Celebrate summer with tasty treats and fun eats! This 26+ Best Summer Dessert Recipes collection has everything from cobblers and crisps to popsicles and cookies, equipping you for all the season's backyard BBQs, pool parties, family dinners, and more!
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Summer is my favorite dessert season — abundant fresh fruit makes for the best sweet treats! Get me a bumper crop of berries, stonefruit, or zucchini, and my first thought will always be a cobbler, crisp, cookie, or cake!
Because I have so many of these recipes (and add more every year), I figured I'd get them all together in one spot! Read on for my complete list of summer desserts. Bookmark or pin this post for later; I always add new recipes as they publish!
26+ Best Summer Dessert Recipes
Cast Iron Peach Cobbler
Fresh summer peaches shine in this Cast Iron Peach Cobbler. With warm spices, a brown sugar sauce, a gluten-free variation, and flaky sweet biscuits, this dessert is summer in a skillet!
Cast Iron Peach Cobbler
Strawberry Lemonade Bars
Strawberry lemonade bars combine the fruity flavors of lemon and strawberry in a smooth filling layered on top of a buttery shortbread cookie base. These bars are 100% homemade with fresh ingredients and have no artificial flavors!
Strawberry Lemonade Bars
Plum Crisp
Summer just got sweeter with this elegant and effortless Plum Crisp! Dig into this baked dessert at any time of day — with friends after dinner or with a spoon right out of the pan. Pro tip: Sweeten the deal with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Plum Crisp
Fresh Cherry Cake
This fresh Cherry Cake Recipe is perfect for enjoying ripe summer cherries. It's easy to make and family-friendly with an almond-essenced sponge and jammy, fresh cherries. Serve it with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream for a delicious warm weather treat!
Fresh Cherry Cake
Blueberry Lemon Bread
This easy lemon blueberry bread is light, buttery, and bursting with juicy blueberries and bright lemon flavor. One bowl, no stand mixer, 10 minutes of prep — and a crunchy sugar topping that makes it look completely bakery-worthy. Made with a half whole wheat flour blend for a slightly heartier, more nutritious crumb.
Lemon Blueberry Bread
Zucchini Cake
Zucchini Cake is easy to make, delicious, and topped with a light and fluffy cream cheese frosting. You'll love that it's made in one bowl, is perfectly spiced, and is a great way to use up extra zucchini.
Zucchini Cake
Rhubarb Crisp
Featuring tart and orange-essenced rhubarb and a crunchy and buttery oat topping, this Rhubarb Crisp is nostalgic, comforting, and delicious. Top it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for a memorable and quickly disappearing springtime dessert!
Rhubarb Crisp
Strawberry Cobbler
Celebrate the best of summer with this Strawberry Cobbler! With saucy, lemon-essenced berries and a tender sweet biscuit topping, this easy dessert is the perfect summer sweet treat. Serve it at your next family dinner or backyard barbecue with whipped cream or ice cream for rave reviews!
Strawberry Cobbler
Peach Dump Cake
Peach Dump Cake is an easy-to-make and comforting taste of summer! With a boxed cake mix, browned butter, chopped peaches, and a cinnamon-streusel topping, this tender and flavorful cake is made in a few simple steps and is perfect for the whole family. Serve it warm with scoops of ice cream!
Peach Dump Cake
Lemon Sugar Cookies
These Lemon Sugar Cookies are a taste of sunshine! Perfectly soft and chewy with a melt-in-your-mouth buttery lemon flavor. They're made in a few simple steps without any cookie cutters.
Lemon Sugar Cookies
Peach Bread Pudding
Look no further for the BEST Peach Bread Pudding Recipe! Made with buttery brioche, a rich custard, and warmly seasoned sweet peaches, this easy recipe is summertime dessert perfection. Serve it with a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream for rave reviews!
Peach Bread Pudding
Blueberry Coffee Cake
Lightly sweet, perfectly moist, and bursting with blueberries, this coffee cake is a family favorite for good reason. With simple ingredient swaps and a cinnamon crumble topping, it’s a feel-good treat that works for breakfast, snacks, and everything in between.
Blueberry Coffee Cake
Raspberry Cobbler
Homemade Raspberry Cobbler is sweet, tangy, buttery, fresh, and so easy to make! With a lemon-essenced raspberry base, tender and buttery sweet biscuits, and just a few simple steps, it's one of my favorite way to enjoy fresh raspberries. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Raspberry Cobbler
Pineapple Poke Cake
This Pineapple Poke Cake will take your taste buds to a tropical paradise! With a pineapple upside-down cake texture, sweet pineapple syrup, and an easy coconut whipped cream topping, there's no beating this cake! Serve it at potlucks, wedding showers, backyard barbecues, or just because.
