30 sweet summer cake recipes

Here's a light summer cake that's beautifully moist and delicious. Serve with fresh berries for that refreshing bite.

This angel food cake with strawberries is so simple and can be thrown together in a matter of minutes for a last-minute dessert idea.

This is a cake that is incredibly moist with delicious tart apricot flavor every single bite.

This blueberry lemon cake is bright, delicious, and bursting with fresh berries.

This light, fluffy vanilla cake is piled high with layers of fresh berries and an indulgent yet delicate and fluffy Chantilly cream with mascarpone. You couldn't ask for anything more in a dessert.

This decadent blueberry chocolate cake is a moist, light, and fluffy chocolate cake smothered with rich blueberry cream cheese frosting. Made from scratch with fresh blueberries and dark chocolate, you'd never know the recipe is gluten-free and dairy-free.

An old fashioned no-bake icebox cake is the best easy dessert for hot summer days! This chocolate raspberry version needs just five ingredients.

Easy lemon cake roll - A light and fluffy angel food cake roll with decadent and creamy lemon filling. The perfect summertime dessert.

This easy strawberry cake roll looks fancy but it’s so simple to make! It’s the most lovely summer dessert for any occasion.

Fraisier cake is a classic French cake that can only be described as a celebration of strawberries. Light, summery, and full of fresh strawberries, this dessert will always impress and delight.

This flourless Greek yogurt cake is insanely rich, creamy, soft and fluffy and has the perfect custard-like consistency that will instantly slip you into a food coma.

This refreshing lemon drizzle cake is light and lovely for summer! It is tasty and easy to make plus it is a healthier option as it is made with almond flour.

This delightful lemon poke cake bursts with bright citrus flavor. It's an easy-to-follow recipe that transforms a classic lemon cake into a moist and refreshing treat, perfect for any occasion.

Limoncello mascarpone cake with lemon curd is moist, light, and citrusy. The tender cake is lightly flavored with Limoncello and layered with a fluffy mascarpone cream frosting and sweet, tangy lemon curd.

This super-light mango mousse cake recipe consists of a delicious buttery sponge layer and the airiest yogurt-based mousse loaded with fragrant mangos! It is one of the easiest, most refreshing cakes ever with an incredibly delicious result that is light and very well balanced in sweetness.

This colorful matcha roll cake yields a light, airy sponge lightly sweetened with cream cheese and raspberry preserves and topped with coconut shreds. It is an utterly delicious summer dessert.

This light-as-air mixed berry angel food cake combines the classic marshmallow-y cake with a quick berry compote topping. A little berry whipped cream on top makes for the perfect topping.

Peach cake is a buttery cake topped with peaches slices and cinnamon sugar. This simple cake takes just minutes to make.

This easy no bake Dulce de Leche chocolate raspberry icebox cake uses frozen raspberries and can be thrown together in 15 minutes. Layers of graham cracker with dulce de leche whipped cream make the summer raspberry cake light and perfect for feeding your family, a crowd, or taking along to a potluck.

This red, white, and blue icebox cake is a creamy, sweet treat that is perfect to make when it's too hot to turn on the oven. Full of homemade whipped cream and sweet summer berries, this cake will be your new go to summer dessert.

This delicious dessert cake is made with semolina flour, sugar, and eggs, soaked with orange-flavored syrup, and then cut into diamonds or squares.

This strawberry cream cheese icebox cake is the perfect dessert for hot summer days. Made with strawberries, homemade whipped cream, cream cheese, and graham crackers, this no-bake refreshing cake is sure to be a hit.

Have you ever had a strawberries and cream Frappé from Starbucks? Well, that's exactly what this Strawberry jello angel food cake dessert reminds me of, but in cake form.

Celebrate in style with this strawberry ice cream cake! It’s better than store-bought, guaranteed. Filled with vanilla and strawberry ice cream, plus crushed chocolate cookies and fudge, this is sure to be a big crowd-pleaser.

Light and tender vanilla chiffon cake filled with sweet whipped cream and juicy fresh strawberries: strawberry shortcake cake is the perfect dessert.

This strawberry shortcake poke cake is an easy twist on a classic favorite. White box cake mix, strawberry pie filling, and whipped topping come together to deliver the essence of strawberry shortcake in this simple yet delicious dessert.

Celebrate the sunshine with this summer raspberry cake! This light and fluffy cake can be made with fresh or frozen raspberries, uses simple ingredients, and takes just 15 minutes to prepare! It’s bursting with fresh raspberry flavor, has a soft crumb, and is absolutely heavenly.

Inspired by the legendary frozen strawberry shortcake ice cream bars this cake tastes just like that ice cream transformed into an amazing cake. It's a moist three-layer sponge, full of fresh fruity strawberry flavor with a yummy light cream cheese frosting, and then beautifully decorated with tasty strawberry crunch.

Vanilla wafer icebox cake - A five-ingredient no-bake layer cake with fluffy white chocolate cream and a vanilla wafer-crust, gorgeously garnished with fresh berries and mint leaves.

Gloriously scented with a little elderflower and lemon zest, this easy cake checks all of the summertime boxes.