Best Summer Desserts Recipes – 21 easy dessert ideas that taste good – including insanely quick no bake sweet treats.
Best Summer Desserts
These best summer desserts will satisfy your sweet tooth, especially on a hot day when the last thing you feel like doing is baking in sweltering weather through the summer months.
The no bake recipes include simple ingredients, with great options for every taste, from the chocolate lover to those craving healthy, fruit based desserts with fresh berries and in season summer fruit. There really are easy summer desserts for everybody!
1. Lemon Ricotta Mousse
This creamy lemon ricotta mousse is infused with luscious fresh lemon juice, lemon zest and protein rich ricotta cheese, making the treat a healthy dessert option on a hot summer day. You could of course use lime juice and line zest for a healthy version of a key lime pie.
2. Chocolate Panna Cotta
Panna Cottas make impressive no bake summer desserts. The Italian Dessert is one of my personal favorite desserts, and I’ve shared a number of different flavors on my blog including chocolate, lemon, mascarpone, ricotta and coconut milk.
3. Raspberry Mousse
This easy raspberry mousse includes creamy mascarpone, whipping cream and fresh raspberries in a sweet berry dessert that makes a light alternative to a strawberry shortcake.
4. Strawberry Milkshake
A sweet strawberry milkshake makes a perfect, speedy treat, especially when topped with a swirl of indulgent whipped cream.
You can use whole milk, almond milk or any milk you like and add in your favorite ice cream to this classic summer treat.
5. Whipped Chocolate Drink
This whipped chocolate drink is my take on the trendy Whipped Dalgona Coffee, but my version of the perfect treat is made without carbs or sugar and with chocolate instead of coffee.
6. Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse
This strawberry cheesecake mousse is the perfect dessert to showcase in season summer berries that you find at the grocery store.
7. Cookie Dough Dip
Experience the taste of real cookie dough in this creamy and rich cookie dough dip with chocolate chips that’s ready in under 5 minutes.
8. Mascarpone Stuffed Strawberries
These mascarpone stuffed strawberries make the ultimate dessert for summer. Simply fill fresh, in season strawberries with a sweet, creamy mascarpone cheese filling.
9. Chia Pudding
A chia pudding is a great make ahead, no bake dessert that you can top with a swirl of whipped cream and fresh strawberries.
10. Dessert Parfait
You can simply enjoy your yogurt of choice with fresh seasonal fruit or make a healthy parfait layered with Greek yogurt and fruit puree, jam or fresh fruit like fresh blueberries and raspberries.
11. Creamy Peanut Butter Mousse
This creamy mousse combines together the simple ingredients of natural peanut butter, heavy cream and stevia or sugar to create an indulgent peanut butter mousse.
12. Whipped Ricotta Dessert
High protein ricotta is whisked, along with sugar or stevia and vanilla for flavor, with an electric mixer into a creamy whipped ricotta dessert.
13. Chocolate Orange Mousse
This chocolate orange mousse is creamy, rich and a chocolate lovers delight.
To make the perfect dessert, orange peel is infused in heated cream and then combined with chopped chocolate to create an orange flavored chocolate sweet treat.
14. Mint Chocolate Mousse
If you’re a fan of chocolate mint flavored treats then you’ll love this super easy chocolate mint mousse as a sweet treat through the summer season.
Mint flavored chocolate is melted with butter, then eggs are separated and the melted chocolate mixture is whisked into the egg yolks, egg whites are whisked to meringues before being folded into the chocolate mixture to create a light, creamy chocolate mousse dessert.
15. Ice Cream & Magic Shell
You can turn homemade chocolate or vanilla ice cream into an ice cream cake or serve a scoop of ice cream with 2 ingredient chocolate magic shell at a dinner party or summer BBQ.
16. Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
These no bake chocolate peanut butter fudge treats are the best way to satisfy your chocolate cravings. The simple desserts taste like peanut butter cups and have only 3 ingredients – dark chocolate, peanut butter and sugar or stevia.
17. No Bake Cheesecake
You’ll find that no bake cheesecakes make excellent no bake desserts that will wow a crowd following a summer meal. This no bake cheesecake recipe is actually gluten free, low carb and keto friendly too.
18. Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse
This easy dessert recipe of cream cheese chocolate mousse tastes like a creamy chocolate cheesecake, but is quick and easy to prepare.
19. Raspberry and Whipped Cream Mousse
An indulgent way to enjoy fruit for dessert is to make a creamy mousse like this raspberry mousse.
To make the delicious dessert, cook raspberries and sugar or stevia to a puree, whip cream until thickened, then fold everything together to create a light, creamy mousse.
20. No Bake Best Peanut Butter Cookies
These no bake peanut butter cookies are always a hit with the whole family and the great recipe makes good summer desserts that’s the perfect grab and go make ahead sweet treat that’s full of easy ingredients.
21. 3 Ingredient Chocolate Truffles
I make these easy chocolate truffles every week or so and the scrumptious dessert is always a hit with the whole family.
The indulgent, bite sized dessert is perfect to have ready and waiting in the fridge for when those sweet cravings strike.
You simply chop dark chocolate, pop it into a bowl, heat heavy whipping cream and butter together until bubbling, pour the heated cream mixture over the chocolate and stir until you have a melted bowl full.
Then, it’s just a matter of pouring the truffle mixture into a dish, popping it in the fridge to set, before cutting into bite sized chocolate truffles.
Delicious Summer Dessert Recipes Video
Here’s the video showing you how to make some of my favorite summer desserts. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
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