When summer comes around, those cartons of fresh strawberries at the grocery store are too tempting to pass up. With shortcakes, ice cream, cheesecake, and more, we have some of the best strawberry dessert recipes to celebrate your haul all season long. Warning: mouthwatering strawberry sweets ahead!
17 Deliciously Easy Summer Desserts Sure to Be a Hassle-Free Hit
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Strawberry, Mango & Rose Pavlova
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Edible rose petals, macerated (aka sugar-marinated) berries, and mangoes adorn this unique strawberry dessert recipe. Don't be intimidated by the pavlova; just follow our two secrets for success: Start with room-temperature egg whites and leave the oven door firmly in place while the meringue cooks and cools.
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Strawberry Hand Pies
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Fighting over who gets the largest slice of pie is a thing of the past. This single-serving strawberry dessert recipe guarantees everyone gets their fair share of the sweet selection. Making the dough in your food processor also gets the job done super-quick (with less mess). Use any extra strawberry filling by stirring it into oatmeal the following morning.
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Strawberry Margarita Cheesecake Minis
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With a salted pretzel crust and a citrus and strawberry filling, these creamy single-serving cheesecakes hit all the same flavor notes you know and love from your go-to Mexican restaurant beverage.
The best part about shortcake? The strawberry filling, of course. Made with fresh-from-the-garden berries and a spoonful (or two) of sugar, this dessert has just the right level of sweetness.
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Strawberry Shortcake Parfaits
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A clear Mason jar allows the pretty stripes to steal the show in this lovely layered strawberry dessert recipe. Mix up your shortcakes with our lemon-poppy seed variation. It will change the way you think about biscuits!
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Best-Ever Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
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No strawberry dessert recipe list is complete without the quintessential strawberry rhubarb pie! This best-ever version with a buttery crust is a favorite from our Red Plaid cookbook.
Take s'mores beyond basic status with a fruity campfire cobbler. This grillable version tosses citrus-strawberry filling into the heat and finishes with toasted marshmallows.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Bites
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Serve a crowd at your next bake sale or potluck with this delightful mini dessertidea. Who can resist a shortbread-crusted cheesecake topped with strawberries and drizzled with honey?
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Strawberry Shortcake Scones
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Pinkies up! This tea-time treat is flaky, fruity, and fit for a queen. You can thank ricotta cheese for the scone recipe's extra-tender texture.
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Dark Chocolate Cake with Fresh Strawberry Buttercream
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Introducing the most indulgent strawberry dessert you've ever had: endless layers of fudgy, dark chocolate cake smeared in strawberry-vanilla bean cream. Fork, please!
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Six-Layer Strawberry Cake
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Keep the strawberries coming with this sweet and moist six-layer cake. Add 2 Tbsp. of strawberry liqueur for additional fruit flavor, and sprinkle on coconut flakes and white chocolate curls after frosting for extra eye appeal.
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Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Cakes
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If you love pairing strawberries and chocolate, wait until you get a taste of these upside-down decadent chocolate cupcakes. We've smothered them in a rich ganache before topping them off with a juicy strawberry.
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Roasted Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
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Prolong the life of fresh summer strawberries by roasting them and adding them to homemade frozen yogurt. Add flavor with crushed pretzels and freeze-dried strawberries.
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Strawberry Meringue Cookies
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Six ingredients (including salt and sugar) is all it takes to whip up these light and airy strawberry cookies. Fold in a homemade strawberry sauce and bake until crisp.
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Tres Leches Strawberry Shortcake
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This mashup of strawberry shortcake and tres leches cake is a must-try. As one BHG home cook raved, "My kids loved the recipe because it is not super sweet. The cake part is dense and does not rise much, almost like a thick cookie that did taste like shortbread. I soaked it overnight but it was still not really soft. The sauce that you soak it in is delicious."
Lay your strawberries out on a baking tray and put them in a pre-heated oven at 350 °F (177 °C) for about 20 minutes. The heat from your oven will cause the natural sugars within the strawberry to concentrate, making them sweeter to your tongue.
Add a little sugar and salt! Wash your strawberries, cut them, and hit them with a pinch of salt and a couple good three-finger pinches of granulated sugar, give them a little tossy-toss, and watch them magically start to darken and get extra juicy.
Instead, cook down the berries with sugar in a skillet or sauce pot, stirring and mashing gently with a wooden spoon until they release their juices. Be mindful of splatter: The berries will spit and pop as they cook.
Sun it is that develops sugar levels in the berries – so make sure your plants get lots, and lots of it. A full sun position is the ideal and a fairly open siting too so as the sun moves around it is still reaching the plant.
Sugar maceration is well-suited for strawberries because its hygroscopic properties draw out the water in the berries, creating a syrupy juice. As the berries macerate, they gently collapse, forming a jammy consistency that is ideal for spooning over ice cream, yogurt, or cake.
Adding Epsom salt to your fruits and vegetables soil will mean sweeter fruit and delicious vegetables. The Epsom salt will help to boost the chlorophyll levels in your fruit and nut trees. The more chlorophyl means more energy, and more energy means sweeter fruit.
Macerating fruit simply means to soften or steep it. It might sound fancy, but the process is really quite simple: Macerating typically involves adding sugar and often a liquid (like fruit juice or liquor) to fruit, and letting it all marinate until the fruit is soft or more tender.
A mixture of vinegar and water can destroy harmful bacteria and kill off mold spores on the strawberries. Vinegar gives berries a thorough cleaning and can get rid of any dirt or little bugs that may be on them. Soaking your berries in vinegar won't affect how they taste.
Albion strawberries have a darker color, both internally and externally, and a consistently sweeter flavor than most strawberries. The plant is known for its large, symmetrical fruit, which is mostly conical and very firm. The high sugar content makes it ideal for use in desserts, as well as eating out of hand.
Synsepalum dulcificum is a plant in the Sapotaceae family, native to tropical Africa. It is known for its berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods (such as lemons and limes) subsequently consumed to taste sweet.
miracle fruit, (Synsepalum dulcificum), evergreen shrub of the family Sapotaceae, grown for its mild fruits that make subsequently eaten sour foods taste sweet. The miracle fruit plant is native to tropical West Africa, where it is used locally to sweeten palm wine and other beverages.
In many recipes, sprinkling fruit with sugar is referred to as macerating, too. Even though there is no liquid being applied, the open-minded among us will accept that, and here's why: A sprinkling of sugar draws moisture out of fruit, which ends up combining with the sugar in the bowl to create a syrup.
Chop up all your cleaned berries, throw them in a bowl and mix them up with some sugar. Cover and refrigerate for a few hours. The sugar and natural acidic juices from the strawberries mix and macerate/marinate the berries in sweetness. No need to make a simple syrup – the berry juices do it for you.
A mixture of vinegar and water can destroy harmful bacteria and kill off mold spores on the strawberries. Vinegar gives berries a thorough cleaning and can get rid of any dirt or little bugs that may be on them. Soaking your berries in vinegar won't affect how they taste.
While strawberries will continue to redden a bit after you've taken them home, it's still important for them to have a nice, deep red color when you buy a carton. Even if they continue to redden, the newly developed red color doesn't mean they will get any sweeter than when you bought them.
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