55+ Strawberry Desserts to Make This Spring

Iain Bagwell

Take advantage of the season with these delectable strawberry desserts. From classic cakes and pies (like this sweet Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting and this Strawberry-Pretzel Ice-Cream Pie) to more adventurous recipes (have you tried our Nutella and Red Berry Dessert Tacos?!), our best strawberry dessert recipes will make a splash in your kitchen this spring.

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Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Kelsey Hansen; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis

Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe
This vibrant pink layer cake is pure strawberry-on-strawberry goodness, with fresh strawberries going into the cake batter and frosting. One thing to note about the buttercream frosting—it is absolutely bursting with berry flavor, but is easily over-mixed. If you find you've broken your emulsion when whipping this frosting up, no worries. You can simply mix in a little more powdered sugar to restore it.

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Strawberry-Basil Ice Cream

Photo: Hector Sanchez; Styling: Caroline M. Cunningham

Strawberry-Basil Ice Cream Recipe
Herby, fresh, and sweet, this ice cream is the perfect warm weather treat.

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Strawberry Poke Pound Cake with Strawberry Glaze

Photo: Kelsey Hansen; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis

Strawberry Poke Pound Cake with Strawberry Glaze Recipe
Poke cake meets pound cake in this must-make spring dessert. A perfectly moist, dense vanilla pound cake (with a delightful hint of almond) is filled with a fresh strawberry filling—adding to the cake's tender crumb and providing the perfect fruity sweet-tart flavor balance.

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Strawberries and Milk Shaved Ice (Raspado)

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Strawberries and Milk Shaved Ice (Raspado) Recipe
To make the shaved ice, just whirl ice cubes in a food processor, 2 cups at a time, until the ice no longer makes a racket and looks like snow, with no lumps.

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Nutella and Red Berry Dessert Tacos

Photo: Daniel Agee; Food Styling: Torie Cox; Prop Styling: Mindi Shapiro

Nutella and Red Berry Dessert Tacos Recipe
Your favorite crepe fillings just crashed taco night. Sweet, juicy strawberries and raspberries team up with rich chocolate-hazelnut goodness to make a most decadent and delightful filing for our crispy Dessert Taco Shells.

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Strawberry Shortcake Deep-Dish Skillet Cookie

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Strawberry Shortcake Deep-Dish Skillet Cookie Recipe
Everyone's favorite summer berry dessert gets transformed into a giant deep-dish skillet cookie. White chocolate chips, bits of pound cake and sliced strawberries join forces to create this fruity indulgence.

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Strawberry and Cornmeal Crostatas

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Strawberry and Cornmeal Crostatas Recipe

A rustic, exceptionally buttery, slightly crunchy pastry sets off sweet, jammy summer fruit in this recipe by Karen Hatfield, chef-owner of Odys + Penelope and Sycamore Kitchen restaurants in Los Angeles. You'll need twelve 4-in. flan molds or tart pans.

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Strawberries and Rosé Cake

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Strawberries and Rosé Cake Recipe
This impressive blush-tone cake is inspired by two of our favorite summer treats: rosé wine and fresh strawberries.

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Stuffed Berries

Photo: Hector Sanchez Styling: Caroline Cunningham

Stuffed Berries Recipe

By stuffing hollowed out strawberries with a scrumptious mixture of cream cheese, powdered sugar, and amaretto, you end up with a delectable treat that's bound to disappear off of summer plates. For an easy July 4th treat, cap each stuffed strawberry with a blueberry to achieve a red, white, and blue bite!

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Fresh Strawberry Shortcakes with Yogurt Cream

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Fresh Strawberry Shortcakes with Yogurt Cream Recipe
If you have a minute to spare, swap the vanilla extract for a vanilla bean. Split the bean lengthwise, scrape half of the seeds into the shortcake recipe, and whip the remaining half into the yogurt cream. It will add an extra level of flavor-packed intensity to the recipe.

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Strawberry Upside-Down Cake

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Strawberry Upside-Down Cake Recipe

This perfectly light summer cake comes out beautifully, either way you flip it.

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Rum Cake with Strawberry Salad

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Rum Cake with Strawberry Salad Recipe
This strawberry-topped, rum soaked cake is one that you won't be able to put down until it's all gone. Similar to a crème brûlée, lightly torch until caramelized. Serve immediately with whipped crème fraîche and Strawberry Salad.

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Strawberry Meringue Cake

Photo: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Heather Chadduck and Caroline Cunningham

Strawberry Meringue Cake Recipe
This strawberry meringue cake features layers of sweet cream and fresh strawberries sandwiched between thin rounds of homemade meringue. Serve this dessert in the springtime when strawberries are at their peak.

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Strawberry Mousse Cake

Photo: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Heather Chadduck and Caroline Cunningham

Strawberry Mousse Cake Recipe
Strawberry-sweetened frosting surrounds the outside of the cake while creamy strawberry mousse divides the layers. This beautiful cake is ideal for brunch, baby showers, or any springtime celebration.

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Strawberry Cheesecake Tartlets

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Strawberry Cheesecake Tartlets Recipe

Delicious things come in small packages. Serve Strawberry Cheesecake Tartlets at your next brunch or luncheon for an impressive, bite-sized dessert your guests will rave over for days.

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Strawberry Cream Pie

Photo: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Heather Chadduck and Caroline Cunningham

Strawberry Cream Pie Recipe
A dark-chocolate crust and jewel-bright berries brushed with jelly turn this down-home pie into a company-worthy fare.

