Strawberry

Purchased puff pastry and almond paste help make an elegant dessert in minutes.

This recipe was created to accompany Strawberry-Rhubarb "Courting" Cake.

Enriched with a little cream and sugar, jumbo-size refrigerator biscuits become shortcakes worthy of the season's best berries. Since there are more biscuits in the tube than you'll need, you could bake extras at the same time and save them for breakfast the next day.

Offer cookies alongside this dessert.

The recipe calls for a pastry bag, but the meringue disks can also be formed with a spatula. If made ahead, the meringue will soften slightly from contact with the buttercream.

Here's a colorful and delicious addition to a brunch menu. It also makes a lovely light dessert on its own.

Fool is a classic English dessert made by combining fruit puree with whipped cream. Here it is spooned into small crisp tartlet shells and garnished with a strawberry. Any leftover fool would make a nice treat with afternoon tea.

Here's a classic spring dessert from Commander's Palace.

Strawberries and whipped cream are sandwiched between orange-scented butter cookies in this pretty dessert.

This dessert comes from Boulevard restaurant in San Francisco, California. The pastry chef, Karen Shaw, created the treat.

A bar specialty at Hotel Hana-Maui, in Maui, Hawaii.

Here's a nice way to serve up fresh summer fruit to family and friends.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

The topping spreads as it bakes, forming a crisp cookie-like layer.

These are also nice for breakfast. Just top them with nonfat vanilla yogurt instead of the frozen yogurt suggested in the recipe.