When you’re on the lookout for Easter dessert recipes to function the finale at an Easter meal, I’ve you lined. Gentle and recent springtime flavors abound, like lush lemon, fluffy coconut, and juicy berries. And chances are you’ll be stunned at how simple it’s to make home made Easter candies, like these chocolate peanut butter Easter egg candies and chocolate buttercream Easter egg candies.
And if carrot cake is on the menu (a sure somebunny’s favourite!), I’ve a number of variations.
Easter Dessert Concepts
As a printed baking cookbook writer, I’ve made my justifiable share of seasonal and vacation treats. I significantly love Easter desserts as a result of they’re full of recent flavors, florals, plenty of lemon and coconut, plus loads of fairly pastel colours.
Whether or not you’re planning an Easter brunch or dinner, my crew and I do know first-hand that internet hosting, cooking, and/or baking provides rather a lot to your plate (actually). Plus, it could actually really feel overwhelming to pick out a dessert for a vacation! We need to make it simpler so that you can discover reliable recipes that end up proper and all the time style scrumptious.
*On the primary strive.*
The next checklist consists of a few of my highest-rated Easter dessert recipes—from show-stopping desserts to simple kid-approved goodies—every reviewed and cherished by bakers world wide. I’ve quite a lot of Easter dessert concepts, so hop to it!
My favourite? Easter sugar cookies are all the time a specialty, and a enjoyable option to spend the afternoon, particularly in case you have younger bakers on the lookout for an exercise.
Are you interested by brunch? My Easter brunch recipes web page has all my favorites for the vacation.
Favourite Easter Dessert Recipes
Easter Sugar Cookies
These festive Easter Cookies are gentle and buttery with hints of vanilla and almond. Fairly in pastel shades, they’re adorned like PEEPS-inspired bunnies, Easter eggs, and carrots. I’ve a pair icing recipes you possibly can select from relying how detailed you need to get with adorning.
My Favourite Carrot Cake Recipe
This well-liked carrot cake units the usual for carrot desserts in every single place. It’s deeply moist, full of toasted pecans, and topped with basic cream cheese frosting. Most of its taste comes from brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and carrots.
Do-it-yourself Coconut Cream Pie
I examined this recipe till it was perfected with a creamy lush coconut filling, crispy pie crust, mounds of candy whipped cream, and toasted coconut on prime. That is a lot greater than vanilla pudding with coconut!
Lovely Blackberry Lavender Cake
Blackberry and lavender flavors come collectively on this fantastically moist and tender blackberry lavender cake. The reverse creaming technique ensures a gentle crumb and the lavender milk and soaking syrup promise an fragrant, however not overpowering taste.
Coconut Cheesecake Brownies
These coconut cheesecake brownies mix a simple home made brownie batter with a coconut cream cheese swirl. They’re the proper selection when you want a enjoyable & crowd-pleasing brownie recipe!
Coconut Easter Nest Cake
This lovely springtime nest cake is straightforward sufficient for cake adorning newbies (and in case you have any fledglings in your nest, they love to assist). High the subtly candy coconut Bundt cake with creamy lemon cream cheese frosting, feathery sweetened coconut, and, after all, loads of candy-coated chocolate eggs!
Jellybean Sugar Cookies
You want simply 9 simple elements to make these gentle drop sugar cookies. No rolling pin or cookie cutters required! Press a couple of jellybeans into the nice and cozy cookies after baking for a easy but festive Easter deal with nobunny might resist.
Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake
This tremendous well-liked lemon cake is moist and gentle, someplace between a vanilla layer cake and pound cake. Silky cream cheese frosting is the proper of entirety to this zingy blueberry-speckled magnificence—it actually tastes like spreadable cheesecake.
Easter Bunny Bark
A lot enjoyable for the youngsters… and adults! When you love Easter sweet, and don’t have quite a lot of time, throw collectively this straightforward Easter dessert. Nobody can resist a style, belief me.
Carrot Cake Cupcakes
These carrot cake cupcakes are all the things you’re keen on concerning the cake—excellent spice taste, tremendous moist crumb, and velvety cream cheese frosting—in a portioned cupcake wrapper!
Basic Lemon Meringue Pie
My lemon meringue pie recipe has a billowy and toasty meringue topping, a balanced candy/tart lemon filling, and an additional thick and flaky pie crust. I labored on this recipe for a very long time, making at the very least a dozen meringue pies till it was excellent.
Easter Egg Peanut Butter Candies (GF)
Everybody’s favourite dessert taste mixture comes collectively in these simple no-bake chocolate peanut butter Easter egg candies! They’re like a home made model of the favored Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, solely a bit softer and sweeter, which makes the crisp coarse salt on prime a beautiful addition.
Easter Egg Buttercream Candies (GF)
A step away from the peanut butter model! You’ll be able to taste the buttercream filling with a wide range of extracts, and even add shredded coconut. Give them a dunk in chocolate and let every chew fully soften in your mouth.
Lemon Bars With Shortbread Crust
Learn to make the BEST lemon bars with a buttery shortbread crust and creamy thick lemon curd filling. Everybody wants this recipe. No must prepare dinner the filling on the stovetop, both.
Fluffy & Moist Coconut Cake
Do-it-yourself with love for coconut fanatics in every single place, this coconut cake is flavorful, gentle, and additional moist. Not a coconut lover? This cake will convert you.
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
With its caramelized brown sugar fruit topping and gentle, buttery cake under, this pineapple the wrong way up cake is a enjoyable retro favourite. The fruit juices seep down into the cake, including much more luscious taste and texture.
Do-it-yourself Banana Cream Pie
Creamy and easy from-scratch custard joins bananas, whipped cream, and a buttery flaky pie crust to make one epic banana cream pie. This basic dessert is a wonderful make-ahead possibility as a result of the layered magnificence must set earlier than garnishing and serving.
Strawberry Coconut Macaroons (GF)
Scrumptious gluten-free strawberry coconut macaroons are moist and chewy on the within and barely crisp across the edges. Speckled pink with recent, candy strawberries, these cookies are extremely simple!
Cheesecake Swirl Carrot Bundt Cake
This carrot Bundt cake is wealthy, tender, and flavorful identical to my authentic carrot cake recipe, and rippled by every slice is a creamy ribbon of cheesecake. No difficult assembling, piping ideas, or frosting methods required!
Excellent No-Bake Cheesecake Recipe
And 1 extra! By following this simple no-bake cheesecake recipe, you’ll be gifted with a easy, gentle, and creamy dessert that units up superbly within the fridge. (One other ideally suited make-ahead dessert!)
And don’t overlook about basic sizzling cross buns, which could be served any time of day!