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Strawberry Panna Cotta with Cookie Crumble

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Strawberry Panna Cotta with Cookie Crumble Recipe
Serve a strawberry version of this traditional Italian dessert.

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Coconut-and-Pecan Strawberry Shortcakes

Photo: Hector Sanchez; Styling: Buffy Hargett Miller

Coconut-and-Pecan Strawberry Shortcakes Recipe

For a creative, updated take on shortcake, we added coconut and pecans to the dough.

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Strawberry Tart with Quinoa-Almond Crust

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Strawberry Tart with Quinoa-Almond Crust Recipe

Chef Khalil Hymore introduced us to the idea of a crunchy quinoa crust with a savory tart he developed for us; we take the notion to a sweet place here. The tart holds well overnight, so make it the day before, and serve chilled right from the refrigerator.

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Deep-Dish Strawberry Ice Dream Pie

Deep-Dish Strawberry Ice Dream Pie Recipe

The filling for our killer pie is somewhere between ice cream and mousse--a creamy concoction that's ridiculously easy to make.

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Strawberry Dream Cake

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Strawberry Dream Cake Recipe
This impressive cake is a strawberry-lover's dream. With beautiful layers and a pop of color and flavor from the fresh strawberries, this cake is a stunning addition to the dessert table.

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Strawberries-and-Cream Sheet Cake

Photo: Hector Sanchez; Styling: Caroline M. Cunningham

Strawberries-and-Cream Sheet Cake Recipe

Trust us: This simple and swoon-worthy sheet cake will be a keeper in your recipe box. File it under "Springtime Crowd-pleaser."

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Strawberry-Lemonade Layer Cake

Photo: Hector Sanchez; Styling: Caroline M. Cunningham

Strawberry-Lemonade Layer Cake Recipe
You can assemble this glorious cake up to two days ahead; store at room temp. Also, you can freeze cooled layers up to a month in plastic wrap and aluminum foil.

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Mile-High Mini Strawberry Pies

Photo: Hector Sanchez; Styling: Caroline M. Cunningham

Mile-High Mini Strawberry Pies Recipe
What's cuter than a strawberry pie? A mini strawebrry pie heaped with vanilla cream.

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Strawberry-Rhubarb Trifle

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Strawberry-Rhubarb Trifle Recipe
This show-stopping, layered strawberry dessert will be a hit at your next luncheon or shower.

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Strawberries with Crunchy Almond Topping

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Strawberries with Crunchy Almond Topping Recipe
Only five ingredients required for this simple make-ahead dessert. If you can't find amaretti cookies, sprinkle with granola.

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Bordeaux-Style Strawberries

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Bordeaux-Style Strawberries Recipe

In Bordeaux, where châteaus and vineyards abound, a typical dessert is fresh strawberries sliced into a red wine glass and then topped with a great Bordeaux. Here, that regional tradition is adapted to make it more dessert-like. If you're pressed for time, do as the Bordelais do--quick and easy.

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Strawberry Semifreddo

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Strawberry Semifreddo Recipe
Streaks of berries throughout and more spooned on top make this classic Italian ice cream dessert a great finish to a spring or summer dinner. For the most velvety texture, serve it half-frozen, just as the name suggests (semifreddo means half-cold).

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Strawberries with Whipped Sour Cream

Photo: Hector Sanchez Styling: Torie Cox

Strawberries with Whipped Sour Cream Recipe
This easy dessert is a great way to enjoy the fresh strawberries of the season.

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Strawberry Pionono

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Strawberry Pionono Recipe
It's not a direct translation, but think of pionono as Spanish for jelly-roll cake. This spongy berry version, which our reader inherited from a close family friend, creates a big ta-da at the table for very little effort.

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Strawberry-Pretzel Ice-Cream Pie

Photo: Hector Sanchez; Stylist: Buffy Hargett

Strawberry-Pretzel Ice-Cream Pie Recipe

Salty-sweet describes the homemade ice cream that stars in this luscious Strawberry-Pretzel Ice-Cream Pie.

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Strawberries and Cream Cake

Photo: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Heather Chadduck

Strawberries and Cream Cake Recipe
We used 6 (8-inch) disposable aluminum foil cake pans, so we could fill all the pans at once. This way, if you bake the layers in batches, the second batch is ready to go in the oven as soon as the first is done.

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55+ Strawberry Desserts to Make This Spring

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Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

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Strawberry-Basil Ice Cream

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Strawberry Poke Pound Cake with Strawberry Glaze

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Strawberries and Milk Shaved Ice (Raspado)

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Nutella and Red Berry Dessert Tacos

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Strawberry Shortcake Deep-Dish Skillet Cookie

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Strawberry and Cornmeal Crostatas

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Strawberries and Rosé Cake

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Stuffed Berries

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Fresh Strawberry Shortcakes with Yogurt Cream

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Strawberry Upside-Down Cake

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Rum Cake with Strawberry Salad

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Strawberry Meringue Cake

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Strawberry Mousse Cake

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Strawberry Cheesecake Tartlets

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Strawberry Cream Pie

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Strawberry Panna Cotta with Cookie Crumble

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Coconut-and-Pecan Strawberry Shortcakes

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Strawberry Tart with Quinoa-Almond Crust

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Deep-Dish Strawberry Ice Dream Pie

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Strawberry Dream Cake

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Strawberries-and-Cream Sheet Cake

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Strawberry-Lemonade Layer Cake

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Mile-High Mini Strawberry Pies

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Strawberry-Rhubarb Trifle

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Strawberries with Crunchy Almond Topping

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