During the hot summer months we want light desserts. Keep your kitchen cool with no-bake desserts like no-bake cheesecakes. Or make fresh desserts bursting with the peak season fruit. Of course summer can never be complete without ice cream treats or popsicles. Many of these desserts are perfect for potlucks and summer BBQ's. These delicious and easy summer treats are so amazing you will want to make them all summer long.
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Caramel Apple Nachos
Make snacking a little healthier with these Caramel Apple Nachos! This is a fantastic way to refresh both traditional savory nachos and the usual apple pie recipes when you have a lot of apples to enjoy. It’s a quick and easy dessert that everyone can share. Check out this simple recipe and give it a try today!
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Old Fashioned Blackberry Cobbler
Calling all summer fruit lovers! This old fashioned blackberry cobbler is a breeze to make, perfect for those warm evenings. With just a few pantry staples, you can whip up a dessert bursting with sweet blackberries and a melt-in-your-mouth crust. It's sure to become a new family tradition!
Get the recipe: Old Fashioned Blackberry Cobbler
Homemade Yogurt Parfait With Berries
Simple yogurt parfait recipe with fresh strawberries and blueberries that will be an amazing fruity dessert for any occasion, from 4th of July (as a red, white, blue dessert) or just a family weekend breakfast.
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Dole Whip Recipe
This Dole Whip is exactly like what you get in the famous parks of Disney. Use fresh ingredients to make a sweet, creamy frozen pineapple whip!
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Easy Cherry Pie Bars for a Crowd
This recipe combines vanilla-infused dough with cherry pie filling and creamy glaze. A simple recipe for making a large batch of sweet desserts - perfect for a celebration or potluck.
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Funfetti Cake Batter Dip
This Funfetti Cake Batter Dip is the perfect thing for dipping with cookies and is both an appetizer and a dessert for your next party. Sweet and creamy you have to give this a try.
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Snickers Salad
Snickers salad is an easy, 3-ingredient dessert recipe! This quick candy bar salad takes just 5 minutes to make.
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Peach Ice Cream With Streusel Swirl
This peach ice cream recipe kicks up the standard peaches and cream with fresh roasted peaches, honey, and bourbon. A buttery oatmeal streusel swirled throughout the ice cream. Yum!
Get the recipe: Peach Ice Cream with streusel swirl
Strawberry Rhubarb Blondies
These cookie bars are packed with fresh rhubarb and strawberries and are super easy to make this summer. The sweetness of strawberries is nicely complemented by tart rhubarb, and creamy batter, with a touch of white chocolate and vanilla.
Get the recipe: Strawberry Rhubarb Blondies.
Blackberry Lavender Cupcakes
These Blackberry Lavender Cupcakes are super pretty to look at but taste even better. Delicately scented with lavender the delicious purple frosting thanks to blackberry compote these are cupcakes you have to bake.
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M&M Cookie Bars
If you love cookie bars you will love these M&M cookie bars twist. They are delicious and the M&Ms infused on these bars make them colorful and sweet-looking.
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Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies
These fruit pizza sugar cookies are mini fruit pizzas made with a sugar cookie crust that gets topped with cream cheese frosting and fresh fruit. Super delicious and fun to make.
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S'mores Bars
These S’mores Bars have the perfect ratio of buttery graham cracker, creamy milk chocolate, and toasted gooey marshmallow in every bite! Super simple to make and are the perfect sweet treat.
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Strawberry Lemonade Poke Cake
With a lemon cake base, strawberry Jell-O and real strawberry pieces, this moist Strawberry Lemonade Poke Cake is light, flavorful and a "piece of cake" to put together!
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Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake
This Easy Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake Recipe comes together in a matter of minutes. It’s one of the easiest desserts to make with the help of a boxed cake mix and canned fruit filling!
Get the recipe: Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake
Limoncello Bundt Cake
The zesty and sweet fluffy cake is a lovely party treat that goes down well with a glass of milk or coffee. It has a sweet lemon glaze and the Limoncello liqueur used here elevates this cake to gourmet status.
Get the recipe: Limoncello Bundt Cake
Smore Ice Cream
Smore Ice Cream is easy to make and doesn’t require an ice cream maker. This no-churn ice cream is packed full of chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers to taste just like your favorite s’mores.
Get the recipe: Smore Ice Cream
Strawberry Popsicles
This easy to make recipe requires only 4 simple ingredients. Use fresh or frozen strawberries for the perfect summer dessert.
Get the recipe: Strawberry Popsicles
Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats With Chocolate
We're taking your favorite childhood rice Krispie treats and kicking them up a notch with the dream team: peanut butter and chocolate. Imagine the melty marshmallow, the delightful crunch of cereal, all infused with peanut butter flavor, and then finished with a layer of chocolate. This isn't your average marshmallow square - it's Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats with Chocolate, and it's about to become your new favorite treat!
Get the recipe: Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats With Chocolate
No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
Summer is calling for these No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Bars! Indulge in a delightful combination of creamy cheesecake and fresh strawberries, all without heating up the kitchen. It's the perfect no-bake treat to beat the summer heat!
Get the recipe: No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
Monster Cookie Dough Dip
Monster Cookie Dough Dip is the ultimate dessert dip as it’s loaded with peanut butter, M&M’s candies, chocolate chips and oats all mixed in an edible cookie dough base.
Get the recipe: Monster Cookie Dough Dip
Pina Colada Poke Cake
This Pina Colada Poke Cake adds a fun twist to a standard sheet cake, using a creamy vanilla or rum filling, the convenience of a box cake mix, and the flavor combination of pineapple and coconut, resembling the tropical Pina Colada cocktail!
Get the recipe: Pina Colada Poke Cake
Banana Split Sundae
This classic banana split sundae has all of the favorites! Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream are added to fresh bananas and topped with nuts, whipped cream and a generous amount of chocolate sauce!
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Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars
These frosted sugar cookie bars are so sweet and delicious. Super easy to make and perfect for any occasion.
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Tropical Fruit Marshmallow Fluff
This Tropical Fruit Marshmallow Fluff is a delicious dessert made with instant lemon pudding mix, Cool Whip, tropical fruit, shredded coconut, and mini marshmallows. Yum!
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Southern Chessmen Cookie Banana Pudding
Southern Chessmen Cookie Banana Pudding is made with layers of buttery cookies, bananas and a decadent pudding. This is made in a 13x9 inch dish making it an easy potluck dessert.
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Strawberry Icebox Cake
This Strawberry Icebox Cake is very sweet and tasty. Sandwiched between layers of graham crackers is a cream cheese filling flavored with strawberries.
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Homemade Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich
Treat yourself this summer with an ice cream cookie sandwich that takes only minutes to make. These are customizable with your favorite ice cream, cookies and toppings.
Get the recipe: Homemade Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich
Cheesecake Strawberries (Deviled Strawberry)
This no-bake dessert recipe has all of the flavors of strawberry cheesecake! The traditional Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries and Deviled Strawberries are so easy to make and taste amazing.
Get the recipe: Cheesecake Strawberries (Deviled Strawberry)
Cookie Dough Ice Cream Dessert
This dessert is for anyone that loves cookie dough! It has a cookie crust, vanilla ice cream with lots of cookie dough, a layer of whipped topping and a drizzle of chocolate syrup for the ultimate dessert recipe.
Get the recipe: Cookie Dough Ice Cream Dessert
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