The heat has me moving in slow motion, and my brain keeps chanting one thing: cold dessert recipes, now.
Scrolling past molten lava cakes and piping-hot pies for inspo only cranks the temperature higher, so I hunted down twenty-one frozen, chilled, and no-bake treats that cool you down first and bring the flavor second.
Each recipe sits ready in the freezer, prepared to rescue any steamy afternoon.
These Cold Dessert Recipes Won’t Leave You Yawning
I waded through the flood of cold dessert recipes, axed every boring repeat, then let summer’s bounty of fresh ingredients guide the way. Only recipes highlighted here made the cut.
Bring any of these bad boys to a party and you’re instantly the popular one.
1. Orange Pretzel Salad
The Orange Pretzel Salad is your ticket to dessert fame and fortune. A crunchy pretzel, creamy fluff, tangy jello affair topped with mandarin oranges that makes sweet/salty lovers weak in the knees.
If you’re tired of schlepping boring desserts to parties, bring this one, and I guarantee you’ll be golden.
RECIPE: Orange Pretzel Salad
2. Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites
Prepare for your brain to melt. These Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites are seriously dangerous.
They have a hashtag-worthy graham cracker crust, mind-blowing creamy filling, and a chocolate shell so intense it should be illegal.
These little guys will change the way you think about cheesecake bites forever.
RECIPE: Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites
3. Blueberry Delight
If you’ve got a hankering for fruit, this Blueberry Delight is about to sweep you right off your feet.
It’s a no-bake, graham cracker crust and creamy filling with to-die-for blueberry topping. You’ll be drowning in textures and flavors, and make you finally realize what the feels are all about.
RECIPE: Blueberry Delight
4. Strawberry Pie
Fresh strawberries, flaky crust, and a sneaky splash of lemon juice meet in this summer’s masterpiece, the strawberry pie.
The pie is intensely sweet with a tiny bit of tang, making it the ultimate warm-weather dalliance. And just like that, this pie is your new warm weather crush.
RECIPE: Strawberry Pie
5. Strawberry Ice Cream
Imagine strawberry ice cream with a texture so creamy, it might be served in heaven.
Made with actual strawberries and only five ingredients. It’s an ode to strawberries in frozen form, and we are not worthy.
Do us a favor. Skip the bucket in the freezer aisle and make this instead.
RECIPE: Strawberry Ice Cream
6. No Bake Oreo Cheesecake Recipe
It’s time for your taste buds to belt out some high notes with this No-Bake Oreo Cheesecake.
It’s creamy, cookies-and-cream nirvana ready in MINUTES. Get your cheesecake preaching hat on and deliver the good news to all. Thank you, cheese lord, for your generosity.
RECIPE: No Bake Oreo Cheesecake Recipe
7. Oreo Strawberry Ice Cream Bars
Allow yourself to get lost in these Oreo Strawberry Ice Cream Bars.
It’s just five ingredients and zero bake time between you and this gloriousness. Golden Oreo crust, homemade strawberry ice cream, topped with all the fresh strawberries and, um, even more Oreos.
These little things will easily become your newest sweet summer obsession.
RECIPE: Oreo Strawberry Ice Cream Bars
8. Frozen Lemon S’mores
Let’s just call this the inevitable friendship of ice cream sandwiches, s’mores, and lemon pie. Meet the Frozen Lemon S’mores, your new summer BFF.
They’re super chill, no-bake, and hanging out in the freezer just waiting to be your dependable little pick-me-up treat any time you need one.
RECIPE: Frozen Lemon S’mores
9. Raspberry Fool with Whipped Mascarpone
Let me introduce you to the Raspberry Fool with Whipped Mascarpone, your new sweet bae.
Fresh raspberries and mascarpone whipped cream mash-up in this fruity-creamy no-bake treat that’s ready to eat in less than 30 minutes.
This dependable treat will never let you down, stand you up, or take two hours to call you back.
RECIPE: Raspberry Fool with Whipped Mascarpone
10. Chocolate Nutella Cheesecake Mousse
You can bang this Chocolate Nutella Cheesecake Mousse out in 5 minutes. And you don’t even have to bake it.
It’s a ridiculous concoction of Nutella, cream cheese, whipped cream, topped with chocolate curls and even more Nutella.
Stop drooling, grab the ingredients, and thank me later.
