All my favorite summer desserts for days at the lake, backyard barbecues, and family gatherings! Simple, easy and very good.
If your summer calendar is anything like mine, it’s filled with barbecues, days at the lake, family gatherings, and those last-minute messages asking, “Can you bring dessert?”
Good news: this list of summer dessert recipes has you covered! These are the sweets I make every summer: easy, crowd-friendly, and loved by everyone. Bars, cakes, cookies, brownies and more!
My MOST favorites on the list: the best peach cobbler and those S’Mores bars. I make them several times every summer.
Here’s to long summer days and lots of deliciousness! I hope you find your next favorite!
Favorite Summer Dessert Recipes
The best peach cobbler
Best summer dessert ever! Made with fresh peaches, sugar, and a topping that bakes like lightly underbaked cookie dough, with crunchy toasted sugar on top.
The Best S’mores Bars
These truly are the BEST S’mores bars! Chocolate, peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiched between two layers of graham cracker crust. Everyone’s favorite summer snack (S’MORES, please!) in dessert bar form!
Banoffee Cake
Absolutely my new favorite dessert. Sweet and savory graham cracker crust, silky caramel filling, sliced bananas, and whipped cream on top. My family loves this easy dessert recipe!
Party Brownies
Brownies topped with a thick layer of fudge frosting and rainbow sprinkles. The best way to spice up a box of brownie mix!
Strawberry and White Chocolate Cookies
These are HUGE Strawberry White Chocolate Cookies studded with creamy, rich white chocolate chips and beautifully balanced with freeze-dried strawberry pie. Grab your baking essentials and let’s go!
Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars
Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars! Perfectly chewy, crunchy, caramelly, buttery, soft and exactly as over-the-top as you need.
Extra good puppy food
Beautiful, thick puppy food clusters with extra chocolate and peanut butter and a dusting of powdered sugar! Summer bliss in the Midwest.
fruit pizza
This easy fruit pizza is beautiful and delicious! A soft sugar cookie crust with cream cheese frosting and topped with fruit slices. How simple and so good!
Pistachio Bread
It’s almost spring and we’re making this beautiful pistachio bread! Grab your baking essentials, like butter, eggs, and sugar, plus a few extras, like pistachios and coconut flour, and get baking!
The Best Easy Peanut Butter Pie
The BEST Easy Peanut Butter Pie! A simple cookie crust under a layer of fluffy peanut butter filling that’s fluffy, light, and incredibly rich all at the same time.
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars
These Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars are healthy, perfect, and everything your summer needs! Made with oats, almond butter, zucchini, dates and maple syrup. So many feel-good ingredients in one bar!
Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce
This easy cranberry sauce is made with fresh cranberries, sugar, vanilla, and cornstarch. Thick, sweet and perfect for topping pancakes.
Homemade Old School Oreos
Life-Changing Homemade Oreos: Soft, buttery, moist, and perfectly dense chocolate cookies filled with cream cheese frosting. VERY GOOD.
Deep Bowls of S’mores for Two
A cookie base loaded with graham crackers, top it with little squares of chocolate bars, packed with marshmallows. A gooey, golden, melty, cookie-laden miracle.
Banana cream cakes for two people
Banana cream pies for two people! Very fun and easy, low-maintenance, easy Banana Cream Pies in Jars are within your reach.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars are as extreme as they come. VERY GOOD.
Shredded raspberry for two people
The BEST Easy Summer Dessert – For Two! A layer of oat crust, brown sugar, juicy, sticky, bubbly raspberries, and topped with a buttery crumble baked to perfection.
Lemon Pie Blender
Lemon pie in a blender! Eggs, butter, sugar and a WHOLE LEMON were mixed together and poured into a base. Stretchy, creamy and simple lemon magic.
Golden Grahams Bars
Crunchy, chocolate flavored and made with only FIVE ingredients. Even better: it requires no baking and is so easy to make. Victorious!
Peanut Butter Mocha Cake
Peanut Butter Mocha Pie! A mocha cookie crust filled with creamy peanut butter cheesecake and topped with chocolate ice cream and lots of peanut butter cups. My new favorite dessert!
Raspberry crumble bars
These Raspberry Crumble Bars are THE BEST! So soft, buttery and delicious. My favorite summer dessert.
Amazing vegan chocolate cake
This vegan chocolate cake is a five-ingredient, no-bake miracle. The ultra-thick and creamy chocolate cake filling is made with (wait for it)… tofu, almond butter, almond milk, and melted chocolate. Easy!
Bonus: really good summer snacks
Summer is time to have a snack at our house! Whether we’re running out the park gate, having last-minute friends in the backyard, or hosting a play date, these are the snacks and apps I reach for.
