Best Strawberry Recipes | 10 Summer Berry Favorites
Whether you pick your own or stock up at the market, here are our favorite of the best strawberry recipes that highlight summer’s first berries.
By Yankee Magazine|May 01 2018|
With the arrival of June comes the first of our favorite summer fruits—strawberries! Sweet and juicy, strawberries are delicious plain or sliced onto cereal, but we also love them made into fresh strawberry preserves, baked into a tasty treat, or as the star ingredient in a cold, creamy dessert. Whether you pick your own or stock up at the market, we’ve got plenty of ways for you to use them in these 10 best strawberry recipes. That is, if you don’t eat them all first!
Photo Credit: Brenda Darroch
Best Strawberry Recipes | 10 Summer Berry Favorites
Easy Old-Fashioned Strawberry Preserves
This recipe for delicious homemade strawberry preserves calls for only three ingredients! How simple is that? Make enough to keep the sweet taste of summer strawberries in your house all year long.
Strawberry Tea Bread
A sweet tea bread that uses fresh strawberry preserves and makes three loaves, perfect for both eating and sharing. Top with butter, honey, or cream cheese for a sweet morning treat.
Bonnie Brae Strawberry Pie
A mixture of cooked and fresh berries helped make this strawberry pie a family favorite. Don’t forget the whipped cream!
Photo Credit: Aimee Tucker
Homemade Strawberry Shortcake
When fresh berries abound, who can resist the charm of a classic homemade strawberry shortcake? Let the sliced, sugared berries sit for at least an hour to get good and juicy.
Strawberry Chiffon Pie
Serve this cold, creamy, and tangy pie straight from the refrigerator on a hot day. It’s extra nice made with rich pastry dough, but you can also use a quick and easy graham cracker crust.
Photo Credit: Brenda Darroch
Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp
In this favorite fruit crisp, the familiar combination of rhubarb and fresh strawberries is baked under a light and crumbly crust. Serve warm with slightly softened vanilla ice cream spooned over the top for a truly special treat.
Aunt Gladys’ 4-Layer Strawberry Dessert
This reader-submitted recipe gets rave reviews, and we can see why. Made in a handy 9×13-inch pan, this festive and portable strawberry layer dessert is perfect for cookouts and Fourth of July parties.
Photo Credit: Keller + Keller
Pavlova with Fresh Strawberries & Whipped Cream
Australians and New Zealanders have an on going debate about who first created this gorgeous meringue dessert crowned with whipped cream and fresh fruit. You can substitute other berries, kiwi, or mango, but we love it best with strawberries.
Classic Strawberry Ice Cream
Just strawberries, milk, cream, and eggs–a simple formula that lets the fresh berry flavor shine through in this classic recipe for strawberry ice cream. In a bowl or on a sugar cone, it’s good til the last lick.
Layered Strawberry Mold
Kids love this wiggly, layered retro favorite. The contributor says this delicious combination of strawberries and pineapple serves eight, but our tester witnessed four kids, all of them under the age of 10, devouring an entire recipe. Who can resist?
This post was first published in 2016 and has been updated.
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