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Summer Desserts

By Food & Wine
Updated June 28, 2017
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These delicious recipes include an easy peach-and-blackberry crisp and warm strawberry crumb cake.
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Summer Pavlova with Fresh and Grilled Berries

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Instead of piling this pillowy Pavlova with just fresh berries, Food & Wine’s Justin Chapple grills some of the berries in a packet, so they get deliciously juicy.

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Lemon-Blueberry Cheesecake Parfaits

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Pastry chef Maggie Leung's reimagined cheesecake is super-versatile: Its three components—the creamy, tangy cheesecake custard, the crunchy cornmeal shortbread and the fresh blueberry compote—are fantastic together, but each can be used in lots of other ways. Try the custard with any fresh fruit, serve the shortbread with sorbet or drizzle the compote over ice cream.

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Stone-Fruit Panzanella with Zabaglione

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A classic Italian panzanella (bread salad) combines juicy tomatoes and bread cubes. Here, Chris Cosentino swaps in stone fruits like apricots and peaches for the tomatoes. Then he pushes the dessert over the top by dolloping the "salad" with an airy zabaglione, a frothy sauce of egg yolks whipped with sweet dessert wine.

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Peaches and Plums with Sesame Crumble

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When making fruit crumbles, pastry chefs prepare the components separately, then bake them together quickly so the topping stays crispy. F&W’s Grace Parisi follows that example.

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Banana-Nutella S'Mores

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Minted Watermelon Popsicles

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These popsicles are a great fat-free snack, made with lots of naturally sweet watermelon and only a little sugar. They can be frozen in special popsicle molds or in standard ice cube trays (three cubes equals one serving). Joy Manning has them whenever she feels the temptation to visit the gelato shop around the corner from her apartment.

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Peach-and-Blackberry Crisp

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Blackberry Fool with Calvados

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A classic British dessert of pureed fruit folded into whipped cream, a fool is one of the first things Peter Ting learned to make after moving to England in 1976. To give this one a little extra sophistication, he macerates (soaks) half the blackberries overnight in Calvados, then tops the fruit with dollops of whipped cream he's mixed with blackberry puree. The leftover macerating liquid would make a delicious drink mixed with sparkling water or Champagne.

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Roasted Peaches with Mascarpone Ice Cream

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"Every house has an herb garden," says Daniel Humm of Ticino, the southern region of Switzerland. Accordingly, he infuses roasted peaches with honey-rosemary syrup. The mascarpone in the ice cream reveals the strong Italian influence on Ticino's cuisine.

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Honey-Lime Strawberries with Whipped Cream

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These strawberries, macerated in lime and honey, become a bracing summer dessert when served over a scoop of lemon sorbet. The whole thing can also go into the blender with a shot of rum to make an excellent frozen daiquiri.

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Butter Pecan Cookie and Peach Ice Cream Sandwiches

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"Ice cream sandwiches are universally popular, and everyone loves peach ice cream, too," Linton Hopkins says. "To make this recipe really Southern, we use pecans in the crispy cookie."

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Summer Plum Crostata

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This elegant tart is a great option for cooking in the bare-bones kitchen of a mountain cabin, since it doesn’t require a special pan. Kelly Liken uses Colorado plums, which she loves for their “beautiful tartness.” Even when ripe, the plums are somewhat tangy, thanks to Colorado’s cool nighttime temperatures. Any firm-but-ripe plums will work perfectly here.

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Melon Sorbet

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Jeni Britton's easy sugar syrup can be mixed with almost any fruit puree and churned in an ice cream maker to make sorbet. During the summer, she loves sorbets made with locally grown heirloom melons and ruby-red sour cherries.

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Stone Fruit Pie with Almond Streusel

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For anyone who comes home from the farmers’ market with an overabundance of stone fruits, this pie from pastry chef Lori Baker is the answer. You can fill it with any combination of apricots, peaches, plums, cherries or nectarines.

