18 Delicious Strawberry Desserts to Make This Summer

Fresh strawberry cake recipe — The Spruce / Cara Cormack

Fresh, flavorful and naturally sweet, strawberries make the perfect addition to dessert. Satisfy your sweet tooth and earn a reputation as a great baker, with these delicious strawberry dessert recipes, including strawberry cupcakes, pies, cakes, parfaits, frozen treats and more. Strawberries are easily transformed into enticing dessert recipes you'll be proud to serve to family and friends, in our dessert recipe round-up featuring one of our favorite fruits.

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Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars

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A copycat recipe of a popular summertime treat, strawberry shortcake ice cream bars are always a family favorite. You can make this recipe with store-bought strawberry ice cream or use homemade. The cookie and butter crumb coating give it the flavors and texture of shortcake with no baking required.
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Strawberry Cheesecake

The Spruce Eats / Leah Maroney

Everybody loves cheesecake and this extraordinary, rich-tasting strawberry cheesecake is a must-have dessert recipe for your collection. This traditional baked cheesecake recipe is finished with a layer of sweet, saucy strawberry glaze and nestled in a crunchy graham cracker pie crust, for the perfect balance of textures and flavors.
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Strawberry Pretzel Dessert

The Spruce / Yana Karin

This cheesecake-inspired strawberry pretzel dessert recipe is filled with fresh, juicy strawberries and decadent whipped cream. It's all packed into a salty, crunchy pretzel crust that's so delicious, you'll want to use the crust recipe again and again in your other desserts. You'll earn plenty of compliments when you serve this unique, yummy combination of flavors and textures to friends and family.
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Fresh Strawberry Cake and Frosting

The Spruce / Cara Cormack

This one-layer strawberry cake is topped with a delicious strawberry cream cheese frosting for a fabulous spring or summertime dessert. The cake is super easy to make from scratch and it's the perfect size for most families and gatherings. Plus, a one-layer sheet cake requires less assembly and calls for less frosting and decorating than a two-layer cake.

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Strawberry Parfait

The Spruce / Elaine Lemm

Strawberries, cream, and summer: these three belong together. It's so easy to put strawberries into a bowl and simply pour over a little cream for a quick summertime treat. But by spending a few quick minutes whipping the cream with vanilla and layering the fruit with amaretto-soaked amaretti biscuits, you have an elegant strawberry parfait.
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake

The Spruce / Cara Cormack

This delicious strawberry rhubarb crumb cake is a fresh take on the traditional sour cream coffee cake that's a welcome dessert at any brunch or potluck. Moist sour cream cake packed with juicy, fresh fruit is accentuated with vanilla and sugar, then topped with a crunchy, sweet streusel mixture that combines pecans, butter, sugar, and spices.
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Strawberry Smoothie

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For a refreshing fruity snack or breakfast that even picky eaters will love, make a strawberry smoothie. It's nutritious, with vitamins and nutrients from the fruit as well as protein from yogurt, but it's also fun and sweet enough to serve as a frosty dessert. Swap out your next milkshake for this smoothie, and you won't be disappointed.
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Strawberry Angel Food Cake

The Spruce Eats / Diana Chistruga

Strawberry angel food cake is as irresistible as it sounds. The light sponge cake is baked in a tube pan, cut in half, then layered with sweet cream cheese frosting and fresh berries. It looks stunning and is surprisingly easy to make.

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Strawberry Champagne Popsicles

Marilyn Conway

Popsicles aren't just for kids anymore. This strawberry champagne ice treat recipe uses a little bit of bubbly to add an extra pop to an ordinary strawberry popsicle recipe. It’s a fun, frozen way to celebrate great ingredients and a great use for leftover champagne that's lost some of its fizz.
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Strawberry Cupcakes

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We challenge you to eat just one of these moist, tender, homemade strawberry cupcakes that are bursting with fresh fruit flavor. Your friends and family will go crazy for the buttercream frosting, dotted with fresh strawberries, that you'll want to re-use for your other cupcake recipes.
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Fresh Strawberry Pie

The Spruce Eats / Bahareh Niati

When you want a showstopping, delicious dessert recipe that's not too complicated to make, this diner-style fresh strawberry pie will do the job perfectly. You'll be the most popular person at the cookout when you set this baby on the dessert table. Come prepared with recipe cards in hand because everyone will be asking you for your recipe.
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Fresas con Crema

The Spruce Eats / Cara Cormack

Fresas con crema is like strawberries and cream but better because it features four different types of dairy. Even better, it comes together in a snap and can easily be scaled up to feed a crowd.

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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

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This quintessential fruit pie combination is a classic for a reason. The strawberries bring their bodacious berry sweetness, and the rhubarb brings its sassy sharp personality. Combined, they're a flavor powerhouse and they look oh so pretty together peeking through the golden lattice crust of this gorgeous pie.
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Strawberry Pecan Cake

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Your family and friends will be tickled pink when you serve them this colorful, delicious strawberry pecan layer cake. Featuring a flavorful cake batter that blends the sweetness of strawberries with nutty coconut and crunchy pecans, for extra texture and taste. A delectable strawberry cream cheese frosting delivers the ultimate wow factor. This is a great dessert recipe for brunches, potluck parties, and bridal shower luncheons.
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Strawberry Trifle

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Easy to make and fancy enough to serve at holidays and other occasions, this simplified English trifle recipe uses store-bought mixes to cut down your preparation time. This classic English trifle dessert features scrumptious layers of fresh strawberries, moist cake pieces and creamy custard, all topped with gooey whipped topping and decorated with slivered almonds.
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Strawberry Basil Sorbet

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This garden-fresh strawberry basil sorbet offers a delicious, grown-up twist on classic, sweet strawberry sorbet. Frozen strawberry sorbet infused with easy, homemade basil syrup, lemon juice, and vodka is equally welcome as a warm afternoon treat or a fancy after-dinner dessert recipe at any time of year.

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Bisquick Strawberry Shortcake

Leah Maroney

When you are craving this quintessential summer berry dessert, this shortcake recipe is perfect when you don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Bisquick mix makes preparing the biscuits a cinch, and you still get that traditional flaky base to top with juicy strawberries and homemade whipped cream.
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Easy Strawberry Cake

Diana Rattray

Simple, delicious strawberry cake makes a perfect weekend dessert. This easy, pretty strawberry dessert recipe starts with a white cake mix and a box of strawberry gelatin. Fresh or frozen strawberries are used to add sweetness and flavor to both the cake and the creamy frosting.