22 Must-Have Summer Dessert Recipes

All my favorite summer desserts for lake days, backyard barbecues, and family gatherings! Simple, easy and so good.

If your summer calendar is anything like mine, it’s filled with barbecues, lake days, family reunions, and those last-minute texts asking, “Can you bring dessert?”

Good news: this list of summer dessert recipes has what you need! These are the treats I make every summer – easy, friendly and loved by everyone. Bars, pies, cookies, brownies and more!

My MOST favorites on the list: the best peach cobbler and these S’Mores bars. I make them several times each summer. ❤️

Here are long summer days and lots of treats! I hope you find your next favorite!

Favorite Summer Dessert Recipes

The Best Peach Cobbler

The best summer dessert ever! Made with fresh peaches, sugar, and a topping that bakes like slightly underbaked cookie dough, with crunchy toasted sugar on top.

Best S’mores Bars

These are seriously the BEST S’mores bars! Chocolate, peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiched between two layers of graham cracker crust. Everyone’s favorite summer snack (S’MORES, please!) in dessert bar form!

Banoffee Pie

Absolutely my new favorite dessert. Sweet and salty graham cracker crust, silky caramel topping, banana slices and whipped cream on top. My family loves this easy dessert recipe!

Party Brownies

Brownies topped with a thick layer of fudge frosting and rainbow sprinkles. The best way to jazz up a box of brownie mix!

White Chocolate Strawberry Cookies

These are HUGE white chocolate strawberry cookies studded with creamy, rich white chocolate chips and beautifully balanced with tart freeze-dried strawberries. Grab your baking essentials and let’s go!

Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars

Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars! Perfectly moist, crispy, caramelized, buttery, soft and exactly as over-the-top as you need them to be.

Very good puppy food

Beautiful, big clusters of puppy food with extra chocolate and peanut butter, and a dusting of powdered sugar! Summer bliss in the Midwest.

Fruit pizza

This simple fruit pizza is beautiful and delicious! A soft sugar cookie crust with cream cheese frosting and topped with fruit slices. So simple and so good!

Pistachio bread

It’s almost spring and we’re making this beautiful pistachio bread! Grab your baking essentials – like butter, eggs and sugar – plus a few extras, like pistachios and coconut flour, and get baking!

The Best Easy Peanut Butter Pie

The BEST easy peanut butter pie! A simple cookie crust under a layer of fluffy peanut butter filling that is at once chewy, light and incredibly rich.

Zucchini Bars with Chocolate Chips and Almond Butter

These Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars are healthy and perfect and everything your summer needs! Made with oats, almond butter, zucchini, dates and maple syrup. So many wellness ingredients in one bar!

Easy Homemade Blueberry Sauce

This easy blueberry sauce is made with fresh blueberries, sugar, vanilla, and cornstarch. Thick, sweet and perfect for topping pancakes.

Old Fashioned Homemade Oreos

Life-changing homemade Oreos, soft, buttery, chewy, perfectly dense chocolate cookies stuffed with cream cheese frosting. SO GOOD.

Deep Dish S’mores Bowls for Two

A cookie base loaded with graham crackers, topped with little squares of chocolate bars, filled with marshmallows. A gooey, golden, fudgy, cookie-laden miracle.

Cream and banana tarts for two people

Banana cream pies for two! Low maintenance, high fun, unpretentious banana cream pies in jars are yours.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars

These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars are just as extreme as they look. SO GOOD.

Raspberry crumbles for two people

The BEST easy summer dessert – for two! A layer of juicy, sticky, bubbly oat crust, brown sugar and raspberries, topped with a buttery crumble baked to perfection.

Lemon Blender Pie

Lemon blender tart! Eggs, butter, sugar and a WHOLE LEMON mixed and poured into a crust. The simple, creamy spring magic of lemon.

Golden Grahams Bars

Crunchy, chocolatey and made with just FIVE ingredients. Best of all: it’s no-cook and super easy to make. Winner!

Peanut Butter and Mocha Pie

Peanut Butter Mocha Pie! A mocha cookie crust filled with creamy peanut butter cheesecake and topped with chocolate ice cream and lots of peanut butter cups. My new favorite dessert!

Raspberry crumble bars

These raspberry crumble bars are THE BEST! So soft, buttery and delicious. My favorite summer dessert.

Mind-blowing Vegan Chocolate Tart

This vegan chocolate tart is a five-ingredient, no-bake miracle. The ultra-thick and creamy chocolate pie filling is made with (wait for it)…tofu, almond butter, almond milk, and melted chocolate. Easy!