Top 35 Best Fruit Desserts

Love fruit? Here are the best fruit desserts to enjoy at any time of the year. From easy fruit dessert recipes to showstopper cakes and desserts, I'll show you step-by-step how to make them.

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• Best Fruit Desserts
• 1. Mango Mousse Cake
• 2. Caramelized Banana Upside Down Cake
• 3. Fraisier Cake
• 4. Coconut Panna Cotta With Passion Fruit
• 5. Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
• 6. Banana Bread
• 7. Strawberry Crunch Cake
• 8. Spiced Apple Cake
• 9. Victoria Sponge Cake
• 10. Mango Tart With Vanilla Custard
• 11. Strawberry Charlotte Cake
• 12. Cranberry Orange Bread
• 13. Peach Cake
• 14. Boozy Orange Aperol Spritz Cake
• 15. Blueberry Galette
• 16. White Chocolate Raspberry Tart
• 17. Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake
• 18. Raspberry Brownies
• 19. Almond Pear Cake
• 20. Strawberry Filled Cupcakes
• 21. Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers
• 22. Chocolate Passion Fruit Tart
• 23. No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
• 24. Pear Galette
• 25. Earl Grey Macarons With Lemon Curd Filling
• 26. Peach Galette
• 27. White Chocolate Covered Strawberries
• 28. No-Bake Raspberry Lemonade Cheesecake
• 29. Peach Cobbler With Pie Crust
• 30. Strawberry Galette
• 31. Raspberry Ruby Ice Cream Bar
• 32. Strawberry Pavlova Cake
• 33. Apple Pie Cupcakes
• 34. Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies
• 35. Lemon Blueberry Tart
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All these recipes are reliable and trustworthy, and you know I never compromise on taste. I am going to share with you my favorite from-scratch fruit desserts. There's no cake mix or dump cake recipes here, but, no worries, even beginner bakers can follow my thorough directions to get pro-looking results. Let´s get started!

Best Fruit Desserts

1. Mango Mousse Cake

Super-light Mango mousse cake featuring a buttery sponge layer and the airiest yogurt-based mousse infused with fragrant mangos! It delivers one of the easiest and most refreshing cake experiences, offering an incredibly delicious result that strikes a perfect balance between lightness and sweetness.

2. Caramelized Banana Upside Down Cake

Try this simple yet indulgent caramelized banana upside-down cake recipe. A flavorful and moist yogurt cake acts as the base, with the most delectable caramelized banana topping. Serve warm and garnish it with a dollop of homemade whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or it's just as delicious on its own!

3. Fraisier Cake

Whilst the Fraisier cake looks super professional, it's surprisingly a lot easier to make than you might imagine! It's a classic French strawberry cake that features buttery sponge layers brimming with incredibly delicious and silky Crème mousseline (pastry cream enriched with butter). It's complemented by a layer of refreshing strawberry compote and adorned with the signature strawberry decoration encircling the cake. Undoubtedly, this is a fruit dessert to impress not only for French pastry fans!

4. Coconut Panna Cotta With Passion Fruit

Creamy coconut panna cotta with passion fruit is one of those healthy fruit desserts that is both super refreshing and super tasty. Despite its fancy appearance, this dairy-free treat is incredibly quick and easy to make and simply bursting with coconut goodness. What's more, this Italian dessert only requires a few simple ingredients.

5. Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie

Yes, pumpkins are a fruit! When pie season arrives, make an easy pumpkin cream cheese pie for a dessert mashup of dreams. Rich and tangy pumpkin cheesecake mixed with traditional pumpkin pie and flaky, buttery pie crust has the best contrasting textures and makes a super special and indulgent Fall or winter dessert. Check out these other pumpkin desserts, too.

6. Banana Bread

If you have leftover bananas, there's surely only one easy fruit dessert recipe you should make. This easy banana bread is the perfect go-to recipe when you want something cozy and naturally sweet that has the perfect moist texture and authentic fruity flavor.

7. Strawberry Crunch Cake

Prepare to be smitten by the strawberry crunch cake! Inspired by the iconic frozen strawberry shortcake ice cream bars, this cake features a moist 3-layer sponge infused with real fresh fruity strawberry flavor, and it's smothered in a light cream cheese frosting and strawberry crunch crumble topping. Simply put, what's not to love?

8. Spiced Apple Cake

With rich, deep apple flavors, this spiced apple cake is the easiest and most delicious apple cake to bake this fall. The super moist fall dessert is infused with aromatic spices, generously loaded with apples, and topped with a simple yet delightful ginger apple compote. It's the ultimate fall fruit dessert recipe you certainly must try!