Pineapple Poke Cake
Banana Zucchini Bread
Sweet, moist, and chock-full of fruits, veggies, and whole grains, this Banana Zucchini Bread is sure to become an instant family favorite. Best of all, it's super simple to make and freezer-friendly.
Banana Zucchini Bread
Peach Muffins
Celebrate peach season with peach muffins! These muffins are extra juicy and bursting with flavor, and you can even use canned or frozen peaches if you don’t have fresh peaches on hand. Moist, tart, and naturally sweet, I can guarantee this scrumptious seasonal treat will leave you feeling absolutely peachy!
Peach Muffins
Fresh Apricot Cobbler
With a flaky and buttery biscuit base and a warmly spiced fresh apricot filling, this Fresh Apricot Cobbler is the most delicious way to use up your extra summer fruit!
Apricot Cobbler
Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
Buttery, crunchy, fruity, and so easy to make, these Strawberry Shortcake Cookies are a fun way to celebrate summer. Plate them for a summer barbecue or pack them for a picnic for rave reviews.
Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
Rhubarb Muffins
Tender and fluffy Rhubarb Muffins are a must-make with fresh spring rhubarb! Featuring orange zest, tart bites of rhubarb, and topped with crunchy cane sugar, they are flavorful, moist, and fresh. They are ready in less than an hour and made with only 2 bowls!
Rhubarb Muffins
Lemon Poke Cake
Lemon Poke Cake is spongy and moist with rich lemon glaze filling every bite. Topped off with whipped cream, this homemade cake is beautiful, zesty, and perfect for your next party.
Lemon Poke Cake
Peaches and Cream Pie (No-Bake!)
Tuck into a slice of sunshine with this Peaches and Cream Pie! This no-bake dessert features juicy cinnamon peaches, a buttery graham cracker crust, and cool freshly whipped cream. This homestyle dessert is best made ahead of time, making it a great option for summer entertaining, backyard BBQs, and Fourth of July parties!
Peaches and Cream Pie
Raspberry Muffins
These Raspberry Muffins are a breakfast and brunch delight! With a tender crumb, juicy berries, and a buttery streusel topping, they're easy to make with surprisingly better-for-you ingredients. Make them year-round with fresh or frozen raspberries!
Raspberry Muffins
Healthier Dessert Recipes
Gluten-Free Blackberry Cobbler
Gluten-Free Blackberry Cobbler: Enjoy a classic flavor of summer but without gluten! Sweet and saucy cinnamon-spiced berries are topped with tender and flaky sweet biscuits. Just one bite and you'll be hooked!
Gluten-Free Blackberry Cobbler
Healthy Yogurt Popsicles
Cool off this summer with delicious yet easy Healthy Yogurt Popsicles! These family-friendly treats only take 3 ingredients and have no processed sugar, they're perfect for pool parties and afternoon treats.
Healthy Yogurt Popsicles
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Moist, rich, and packed with deep chocolate flavor, these Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are a fun and tasty way to sneak in veggies while satisfying your sweet tooth. Perfect healthy treat for breakfast, as a snack, or even dessert!
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Blueberry Peach Crisp (Gluten-Free!)
Saucy, crunchy, and full of cinnamon flavor, Blueberry Peach Crisp is a healthier way to enjoy summer comfort food! It's naturally gluten-free and vegan and ready in a few simple steps.
Blueberry Peach Crisp
Mango Popsicles
Beat the summertime heat with these delicious Mango Popsicles! Made with only 4 common ingredients in a few simple steps, these easy summer treats are creamy, cooling, fruity, and fresh. A hit with the whole family!
Mango Popsicles
Dairy-Free Blueberry Muffins
With high domes, a soft and tender crumb, and juicy blueberries, these Dairy-Free Blueberry Muffins are so good you may forget they lack dairy! Made in just two bowls and super easy to double and store!
Dairy-Free Blueberry Muffins
Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread
Perfectly tender, sweet, moist, and warmly spiced, this Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread is a tasty sans-gluten way to enjoy the bounties of late summer!
Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread
Blackberry Muffins
These Blackberry Muffins are tender and moist with loads of juicy and sweet blackberries! Made with better-for-you ingredients like whole wheat pastry flour, avocado oil, and Greek yogurt, they're a wholesome summer treat. Perfect for breakfast, snacking, and even dessert. Let's go!
Blackberry Muffins
Zucchini Carrot Muffins
Moist, sweet, and veggie-packed, these Zucchini Carrot Muffins are the ultimate healthy treat for toddlers, kids, and the whole family.
Zucchini Carrot Muffins
