Celebrate the best of summer with these fruit-filled desserts that put seasonal produce front and center. Whether you’re baking with juicy peaches, sweet berries or ripe cherries, these recipes highlight the sweet flavors of summer fruit in every bite. From crisps and cobblers to cakes and frozen desserts, recipes like our Lemon-Blueberry Tiramisu and Key Lime Pie Cheesecake Bars are a delicious dessert for every occasion.
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Lemon-Blueberry Tiramisu
This lemon-blueberry tiramisu is a bright and refreshing twist on the classic Italian dessert. Lemon-soaked ladyfingers are paired with a creamy mascarpone filling and bursts of blueberry compote. This dessert can be made ahead and is perfect for summer gatherings.
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2-Ingredient Chocolate-Fruit Bark
This easy chocolate-fruit bark is a simple, no-bake dessert that highlights the natural sweetness of fresh fruit. A drizzle of melted bittersweet chocolate creates a crisp shell around juicy berries or other fruit, making these individual bites fun to eat.
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Key Lime Pie Cheesecake Bars
These Key-lime-pie-meets-cheesecake bars are the perfect mashup of creamy and tangy flavors, offering just the right amount of sweetness. Use fresh-squeezed Key lime juice if Key limes are in season. If not, bottled Key lime juice works well. No Key limes? No problem. A 1-to-1 mixture of regular lime juice and lemon juice will give you a similar floral flavor.
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Lemon-Blueberry Coffee Cake
Coffee cake is traditionally served as a breakfast or brunch item, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying this moist and tender cake as a dessert with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. This easy coffee cake is filled with blueberries and is topped with a delightfully sweet streusel topping. Fresh or frozen blueberries work well. Try swapping out the blueberries for fresh or frozen raspberries for an equally delicious twist.
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No-Bake Lemon-Blueberry Cheesecake Bars
Here we make a no-bake cheesecake with a simple pressed graham cracker crust and a cream cheese and strained yogurt filling that sets as it chills. Blueberries tossed in store-bought lemon curd add sweetness and tang. This easy cheesecake works well with any berry. If you’re using strawberries, slice or quarter them and let them drain a bit before adding them to the cheesecake.
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Baked Peaches
These baked peaches smell like fall in the summer! The cinnamon and sugar glaze gives a caramelized sweetness in every bite. If you want to take this subtly sweet dessert in a more savory direction, skip the ice cream topping and serve the peaches with a sprig of thyme instead, or sprinkle granola over the baked peaches for a texture similar to streusel.
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Strawberry-Chocolate Greek Yogurt Bark
Greek yogurt gets studded with fresh strawberries and chocolate chips and then frozen so you can break it into chunks just like chocolate bark (but healthier!). This colorful snack is perfect for kids and adults alike.
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Lemon-Raspberry Mini Cupcakes
These light and fluffy mini cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are flavored with lemon and have a raspberry-tinted frosting. Make these easy cupcakes as a brunch or birthday dessert. Make them extra fruity with a fresh, plump raspberry on top.
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Low-Sugar Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
Rhubarb and strawberries are signs of spring in much of the United States. Rosy rhubarb is technically a vegetable, but it’s quite tart, making it a bit more at home in the sweet kitchen. Strawberries share the same season and temper rhubarb’s astringency, making the duo a classic pairing.
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Blueberry-Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake
This healthy pound cake recipe isn’t just delicious—it also only requires one bowl to make. For the best cake texture, be sure to beat the sugar and butter together long enough in Step 2 to look creamy—the time it takes to get there varies according to the type of electric mixer you have. Serve with brunch or alongside a cup of coffee in the afternoon.
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Healthy Peach Cobbler
A healthy peach cobbler is an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing dessert that showcases summer’s sweet produce. Use fresh peaches when they are in season. The rest of the year, you can use frozen peaches for a quick and easy homemade dessert.
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Peach Custard Pie
We use low-fat milk along with nonfat Greek yogurt in the creamy custard for this peach pie. The yogurt gives the custard a smooth texture without using cream or too many egg yolks. A slice is just as delicious served warm from the oven as it is chilled. For an added treat, serve topped with fresh blueberries.
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Cherry Sorbet
Try this cherry sorbet recipe with a dollop of lightly sweetened whipped cream or some more chopped cherries on top.
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Watermelon Fruit Pizza
This refreshing fruit dessert pizza recipe swaps classic cookie crust with a healthier watermelon crust. Topped with yogurt sauce, your favorite berries and mint, this fresh dessert can easily be doubled for a party or halved for every day.
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Easy Peach Cobbler
This easy peach cobbler uses canned peaches to speed up prep time. A fluffy, tender cake envelops the tender peaches, creating an incredibly simple fruit dessert you can enjoy year-round.
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Peach, Rhubarb & Ginger Crisp
In this fruit crisp, the crunchy oatmeal topping and the peach-rhubarb filling get a lively kick from finely chopped crystallized ginger. (If you’re not a ginger fan just leave it out.) The fruit filling is sweetened to match the peach-rhubarb combination–if you use other fruit that is very ripe and/or sweet, reduce the sugar in the filling to 3 tablespoons. The topping can be made ahead, so consider making a double batch and storing half in the freezer to have on hand for a quick dessert.
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No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake
This no-bake cherry cheesecake is an easy summertime treat. This no-bake cheesecake recipe has omega-3-rich walnuts in the graham cracker crust and uses nonfat Greek yogurt and reduced-fat cream cheese in the filling to keep saturated fat in check. If you want a bright red topping, use sour cherries. Sweet cherries give it a more purple hue. To make gluten-free no-bake cherry cheesecake, use gluten-free graham crackers.
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Peach & Blueberry Cobbler
This is a healthier version of a traditional cobbler, with canola oil in place of some of the butter and whole-wheat flour instead of all-purpose flour. Unlike more classic biscuit-topped cobblers, the peaches and blueberries are nestled into a tender batter that swells around the fruit as it bakes. Other fruits may be substituted. It’s especially beautiful when baked in and served right from a cast-iron skillet.
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Strawberry Crumble Bars
After you haul all your fruit home from the orchard or farm, bake a batch of these bars. Change up the fruit with the seasons—peaches come summertime or apples in the fall.
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