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Strawberry Shortcake

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Cake flour is the secret ingredient in this lusciously light shortcake. Make sure that you use pure cake flour as opposed to self-rising cake flour, which is similarly packaged. This dessert is at its best within 30 minutes of assembly.

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Bourbon-Nectarine Ice Cream Sundaes with Pound-Cake Croutons

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This is an excellent grown-up version of an ice cream sundae, made with lush nectarines cooked in bourbon. The best part: the crisp, buttery pound-cake croutons.

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Watermelon Granita with Cardamom Syrup

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Watermelon is a great source of vitamin C. Here, Marisa Churchill turns it into a fat-free granita, which she drizzles with a fragrant cardamom syrup.

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Peach Crostata

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Free-form tarts (sometimes called crostatas) are an easy, quick-to-prepare way to use up seasonal fruit.

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Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Make-Ahead Tip: The ice cream sandwiches can be frozen for up to 1 week.

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Summer Berry Tarts

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Excellent-quality puff pastry (F&W likes the Dufour brand) makes all the difference to this minimalist fruit dessert. Berries simmered in a little sugar become a slightly gooey, fresh-tasting topping.

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Easy Banana Ice Cream with Milk Chocolate Chunks

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Free-Form Blueberry Tart

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Jeremy Sewall adds a little candied ginger to the tart's crust for a hint of spice; feel free to add more or omit it altogether.

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Honey-Roasted Apricots with Amaretti Cookies

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Jessica Theroux drizzles apricots with honey before roasting (plums and peaches work well, too) and crumbles store-bought amaretti (Italian cookies made with egg whites and almond flour) for a crispy topping.

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Ruby-Grapefruit-and-Campari Ice Pops

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Using fresh-squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice makes all the difference in these sweet-and-tart pops.

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Berry-Yogurt Pavlovas with Chamomile-Lavender Syrup

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Aromatherapists take advantage of the calming powers of both chamomile and lavender. Melissa Rubel Jacobson steeps the flowers in a syrup for antioxidant-rich berries.

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Warm Strawberry Crumb Cake

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Gerard Craft tops strawberries with batter and bakes them until the fruit is warm and jammy and the cake is airy, with a wonderful, crisp crust.

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Creamy Mocha Ice Pops

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Actress Debi Mazar and her chef husband, Gabriele Corcos, give these mocha ice pops a silky, ice cream–like texture by folding whipped cream into the coffee-infused chocolate before molding and freezing.

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1 of 27 Summer Pavlova with Fresh and Grilled Berries
2 of 27 Lemon-Blueberry Cheesecake Parfaits
3 of 27 Stone-Fruit Panzanella with Zabaglione
4 of 27 Peaches and Plums with Sesame Crumble
5 of 27 Banana-Nutella S'Mores
6 of 27 Minted Watermelon Popsicles
7 of 27 Peach-and-Blackberry Crisp
8 of 27 Blackberry Fool with Calvados
9 of 27 Roasted Peaches with Mascarpone Ice Cream
10 of 27 Honey-Lime Strawberries with Whipped Cream
11 of 27 Butter Pecan Cookie and Peach Ice Cream Sandwiches
12 of 27 Summer Plum Crostata
13 of 27 Melon Sorbet
14 of 27 Stone Fruit Pie with Almond Streusel
15 of 27 Strawberry Shortcake
16 of 27 Bourbon-Nectarine Ice Cream Sundaes with Pound-Cake Croutons
17 of 27 Watermelon Granita with Cardamom Syrup
18 of 27 Peach Crostata
19 of 27 Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
20 of 27 Summer Berry Tarts
21 of 27 Easy Banana Ice Cream with Milk Chocolate Chunks
22 of 27 Free-Form Blueberry Tart
23 of 27 Honey-Roasted Apricots with Amaretti Cookies
24 of 27 Ruby-Grapefruit-and-Campari Ice Pops
25 of 27 Berry-Yogurt Pavlovas with Chamomile-Lavender Syrup
26 of 27 Warm Strawberry Crumb Cake
27 of 27 Creamy Mocha Ice Pops

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