69 Heavenly Fruit Dessert Recipes To Try

When life gives you lemons, make a lemon loaf cake! This airy dessert is perfect for all seasons. The scrumptious icing balances with the tart lemon zest flavor, creating a delicious, light dessert (or snack or breakfast!). 

Recipe: Lemon Loaf Cake

Oo la la! These French treats are filled with strawberry jam and cream cheese, so how could they be bad? These macarons do take a bit of patience to make, but they are totally worth the wait. (Plus, look how cute they are?!) Bon appetit!

Recipe: Strawberry Cheesecake Macarons

These pocketfuls of sunshine are the perfect fall treat! The dough is fluffy while the apples are tart. They are bite-sized making them even easier to pop in your mouth—they will quickly become the apple of your eye!

Recipe: Catskills Apple Dumplings

Blond(i)es have more fun! If you like blondies, then you will LOVE these blondies infused with cranberries and orange. So what are you waiting for? Get baking!

Recipe: Cranberry Orange Blondies

What's more fall than apples and pecan? We'll wait. This recipe is so delicious you'll be wondering if you can bake it every season.

Recipe: Apple Pecan Praline Bread

The only way to amp up the classic cinnamon roll.

Recipe: Strawberry Sweet Rolls

It's time to buckle down with this summertime treat! 

Recipe: Summer Berry Buckle

Perfect for cake fans AND non–cake lovers.

Recipe: Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Roll

Filled with an assortment of berries, you can't stop at just one. We guarantee that.

Recipe: Fruit and Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries

There's nothing better than a summer Georgia peach.

Recipe: Peach Pockets

Whoever said hand pies were last season? They're wrong on this one. 

Recipe: 5 Ingredient Berries & Cream Hand Pies

For when you want to celebrate pie season in all its glory. 

Recipe: Lattice-Top Peach and Blueberry Pie 

Perfect for a summer birthday. 

Recipe: Strawberry Shortcake 

Aaand a mini version for good measure. 

Recipe: James Beard's Strawberry Shortcakes 

So cool. 😎 

Recipe: Roasted Banana Paletas 

Pancakes aren't the only thing worth dousing in syrup, FWIW. Give your strawberries the proper treatment with a honey-lime coating. 

Recipe: Strawberries With Honey and Lime & Lemon-Buttermilk Sherbet 

(LOL, the name rhymes.) 

Recipe: The River Café's Strawberry Sorbet

Feeding a crowd? This blueberry slab pie will do the trick — it serves 16.

Recipe: Blueberry and Rye Slab Pie

See ya, Chipwich. 

Recipe: Raspberry Ice Cream Sandwiches

Do you just want to jump in that container rn? Because I do. 

Recipe: Lemon, Blackberry, and Poppy Seed Ice Cream 

Do you like pies but really love crust? Try a galette like this one, filled with peaches and lemon.

Recipe: White Peach and Lemon Thyme Galette

Put all your late summer fruits (plums, figs, nectarines, cherries) to work. 

Recipe: Late Summer Trifle 

Any cake with jam in it is a good idea. (It's ALSO a good excuse to eat cake for breakfast.) 

Recipe: Nigella Lawson's Strawberry Streusel Cake

Chocolate-covered strawberries have some competition. 

Recipe: Chocolate-Dipped Cherries

Cheers! 

Recipe: Pavlova With Boozy Blueberry Sauce 

Cubes of bread go for a happy little swim in melted butter and honey before getting baked on top of the fruit. 

Recipe: Honey Rhubarb Brown Betty

This recipe has you break up bread into crumbs in the food processor.

Recipe: Peach Brown Betty

Streusel = crumbs made out of flour + sugar + butter. 

Recipe: Blueberry Buckle 

Whoever told you rhubarb needs strawberry to taste good is wrong. This is even better.

Recipe: Rhubarb Buckle

Plums are the unsung summer hero fruit. 

Recipe: Plum Berry Crisp

Don't jump to conclusions now. Bananas enjoy a good baking just as much as any fruit. 

