Fruit Dessert

Brown butter peach, caramel apple, and more of our favorite easier-than-pies.

This speedy one-pan summer dessert channels peaches and cream with a twist.

Think flag cake—but with crisp puff pastry, whipped cream, and layers of fresh berries.

With a jammy ruby-red filling and tender golden biscuits, this showstopping dessert is made for summer.

Using two entire lemons—pith, skin, and all—cranks up the citrus flavor in this classic dessert.

Flaky crust, jammy filling, endless sweet-but-tangy flavor.

A birthday favorite in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen.

Pavlova meets Black Forest cake in a holiday dessert designed to steal the spotlight.

This no-oven-needed crisp can be made with almost any fresh berry (we’d avoid raspberries) and comes together within 45 minutes.

The best fruit pie, complete with a brown sugar streusel topping.

These bright cheesecake bars feature spring’s favorite flavor duo and a Triscuit cracker crust.

This classic apple tarte Tatin gets its tart-sweet flavor and crimson hue from a handful of fresh or frozen cranberries.

Tender cake houses jammy sour cherries and chunks of sweet pineapple in this cobbler meets upside down cake hybrid.

A bit of cherry-flavored Jell-O powder makes these ice pops taste like they came from an ice cream truck (in the best way!).

Legendary pastry chef Claudia Fleming wraps both sweet and sour cherries into these flaky handheld treats.

This sturdy almond-polenta cake is a gentle landing spot for fresh figs, and also happens to be gluten-free. Swap figs for plums, raspberries, or blueberries.

Stacked with chopped bananas, vanilla pudding, and crunchy Marie biscuits, these individual banana pudding jars are the perfect make-ahead summer dessert.

Summer means spicy, savory fruit salads made with whatever fresh produce you’ve got, plus lime juice, sugar, fish sauce, dried shrimp, and lots of red chiles.

Eight ingredients, ten minutes of active time, one delightfully fruity summer dessert you’ll remake all season long.

Airy choux pastry replaces the shortcakes in this delicate dessert, giving the fruit and cream more room to shine.

An all-purpose gluten-free blend does the heavy lifting here, keeping the ingredient list short and sweet.

With three times the fruit flavor, this is the only strawberry cheesecake recipe you’ll ever need.

Baked apple with granola and sour cream—serving as two recipes in one, it effortlessly transitions between a delightful breakfast and a satisfying dessert.

These foolproof, ice-cream-filled choux buns make the perfect dessert for two.