9. Victoria Sponge Cake

A British tea-time classic named for the famous Queen Victoria, try this traditional fruit dessert made with moist sponge cake, whipped cream, and fresh strawberries. You can have fun with the styling, piling fruit on top and in between the layers, and each slice has the most amazing mix of flavors.

10. Mango Tart With Vanilla Custard

Serve up some elegance with a delicious mango tart that has the most velvety smooth vanilla custard filling. It looks like you bought it in a French pâtisserie, but in fact, you can effortlessly create it in your own kitchen! A pâte sablée shell is filled with a luxurious vanilla pastry cream and adorned with fresh mango slices.

11. Strawberry Charlotte Cake

If you're looking for easy fruit desserts, no-bake options should be top of the list. This fruity treat features fluffy ladyfingers both in and around the cake and a filling of incredibly silky crème mousseline and luscious fresh strawberries. Despite its elegant appearance, this cake is remarkably simple to make, delivering incredible, professional patisserie-like results! In fact, you don't even need to turn the oven on.

12. Cranberry Orange Bread

This is one of my ultimate holiday favorites. Moist and delicious cranberry orange bread is full of festive flavors like aromatic orange zest and tangy cranberries, making it an ideal choice for a simple yet delectable breakfast or fruit dessert during the holiday season.

13. Peach Cake

In summertime, when sweet, fragrant peaches are in abundance, a moist and easy peach cake recipe is an equally delightful treat. A super moist yogurt base is generously loaded with fresh peaches and finally crowned with a simple peach thyme compote. The fresh herbs make the fruit flavors really stand out, and it really captures the essence of summer sweetness.

14. Boozy Orange Aperol Spritz Cake

If you love fresh orange and sipping on an Aperol Spritz, this is surely one of the best fruit desserts for you to try. The super moist brown sugar yogurt cake is crowned with oranges soaked in Aperol, so it's a boozy fruit dessert for adults only, but certainly a tasty one. What's more, it's quick and easy to make, with a perfect balance of fruity flavors.

15. Blueberry Galette

Love blueberry pie? You'll love this one. A galette is a French free-form crusty dessert, and it is probably my personal favorite type of pie! You don't need any special equipment, and galettes can be filled with a variety of delicious fruits. Serve with vanilla ice cream, and enjoy.

16. White Chocolate Raspberry Tart

This cute and dainty white chocolate raspberry tart strikes an ideal balance between buttery, melt-in-your-mouth sweet shortcrust pastry and silky raspberry ganache filling full of natural raspberry flavors.

17. Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake

Chocolate and orange is a fruit and chocolate flavor combination made in heaven. And this moist and flavourful orange cake with delicious silky chocolate glaze could be the winter dessert of dreams! It's an easy yet festive cake that features a melt-in-your-mouth sponge loaded with candied orange zest and Christmas spices like cinnamon and star anise. Then, it's finally topped with a super easy chocolate glaze and decorated with homemade candied orange slices. The ultimate showstopper yet easy Christmas cake!

18. Raspberry Brownies

This foolproof brownie recipe comes together in literally no time. Rich and gooey chocolate brownies are perfectly balanced by fruity raspberries, and they still have that iconic crinkly top; it's just sprinkled with freeze-dried raspberries to up the fruit flavor even more. Simply put, this recipe is a must-try!

19. Almond Pear Cake

Pears are one of my favorite fall fruits to bake with. And if you love pears, you will love my almond pear cake. Warm cinnamon spice and orange zest infuse with the poached pears and then get naked into a delicious cake batter packed with almond, vanilla, and cardamon. It's certainly the ultimate fall fruit dessert recipe you need to try!

20. Strawberry Filled Cupcakes

If you love a bite-sized fruit dessert, bake these cupcakes. A super moist vanilla cupcake is filled with strawberry sauce and decorated with a light whipped cream frosting and fresh strawberries so that every bite is infused with strawberry flavor. It has everything you need from a cupcake!

21. Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers

Puff pastry apple turnovers are like a perfectly flaky & crunchy apple pie, but just for you. You'll love the creamy filling made from cinnamon-spiced sweet apples; it's almost too good to be true.

What's more, you can use store-bought puff pastry to save you time making a classic puff pastry or a rough puff.

22. Chocolate Passion Fruit Tart

A silky & rich chocolate ganache meets tasty tropical passion fruit curd in this delicious and beautiful tart recipe! Simply put, you have to try pairing passion fruit and chocolate together because they are truly match-made in heaven.

