12 Labor Day Desserts to End Summer Sweetly
Don't forget your sweet tooth this Labor Day weekend! Make the best plans by including one of these 12 Labor Day Dessert Recipes in your meal roundup. Whether a picnic, cookout, potluck, or dinner at home — these desserts will win you over!
1. Grilled Apple Crisp
It seems like you can make every kind of meal on the grill: burgers, chicken, pork chops, steaks, and hot dogs, with toasted buns for each. Your barbeque is sure to be a success! But wait, what about dessert? Surely that needs some kind of oven or stove-top? Not at all! Grilled Apple Crisp uses a cast-iron skillet and foil so you can cook up a wonderful summertime dessert without cooling down the grill. The results are a bubbling, sweet sensation filled with tender, cinnamon-infused apples and topped with a crunchy brown sugar crust. Grilled Apple Crisp is the perfect finishing touch for your cookout. Make sure you have plenty of ice cream on hand!
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This dessert is just fun, whether you're simply enjoying your day in the kitchen or bringing over a special treat to the neighborhood cookout. Shortcake Kabobs embrace the summer spirit both in substance and style; buttery, homemade biscuits, creamy whipped topping, and bright, fresh strawberries combine for that wonderful seasonal treat, strawberry shortcake! But now, it's on a kabob! You can eat each treat one-handed alongside your barbeque kabobs! Isn't that just so flashy? Yes, Shortcake Kabobs will really turn some heads and electrify some taste buds!
See More3. Dessert Fruit Salad
The beauty of this Dessert Fruit Salad is that it's basically a fruit plate in a bowl, allowing you to indulge in the tropical sweetness by the spoonful! Tangy pineapple, floral peaches, creamy bananas, and crisp apples, all stirred up with a delightfully sweet and silky fruit sauce! Dessert Fruit Salad is relaxing, refreshing, simple, and oh-so-delightful. This one-bowl-wonder is perfect for picnics, potlucks, and cookouts. Who ever said fruit wasn't a good dessert? They clearly had never tried this!
See More4. No-Bake Peaches & Cream Tart
No-Bake Peaches & Cream Tart is a delicious dessert that doesn’t even require you to turn your oven on! Fresh peaches and sweet cream on top of a ladyfinger crust make for a yummy confection that you won’t be able to get enough of. No-Bake Peaches & Cream Tart takes only 20 minutes to whip up, so you can spend more time just enjoying the creamy, rich, and summery taste! When you bring this to the next cookout, everyone will be thanking you!
Click Here5. Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp is a dessert with the ultimate summer vibes! This dessert is wonderfully simple to make and is the perfect sweet treat to serve at your next cookout, or if you just want a taste of summer anytime year-round! Each bite is full of sweet strawberry filling and crunchy, crispy topping made of flour, sugar, oats, and pecans. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream and get ready to indulge in this decadent Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp!
See More6. Patchwork Quilt Cake
Patchwork Quilt Cake is as classic and beloved as the blanket Grandma knitted for you! The cake is moist, tender, and fluffy, and the frosting is sweet and creamy, fulfilling all your dessert dreams. But the patchwork comes from the summery and vibrant berry topping, arranged to resemble the patches of a homemade quilt. Patchwork Quilt Cake feels as authentic and rustic as it tastes, and is sure to bring a little color to your next cookout!
See More7. Grilled Dessert Crumble
How do you bring your cookout to the perfect end? To leave on a truly sweet note! Don't worry, your grill has you covered for that! This Grilled Dessert Crumble has a crunchy, buttery granola topping and a sweet pear and tart cranberry filling, with a hint of cinnamon... exactly what you're looking for in a crumble. The Grilled Dessert Crumble is simple, easy, and so tasty. After a big meal of burgers and grilled chicken, this is exactly what you're looking for in a sweet treat!
See More8. Aunt Betty's Best Potluck Brownies
No one knows how to prepare for a potluck like Aunt Betty. In fact, her secret weapon for parties or cookouts only needs an hour to make and considerably less time to vanish from the dessert table; it's Aunt Betty's Best Potluck Brownies! These fudgy, super rich, and buttery brownies are a delight with lots of chocolate flavor baked right in. And for a real treat, she tops them with an extra melty chocolate frosting that's almost molten! Aunt Betty's Best Potluck Brownies bring cheer to everyone!
See More9. Blueberry Pie
If there is any dessert that embodies the freedom, the beauty, and the warmth of summer, it would be a classic Blueberry Pie. The rich, tart, jammy, and sweet blueberry filling, surrounded by a golden crust with just the right amount of buttery flavor... there's nothing better, except maybe topping it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream! This Blueberry Pie isn't a challenging dessert to make and it is an instant crowd-pleaser after a cookout or just a day in the sun!
See More10. Strawberry Galette
"Easy, yet refined" is the perfect way to describe this special and sumptuous treat! Strawberry Galette takes traditional strawberry pie to a beautiful place, and you may never go back. A flaky, buttery crust is folded around a lemon-infused strawberry filling and baked until golden-brown. Mmmm. Plus, then it's crowned with creamy vanilla ice cream! Mmmmmm! Strawberry Galette is a gratifying addition to your dessert repertoire that everyone will be impressed with. It is just so regal!
See More11. Aunt Betty's Lemonade Icebox Pie
Our Aunt Betty is known for two things, her creamy homemade pies and her perfectly refreshing lemonade. Well, one day she had a wild hair and decided it might be fun to blend them together. And guess what?! It was the most delicious thing we've ever tasted! That's how Aunt Betty's Lemonade Pie came to be. We get a slice of her citrusy filled pie on a graham cracker crust every time we visit her and each time, she watches us eat and with a smile says, "You know, two wrongs make a right... well in this case, two rights made the most amazing dessert I've ever tasted!" We couldn't agree more. Aunt Betty's Lemonade Pie is just the best thing ever, just like our favorite auntie!
See More12. Fridge Queen Cake
When your refrigerator becomes the key to making an amazing dessert, you have to give credit where credit is due. This palace-worthy, Fridge Queen Cake is a royal way to turn any day into a bright, summer-fresh experience! This slice of majesty is packed with juicy, ripe blackberries smoothly blended with tangy cream cheese and cool, creamy whipping cream, all layered and reigning atop a sweet, crunchy-soft graham cracker crust. Just pop this exquisite Fridge Queen Cake into the icebox (aka your freezer) for a bit and create a glorious new monarchy of deliciousness all for yourself! All hail the Queen!
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