With apologies to other varieties, strawberries are our absolute favorite fruit. They can satisfy a sweet tooth, be used in myriad recipes, and are appropriate to serve at any meal — and they look adorable to boot. If strawberries are lacking in your life, we wanted to share some of our favorite meals with you. Here are 23 recipes that include strawberries.
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Chocolate-dipped strawberries
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We’ve showcased simple chocolate-dipped strawberries with you before, but not those fancy tuxedo ones that you thought you could never make at home. (If you ever thought that: think again!) This recipe from Taste of Home will teach you how to turn strawberries, chocolate, and white chocolate into fare fit for a formal affair. Don’t worry, the recipe also includes a helpful video!
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Strawberries & cream
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Here’s a simple one that allows strawberries to be the star of the show. Just wash your berries and serve them with whipped cream — either as a dip or layered in a glass. Whipped cream from a can or tub is fine, but we’d rather make our own, like this version from Olga in the Kitchen that calls for just four ingredients: sugar, powdered sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla extract.
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Strawberries & cream oatmeal
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Take boring old oatmeal to a new level with this sweet strawberries & cream oatmeal recipe via From My Bowl. It’s quick, easy, tasty, and uses a handful of ingredients: oats, strawberries, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla extract.
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Strawberry bars
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Shortbread on the bottom, crumb on top, and a sweet layer of strawberry filling in the middle make up these easy strawberry bars from Your Homebased Mom. Bake them for breakfast, dine on them for dessert, or snack on them anytime in between. They’re a cinch and only require ingredients you likely already have in your kitchen.
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Strawberry blondies
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Some dessert enthusiasts prefer blondies over brownies, and we don’t blame them — especially if the blondies in question are these strawberry white chocolate blondies from Archana’s Kitchen. Try them with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
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Strawberry crumble
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This one’s a real crowd-pleaser. Not just because everyone loves the taste of strawberries and sugar baked to perfection with an oat-based topping, but because this recipe from RecipeTin Eats calls for a heaping 2 lbs of strawberries — enough to feed the whole family.
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Strawberry cupcakes
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Here’s a double dose of strawberry for you, as these cupcakes from Life, Love & Sugar include strawberries in the batter as well as the buttercream frosting. You can even add a whole strawberry on top to triple the tastiness!
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Strawberry danish
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Strawberry jam and cream cheese share the filling responsibilities in these delicious cheese danishes from Life in the Lofthouse. The flaky pastry surrounding them is just as tasty, and the whole thing is drizzled with a sweet vanilla icing.
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Strawberry donuts
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If you prefer donuts to danishes, you have to try these jelly donuts from Taste of Home. They’re filled with strawberry jam, cooked to perfection in a deep fryer or electric skillet, and topped with a dusting of powdered sugar.
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Strawberry frozen yogurt
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Just hearing “strawberry frozen yogurt” is enough to turn some amateur cooks away. Getting the right consistency seems complicated and probably requires a special fro-yo machine, right? Wrong. All you need to make this strawberry frozen yogurt from Downshiftology are strawberries, yogurt, honey or maple syrup, and a food processor. And the whole thing can be ready in under a minute!
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Strawberry fudge
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You’ve probably had chocolate fudge and vanilla fudge before, but how about strawberry fudge? Few people have tried it, which makes strawberry fudge a great gift or a delicious dessert to serve at your next gathering. Kick it up another notch by adding vanilla wafers, like in this strawberry shortcake fudge from I Am Baker.
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Strawberry ice cream
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If you want something frozen that’s not fro-yo, try this strawberry ice cream from Like Mother, Like Daughter. You’ll need an ice cream maker for this one, but you have the option to make either scoopable hard ice cream or something similar to soft serve — or both!
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Strawberry ice pops
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Just one more frozen treat and then we’ll chill. We told you the ice cream, and fro-yo were easier than you might think, but these strawberry ice pops from Laylita’s Recipes are even simpler. You only need one ingredient (strawberries, obviously), some sticks, a food processor, and ice pop molds. That means there’s absolutely no added sugar, no syrups, and no artificial sweeteners or substitutes!
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Strawberry jam
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Some of these recipes include strawberry jam as an ingredient. You can use store-bought jams for a simpler prep, or make your own jam at home to make sure you’re getting real fruit, no preservatives, and a reasonable amount of sugar. You probably don’t want to start a whole canning operation, so try this small-batch strawberry jam recipe from Kylee Cooks — it only requires three ingredients and about 12 minutes of your time.
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Strawberry nutella crepes
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This recipe from Three Olives Branchis for strawberry Nutella crepes because that’s a seriously scrumptious combination. Still, you can also just read the part about making the crepes and use your imagination after that. Strawberry, Nutella, and bananas are also a highly recommended combination, or Nutella on its own, or your favorite fruits…maybe with a little whipped cream or cream cheese? You get the idea. It’s dessert for breakfast, so go nuts. (Ooh, nuts sound good, too!)
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Strawberry pancakes
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Press pause on plain pancakes and treat your family (and yourself!) to some thick & fluffy strawberry pancakes. If you have all of the usual suspects — flour, butter, milk, sugar, baking powder, vanilla, and an egg — the only other ingredient needed are the strawberries. If you’re used to a just-add-water pancake mix, My Kids Lick the Bowl can show you the from-scratch method.
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Strawberry rhubarb pie
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A lot of people don’t know what rhubarb actually is. For the record, it’s a vegetable with inedible (read: poisonous) leaves but tart & tasty stalks. It pairs perfectly with strawberries when placed in pies, like this one from Sally’s Baking Addiction.
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Strawberry salad
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Strawberries are the perfect complement to a salad of spinach, walnuts, feta cheese, and red onion. And the poppy seed dressing in this recipe from Well Plated by Erin — made from poppy seeds, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, and Dijon mustard — is the final piece of this puzzle.
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Strawberry sauce
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There are endless uses for a good strawberry sauce like this one from Natasha’s Kitchen. Pour it atop ice cream, cheesecake, blintzes, or anything else you want! All you need are strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice.
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Strawberry shortcake
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Strawberries, whipped cream, and cake combine in this classic crumbly dessert. Sally’s Baking Addiction recommends using biscuits for the cake portion but skipping the store-bought dough and making your own instead.
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Strawberry smoothie
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We have a smoothie every day (except maybe days when it’s below zero outside) and are always trying new recipes and combinations. If you’re new to the smoothie scene, try this simple strawberry smoothie recipe from A Spicy Perspective, which combines strawberries, strawberry jam, and milk.
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Strawberry toaster strudels
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Toaster Strudel takes us back to the pride we felt in our youth the first time we ever made breakfast for ourselves, even though the prep only involved sticking a frozen food into the toaster. You can still enjoy this flaky, fruit-filled pastry as an adult, but forgo the packaged variety and make your own version with this recipe from Cooking Classy.
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Strawberry waffles
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Okay, this is the first and only recipe in this list that really amounts to just adding strawberries on top of something, but we thought you might want a good waffle recipe anyway. Here’s a classic one from I Wash You Dry featuring classic ingredients: flour, sugar, eggs, milk, butter, baking powder, and vanilla extract. In addition to fresh strawberries, you’ll probably want syrup and whipped cream, too. (We always do!)
