These easy Memorial Desserts are perfect for serving up during your celebrations to help get the holiday off to a banging start. There are no bake desserts great for cookouts, red, white and blue desserts and more.
Memorial Day get togethers are typically larger gatherings that need easy to make desserts. Treats that represent the day with reds, whites, blues and start of the summer flavors are probably what you are looking for.
When selecting the best Memorial Day desserts, we have used the following criteria: festive colors, seasonal flavors, ease of scaling for a crowd.
Strawberry Jello Salad
This strawberry jello salad is sweet, fruity and fluffy. It is a light dessert that is great for hot days.
Why it's good: this recipe only uses 4 ingredients (one of which is just water). It can be made as a large batch for big Memorial Day celebrations.
Red, White & Blue Rice Krispie Treats
Red, white and blue rice krispie treats are a super festive dessert. They are layered rice krispie treats topped off with more red, white and blue sprinkles.
Why it's good: easily customize these by making them flavored or just with food coloring. They are a nice centerpiece dessert that will be sure to catch everyones eye.
Whipped Cream Pound Cake
Whipped Cream Pound Cake is an extra light and fluffy pound cake. This cake in topped with a sweet icing and fresh berries.
Why it's good: full of red, white and blue colors with the fresh berries and icing on top. Easily double or triple the recipe to make multiple loafs at a time.
Microwave Smores
Smore's is certainly a flavor of summer, but sometimes you don't want to make a whole campfire. So, here come these easy microwave smores.
Why it's good: only uses 3 ingredients and takes about 2 minutes to heat these up. They are great if you are looking for individual sized treats.
Flag Cake
Salute the flag with this easy and festive flag cake. A delicious and fluffy vanilla cake base topped with icing and fresh berries assembled to look like the American Flag.
Why it's good: make it super fast by using boxed cake mix, or use an easy homemade cake recipe. The fresh berries and light and sweet.
Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies
Fruit pizza sugar cookies are delicious, soft and fruity. They have a soft and chewy sugar cookie based, topped with sweet frosting and fresh red and blue berries.
Why it's good: they are festive with red, white and blue colors. Easily customize them by using different fruits to top them off.
Watermelon Sugar Cookies
These watermelon sugar cookies are just like a slice of summer. They look like little slices of watermelon with green rind, pink flesh and cute chocolate chip seeds.
Why it's good: the sweet sugar cookie dough base is super easy to make. They are a nice centerpiece for a dessert table at a Memorial Day cookout.
Patriotic Poke Cake
This patriotic poke cake, not surprisingly, is packed with the colors of red, white and blue. The cake itself is light and fluffy.
Why it's good: super easy to make since boxed cake mix is used. It's colorful and flashy, but doesn't take long to put together.
Smores Dip
This layered baked smores dip is full of ooey, gooey marshmallows, melted chocolate and crunch graham crackers. No campfire needed, but still perfectly toasted marshmallows on top.
Why it's good: Just three ingredients for this one and about 10 minutes to melt it together. You can easily make a large pan of it for big parties.
Fruit Custard Pie
This fruit custard pie is yet another dessert on the list topped with fresh berries. The pie itself has a flaky crust and is filled with thick, sweet custard.
Why it's good: this one is super festive with the bright red and blue berries. It is a lighter dessert perfect for hot weather starts to ramp up at the start of the summer.
