Everyone loves cupcakes, but there's something special about bee-themed cupcakes at a summer party. With an old-fashioned recipe for brown mountain cake, creamy honey vanilla buttercream frosting, and easy-to-make edible bee toppers, these sweet treats will make your summer celebration the bee's knees and have everyone buzzing about this fun bee themed dessert!

This incredibly easy-to-follow recipe for a dairy-free pina colada poke sheet cake perfect to bring summer vibes to your luau or tiki party. With the combination of flavors and ingredients like pineapple, coconut and rum, you'll be bringing a refreshingly tropical taste to your celebrations.

If you're looking for a classic Southern recipe that's sure to wow your family and friends, Hummingbird cake is guaranteed to be a hit. This comforting, moist cake with its creamy cream cheese icing and dried pineapple flower garnish is perfect for impressing your guests and is a no-fail dessert.

This classic summer dessert is the perfect way to welcome strawberry season and its juicy, flavorful fruits. With fresh strawberries, a moist lemon cake, and fluffy whipped topping, this strawberry shortcake lemon loaf will be a hit with family and friends.

These strawberry streusel bars (also call crumble bars or jam bars) are made with fresh strawberries and topped with an oat crumble that will have your family and friends coming back for more. Easy dessert recipe idea using fresh strawberries that is dairy free.

Save time and money by making this 3-ingredient no-churn Bubblegum Sorbet (or dairy free ice cream) and it’s also healthier than the store bought or ice cream shop versions. This sorbet is vegan and gluten free with less than 1 gram of fat and under 100 calories per serving. Only takes 3 minutes to make and it’s totally scoopable!

This dairy free Pina Colada Sorbet is easily made with a blender, or you can also choose to pour mixture into popsicle molds for a hand-held frozen treat. The inspiration for the flavor is a classic summertime cocktail, the Pina Colada. Easy no churn sorbet recipe using only 5 simple ingredients for a vegan and gluten free ice cream alternative.

If you love the sweet and salty citrus flavor of a classic margarita drink, you will love these fun Margarita Cupcakes. It’s easier than you think to make these delicious treats and they make the perfect dessert for cocktail parties, bachelorette parties, pool parties or for any margarita lover’s birthday or celebration.

This dairy-free Banana Coconut Rum Cake is extremely moist and full of tropical flavors that combine for a delicious and sweet indulgent Bundt cake. It is topped with a rum sugar glaze that has a hint of coffee flavor and sprinkled with flaked coconut. Full instructions and recipe for making rum cake with glaze.

This Fairy Tree Stump Cake is where magic and delicious collide. Wouldn’t this be the most enchanting cake for a fairy or girls birthday party? It’s decorated on the outside with charming fairy doors and windows molded out of chocolate, frosting grass, edible butterflies and stump bark made out of chocolate. On the inside, luscious layers of lavender and lemon cake covered in a vanilla lavender buttercream frosting is an enchanting combination.

These Enchanted Forest Cupcakes are easy to make, yet impressive and delicious. Starting with a box cake mix and elevating the flavor with Nature’s Flavors Organic Strawberry Syrup elevated this dessert to AMAZING! Decorated with marshmallows, (mushroom stumps and rocks) fresh strawberries (mushroom caps) and green-colored flaked coconut (moss.) Perfect for a fairy party dessert!

These delicious Pina Colada Bars start off with a sugar cookie crust, then layered with rum-soaked pineapple and cherries, shredded coconut and sweetened condensed milk. Baked till golden brown, cooled and cut into squares. These would make a great tropical dessert to take to a luau party or family get-together. Makes 12 large bars.

This dairy-free Key Lime Icebox Tart will transport you straight to paradise at the first bite. A luscious, smooth filling that has all the flavors of a tropical vacation with lime and coconut, perfectly balanced out with a salty/sweet graham cracker crust. Only the crust is baked for 10 minutes. The filling is no-bake and easily mixed together and poured into crust, then frozen for an effortless yet impressive dessert. Optional easy meringue topping instructions also included.

These “melt-in-your-mouth” soft and delicious Flower Shortbread Cookies are easier to make than you think. With just a few simple ingredients you can have an impressive and beautiful cookie perfect for tea parties, Mother’s Day or gift giving. You can make them as plain shortbread cookies or add any flavor to the dough to enhance the flavor.

These dairy-free Blueberry Lavender Cupcakes are such an enchanting and delicious bite. If you are longing for summer, these are full of flavors that will excite you. The cupcakes have a vanilla and slight hint of lavender flavor. The center filling is a blueberry lemon compote made with fresh blueberries and lemon rum (you can substitute with lemon juice, if desired) and the frosting is a lavender vanilla buttercream tinted with a touch of purple.

These dainty and delicate Pineapple Lavender Tea Cakes are the perfect three-bite treat for a whimsical luncheon or tea party. Sweet pineapple pairs beautifully with a floral hint of lavender and sweetened with a colored Honey Lavender Glaze. These are dairy-free and would be delightful with most any flavor tea. Cute bee themed summer dessert idea.

These Dairy-Free Strawberry Champagne Mini Bundt Cakes are such an elegant dessert for a special occasion such as Valentines, wedding or baby showers or even for just an afternoon tea party. They are full of strawberry flavor and topped with a pink strawberry champagne glaze and sprinkled with finely chopped freeze-dried strawberries. Made with Nature’s Flavors flavor powder and color powder.

What a naturally beautiful and eye-catching decoration these dried pineapple flowers make. Traditionally used to top off a Hummingbird Cake, they can also be used for cupcakes, mini Bundt cakes as well, or perhaps as a garnish to a Luau dish, at any rate, your guests will be impressed! Find out how to make dried pineapple flowers.

These Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with fresh mint from my mother’s herb garden. Steeping the mint with the butter creates the perfect mint amount, not too strong, but a nice fresh, decadent taste. Give them a try, using dark chocolate chips, preferably Ghirardelli.

These adorable Luau Mermaid and Clam cupcakes will definitely make you feel like you are eating a slice of tropical paradise. With the help of a few silicone molds, candy melts, and a little crushed graham crackers, you can easily recreate these adorable beach themed cupcakes.