23. No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake

Strawberry cheesecake is one of the most popular desserts of all time, and it certainly isn't hard to see why. Imagine an ultra-creamy and rich cheese filling against a sweet, fruity strawberry compote all piled on top of a crunchy, sweet Graham cracker crust. Whilst I'm sure you'll agree it sounds spectacular, you won't believe it when I tell you that this is a no-bake dessert, and you don't even have to turn on the oven.

24. Pear Galette

Now, this might be the perfect dessert to welcome the colder weather. What's more, it is much easier to make than a pie. But it is still super delicious with a buttery crust layered with spiced tender poached pears that melt in your mouth and some crunchy roasted walnuts to finish with! A serving of cream poured over the top is the perfect garnish.

25. Earl Grey Macarons With Lemon Curd Filling

Dainty French macarons might seem daunting, but learning how to make them is well worth it, as you can then play with flavors. Tangy and fruity lemon curd works perfectly with Earl Grey tea in this recipe, and you'll love the chewy texture.

If this is your first time making homemade macarons, try taking my online macaron class first!

26. Peach Galette

An easy peach galette recipe requires hardly any effort, but you get incredibly delicious results. If you're looking for super quick fruit desserts, a galette is the way to go. Flaky and buttery pie crust (that takes 3 minutes to make) loaded with fresh and juicy peaches? Surely, it's a no-brainer, and it works well for dinner parties as it requires so little skill or effort.

27. White Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Keep things simple with luscious fresh strawberries dipped into melted white chocolate. It's one of the easiest fruit desserts to make, but no one will ever complain!

I love to serve this dish at parties as part of a dessert table; it's one of those light fruit desserts that everyone will love.

28. No-Bake Raspberry Lemonade Cheesecake

Imagine raspberry lemonade in a cheesecake format, and that's what you get with each bite of this fruity dessert recipe. The crunchy, sweet crust is enhanced with freeze-dried raspberries and filled with ultra-creamy lemony cream cheese filling and a tangy raspberry compote, too.

Furthermore, this no-bake raspberry cheesecake is well balanced in sweetness and just focuses on natural flavors and the rich taste of good quality cream cheese.

29. Peach Cobbler With Pie Crust

A homemade peach cobbler is the perfect fruit dessert recipe to make the most of peach season when the fruit is ripe and super flavorful. I love making fruit cobblers with pie crust as you get even more of a contrast between the juicy fruit underneath and the flaky, buttery pie crust topping. 

30. Strawberry Galette

Making an easy strawberry galette has to be one of the best fruit desserts to make with strawberries. The recipe takes zero effort yet has incredible delicious results. I am obsessed with the contrast of flaky and buttery pie crust with sweet and juicy bubbling strawberries. And topped with a scoop of ice cream, it is unreal.

31. Raspberry Ruby Ice Cream Bar

Homemade fruit ice cream is simply the best summer dessert. And a super creamy and delicious no-churn raspberry yogurt ice cream bar coated with ruby chocolate is both the prettiest and the tastiest way to do it! It's pink, it's girly, and it's tasty. What's more, you don't need an ice cream machine, and it only needs a few simple ingredients.

32. Strawberry Pavlova Cake

If you haven't tried a pavlova, you have been missing out! A beautifully baked meringue nest is filled with fresh cream and fresh berries. It looks incredibly impressive, but meringue is actually very easy to make as long as you follow my top tips. Give it a try! It's one of those simple fruit desserts that just let the flavors speak for themselves.

33. Apple Pie Cupcakes

Love apple pie? Love cupcakes? And love having your own individual dessert that you don't have to share? Enter apple pie cupcakes. Every bite of this cute cupcake recipe is infused with apple flavor, but you don't have to share. The whipped mascarpone frosting isn't too sweet but still tastes super decadent.

34. Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies

If you love cheesecake and also love cookies, this is certainly what you should bake. Raspberry cheesecake cookies are loaded with fresh raspberries, but the soft and chewy cookie dough is wrapped around a secret cream cheese filling so that each bite has a rich and tangy cheesecake taste to it, too.

35. Lemon Blueberry Tart

Isn't this just the perfect French delicacy? A delightful tartlet filled with tangy and creamy lemon juice curd and adorned with blueberry whipped ganache and fresh, sweet blueberries. Whilst this beautiful fruit dessert certainly looks impressive, I'll talk you through how to make it in easy steps, and I promise it is easier to make than it seems! Citrus always works well in mixed fruit dessert recipes, as it sharpens all the other flavors.

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