65 Quick & Easy Fruity Desserts You'll Be Making All Spring & Summer Long
All the wow factor, with a lot less effort!
For a lot of the year, celebratory dessert means a show-stopping layer cake, decadent pie, or elaborate cheesecake. When the weather gets nicer, though, and all our favorite produce starts returning—strawberries! peaches! blueberries! cherries!—we lean more towards fruity, low-lift, and no-bake desserts that don’t take a ton of effort. This season always seems to end too soon, so if that resonates with you, don’t miss out—make these 65 easy fruit desserts ASAP.
Just because we don’t want to expend a lot of energy on dessert, doesn’t mean we want it to look like we didn’t. We still want all the wow factor of a summer pie or cheesecake, without having to bear turning on the oven. Check out some of our no-bake options, like our lemon icebox cake, our strawberry shortcake lasagna, our raspberry tiramisu, or our peaches & cream pie. Still craving that cheesecake? Try our no-bake blackberry cheesecake bars, our lemon-blueberry mini cheesecakes, or our strawberry cheesecake pie—they've got all the cream cheesy flavor you want, with half the effort (plus no dang water bath!).
Admittedly, there are some recipes here that do require you to turn on your oven. We promise it’s worth it for the ultimate trifecta of easy, yet stunning fruit desserts—you know it, we’re talking crumbles, cobblers, and crisps. There might be nothing better than jammy fruit topped with an oaty streusel or biscuits, so we’ve got ALL the variations you could possibly want here. Check out our blueberry crumble, our rhubarb crisp, our strawberry cobbler, or our peach crisp for ideas, but really, if you keep your proportions of fruit to topping relatively the same, the sky’s the limit for flavor combinations. Really don’t want to turn on your oven, but still craving one of these recipes? Our campfire berry-peach cobbler is proof they can be made in the great outdoors too.
Not feeding a crowd? No worries. Try one of our recipes that only makes a few servings, like our key lime pie mousse, our chocolate cuties, our grilled pineapple sundaes, or our banana pudding egg rolls. Looking for something even more low-key? Try one of our easiest recipes, like our Sour Patch grapes, our 3-ingredient Dole Whip pops, or our frozen yogurt fruit bites. They’re individually-sized, which means you could share, but we won’t blame you if you make a batch and keep it in your freezer all to yourself. 😉
Banana Pudding
With towering layers of vanilla pudding, ripe bananas, whipped cream, and wafer cookies, banana pudding is the classic dessert we’ll never get enough of. If you always pick up a tub from your local bakery, trust us—it’s completely worth it (and easy!) to make this Southern dessert at home.
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Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars
These lemon-blueberry cheesecake bars just SCREAM spring. Luckily, thanks to store-bought crescent roll dough, they are also SO easy to make.
No-Bake Peaches & Cream Pie
A creamy no-bake pie that’s studded with peaches is just what your summer needs. The gently cooked and fresh peaches really highlight the summer fruit, and the salty pretzel crust puts it over the top.
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Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
It may be retro, but this classic cake is a staple easy dessert for a reason. Sweet pineapple gets an irresistible rich boost from melted butter, brown sugar, and eye-catching maraschino cherries—one slice, and you'll feel transported to the tropical vacay of your dreams.
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Fruit Popsicles
In the heat of summer, nothing satisfies quite like a fruit popsicle. This classic strawberry version is big on fruit flavor and not too sweet.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
Where your average cheesecake can be a real labor of love worthy of special occasions only, cheesecake bars are easy peasy. Take this strawberry version—to make them, we topped a simple graham cracker crust with a creamy cheesecake layer, a sweet pink fruit layer, and then crumbled a cinnamon-spiced streusel on top. Mmm.
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Cheesecake Cupcakes
Who doesn't love an ultra-creamy slice of cheesecake? This mini version is super-easy to make (no water bath!), but just as delicious as its full-size counterpart. Feel free to swap out the fruit for whatever you can find (berries, stonefruit, etc.).
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Lemon Blueberry Poke Cake
The blueberry filling and lemon cream cheese frosting here has our heart pounding! There's no way around making the blueberry syrup, but we promise you it is 100% worth it. In fact, make extra, and put it in our blueberry G&Ts next.
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Bisquick Strawberry Shortcake Biscuits
These Bisquick biscuits are exactly what you want: cakey, just sweet enough, and—perhaps most important of all—the ideal vehicle for shortcakes, featuring clouds of whipped cream and saucy strawberries.
Cherry Puff Pastry Pies
No cherry-pitter? No problem. Frozen cherries + store-bought puff pastry = best cherry pie shortcut ever.
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Raspberry Tiramisu
We love a classic tiramisu and couldn’t imagine it getting much better–until raspberries entered the picture. Add them to all the traditional ingredients—like lady fingers and whipped cream—for a pretty-much-perfect no-bake dessert.
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No-Bake Banana Caramel Pecan Pie
When it comes to old-school desserts, banana cream pie and pecan pie are always at the top of the list. If you’re torn between which dessert should be the centerpiece of your holiday table, why not combine them into an easy, no-bake dessert that's the best of them both, with minimal effort?
Strawberry Crisp
Strawberry crisp is a classic summer dessert for a reason—fresh strawberries are layered underneath a buttery, crunchy topping that you'll want to put on everything. It’s perfect served with a scoop of homemade ice cream or all on its own.
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Pineapple Granita
Classic granita ranks among the most refreshing desserts ever, up there with snow cones and popsicles. Simple to make and easily modified, it’s perfect on its own as a light palate cleanser or dressed up with whipped cream and toppings. This pineapple version is big on tropical flavors, with heavy notes of vanilla and toffee thanks to a splash of rum and a scoop of dark brown sugar.
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Peach Blueberry Cobbler
Warm cobblers are our absolute favorite summer desserts—the buttery biscuit-like topping over juicy, jammy fruit is hard to beat. Peaches and blueberries make a perfect combo in this version, but feel free to swap in our out your faves too.
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No-Bake Blackberry Cheesecake Bars
This no-bake cheesecake gets a stunning, swirly topping of blackberries that looks more like art than dessert. Don't worry if if you don't use all the blackberry sauce for swirling—save it, and serve these bars with it for even more fruity flavor.
Raspberry Peach Upside-Down Cake
This cake is a BEAUTY. Our favorite thing about upside-down cakes? They're impossible to mess up because you can place your fruits just so before pouring the batter on. It's always a joy to see how they turn out once you flip them—they ALWAYS impress.
Blueberry Crumble
There's so much to do with a glut of summer blueberries. Our favorite? Turning them into a rustic blueberry crumble, bursting with sweet fruit.
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Banoffee Pie
You could use a pre-made crust, dulce de leche, and whipped cream in a can and get this done in 15 minutes—we won’t judge. Otherwise, if you’ve never had homemade whipped cream, you’re in for a treat, and this trick for making dulce de leche is seriously cool (see step 1).
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Key Lime Pie Mousse
Nothing says summer quite like a tart key lime pie. This mousse is every bit as refreshing, for half the effort. It's also got a fluffy texture and a crispy oat crumble we could eat on its own. Yum.
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Camille Lowder is the digital food producer at Delish, otherwise known as our resident queen of recipe galleries. Previously, she attended the Natural Gourmet Institute for culinary school and worked at/managed a number of New York restaurants. She loves anything vegan, foods masquerading as other foods (hello, cauliflower), and a well-used Oxford comma.
