24 Quick and Easy Cherry Dessert Recipes
By: Caitlin Lawler, Editor, TheBestDessertRecipes.com
Cherry desserts are sweet, delicious, and refreshing. The editors of TheBestDessertRecipes.com have selected our favorite cherry dessert recipes in this collection of 24 Cherry Desserts: Cherry Pie Recipes, Cherry Dump Cakes, and More.
These fantastic recipes with cherries are sure to appeal to a wide range of dessert lovers, whether you can't have enough cake, pie, cookies, or dessert salads, we've found a cherry dessert for you. This sweet dessert ingredient has a way of transforming a run-of-the-mill chocolate cake or cookie that is beyond compare.
Whether you need an easy-to-eat recipe that can serve a crowd, or a time-saving recipe that calls for a few, simple ingredients, there's a cherry dessert here with your name on it. So check out our list of desserts below, and find your dessert soul-mate.
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Cherry Cake Recipes
- Classic Shirley Temple Poke CakeThis tasty poke cake recipe is inspired by the flavors of the classic "Shirley Temple," or "Kiddie Cocktail," drink.
- Classic Black Forest CakeThis rich chocolate cake is topped with a generous layers of whipped cream sweet cherry filling. It is the perfect combination of chocolate and cherries.
- Shortcut 3-Ingredient Cherry CupcakesYou only need three ingredients to make these fabulous cupcakes.
- Sinful Double Chocolate Cherry Dump CakeThis rich cherry chocolate dump cake it easy to make and requires only a few simple ingredients.
- Easy Cherry Dump CakeThis dump cake is a great time saver, since all you need to do is dump your ingredients and bake!
- White Chocolate Cherry Dump CakeThis cherry dump cake has the perfect hint of white chocolate to sweeten it up.
- Old Fashioned Cherry Poke CakeThis poke cake has creamy cherry frosting on top and cherry pie filling inside.
Cherry Cookies and Dessert Bars
- Cherry White Chocolate Pudding CookiesThese cookies have cherry and white chocolate Jell-O in the dough, making them extra flavorful and delicious. These pretty pink cookies are a fun treat for any occasion.
- Chocolate Covered Cherry Oatmeal CookiesThe one ingredient that the classic oatmeal chocolate chip cookie has been missing is cherries. This recipe puts a delicious twist on a classic cookie.
- Cherry Crumble BarsMove over, cherry pie. These Cherry Crumble Bars will be the new best cherry dessert. With its sweet cookie crust and tasty cherry filling, this dessert is impossible to pass up.
- Glazed Cherry BarsThese dessert bars are top notch. They have sweet cherry pie filling and a buttery crust, topped with a simple vanilla glaze.
- Black Forest Lust BarsThis is the ultimate dessert bar. It has a cookie dough crust topped with a layers of molten chocolate and cherries. You won't be able to stop craving this dessert.
- Creamy Cherry and Lemon BarsThese creamy bars have the perfect, slight hint of citrus and freshness of cherries. The sweetened condensed milk in this recipe makes it creamy and sweet.
Cherry Pie Recipes
- Easy Cherry PieThis pie is super simple to make and tastes wonderful. The subtly seasoned cherry filling is amazing.
- Bite-Sized Cherry PiesThese cute mini cherry pies are ideal for potlucks, parties, and any fun family gathering.
- Cherry Berry Jar PiesJar Pies are easy to eat and have all the best elements of a regular pie: flaky crust and sweet cherry filling.
- McDonald's Cherry Pie CopycatThese handheld cherry pies are just like the ones McDonald's used to make.
- Cherry Cupcake PieThis cherry pie + cupcake mash up is an incredibly tasty dessert. It may sound like an odd combination, but it's delicious.
- This creamy Cool Whip dessert has a light cherry taste and a wonderful, crunchy pecan crust.
- Irresistible White Chocolate Mousse Cherry PieFluffy vanilla mousse pie on a cherry and chocolate crust. This pie is to die for.
More Cherry Dessert Recipes
- Cherry Cobbler For TwoThese sweet mini cherry cobblers are the perfect dessert to share. The sweet cherry filling is topped with a buttery crumble.
- Sweet Chocolate Cherry BombsThese bite-sized delights have an ideal flavor combination: cherry and chocolate cake inside, chocolate coating outside.
- Pleasing Pineapple Cherry FluffThis creamy, tropical dessert salad can be served as a side dish or a light dessert. It has pineapple, cherry, and coconut flavor.
- Secret Ingredient Cherry Jello SaladThis light cherry salad is sweet and creamy. You'll never guess the secret ingredient!