All my go-to summer desserts for lake days, backyard BBQs, and family get-togethers! Simple, easy, and so good.
22 Must-Make Summer Dessert Recipes
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. Grab your baking essentials and let’s go!
Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars
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
It’s nearly springtime and we’re making this beautiful Pistachio Loaf! 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 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 blueberry sauce is made with fresh blueberries, sugar, vanilla, and corn starch. Thick, sweet, and perfect for topping pancakes.
Old School Homemade Oreos
Life-changing Homemade Oreos that are soft, buttery, moist, perfectly dense chocolate cookies stuffed with cream cheese frosting. SO GOOD.
Deep Dish S’mores Bowls For Two
A graham-cracker loaded cookie base, top it with little squares of chocolate bars, piled high with marshmallows. An ooey-gooey, golden brown, melty, cookie-loaded miracle.
Two-Person Banana Cream Pies
Two-Person Banana Cream Pies! Low maintenance, high enjoyment, unfussy banana cream pies in jars are yours for the taking.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
These peanut butter chocolate chip cookie cheesecake bars are just as extreme as they sound. SO GOOD.
Two Person Raspberry Crumbles
The BEST easy summer dessert – for two! A layer of oat-brown-sugar crust, juicy, sticky, bubbly raspberries, and topped with a buttery crumble that’s baked to perfection.
Blender Lemon Pie
Blender Lemon Pie! Eggs, butter, sugar, and a WHOLE LEMON blended up and poured into a crust. Springy, custardy, simple lemon magic.
Golden Grahams Bars
Crunchy, chocolatey, and made with just FIVE ingredients. Even better: it’s no-bake a super easy to make. Winning!
Mocha Peanut Butter Pie
Mocha Peanut Butter Pie! A mocha cookie crust filled with creamy peanut butter cheesecake and topped off with chocolate ice cream and plenty 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 Pie
This vegan chocolate pie is a five-ingredient, no-bake miracle. The ultra-thick and creamy chocolate pie filling is made with (wait for it)… tofu, almond butter, almondmilk, and melted chocolate. Easy!
More Summer Snacks
Summer is snack time in our house! Whether we’re running out the door to the park, having last-minute friends over in the backyard, or hosting a playdate, these are the snacks and apps I reach for.
- Boursin Appetizer with Pistachios and Honey: My all-time fav! Ridiculously easy to pull together at the last-minute and SO good.
- Cookie Dough Energy Bites: I keep these on hand in the fridge/freezer all summer long. Easy to make, extremely transportable to all kinds of activities, and my kids love them.
- 2-Minute Creamy Avocado Dip: Another one that’s fast and easy. Love to put this on the table with chips for an easy pre-dinner snack.
- Elote Corn Queso: A little more involved but very much worth it. Perfect use for all that summer corn!
- Pickled Strawberries: An unexpected little treat! I love these on sourdough toast with goat cheese and honey.
June 5, 2026
Nice to meet you!
I’m Lindsay and I ♡ FOOD. I used to be a teacher, and now making food and writing about it online is my full-time job. I love talking with people about food, and I'm so glad you're here.
Did you make a recipe? Tag @pinchofyum on Instagram so we can find you!
Chimney Guards New Jersey