All my go-to summer desserts for lake days, backyard BBQs, and family get-togethers! Simple, easy, and so good.
If your summer calendar looks anything like mine, it’s filled with BBQs, lake days, family get-togethers, and those last-minute texts asking, “Can you bring dessert?”
Good news: this list of summer dessert recipes has you covered! These are the sweet treats that I make every summer – easy, crowd-friendly, and loved by everyone. Bars, pies, cookies, brownies, and more!
My MOST favorite ones on the list: the Best Peach Cobbler and those S’Mores Bars. I make them multiple times every single summer. ❤️
Here’s to long summer days and lots of treats! Hope you find your next fav!
Favorite Summer Dessert Recipes
The Best Peach Cobbler
Best summer dessert ever! Made with fresh peaches, sugar, and a topping that bakes like slightly underbaked cookie dough, with crunchy sugar broiled on top.
Best S’mores Bars
These really are the BEST S’mores Bars! Chocolate, peanut butter, and marshmallow sandwiched between two layers of a graham cookie crust. Everyone’s favorite summer snack (S’MORES, please!) in dessert bar form!
Banoffee Pie
Absolutely my new favorite dessert. Salty-sweet graham cracker crust, silky caramel toffee filling, sliced bananas, and whipped cream on top. My family loves this easy dessert recipe!
Party Brownies
Brownies covered with a thick layer of fudge frosting and rainbow sprinkles. The best way to jazz up a box of brownie mix!
Strawberry White Chocolate Cookies
These are HUGE Strawberry White Chocolate Cookies speckled with creamy and rich white chocolate chips and beautifully balanced with tart freeze-dried strawberries.
Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars
Perfectly chewy, crispy, caramelly, buttery, soft, and exactly as over-the-top as you need them to be.
Extra Good Puppy Chow
Beautiful, chunky clusters of puppy chow with extra chocolate and peanut butter, and a coating of powdered sugar! Midwest summer bliss.
Fruit Pizza
This simple fruit pizza is beautiful and delicious! A soft sugar cookie crust with a cream cheese frosting and topped with sliced fruit. So simple and oh-so good!
Pistachio Loaf
A beautiful Pistachio Loaf made with baking staples like butter, eggs, and sugar, plus a few extras like pistachios and coconut flour.
The Best Easy Peanut Butter Pie
A simple cookie crust under a layer of fluffy peanut buttery filling that is pillowy, light, and incredibly rich all at the same time.
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars
These Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars are wholesome and perfect and just everything your summer needs! Made with oats, almond butter, zucchini, dates, and maple syrup. So many feel-good ingredients packed into one bar!
Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce
This easy homemade blueberry sauce comes together in minutes and is perfect spooned over ice cream, cheesecake, pancakes, or just about any summer dessert you have on hand.
