20 Lemonade Sweets For The Summer

Lemonade Desserts are perfect for summertime. These recipes are all lemonade inspired. My Favorite pairing with lemon is actually strawberry, I have included my favorite strawberry lemonade recipe below so you can taste test this blend of flavors.

Just in case you don’t know what lemonade is, it is Lemonade is a sweetened lemon-flavored beverage.

Lemonade comes from humble beginnings of pure fresh Lemon juice and a sweetener, traditionally it was sugar cane syrup but now sugar is added in the form of white sugar, brown sugar or sugar syrup. Sugar syrup is made using this recipe.

Simple syrup is 1 part sugar to 1 part water. boiled to reduce into a syrup-like consistency.

However, now you can get lemonade soda too. In fact, if you ask for lemonade depending where you are in the world will depend if you get lemon soda or lemon juice.

Pink Lemonade Icebox Pie Squares – Tastes of Lizzy T

Lemonade Pie with a Sugar Cone Crust – Dizzy Busy and Hungry

Raspberry Lemonade Yogurt Popsicles – Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Lemonade Poke Cake – An Alli Event

Pink Lemonade Cupcake Truffles – South Your Mouth

Strawberry Lemonade Linzer Cookies – Neighbor Food Blog

Strawberry Lemonade Muffins – The Simple Home Place

Pink Lemonade Fudge – Ruffles and Rain Boots

Pink Lemonade Ice Cream – Well if She Can Do it

Pink Lemonade Mini Cheesecakes – The Soccer Mom Blog

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes – Baking Beauty

Instant Pot Raspberry Lemonade Custard – Encouraging Moms at Home

Lemonade Fruit Dip – Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Pink Lemonade Cake – Caked by Katie

Strawberry Lemonade Mug Cake – The Monday Box

Pink Lemonade Freezer Bars – Averie Cooks

No Bake Pink Lemonade Cheesecake Parfaits – Homemade Hooplah

Mini Pink Lemonade Baked Donuts – The Missing Lokness

Frozen Lemonade Pie – Love Bakes Good Cakes

Frosted Lemonade – Dessert Now Dinner Later

I wanted to share with you my favorite recipe for homemade Strawberry Lemonade, drink it on its own or add a splash of your favorite Alcohol.

Strawberry Lemonade Recipe

Prep: 10 Minutes
Serves: 2

Ingredients:

1 lemon
4 strawberries
1 bottle simply lemonade
ice

Instructions:

Slice one lemon into slices. Reserves two slices for topping. Place half the remaining into each glass. Slice two of the strawberries. Place one sliced strawberry per glass.

Add ice and pour in the lemonade. Top with one lemon wedge and one whole strawberry per glass.

Serve cold!

So is Lemonade good for you? Lemonade made with fresh lemon juice, is a great boost to the immune system.

Not only does fresh lemonade it provide us with our daily source of Vitamin C, but the benefits of lemons are also seen in its antioxidizing qualities. Lemons provide antioxidants, keeping us healthy and boosting our immune system.

People with Indigenous heritage throughout the Americas and the world might not always feel comfortable identifying as Indigenous or really know what it means or carry the traditions of their ancestors with them.

Anne Tenning, a member of the Stz’uminus First Nation on Vancouver Island, found in working with Indigenous young people they were not always confident to define themselves or understand their culture. She wrote this book, which is a poem about being Indigenous and being proud of who you are. It’s available in English and French.

The book is called I Am Indigenous, and it is illustrated by 13 Indigenous artists who reflect different aspects of and feelings about being Indigenous in their illustrations. There’s a wide range of art, from colorful designs with floral motifs to realistic looking family and school scenes.

The story reflects that Indigenous people don’t all look the same or come from the same place. They don’t have the same names or history and they might be connected to their ancestors and traditions or they might just be learning. They might live on a reservation or in a city far from where their ancestors lived. But they are all Indigenous.

This book is a call both to Indigenous kids and others that being Indigenous doesn’t mean one thing. You don’t have to act a certain way or know the language or participate in the music, dance and rituals of your people, though you can of course also do those things.

It’s aimed at young readers around kindergarten age (though some of the words might be a little complicated for that age group) but I think slightly older kids would get something out of this book too. It would be a nice one to have on the shelf if there are Indigenous kids in your classroom, and even if there aren’t as we get closer to Indigenous People’s Day and Thanksgiving, it’s a great way to talk about the fact that Indigenous people are still around and to look at Indigenous art from a bunch of artists all at once.

About the book: 40 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Orca Book Publishers. Suggested retail price $21.99.

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