Delicious Summer Dessert Recipes


Did you know it’s National Underwear Day?

I’m not sure what you’re supposed to do with that information, but I thought I’d tell ya anyway.

Luckily for you, National Underwear Day isn’t incorporated into the theme of today’s post. (Unless you want to make some Fruit of the Loom connection. But that’s a stretch.) Instead, the post highlights a few of my favorite summer-fruit recipes. Such as: 

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Blueberry Pie Pancakes

Also known as the fattest pancakes ever. The recipe works with strawberries, too.

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Peach Breakfast Bake

So healthy you can have two bowls. For breakfast. Or maybe even dinner.

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Buttery Berry Crumble Bars

Recommended for parties or school lunches. Yeah, school lunches. Summer can’t last forever.

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Watermelon Ice Cream

This is even more delicious if you substitute honeydew for the watermelon!

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Lavender Cream Parfait

Also known as the “love potion.”

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Single-Serving Strawberry Shortcakes

I think strawberries are one of the prettiest summer fruits. Especially when they’re chocolate-covered strawberries. Just thought I’d throw that out there. 

Question of the Day:

What are your favorite summer fruits?

Blueberries? Raspberries? Honeydew?

New Larabar Flavor Alert!!

Has anyone seen the Chocolate-Chip Cherry Torte Larabars yet?  Giveaway coming soon ;).

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118 Comments

  1. Amber K says:

    Watermelon is definitely my favorite.

    I love it when new Larabar flavors come out! Because I’m always hoping for another almond-free option. Too many of their bars sound like they’d be awesome flavors, but they have almonds and I can’t tolerate them.

  2. Aja says:

    I love all your recipes. I made blueberry pie pancakes the day of my boyfriend’s graduation which was good because they were delicious and filled me up until we ate again about 7 hours later.

    I love all summer fruits. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, watermelon, mango…

  3. Jennyb says:

    Blueberries, raspberries & strawberries are all great – even more so when they are my home grown ones! I am a huge gooseberry fan too though when they are at the end of the season and very ripe & squishy & sweet. I do love a watermelon in the summer too, in fact i wish i had one in the house as i really fancied it on a salad for dinner tonight, sadly i finished it for breakfast yesterday morning as it was getting a little mushy.

    How i wish you larabar giveaway was going to extend to the UK, however somehow i doubt it will. Anyone know where i can get hold of a larabar in England?

    1. Chocolate-Covered Katie says:

      🙁 Does Amazon ship to England?

      1. Jennyb says:

        possibly, trouble is i just want to pick up one bar to start with. I have no will power & would probably devour a box of them in a week!

  4. katie @KatieDid says:

    Right now I’m into peaches. It changes week to week though because I tend to outdo it on a certain fruit each week haha! I haven’t seen that new flavor yet but I’m intrigued!

  5. Michaela says:

    I can´t choose a favorite summer fruit! When I have strawberries at home, I will go for strawberries. But when I have melon, I vote that and same goes for all the other fruits (except pears and papayas ;))!

  6. The Teenage Taste says:

    My favorite Summer fruits are berries and peaches! Lately I’ve been especially in love with peaches though. I eat one every day after lunch! 🙂

  7. Lorin says:

    Oh cool another larabar flavor! I wish they sent it out everywhere faster though, because I only saw blueberry muffin for the first time about a week or so ago. I can never find the new larabars when they come back. I’m going to try your brownie batter dip this weekend I think 🙂

    1. Chocolate-Covered Katie says:

      Eh you’re not missing much. I didn’t like the blueberry one anyways… it was missing a key ingredient: chocolate!! 😉

  8. Tiffany says:

    My favourite summer fruits are cantaloupe, lychees and oh my god MANGO. On a hot summer day/ night ( for dessert of course!) nothing tops the sweet nectar of a very ripe mango– so messy yet too too good! Funny how I loathed mango for years and now I adore it.

  9. Tiffany says:

    Woah. I just read the above comments and someone else wrote their love for mangos as well, “Nothing beats a nice ripe, sweet, and juicy mango on a hot day.” In regards to my comment, which shares a similar sentence, I have to say that I didn’t copy! I just wanted to clarify that.

    1. Chocolate-Covered Katie says:

      Oh lol you are way too cute!

      I guess if two people said it, it MUST be true!

  10. Lilly says:

    I will never be able to choose my fave summer fruit, I love them all! Seriously, berries, melon, stone fruits… oh yummm 🙂 I heart summer time!