These easy summer desserts are sure to be a refreshing, yet sweet hit at your next summer get together. From flavors of the season like strawberries and other fruits to easy desserts for a crowd to serve at your summer cookout, you are sure to find the best treats to suit your sweet tooth.
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- No Bake Summer Desserts
- Strawberry Jello Salad
- Microwave Smores
- Banana Pudding Fluff
- No Bake Banana Pudding
- Watermelon Rice Krispie Treats
- Nutella Covered Strawberries
- Summer Cakes, Cookies & Cupcakes
- Skittles Cookies
- Watermelon Cupcakes
- Watermelon Sugar Cookies
- Strawberry Crunch Poundcake
- Pies & Dips for Summer
- Smores Dip
- Mini Smores Pies
- Fruit Custard Pie
Summer season is a time when you are looking for sweet, but light and refreshing treats. Desserts that can be easily made for a crowd for your cookouts and other celebrations.
We have selected just the very best, easy summer desserts based on the following criteria: seasonal flavor, ease of making as a large serving, time to make. So, keep scrolling to find the very best treats for your summer.
No Bake Summer Desserts
These no bake desserts are quick and easy to make for summertime. They are filled with flavors of strawberries, bananas, smores and more.
Strawberry Jello Salad
This strawberry jello salad is a light, fluffy and fruity dessert. It is made with fresh sliced strawberries and can easily be customized.
Why it's good: only uses 4 ingredients (one of which is simply water). Can easily be made in a large batch for a crowd.
Microwave Smores
Don't have time to build a whole campfire? Try out these microwave smores. They have all the chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker flavors you know and love, but are super quick and easy to make.
Why it's good: you only need 3 ingredients and about 2 minutes to make this yummy dessert. Great if you are looking for an individual serving treat.
Banana Pudding Fluff
Light, sweet and fruity, this banana pudding fluff is super delicious. It uses freshly sliced bananas, whipped cream, instant pudding and Nilla wafers for dipping.
Why it's good: ready in under 10 minutes with just 5 simple ingredients. You can easily scale this to serve for large parties.
No Bake Banana Pudding
If you want a more traditional banana pudding, give this layered no bake banana pudding a try. With sweet layers of Nilla Wafers, Instant pudding, cool whip and sliced bananas this is a can't miss treat.
Why it's good: you can layer this one together in about 15 minutes. It's easy to make a huge pan all at once to serve at large celebrations.
Watermelon Rice Krispie Treats
How fun are these watermelon rice krispie treats?! No, they don't taste like watermelon, but they sure do look like one!
Why it's good: these are fun and festive and look just like a slice of summery watermelon. They look elaborate, but are easy to make with just a few ingredients and a little food coloring.
Nutella Covered Strawberries
These Nutella covered strawberries are sweet, yummy and easy to make. The combination of fresh strawberry flavor mixed with sweet chocolate and hazelnut is so good.
Why it's good: these are super easy to customize with different flavors of chocolate and different kinds of sprinkles. They make a great grab and go treat for cookouts and more.
Summer Cakes, Cookies & Cupcakes
These summer cakes, cookies and cupcakes are full of sweet flavors and festive colors. They are bright, sunny and ready to be snacked on.
Skittles Cookies
Taste the rainbow with these skittles cookies. Bright and colorful skittles are sprinkled throughout the cookies giving them a pretty burst of color and unique fruity flavors.
Why it's good: this no chill dough is easy to make in around 30 minutes. The cookies are a sweet, fruity flavor with pops of color making them great for summer parties.
Watermelon Cupcakes
These watermelon cupcakes are SO cute. With their pink icing speckled with "seeds" or mini chocolate chips.
Why it's good: you can make the cupcakes from scratch or use boxed mix to make them even faster. These are super cute to serve up as individual serving desserts at summer parties.
Watermelon Sugar Cookies
How adorable are these watermelon sugar cookies? Each cookie looks like a little slice of watermelon with green rind, pink flesh and chocolate chip seeds.
Why it's good: this is an easy to make sugar cookie dough with just a few additions for color and flavor to add to these cookies. They look super fancy, but are really easy to make.
Strawberry Crunch Poundcake
Light, fluffy and full of strawberry flavor, this strawberry crunch poundcake is super yummy. It is a classic poundcake with fresh strawberries mixed in, all topped off with a strawberry crunch topping.
Why it's good: this recipe is super easy to make and can easily be doubled or tripled to make multiple loafs at a time. Only takes about 10 minutes to get everything together and then you just have to bake it.
Pies & Dips for Summer
Fruity pies and campfire ready dips abound. These fun pies and dips are full of summer flavors.
Smores Dip
This easy Smore's Dip is ooey, gooey and delicious. It is an easy layered dessert that will taste just like you melted it over an open fire.
Why it's good: only three ingredients and 10 minutes will have this sweet treat ready for snacking. Easily scale this up or down depending on how many people you need to serve.
Mini Smores Pies
Looking for a cute, individual serving dessert? Look no further than these mini smores pies. All the flavors of chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker you know and love melted into cute mini pies.
Why it's good: these use only 3 simple ingredients and take just a few minutes to put together. They are great if you need treats for people to pick up and take with them.
Fruit Custard Pie
A flaky crust filled with thick, sweet custard and topped with fresh berries. This fruit custard pie is a delicious, light, but sweet dessert.
Why it's good: you can change up the flavor depending on which fresh berries you decide to use. It is a cool and light dessert perfect for hot days.
