Key Takeaways
Keeping bags of flash-frozen fruit in your freezer is an easy and affordable way to enjoy seasonal produce year-round.Our favorite dessert recipes to make with frozen fruit include strawberry cake, blueberry peach crisp and berry shortcake.
You don’t have to wait until May to enjoy a ripe, scarlet strawberry or August to sink our teeth into a sweet, juicy peach. That’s the great thing about the freezer. It’s the most effective way to preserve fruit’s peak season freshness, so you can continue to enjoy it all throughout the year. When you’ve always got baggies of flash-frozen fruit on hand, you’re only minutes away from bakery-worthy pies, cakes, and cobblers. Here are 15 desserts made with frozen fruit that prove fresh isn’t always best.
Strawberry Trifle
Aimee B.
This towering English-inspired layered trifle looks fussy and fancy, but it couldn’t be easier to prepare. The only prep involved is layering chunks of cake, dollops of instant pudding, frozen strawberries and whipped topping into a tall glass dish—then digging right in with an extra-large spoon!
White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake
Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
Ideal for special occasions (or just because you deserve a truly spectacular treat), this elegant cheesecake is drizzled with ribbons of ruby red raspberry sauce.
Blueberry Peach Crisp
“This peach blueberry crisp is topped with a crumbly oat and cinnamon topping,” says Allrecipes Member Meg&Mom. “It is packed with juicy peaches and blueberries. Serve this delicious home-style dessert with vanilla or cinnamon ice cream.”
Cherry Blueberry Pie
mary_o
Believe it or not, there are frozen blueberries in this double-crusted, blue ribbon-worthy pie. They’re folded into a velvety filling of plump canned cherries.
Strawberry Cake and Frosting
MG
This pleasingly pink cake is positively bursting with full-on strawberry flavor and is topped with peaks of creamy frosting. If you have fresh berries on hand, use them for a beautiful decoration.
Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
A favorite in Allrecipes Community Member D. Newman’s family for over 30 years, this blueberry-studded baked treat makes for “one really delicious and really unhealthy Sunday coffee cake.” And when better than the weekend to give yourself a break from calorie counting?
Five-Minute Ice Cream
Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
This dessert requires just three minutes and a blender or food processor. Enjoy it right away for a velvety frozen treat, or pop it in the freezer for dessert down the road.
Egg-White Crepes
Deb C
Made with whole-wheat flour, skim milk, and egg whites, these crepes are lighter than your basic pancakes and the berry-filled centers are sweetened with powdered sugar.
Perfect Berry Shortcakes
Does making shortcakes sound complicated? These crumbly, buttery biscuits don’t require a food processor, pastry cutter, cookie cutter, or rolling pin, and they are the perfect vehicle for clouds of whipped cream and spoonfuls of crushed, frozen fruit.
Raspberry Icebox Cake
abapplez
If ever there was a dessert made for a hot day, it would be this icebox cake. Frozen raspberries are congealed in a layer of Jell-O. A marshmallow topping comes together quickly to create a fluffy, sweet companion to the tart gelatin layer. Keep this one ice-cold. It’ll quench your thirst for something cooling and something sweet.
Cranberry Upside-Down Sour Cream Cake
abapplez
Have a bag of cranberries that have been in your freezer since Thanksgiving? No need to hold onto them until next November to make sauce. This sour cream–enriched cake is a delicious treat to make year-round.
Blueberry Gingerbread
It’ll feel like Christmas any time of year when the house fills with the spicy, molasses-rich aroma of freshly baked gingerbread. The loaf is dotted with the unexpected, lively addition of tender frozen blueberries.
Very Best Blueberry Cobbler!
Lx Xl
A cakey crust floats atop juicy, sweet blueberries that are baked until they release all their flavor and sweet juices into a syrupy mixture. Grab that pack of frozen blueberries from the freezer, and give yourself a taste of summer no matter the month.
Strawberry Torte
“This cake was incredible,” says reviewer Mrs Sweetie. “I made it for some very picky eaters and every one of them LOVED it. They even said it was better than a similar cake from a famous New York bakery!”
Easy Batter Fruit Cobbler
DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
Frozen berries and a pancake-like batter join forces to produce a dessert that takes just minutes to put together. “Short of serving store-bought ice cream, you won’t find a simpler dessert than this fruit cobbler,” says Allrecipes Community Member Ben S.