check out this recipe
8/65

3 Ingredient Fresh Strawberry Sorbet

The most perfect, simple, 3 ingredient strawberry sorbet. Sweet, refreshing, tart and creamy, this recipe will not disappoint you and will keep you from ever buying it again.
Check out this recipe
9/65

Strawberry Crisp

Easy Strawberry Crisp is the best summer dessert with fresh strawberries topped with a crunchy brown sugar, cinnamon oat crumble in less than an hour.
Check out this recipe
10/65

Double Chocolate Brownie Batter Ice Cream

No cook, egg free Double Chocolate Brownie Batter Ice Cream! Ready to churn in just 2 minutes and taste's like you are licking the bowl of your favorite brownie batter but in ice cream form!
Check out this recipe
11/65

Ambrosia Salad

Ambrosia Salad is a CLASSIC holiday no-bake dessert with whipped cream, marshmallows, coconut, cherries, mandarines, pineapple and grapes.
Check out this recipe
12/65

Avalanche Cookies

Avalanche Cookies are easy no bake cookies with chocolate chips, peanut butter, white chocolate marshmallows and rice krispies in under 20 minutes!
Check out this recipe
13/65

Banana Split S'mores

Banana Split S'mores with graham crackers, chocolate, marshmallows, freeze dried bananas and strawberries. A fun twist on the sticky, gooey summer classic!
Check out this recipe
14/65

Easy Whipped Cream

Easy Whipped Cream is light, sweet, and easily makes the PERFECT addition to any dessert, ready in under 5 minutes with only 3 ingredients!
Check out this recipe
15/65

Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce sounds daunting to most but it is actually a really quick ten minute recipe that results in the most indulgent, delicious, buttery and salty caramel sauce you have ever tasted!
Check out this recipe
16/65

Rice Krispies Treats

Rice Krispies Treats are a classic American dessert, made with just three ingredients and just 30 minutes. Plus lots of mix-in ideas! 
Check out this recipe
17/65

Fresh Strawberry Crumb Bars

Fresh Strawberry Crumb Bars that are easy to make with just a handful of ingredients and they taste just like Nutrigrain Bars!
Check out this recipe
18/65

Peanut Butter & Chocolate No-Bake Granola Energy Bites

No bake energy bites that taste like a cross between your three favorite cookies: Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Raisin. The addition of flax meal kick up the flavor and the good-for-you-factor!
Check out this recipe
19/65

No-Cook Sprinkles Cake Batter Ice Cream

No cook, egg free Spinkle & Cake Batter Ice Cream! Ready to churn in just 2 minutes and tastes like Cold Stone's Cake Batter Ice Cream!
Check out this recipe
20/65

White Chocolate Puppy Chow (Muddy Buddies)

White Chocolate Puppy Chow (Muddy Buddies) are crunchy and sweet, made with ONLY 4 ingredients, Chex cereal, peanut butter, white chocolate, and powdered sugar, and ready in under 5 minutes!
Check out this recipe
21/65

Strawberry Topping

Strawberry Topping is a sweet and indulgent strawberry sauce made from strawberries, sugar, and vanilla, ready in just 20 minutes!
Check out this recipe
22/65

Blackberry Crumb Bars

Blackberry Crumb Bars are an easy, sweet summer breakfast. Bakery-style layer bars with a buttery crumb topping and fresh blackberry filling.
Check out this recipe
23/65

Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars

Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars that are all natural and still taste EXACTLY like the ice cream bars we all grew up with!
Check out this recipe
24/65

Lemon Sheet Cake

Lemon Sheet Cake is light, fluffy party-sized cake full of lemony flavor in every bite. Easy lemon cake mix with lemon juice and lemon zest made in an hour!
Check out this recipe
25/65

Tres Leches Cake

Tres Leches Cake is a classic Mexican cake recipe. Soaked in three kinds of milk and topped with whipped cream and cinnamon. Try it today!
Check out this recipe
26/65

Banana Cream Pie

The BEST EVER Banana Cream Pie with no pre-made mixes and still only a handful of ingredients. The perfect, delicious pie for the holidays!
Check out this recipe
27/65

