15 Best Summer Cookies for Sweet Treats
Who else loves cookies or experiments with fresh summer fruits to make perfect summer mini treats?
Baking summer cookies is fun, especially when they’re super soft, vibrant, and gooey, perfectly satisfying your sweet tooth.
I love fresh summer fruits like strawberries, lemon, blueberries, raspberries, and grapefruits with buttercream, melted chocolate, chocolate chips, marshmallows, and confetti for baking colorful and delicious cookies.
Are you a cookie lover looking for a delightful treat?
Whether you’re planning a friend’s get-together, making mini-treats for kids, or wanting to impress guests at a gathering, these cookies will undoubtedly be a hit.
Do you want to know more about baking these luscious-filling cookies and transforming everyday moments into fun-filled memories? Keep scrolling.
1- HONEY LAVENDER LATTE COOKIES
Have you ever tasted your favorite drink in cookie form? There you go. Try these Honey Lavender Latte Cookies with this recipe, and you’ll love them as much as I do!
Cookies contain espresso sugar cookies frosted with honey lavender buttercream! You can make variations by skipping buttercream and drizzling melted chocolate.
Per serving
- Calories: 196kcal
- Carbohydrates: 22g
- Protein: 1g
- Fat: 12g
2- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Whether it’s fall and you crave vegan pumpkin chocolate chip cookies or longing for hot chocolate and cookies in the middle of summer.
This vegan pumpkin cookie recipe makes a delightful dessert, irrespective of season.
These may be your favorite: nutty almond flour, seasonal spices, and caramel maple syrup. Baked with perfection in 2 minutes is a plus. Sounds good? Then hurry to try them.
Per Serving
- Calories: 2492kcal
- Carbohydrates: 256g
- Protein: 55g
- Fat: 161g
3- Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Want to feast your tongue with the heavenly combination of buttery dough and gooey chocolate chips?
Try these classic Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies with a delightful light crunch outside and tender, chewy inside.
The versatility to add from nuts to dried fruits or even a pinch of sea salt makes it an all-time favorite and leaves you craving more with every bite.
Per Serving
- Calories: 233
- PROTEIN: 3g
- CARBOHYDRATES: 31
- FAT: 11g
4- Lemon Blueberry Cookies
Every time I make Vegan Lemon Blueberry Cookies with this recipe, it delights everyone and brings smiles to gatherings. These cookies pack bright, citrusy zing and juicy pops of fresh berries.
You enjoy perfectly balanced sweet berry and tart lemon flavors. The almond extract increases nuttiness, making them ideal for serving with your afternoon tea.
Per Serving
- Calories: 227kcal
- Carbohydrates: 33g
- Protein: 2g
- Fat: 10g
5- LIME COOKIES
Key limes are a key ingredient in many tropical and citrus-flavored recipes.
These addictively delicious cookies are famous for their distinctive tartness and aromatic zest due to Key limes’ excessive tartness and tangy flavor.
The best thing about these homemade lime cookies with glaze is that they are easy to make with a handful of basic ingredients you might already have.
The cookies with a chewy texture and a slight tanginess are a crowd-pleaser!
Per Serving
- Calories: 151kcal
- Carbohydrates: 25g
- Protein: 2g
- Fat: 5g
6- Sugar Cookie Bars
These delicious Sugar Cookie Bars topped with Cream Cheese frosting and colorful rainbow sprinkles are super-easy and fun to make.
The recipe does not require you to scoop the dough and make 3 sheets of cookies. Instead, make all the cookies in an 8-inch pan and frost them together. Sounds good? Try it now.
Per Serving
- Calories: 492kcal
- Carbohydrates: 50g
- Protein: 4g
- Fat: 32g
7- Chocolate Chunk Strawberry Cookies
It is the time for fresh strawberries, so why don’t you try Chocolate Chunk Strawberry Cookies?
With frozen strawberries, you can whip up these buttery cookies with perfectly crisp edges and the satisfying combination of chocolate and strawberry at any time of the year.
Want a pro-tip to bake these cookies with better texture? Ensure all your ingredients are at room temperature to incorporate them into each other.
Per Serving
- Calories 175
- Carbohydrate 23g
- Protein 2g
- Fat 8g
8- Easy Slice & Bake Cookies
Vegan Slice and Bake Cookies cross between a shortbread and a sugar cookie.
