532 fruit dessert recipes

Peach caramel crisp: ripe peaches baked over a hardened caramel base and crowned with ground almond praline streusel, served warm with vanilla ice cream. Summer fruit dessert elevated with French patisserie technique.

This Eastern European compote simmers dried apples, pears, prunes, and raisins in apple cider with honey and warm spices. A make-ahead fruit dessert that improves over two weeks in the fridge.

Oven-baked fruit compote of dried apricots, apples, peaches, and raisins slow-cooked with honey, fresh lemon, and orange slices. Serve warm or chilled as a naturally sweet dessert.

Orange fruit cremes made with sugar-free gelatin, orange juice, ice cubes, and lowfat milk. A light, creamy dessert that sets in minutes with a dreamsicle-like flavor.

Hungarian sour cherry soup (meggyleves) with sour cream, flour, and sugar. A traditional chilled fruit soup that's tangy, creamy, and served cold as a starter or dessert.

Fruited cream puffs: shortcut pate a choux made with pancake mix, filled with ice cream and topped with sweetened strawberries. Ten elegant frozen desserts from pantry staples.

Sweet dessert quiche filled with sliced apples and raisins in a creamy cinnamon custard. The fruit base gets topped with rich cream and eggs that bake into silky smoothness. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Currant syrup made from mashed currants, raspberries, and sour cherries strained and dissolved with sugar into a concentrated fruit syrup. A three-berry preserve for drinks and desserts.

Fruit fantasy soup is a chilled purée of oranges, tangerines, banana, peaches and pineapple, sweetened with honey and topped with walnuts and nutmeg. A no-cook breakfast or dessert soup that doubles as a smoothie bowl.

Holderschmarren is an Austrian fruit dish with elderberries, pears, and plums sauteed in butter with rye bread, milk, and cinnamon. A rustic, comforting dessert ready in 20 minutes.

Frozen pudding made with vanilla ice cream, chopped walnuts, and preserved fruits, served with a creamy royal grape sauce. A vintage frozen dessert with an elegant custard topping.

Chilled peach soup with white wine, orange liqueur, maple syrup, and whipped cream. A silky, boozy fruit soup that works as an elegant summer dessert or first course.

Frozen fruit cup with applesauce, mandarin oranges, strawberries, and grapes. A no-cook, no-sugar-added freezer dessert that tastes like sorbet but takes five minutes to assemble.

Four-ingredient cranberry fool with jellied cranberry sauce, orange zest, almond extract, and whipped cream. A no-cook dessert ready in 20 minutes. Doubles as a fruit dip.

Summer pandowdy layers juicy nectarines and blueberries under a cream biscuit crust, then dowdies the top by pressing it into the bubbling fruit. Old-fashioned New England dessert.

Mulled summer fruits in Chenin Blanc, a make-ahead dessert of peaches, berries, and apricots soaked in spiced white wine syrup. Served chilled with sorbet or whipped cream.