American Flag Cake

American Flag Cake made with a homemade vanilla cake recipe, cool whip and fresh berries is the perfect patriotic dessert for your summer cookout.
Check out this recipe
28/65

Angel Food Cake

Angel Food Cake is light and fluffy, made with egg whites, sugar, almond and vanilla flavor, ready in under 90 minutes!
Check out this recipe
29/65

Apple Slab Pie with Spiced Glaze

A flaky crust, tender apples, warm spices, it's a delicious handheld pie in slab form, which means you get more crust per bite! It is topped with all the flavors in the pie because it uses all the leftover spiced liquids from the apples!
Check out this recipe
30/65

Apple Snickers Salad

Snickers Salad made with vanilla pudding, Cool whip and apples. Chewy, creamy, tart and sweet, the perfect potluck summer dessert.
Check out this recipe
31/65

Easy Key Lime Pie

Easy Key Lime Pie with just six ingredients in 15 minutes. A perfect summer dessert thats sweet, tart and buttery!
Check out this recipe
32/65

Strawberry Buckle

Strawberry Buckle is the best berry dessert for summer! Melt in your mouth buttery cake loaded with fresh strawberries, topped with sweet cinnamon crumble.
Check out this recipe
33/65

Brown Sugar Grilled Pineapple

Easy Brown Sugar Grilled Pineapple made in a grill pan is the quintessential side dish to any summer dishes you're making. When grilled the pineapple gets soft, tender and melts in your mouth!
Check out this recipe
34/65

No Bake S'mores Cookies

No Bake S'mores Cookies are an easy kid approved summer dessert with only 4 ingredients. Bite sized chocolatey Golden grahams marshmallow treats in minutes!
Check out this recipe
35/65

Blueberry Buckle

Blueberry Buckle is an easy buttery coffee cake with a crumbly sweet cinnamon streusel, loaded with fresh blueberries. A great summer breakfast or dessert!
Check out this recipe
36/65

Oreo Rice Krispie Treats

These Oreo Rice Krispie Treats filled with Oreo cookie chunks and melted Oreo filling make an easy rice krispie treat recipe taste even MORE amazing!
Check out this recipe
37/65

S'mores Cereal Bars

S'mores Cereal Bars are gooey no-bake treats perfect all school year and summer long. Golden Grahams, marshmallows, and chocolate chips make tasty s'mores to-go!
Check out this recipe
38/65

Drumstick Ice Cream Cones (Copycat)

All the flavors of the original, with ¼ the number of ingredients! Homemade delicious vanilla ice cream, dipped in homemade chocolate magic shell and topped with crushed peanuts.
Check out this recipe
39/65

S'mores Sheet Cake

S'mores Sheet Cake is an easy summer cake with chocolate cake on graham crackers topped with a layer of toasted marshmallows with an awesome microwave hack!
Check out this recipe
40/65

Peach Cobbler

Peach Cobbler is the ultimate Southern comfort food dessert classic with sweetened cinnamon sugar baked peaches topped with crispy biscuit dough.
Check out this recipe
41/65

Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips

Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips are an easy sweet treat! Flour tortillas covered in melted butter and cinnamon sugar then baked until golden brown and crispy.
Check out this recipe
42/65

Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips

Fresh Fruit Salsa is a great fresh, tangy party food, great for appetizers or desserts. Also perfect as a topping for grilled meats!
Check out this recipe
43/65

Puppy Chow (Muddy Buddies)

Puppy Chow (Muddy Buddies) is the PERFECT sweet and crunchy party snack, made with only 4 ingredients and ready in under under 10 minutes!
Check out this recipe
44/65

Peach Crisp

Peach Crisp is an all-American dessert. Juicy peach filling baked covered in a crunchy oat topping, made in about an hour. Perfect with vanilla ice cream!
Check out this recipe
45/65

Blackberry Pie

Blackberry Pie is a classic pie recipe loaded with sweet fresh berries, balanced with cinnamon and lemon juice baked in golden brown lattice-top pie crust!
Check out this recipe
46/65

Raspberry Peach Pie

This Raspberry Peach Pie is a fresh summer dessert filled with sweet, juicy peaches and tart raspberries. Topped with a pretty and easy lattice crust!
Check out this recipe
47/65