These are perfect prep-ahead cookies that you can store in the freezer and bake beautiful desserts immediately whenever you need them for any holiday potluck.
Another perk? You can customize these slice-and-bake cookies to your heart’s content.
These homemade cookies with simple, affordable ingredients are sturdy enough for cookie boxes and taste even more buttery and delicious than store-bought cookies.
Per Serving
- Calories: 148kcal
- Carbohydrates: 18g
- Protein: 2g
- Fat: 8g
9- Funfetti Sandwich Cookies with
Soft, thick raspberry filling, vanilla buttercream, and confetti. These words are enough to describe these Funfetti sandwich Cookies with Raspberry filling.
These thick and chewy sugar funfetti cookies pack raspberry jam in the middle, offering your tongue bursts of sweet and tart flavors.
Want to increase its thickness? Chill the cookie dough before baking. It will help solidify the butter, leading to chewier buttery cookies.
Per Serving
- Serving: 1g
- Calories: 399kcal
- Carbohydrates: 50g
- Protein: 3g
- Fat: 21g
10- Soft and chewy blueberry lemon cookies
These soft and chewy blueberry lemon cookies blend delicious fresh blueberries and tangy fresh lemon juice. Enjoy their soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture in each bite.
Would you like to have them with a cup of tea in the afternoon or as a sweet ending to your day? These flavorful cookies are more than perfect to brighten up your day.
Folding a cup of white chocolate chips offers a contrasting creamy sweetness to these tart blueberries and lemon cookies.
11- Soft & Chewy S’mores Cookies Recipe
Chocolate chips, graham crackers, and marshmallows. Are you feeling nostalgic about your childhood memories?
I combined roasted and gooey marshmallows sandwiched between Graham crackers and milk chocolate to make these chewy S’mores Cookies.
S’mores truly define the cravings for these delicious cookies; you keep asking for more after eating these thicker, chewier, and flavorful cookies.
Per Serving
- Calories: 291kcal
- Carbohydrates: 36g
- Protein: 3g
- Fat: 16g
12- Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
These Lemon Cake Mix Cookies offer your taste buds a burst of lemon flavor. These are budget-friendly and super-easy for a perfect summer dessert or an after-school snack.
Play around with colorful frosting to make them more attractive. Red is great for Valentine’s Day, green matches Christmas cookies, or blue is perfect for baby shower cookies.
Adding sprinkles in different colors or shapes enhances its creativity.
Per Serving
- Calories: 159kcal
- Carbohydrates: 27g
- Protein: 2g
- Fat: 5g
13- Girl Scout Lemonades
You don’t need to get cookies from the Girl Scouts when you can make delicious lemon shortbread cookies with sweet, tangy lemon icing at home.
Shortbread cookies may taste a little bland, but Girl Scout Lemonades are delicious mini-treats with a buttery taste.
Want Girl Scout Cookie Trick? Enjoy these lemony flavor Girl Scout cookies with tea after storing them in the refrigerator or freezer.
Per Serving
- Calories: 246kcal
- Carbohydrates: 36g
- Protein: 2g
- Fat: 11g
14- Grapefruit Sugar Cookies Recipe
Grapefruit Sugar Cookies are perfectly balanced with fresh grapefruit gusto and juice. I never fail to brighten up my day by baking these cookies.
This citrus-infused recipe is a twist on Brown Sugar Cookies to add a burst of aromatic grapefruit zest.
Want something extra? Sprinkle a grapefruit glaze or melted white chocolate, and offer an extra touch of decadence to enjoy a zesty summer treat during grapefruit season.
Per Serving
- CALORIES: 249
- PROTEIN: 3g
- CARBOHYDRATES: 36g
- FAT: 11g
15- White Chocolate Chip and Raspberry Cookies
Once you try this mouth-watering recipe for Soft and chewy White Chocolate and Raspberry Cookies, which strike a perfect balance of indulgence and fruity goodness, be warned you’ll be addicted to it.
It combines the luscious and delightful flavors of white chocolate and the refreshing tartness of raspberries.
Feel free to play with your favorite flavoring extracts or toppings like melted chocolate or powdered sugar.
