20 summer desserts with less than 5 ingredients to please your wallet

Make a seasonal dessert with 5 ingredients maximum? Challenge met with this smart selection.

How to make a summer fruit dessert?

Superstar fruits

As with summer recipes with less than 5 ingredients, these desserts must rely on a strong main ingredient with a strong taste. For this game, seasonal fruits or even chocolate are perfect. Strawberries, peaches, apricots, raspberries, red fruits or nectarines are all suitable. But other products also serve as the basis for a dessert in the tone of the season, such as fromage blanc or whipped cream, which is flavored with honey or orange blossom.

Minute preparations

Whether poached, roasted, mixed, or mashed, summer fruits don't need much to make a recipe. Simply garnished with a dairy product, transformed into sorbet or fruit jellies, or simply cut nicely into carpaccio, no need for an endless list of ingredients to enjoy.

Magical herbs

To enhance the flavor of fruits, aromatic herbs are perfect. Tempering the very present sugar of summer products, they add freshness and a herbaceous flavor to the whole. Verbena, for example, goes wonderfully with peach or strawberry; rosemary with apricot; raspberry or strawberry and basil; peach and thyme, etc.

Ice cream, summer’s ally

We sometimes have the impression that making ice cream is complicated or out of reach… Nope! Firstly, not all ice cream requires the use of an ice cream maker. Some, like ice cream sticks, are poured directly into a mold, and wait patiently in the freezer until they set in the cold.

Also, not all ice creams need a lot of ingredients to be made, like the mint ice cream below, made with sweetened and flavored milk (milk + sugar + mint). Same pattern with milk chocolate ice cream which does not contain eggs. It is therefore a milk base enhanced with chocolate that is churned, and not, as in other recipes, a custard.

All these differences allow the creation of easy and delicious recipes, requiring few ingredients, often with the same base: a liquid element + a sweetening product + a perfume.

To follow: 20 seasonal desserts to make with 5 ingredients maximum.

Strawberry sorbet

  • 6 persons
  • Level: Easy
  • 15 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Strawberry sorbet

Apricot, nougat and rosemary skewers

Apricot, nougat and rosemary skewers
  • 4 people
  • Level: Easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
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Moroccan mint ice cream

Moroccan mint ice cream
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 20 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Moroccan mint ice cream

Crispy strawberry cornflakes, chocolate and Piedmont hazelnuts

Crispy strawberry cornflakes, chocolate and Piedmont hazelnuts
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 20 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Crispy strawberry cornflakes, chocolate and Piedmont hazelnuts

Corsican organic lemon sorbet

Corsican organic lemon sorbet
  • 12 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 15 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Corsican organic lemon sorbet

Fontainebleau house

Fontainebleau house
  • 2 persons
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
  • See the recipe: Homemade Fontainebleau

Figs with balsamic vinegar

Figs with balsamic vinegar
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Figs with balsamic vinegar

Cottage cheese mousse, crushed strawberries

Cottage cheese mousse, crushed strawberries
  • 4 people
  • Level: Easy
  • 20 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Cottage cheese mousse, crushed strawberries

Mozzarella and honey ice cream

Mozzarella and honey ice cream
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
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Dark chocolate mousse made with whipped cream

Dark chocolate mousse made with whipped cream
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 15 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Dark chocolate mousse made with whipped cream

Raspberry and basil tart

Raspberry and basil tart
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 15 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
  • See the recipe: Raspberry and basil tart

Poached apricots with basil

Poached apricots with basil
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Poached apricots with basil

Peach and thyme granita

Peach and thyme granita
  • 6 persons
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
  • See the recipe: Peach and thyme granita

Strawberry and avocado salad

Strawberry and avocado salad
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
  • See the recipe: Strawberry and avocado salad

Canned peaches with verbena syrup

Canned peaches with verbena syrup
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
  • See the recipe: Canned peaches with verbena syrup

Milk chocolate ice cream

Milk chocolate ice cream
  • 6 persons
  • Level: Very easy
  • 20 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
  • See the recipe: Milk chocolate ice cream

Avocado, honey, vanilla paletas

Avocado, honey, vanilla paletas
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Paletas avocado, honey, vanilla

Roasted apricots, raspberries

Roasted apricots, raspberries
  • 4 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 5 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Roasted apricots, raspberries

Strawberry carpaccio and verbena syrup

Strawberry carpaccio and verbena syrup
  • 2 persons
  • Level: Very easy
  • 5 minutes of preparation
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  • See the recipe: Strawberry carpaccio and verbena syrup

Strawberry fruit jellies

Strawberry fruit jellies
  • 10 people
  • Level: Very easy
  • 10 minutes of preparation
  • Cheap
  • See the recipe: Strawberry fruit jellies

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