Recipe: Caramelized Banana Crisp

Play around with adding different nuts — this recipe uses pecans, which get along nicely with most fruit.

Recipe: Raspberry Crisp

We didn't think peach and blackberries would go together either. Then we tried this. 

Recipe: Peach and Blackberry Crisp

Throw in two tart fruits together, and you have this masterpiece.

Recipe: Blackberry Rhubarb Crumble

Tropical flair! 

Recipe: Mango Ginger Crumble 

The crumble topping here is essentially Pecan Sandies cookies that never quite made it to cookie-hood, which, yum. 

Recipe: Peach and Pecan Sandy Crumble

Cornmeal gives these biscuits a nice, slightly crumbly texture. 

Recipe: Stone Fruit Cobbler

The secret, really, is all in the depth of the brown sugar. It's a game-changer. 

Recipe: Brown Sugar Berry Cobbler

Cobblers and crumbles are a fun, easy way to experiment with flour mixtures. This healthy(ish) biscuit topping uses whole wheat flour, almond flour, and cornmeal.

Recipe: Cherry Cobbler with Almond–Buttermilk Topping

Deb warns that a 2-1 peach-blueberry ratio tastes "almost entirely like a blueberry dessert." So watch your berry count if you want the peaches to come through.

Recipe: Peach Blueberry Cobbler

With slumps, you cook the fruit and sugar into a semi-jammy mixture before adding the topping. 

Recipe: Plum Slump 

Stewed-down blackberries make for the perfect slump. 

Recipe: Blackberry Slump

Pandowdies = bottomless pies. Pies without pants! In this recipe, you use a knife to slice up the top crust halfway through baking, which lets steam out and lets the fruit filling bubble up through.

Recipe: Plum Pandowdy

Raspberries aren't getting their due, but this pandowdy's about to change that. 

Recipe: Raspberry Pandowdy

Sort of like a cheater's lattice pie: You cut the rolled-out dough into squares and then scatter them on top of the fruit. 

Recipe: Stone Fruit Patchwork Bake 

That free form pie, though. 

Recipe: Peach Galette 

Let breakfast cook while you sleep. 

Recipe: Nectarine and Berry Overnight Oats 

Sweeeeet. 

Recipe: Peach Popsicles

Get in my belly. 

Recipe: Chocolate-Dipped Apricots with Coconut Flakes

Mangoes encouraged. 

Recipe: Açai Bowl

In case you're trying to be healthy. 

Recipe: Peach Parfait

Summer on a stick. 

Recipe: Nectarine Sangria Popsicles

You'll lick the pan, so beware. 

Recipe: Peach and Raspberry Cobbler 

Post-workout snacking has never tasted better. 

Recipe: Chocolate and Cherry Protein Shake

Spiking optional but encouraged. 

Recipe: Frozen Mango Raspberry Sipper

Legit foodgasm. 

Recipe: Caramelized Nectarines with Bacon and Ice Cream 

Wake up flawless. 

Recipe: Dairy-Free Mango Smoothie

Let's throw another peach on the barbie, duh. 

Recipe: Grilled Peaches 

Nice cream for all. 

Recipe: Peaches and Cream Dairy-Free Ice Cream 

Sweet cherry pie. 

Recipe: Cherry and Berry Pie

And it only has four ingredients. 

Recipe: Mango Ice Cream 

The healthiest popsicle you'll ever eat. 

Recipe: Fruit Popsicles 

Life's like a box of chocolates. 

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffles 

Almost TOO good. 

Recipe: Mini Cheesecake Parfaits with Fresh Berries 

Sweet and savory. 

Recipe: Chocolate Strawberry Grilled Cheese 

So much yum in one bowl. 

Recipe: PB&J Breakfast Parfait with Banana and Frozen Berries 

#Basic. 

Recipe: Strawberry Clementine Smoothie Bowl 

Not your average macaroon. 

Recipe: Blueberry Coconut Macaroons 

Lemonade will never be the same. 

Recipe: Strawberry Lemonade