RECIPE: Chocolate Nutella Cheesecake Mousse
11. Strawberry Icebox Cake
Level with me here — could there be anything more perfect than layers of graham cracker, cheesecake filling, and fresh strawberries for days? (Answer: no.)
This Strawberry Icebox Cake is every bit as good as you think it’s going to be. MAKE IT!
RECIPE: Strawberry Icebox Cake
12. No Bake Banana Split Cake
It’s not a dream, No Bake Banana Split Cake is real. This cheesecake fantasy on a graham cracker runway, strutting its stuff with pineapple and banana layers. A whipped cream crown, chocolate syrup, nuts, and cherries complete this summer masterpiece.
Wake up, babe, because it’s time to get your sugar fix with this absolute stunner.
RECIPE: No Bake Banana Split Cake
13. Easy Vegan Tiramisu
This Easy Vegan Tiramisu is the caffeine-drenched Italian OG.
We’ve got coffee-soaked cookies, vegan mascarpone if you’re fancy, and vegan sweet cream cheese if you ain’t. You don’t even need ladyfingers! Just some Biscoff/shortbread cookies you’ve scavenged from your pantry in your most desperate hour.
Your coffee addiction just found its new favorite form.
RECIPE: Easy Vegan Tiramisu
14. Vegan Coconut Panna Cotta
Let me introduce you to Vegan Coconut Panna Cotta… she’s creamy, she’s vanilla-y, and she’s a fierce Coco Queen. This delish concoction is topped with a rosewater and blackberry sauce. She’s elegant enough for entertaining but simple enough for your Tuesday night sweatpants.
RECIPE: Vegan Coconut Panna Cotta
15. Churro Cheesecake
This glorious, Mexican-inspired epicness features a wonderfully rich and buttery crescent dough filled with a silky cheesecake filling and sprinkled with a flirtatious cinnamon sugar topping.
Extra bonus? They’re scandalously easy to prepare, as in, they take, like, 10 minutes to put together (not even lying).
RECIPE: Churro Cheesecake
16. Homemade Banana Ice Cream
Here’s the scoop on this homemade banana ice cream. Blend frozen bananas and almond milk, freeze, and satisfy your ever-persistent sweet tooth with an icy cold treat.
Is this health food? Yep, it’s vegan, fat-free, AND sugar-free. You’ll be asking yourself why you’ve let store-bought ice cream get you for all these years.
RECIPE: Homemade Banana Ice Cream
17. Protein Chia Pudding
This protein chia pudding is going to be your new favorite breakfast or dessert, or both??
Take a luscious mix of chia seeds, cocoa, cottage cheese, almond milk, protein powder, and maple syrup. Blend it. Chill it. Inhale it.
This protein-packed treat will feed your mind, body, and soul!
RECIPE: Protein Chia Pudding
18. Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
Stack ice cream sandwiches, drizzle hot fudge, spread Cool Whip, and shower with crushed Oreos. Yep, that’s the Ice Cream Sandwich Cake.
Slice and eat straight from the freezer, and thank your lucky stars you ran into each other!
This no-bake wonder hits every sweet spot and keeps its cool even on steamy days.
RECIPE: Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
19. Blueberry Yogurt Popsicles
Scorching hot day got you feelin’ something icy but still want it healthy-ish?These Blueberry Yogurt Popsicles = the answer.
With fresh blueberries and creamy yogurt sweetened with just a kiss of honey, these stunning pops are a guilt-free, antioxidant-rich dessert that’s better than anything store-bought.
RECIPE: Blueberry Yogurt Popsicles
20. Mint Chip Ice Cream
Prepare for total mint chip domination in the Ice Cream Olympics.
Mix heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, peppermint extract, and mini chocolate chips for creamy, minty perfection in every scoop.
With this absolute stunner of a recipe, you’re about to become the undisputed MVP of summer desserts.
RECIPE: Mint Chip Ice Cream
21. Orange Creamsicle Dream Bars
Meet Orange Creamsicle Dream Bars, the edible equivalent of a time machine to your childhood.
A nilla wafer crust, cheesecake filling, and orange cream topping make for the most iconic treat of the summer.
Clear some room in your freezer for these ‘lil dreams, because they’re a one-way ticket back to simpler times.
RECIPE: Orange Creamsicle Dream Bars
And That’s A Wrap
I’ve eaten (and decimated) about half of these cold dessert recipes, and they’ve been hitting hard all summer long. So now it’s your turn.
And if you’re into frozen treats like this, check out our entire no-bake dessert collection for even more goodies.