Baked Strawberry Pie

This Baked Strawberry Pie is an easy all-American classic pie bursting with fresh strawberries, sweetened with sugar and cinnamon, baked in a double crust.
Check out this recipe
48/65

S'mores Bars

S'mores Bars are an easy, decadent 5 ingredient dessert layered with marshmallows, milk chocolate, and graham cracker crust, no campfire required!
Check out this recipe
49/65

Funfetti Cake Batter Dip (Dunkeroo Dip)

Funfetti Cake Batter Dip is a festive, easy and nostalgic dessert dip made with cake mix, vanilla yogurt, Cool Whip, and sprinkles and it tastes just like Dunkaroos!
Check out this recipe
50/65

Waldorf Salad

Waldorf Salad is a classic fruit and nut salad (or dessert!). A holiday favorite with apples, grapes, celery, and walnuts.
Check out this recipe
51/65

Apple Pie

Apple Pie is a classic American dessert perfect for the holidays made with cinnamon, apples brown sugar and a beautiful egg washed lattice crust.
Check out this recipe
52/65

Peach Pie

A quick, easy to make American favorite, this Peach Pie recipe is full of flavor and is great served with ice cream.
Check out this recipe
53/65

Bonefish Grill Coconut Pie (Copycat)

Bonefish Grill Coconut Pie is the perfect copycat recipe of a rich coconut pie made with sweetened coconut, heavy cream and vanilla with a rich rum sauce. 
Check out this recipe
54/65

Hawaiian Nut Banana Bread

Hawaiian Nut Banana Bread is a one bowl easy quick bread with walnuts, coconut, bananas, cherries and pineapple inside in just an hour.
Check out this recipe
55/65

Coconut Cream Pie

Coconut Cream Pie is a classic American pie made with coconut pudding, fresh whipped cream, and toasted coconut – ready in under an hour!
Check out this recipe
56/65

Peach Crumb Pie

Peach Crumb Pie is an American classic, made from fresh peaches with a brown sugar cinnamon filling and and a crispy buttery oat crumb topping. 
Check out this recipe
57/65

Peanut butter pie

Peanut Butter Pie is an easy no-bake pie with nutter butter crust and fluffy whipped peanut butter and cream cheese filling your whole family will LOVE!
Check out this recipe
58/65

Caramel Fondue

Caramel fondue is a fun and easy interactive sweet and salty dessert with just three ingredients the whole family will LOVE!
Check out this recipe
59/65

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie is a delicious no bake frozen pie dessert with a cookie dough pie crust and a dark chocolate whipped cream pudding filling.
Check out this recipe
60/65

Birthday Cake Pie

Birthday Cake Pie is a fun dessert with a no-bake cake batter flavored pudding filling in a classic pie crust that says "happy birthday" in an original way.
Check out this recipe
61/65

Oreo Ice Box Cake

Oreo Ice Box Cake is an easy no bake dessert with Oreos and whipped cream (or cool whip!) you can serve all summer long!
Check out this recipe
62/65

Edible Cookie Dough

Edible Cookie Dough is raw-flour and egg-free treat with graham crackers and chocolate chips. It is safe for the whole family! Try today!
Check out this recipe
63/65

Ice Cream Cake

Chocolate and Strawberry Ice Cream Cake that's great for birthday parties! You (and kids!) can make in minutes, and decorate it with your favorite toppings!
Check out this recipe
64/65

Blueberry Pie

Blueberry Pie is the classic dessert favorite made with fresh blueberries, a lattice crust and a coarse sugar topping that's a perfect holiday dessert in just an hour!
Check out this recipe
65/65

Mixed Berry Trifle

Berry Trifle is the perfect summer recipe with pound cake, pudding and mixed berries in just 30 minutes. And it's a showstopper!
Check out this recipe

Collage of Summer Dessert Recipe photos with pink banner and title across middle

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

Dinner, then Dessert, Inc. owns the copyright on all images and text and does not allow for its original recipes and pictures to be reproduced anywhere other than at this site unless authorization is given. Read my disclosure and copyright policy. This post may contain affiliate links.

Categories

Leave a comment & rating

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.