My Favorite Summer Desserts
Happy 4th of July! I love to cook in the summertime and today I am sharing my favorite summer desserts. All of these recipes are amazing!
In honor of summer, I am sharing recipes for macarons, summer cakes, ice cream, a frozen pie, summer pie, popsicles, s’mores, cobbler, and more tasty desserts. I loved making each of these desserts and I guess you could say these are all of my favorite summer desserts.
Some of these tasty desserts are really simple and others are more difficult. And yet they all taste amazing! And they can all be made as a holiday or birthday dessert!
Summer desserts can be similar and yet so different! I love light and fluffy desserts which can be lemon cream pie or homemade marshmallows. Both taste great and are so perfect for warm summer nights.
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But what about homemade marshmallows and s’mores? Hello! Desserts don’t get any better than this! Especially on a summer evening.
Many of you know how much I love to cook. It’s relaxing and I really enjoy it. It’s fun to open up the pantry and drab some ingredients and decide what to make. Especially if it is a summer dessert!
To me, nothing is better than serving a fabulous dessert at the end of a dinner. Summer evenings, when the air is thick with the lingering heat of the day and the heady scents of sunscreen and citronella, seem to beg for a sweet ending to the day. Everything is a little slower and sweeter in the summer.
If you want a really simple summer dessert, then I suggest you make this Frozen Limeaid Pie. It really is easy to make.
And I can promise you that it tastes delicious!
One of the reasons I love making desserts is that it is easy. What makes it easy? I have a well-stocked pantry. I put together a list of all of the things I try to keep in my pantry. You can find my list here.
Summer Dessert Recipes
Here is a list of all of my favorite summer desserts. I hope you will make some of these desserts and get as much pleasure as I did serving them to my boys.
My Favorite Summer Desserts
This Meyer lemon pie is the perfect amount of sweet and tart with a yummy graham cracker crust. IT has a lemony whipped cream and candied lemon peel garnish. Bookmark this recipe, it is a crowd-pleaser!
I doubled this recipe to make the three-tiered cake.
One of my favorite Summer Desserts Is Frozen LimeAid Pie. You are going to love this recipes when you see how easy it is to make this amazing frozen dessert.
This Meyer Lemon and raspberry Olive Oil cake is amazing. The combination of the sweet Meyer lemon with the raspberries and the Mascarpone cream is just fabulous. this dessert is a win-win for sure.
This Citrus Stained Lemon Tart is one of a kind. I love the taste and it is gluten-free! Of course, if you want, you can leave the citrus on top to serve.
This berry pie is one of the most delicious and prettiest pies you will ever make. The crust recipe is courtesy of Chef Monique Chan.
The fresh fruit popsicles are so refreshing and delicious!
These vanilla marshmallows are amazing. By adding a peanut butter graham cracker crust they are now even better!
Macarons are so much fun to make. I love how perfectly these look and am thrilled they taste amazing!
The kouign-amann is pronounced "queen a-mahn" and is from Brittany, France. It's like a cross between a croissant and a palmier, with layer after layer of buttery, flaky pastry on the inside, yet caramelized with ever-so-slightly-burnt sugar on the outside.
This fabulous recipe is used used to make pastries such as profiteroles, cream puffs, and eclairs. Today we are making Choux Puffs with a Mousseline cream and Raspberry filling. These measurements yield a high volume of puffs, so feel free to halve (or otherwise divide) the recipe according to your needs.
The mini pies not only look adorable but they also taste great.
This 1-2-3-4 cake recipe is so easy to make and yet it tastes and looks fantastic.
This homemade coffee ice cream is so creamy and delicious, When layered with oreo cookie crust, hot fudge, and whipped cream, you can create mud pie sundaes.
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Wow! These all look great! I can’t wait to try several especially the Meyer Lemon with Raspberry Olive Oil! I live near Paso Robles where we have a selection of wonderful olive oils. I can’t wait to try a recipe a girlfriend just told me about, brownies with tangerine/orange olive oil!!
I made this in my mini Bundt pans. I used homemade strawberry jam and fresh strawberries. It was a big hit, will definitely make again. Reminds me of Italy.
Sounds delicious!
Lucky you! Wow, that sounds delicious! Maybe I will give it a try too!
These all look so amazing….don’t know which one to make first!! You are truly talented in so many ways! crafts to cooking and decorating..You are so fun to follow!!!
Oh, thank you so much for following, Jackie! Let me know which ones you make!
Happy Birthday Leslie! Each one of these desserts are beautiful and look delicious. The Citrus Stained Lemon Tart sounds intriguing to me 🍋! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Is there a way to make the Pate a chous with a Vegan filling? It would be great if
you can do some conversions with applesauce (rather than oil for example) etc.
If you can make a super pastry like this or citrus cake orange/lemony for summer.
Also the Pate a chous looks as though you could make them look festive for
Christmas too…or for fall with cinnamon or pumpkin flavor? The summer ideas
are Beautiful and Love the pastels and colored glass pedestals!
The pink oven mitts and other things are Fun! Thank you.
All great ideas, thanks!
I just knew you must be a Gemini with this creative flair of yours! Today’s my birthday too! Happy Birthday and yes, you should eat Dessert first!
Happy birthday! It is my birthday today as well. And this was just a perfect gift. I adore desserts although I don’t make them too often today I was browsing only whilst my husband and I both recover from Covid.
Happy birthday Leslie! Hope you get spoiled today royally by your family. So many wonderful deserts to chose from but the Limeaid pie sounds so refreshing for summer.
Happy Birthday Leslie! Thank you for your wonderful blog and wonderful ideas. I appreciate your heart for your family and all things beautiful. God bless you!
Happy Birthday Leslie,
Mine was yesterday but I am celebrating today with my brother and husband ~ a patio lunch in our local Greek village. Cheers Leslie, have a great day.
Louise from Toronto
Yasay – Happy Birthday! One of each for me, please! 🙂 LOVE all your beautiful desserts – the cake with chef Moniqe is probably my favorite – so so beautiful! Thanks as always for the wonderful inspiration, and hope you have a lovely special day!
Happy happy Birthday Leslie!! Hope your day is filled with joy and you are surrounded by your beautiful family! All these desserts look awesome!💕🎂💕
Happy Birthday Leslie! Have a great day!
Happy Birthday Leslie! Hope your birthday is as fabulous as all these delicious looking desserts you posted. My mouth is watering just looking at them.
Happy Birthday Leslie! Hope it’s wonderful!
Happy Birthday, Leslie! We share the same birthday. Your summer desserts look great. I especially want to try the Limeaid Pie and the Meyer Lemon Creme Pie. Enjoy yourr day.
Your Basic 1234 cake is absolutely beautiful!!! I’m definitely going to try to make it! Thanks for sharing all your great ideas❤️
hHappy Birthday, I hope someone else bakes you a beautiful cake , enjoy the day!
Happy Birthday Leslie. All of your desserts look amazing! Have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday Leslie. You deserve the best! So many great recipes! Now, I have to decide which one to make this Friday when i have guests for dinner.
Happy,happy birthday Leslie. I hope your special day was absolutely fabulous. 🎂❤
Happy Birthday Leslie. Hope you have a fabulous day and didn’t work too hard. All your recipes look so delicious and I really need to try the Mini Apple Pies in Ball Jars. My mom always made desserts when we were growing up, me, not so much. I always seem to run out of time. I am so going to make it a priority in making at least some of
them. BUT that basic 1-2-3-4 Basic Cake – in the Kitchen is absolutely beautiful – a show stopper. Also, your presentation on all of them is amazing. Take care.
Janice