15 Cakes for Sweet Summer Treats
From berries and lemon to tropical flavors and coconut — summertime celebrations sure are sweet with these 15 Summertime Cakes that highlight the season's best flavors! Savor your next celebration this summer with a cake that is light, refreshing, and oh-so-satisfying.
1. Summer Angel Food Cake
If you're anything like us, you love to romanticize a sweet summer night. In our mind, the weather would be absolutely perfect, there would be the most outrageously beautiful sunset, we'd be surrounded by all our favorite people, and Summer Angel Food Cake would be on the dessert table. Such a dream! Well, good news. This cinema-like scenario can very easily come to life! At least, the sweet treat part is super easy to make a reality. This puffy, fluffy cake holds hints of juicy watermelon and citrusy lime juice for a super special summer surprise. It swims in a creamy, zesty sauce for a splash of sugary satisfaction. Yum! Summer Angel Food Cake takes the longings straight from your head to your dessert plate, so get ready for the most memorable summer ever!
See More2. Dreamy Cherry Dump Bake
The Dreamy Cherry Dump Bake! The cherries-and-cream flavor-scape of your dessert dreams! Flaky crust, creamy sweetened cream cheese, tart cherry pie filling, and cinnamon-sugar! Oh, and buttery cake! Can't forget the cake! It's tender, moist, and warm, and everything comes together perfectly for a special touch of summer! Dreamy Cherry Dump Bake is any sweet tooth's fantasy!
See More3. Meemaw's Strawberry Cake
Everybody who's anybody loves Meemaw's Strawberry Cake! Her classic dessert is a golden and tender treat literally filled to the brim with sweet, juicy, summery strawberries. It's actually an easy cake to put together and such a refreshing treat for the warm weather! Serving Meemaw's Strawberry Cake with whipped cream is like having berries and cream in its most delicious form!
See More4. Fruit-Bottom Cake
We've all heard of fruit-at-the-bottom yogurt, but what about Fruit-Bottom Cake? That opens up a whole new world of dessert possibilities! A tender, fluffy vanilla cake covers a layer of jammy, floral peaches, and bright, summery blueberries, so all that wonderful fruit flavor soaks into the cake! Plus, it's topped with a candied pecan crust with notes of warm cinnamon and smoky brown sugar! There's just so much to love about Fruit-Bottom Cake, you'll be amazed it can all fit on your fork!
See More5. Bea's Lemon Pound Cake
Bea always looks forward to summer because it gives her an excuse to whip up her favorite desserts! Bea's Lemon Pound Cake is a golden, buttery, rich cake experience, one that you can't help but slice into, and each slice is infused with that lovely summery flavor of lemon, with its brightness, tang, and sweet sharpness! And that's before the wonderful lemony glaze on top! Bea's Lemon Pound Cake is what the season is demanding for in a dessert, and you'll understand why from the first bite!
See More6. Key Lime Cake
Why should pie have all the tropical fun? Key Lime Cake keys into what makes the classic dessert so beloved: the delicate yet sharp balance of sweet and tart that only limes can provide. So, the tender cake and the creamy icing are both infused with sunny lime flavor, so you don't miss out on even a hint of that luscious goodness. Whipping up a Key Lime Cake is a great way to enjoy the summer even when it's winter, helping your tastebuds imagine themselves relaxing on a white sandy beach as they enjoy each bite!
See More7. Bumble Crumble Cake
There's nothing humble about Bumble Crumble Cake. The crust, with its buttery, crumbly texture and cinnamon sweetness, tastes just like streusel and will bring just as many smiles. The filling is jammy applesauce infused with a little autumn-spice magic and then topped with refreshingly tart and juicy blackberries and raspberries. It tastes just like berry picking on a pleasant day! Bumble Crumble Cake has the best of summer in each bite, no matter the season outside.
See More8. Cream Soda Cake
This is the kind of treat that wouldn't be out of place on a chrome counter at the malt shop, that's for sure! This Cream Soda Cake infuses the tender, fluffy cake with the creamy and floral sweetness of its namesake drink, which also actually helps the cake to rise! Over top is a luscious frosting, infused with summery strawberry flavor, that's just the right kind of rich and smooth topping to complement the cream soda flavor. Pour yourself a glass of your favorite soft drink and slice up this Cream Soda Cake!
See More9. Pig Pickin' Cake
A mainstay of Southern barbecues and roasts, Pig Pickin' Cake is exactly what you'll want after a hearty meal. Made light, moist, and citrusy with mandarin oranges, Pig Pickin' Cake provides a summertime taste any time of the year. The frosting on top is sweet, floral, and tropical with a pineapple twist. You'll be flipping out for this fruity delight!
See More10. Fresh Blueberry Cake
Everyone loves going out on a pleasant summer day and picking some fresh blueberries right off the bush, maybe popping a few in your mouth as you find the ones with the deepest color and flavor. What everyone loves more is finding creative ways to use that sweet and tart fruit. The Fresh Blueberry Cake makes the most of your harvest, whether you're fresh from the farm or fresh from the grocery store: a fluffy, golden cake that's perfectly tender and sprinkled with sugar. Don't worry though; that summertime taste of blueberries remains the real star of each bite. Fresh Blueberry Cake makes tea-times, cookouts, and family dinners a little more refreshing!
See More11. Summer Squash Pound Cake
As summer approaches, we face the consistent culinary question of the season — what do we do with all this squash? There's always so much of it! Summer Squash Pound Cake is one delicious solution. The squash helps the cake stay moist and tender, but without overpowering the sunny, sweet lemon and almond flavors swirling all about! When you see Summer Squash Pound Cake for the first time with its lemony glaze on top, you'll know that summer is here at last... and that you have at least used up the squash in the house (for now).
See More12. Lemon Ricotta Cake
ATTENTION: IF YOU LOVE LEMON, STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Lemon Ricotta Cake will have you screaming from the rooftops, it's just so good! Simple as it is delicious, add your favorite white cake mix along with an explosion of luscious, real, zesty lemon, creamy ricotta cheese, and heavy-on-my-mind cream and you will have a raise-the-rooftop kind of cake! This richly acclaimed Lemon Ricotta Cake just raised the bar, the flag, and anything else that salutes the decadent lemon-ness that you love. If you know, you know. LEMON LOVERS UNITE!
See More13. Green Angel Cake
Not many angels appear in green, but this emerald treat has all the signs of a divine dessert! This Green Angel Cake infuses tender, fluffy, ethereal cake with bright, summery lime flavor, and then tops it with a light and creamy lime frosting. This heavenly treat is like a cloud of citrus goodness that will grant wings to its serving plate! Green Angel Cake is the harp-strum of desserts!
See More14. Piña Colada Icebox Cake
If you like piña coladas, we have the dessert for you (we don't advise getting caught in the rain with this though, that would end horribly)! Piña Colada Icebox Cake has the tropical, fruity beauty that makes the cocktail such a classic: tangy pineapple and refreshing coconut with a rum, coconut, and vanilla pudding and even coconut-soaked graham crackers softened to form the base of the cake! It has delicious piña colada flavors all the way down, and you don't even need to turn on the oven! Grab a slice of Piña Colada Icebox Cake and escape!
See More15. Coconut Cloud Cake
Fluffy and moist... need we say more? Coconut Cloud Cake is layers of heaven on a plate! A coconut-infused cake is lathered with a creamy coconut-cream cheese icing and covered with feathery, lightly sweetened coconut flakes for a snow-capped mountain of magnificent coconut flavor. If you love coconut, this Coconut Cloud Cake will have you on cloud 9! It's a pillow of fluffy love!
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