25 Easy Memorial Day Desserts

Celebrate the start of summer with these Memorial Day desserts! Find no-bake treats, crowd-pleasing cookies and bars, fruit crisps, pies, and more.

No Memorial Day cookout is complete without dessert! I’ve rounded up our best Memorial Day dessert recipes to help you find the perfect one for your celebration. They include no-bake treats like this show-stopping strawberry tiramisu, crowd-pleasing cookies and bars (no one ever complains about brownies!), frozen desserts, and all things fruit. Try one (or two or three) for a sweet start to summer! Very Berry Memorial Day Desserts Strawberry Shortcake When it comes to Memorial Day desserts, you can’t get more classic than strawberry shortcake. This recipe is wonderful with ripe, juicy early summer strawberries, but feel free to…

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15 Fresh Strawberry Recipes

These fresh strawberry recipes are the best way to celebrate strawberry season! They include delicious desserts, refreshing drinks, salads, and more.

In late spring and early summer, I have strawberry recipes on repeat. As soon as these sweet, ruby red berries appear at the farmers market, I start tossing them into salads, blending them into drinks, eating them for breakfast, and of course making strawberry desserts. (No summer is complete without classic strawberry shortcake, if you ask me.) Below, I’m sharing 15 fresh strawberry recipes that belong on your table this summer. They’re the ones I come back to every year—desserts like that strawberry shortcake, my go-to strawberry salad, homemade strawberry lemonade, and more. Try one or try them all to make…

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Homemade Whipped Cream

This homemade whipped cream recipe is light, airy, and easy to make with 3 ingredients! Better than store-bought, it's delicious on cakes, pies, and more.

Learn how to make whipped cream! This homemade whipped cream recipe is easy to make in minutes with just 3 ingredients: heavy cream or heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla. It’s plush, airy, delicate, and lightly sweet. Take it from me, as someone who bought the canned stuff for years and thought it was pretty great—homemade whipped cream is so much better. I recently made this whipped cream recipe to serve with my lemon olive oil cake and realized that I’d never shared it on the blog. It’s such a lovely finishing touch for desserts like cakes, pies, crisps, and…

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15 Fresh Spring Dessert Recipes

Our best spring desserts! These seasonal sweets include zesty lemon treats, fruity baking recipes, homemade ice cream, and all things carrot cake.

If you’re looking for fresh spring desserts, you’re in the right place! These spring dessert recipes showcase the best flavors of the season—bright lemon, tart rhubarb, sweet strawberries, earthy carrot cake, and more. Whether you’re hosting a special celebration or craving an easy everyday treat, we have ideas you’ll love! Out of the hundreds of dessert recipes on Love & Lemons, these are the ones I come back to every spring. I’ve made them for family birthdays, Easter, Mother’s Day, and on rainy spring afternoons when I need something sweet. I hope a few become favorites in your kitchen too! Our…

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Lemon Olive Oil Cake

This lemon olive oil cake recipe is incredibly moist and filled with bright, fruity flavor. Made with simple ingredients, it's an easy, delicious treat!

This lemon olive oil cake recipe is my new favorite spring dessert…and possibly my new favorite dessert, period. It has a moist and tender texture and fruity, citrusy flavor from lemon juice, lemon zest, and plenty of olive oil. I’ve already made this cake three times this spring—it’s that delicious! This olive oil cake recipe is easy to make with simple ingredients and equipment. I love to whip it up for an everyday treat to enjoy with coffee or tea. It’s also lovely for holidays and gatherings. I dust it with powdered sugar or pile it with whipped cream and strawberries…

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Lemon Posset

This lemon posset recipe is easy to make with 4 ingredients! Similar to a pudding, it's creamy, bright, and refreshing. A delicious make-ahead dessert!

Have you tried lemon posset? It’s a bright, creamy 4-ingredient treat I’ll be making all spring. A classic British dessert, lemon posset is similar to a custard or a pudding, but it doesn’t require eggs or cornstarch to set up. It’s easy to make with heavy cream, fresh lemon juice, sugar, and vanilla. Sweet and citrusy, it’s such a refreshing way to end a meal! This easy lemon posset recipe would be a perfect dessert for spring occasions like Easter and Mother’s Day. It’s great for entertaining because you can make it ahead, and it looks so elegant in little glasses…

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Carrot Cake Bars

These no-bake carrot cake bars are a delicious spring dessert! A creamy, tangy frosting layer tops the warmly spiced carrot and date base.

I’ll be making these carrot cake bars all spring long! I don’t know about you, but I always crave carrot cake in the spring. The combination of warm spices, sweet carrots, and tangy cream cheese frosting just feels like the perfect dessert as the days get warmer and longer. I’m not about to make a full-blown layer cake with any regularity…but these carrot cake bars? I try to keep a stash on hand at all times. 🙂 I first published this recipe in my third cookbook, Simple Feel Good Food. I shared a video of the recipe on social media before…

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Almond Flour Cookies

These almond flour cookies are easy to make in one bowl! Chewy, nutty, and filled with melty chocolate chips, they're a delicious gluten-free treat.

These almond flour cookies are chewy, nutty, and filled with melty chocolate chips. They’re totally gluten-free, but you don’t have to be to love them. In fact, these almond flour chocolate chip cookies are one of the treats I make most often. The recipe first appeared in my second cookbook, Love & Lemons Every Day, and I’ve made it countless times since the book was published. I thought it was about time I shared it here too. These cookies couldn’t be easier to make. The recipe calls for 10 ingredients and comes together in one bowl. If you have almond…

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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Brown butter fills these chocolate chip cookies with rich, caramelized flavor. With crisp edges and chewy centers, they're a bakery-worthy treat!

These brown butter chocolate chip cookies are insanely delicious. They have lightly crisp edges, perfect chewy middles, and melty chocolate in every bite. Best of all, brown butter (plus an extra dose of brown sugar) fills them with toffee-like flavor. I went through a bit of a browned butter phase last year, after I started making these blondies and couldn’t get enough them. Around that time, I tried using brown butter in my classic chocolate chip cookie recipe. We devoured every last one of those cookies, but they didn’t have the toasty, nutty brown butter flavor I was after… Many…

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Tiramisu

This easy tiramisu recipe has delicious layers of espresso-dipped ladyfingers and creamy mascarpone. It's a show-stopping no-bake dessert!

Is there anything more delicious than tiramisu? This Italian dessert consists of decadent layers of espresso-dipped ladyfingers and plush mascarpone cream. It’s perfectly creamy and only lightly sweet, with a rich dusting of cocoa powder on top. On our first trip to Italy, I ordered it at every restaurant Jack and I went to. It’s just that good. After I shared this strawberry tiramisu last summer and this pumpkin tiramisu in the fall, I couldn’t resist developing a classic tiramisu recipe too. I’m so happy with how this one came out. It’s impressive and indulgent, but deceptively easy. This tiramisu…

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Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Learn how to make chocolate covered strawberries! Made with just 3 ingredients, this recipe is easy, yet impressive. Perfect for Valentine's Day!

Chocolate covered strawberries are my favorite Valentine’s Day treat. They’re the perfect balance of indulgent yet fresh, fancy yet so utterly simple at the same time. I love how the rich chocolate coating gives way to the sweet, juicy berries inside. You’ll see them in grocery stores and chocolate shops around the holiday, but for a fun project (and the best deal), learn how to make chocolate covered strawberries at home! I’m sharing my go-to chocolate covered strawberries recipe below, along with my best tips for success. This recipe is easy to make with just 3 ingredients. Make it for…

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