Strawberry season gets out of hand fast around here.

You buy berries thinking you’ll make shortcake, then half of them disappear before anybody even finds the whipped cream.

Still, we started looking around online for dessert ideas because there are only so many bowls of strawberries a person can eat in June.

Some of these recipes look simple enough for a weeknight. A few look like something you’d bring to a cookout. One or two seem slightly dangerous if left alone in the fridge overnight.

The strawberry vanilla crisp from Sally’s Baking Addiction looked good right away. Oats on top. Soft berries underneath. Hard to mess that up.

The strawberry cream cheese mousse from Red Cottage Chronicles also caught our attention mostly because cold desserts start sounding better once the weather gets sticky.

Then we ended up down an icebox cake rabbit hole.

The Sally’s Baking Addiction version uses graham crackers and whipped cream. The Pioneer Woman has another one that looks like it could feed half a graduation party.

We also found a strawberry tiramisu recipe from Half Baked Harvest that somehow replaces the coffee part of tiramisu with strawberries. Not traditional. Still looks good.

And then there are the desserts that barely require effort.

Macerated strawberries might still be one of the best things you can make during strawberry season. Slice berries. Add sugar. Wait awhile. Spoon over ice cream and move on with your day.

Taste of Home also has a whole roundup of strawberry drinks if turning berries into milkshakes or lemonade feels easier than baking something.

And for the adults, The Spruce Eats has strawberry cocktail recipes too. Somebody was going to bring margaritas into this conversation eventually.

Most of these recipes would probably work with grocery store berries.

Still, local strawberries are different.

Warner Farm berries are coming into Millstone Market daily during the season, picked right across the street here in Sunderland. That part is pretty hard to beat.