If you’re like me you’re starting to finalize your Easter plans! Look no further–here are my 30+ Best Easter Dessert Recipes for you!
When I put together a list of my 30+ Best Easter Dessert Recipes, there's a little something for everyone! Whether you want to go fancy schmancy, fun and whimsical, or somewhere in-between, I’ve got you covered!
If you're looking for more seasonal recipes, check out my recipe roundups for Easter Brunch Ideas, Spring Desserts, and Mother's Day Brunch!
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Cakes & Cupcakes
Nothing quite says 'celebration' like a cake! Here you'll find layer cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes, and an angel food cake! Whether you want something quick and easy or a showstopper of a layer cake, you'll find lots of ideas for Easter cake recipes here!
Chocolate Ganache Cake
This Chocolate Ganache Cake is one layer of soft chocolate cake drenched in dark chocolate ganache! The cake mixes up easily (no mixer required!), and the ganache takes about five minutes. So easy and delicious!
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Cornmeal Pound Cake with Blueberry Whipped Cream
This Blueberry Cornmeal Pound Cake is a slightly sweet cornmeal buttermilk pound cake topped with blueberry crème fraîche whipped cream!
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Ginger Carrot Cupcakes
These Ginger Carrot Cupcakes are a twist on a classic! The carrot cakes are topped with a ginger cream cheese frosting and crystallized ginger!
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Chocolate Orange Cake
This Chocolate Orange Cake is a single layer of moist, fluffy chocolate orange cake topped with chocolate orange buttercream! You will love this cake's depth of flavor!
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Blueberry Angel Food Cake
This Blueberry Angel Food Cake is light and fluffy with serious blueberry flavor thanks to freeze-dried berries! And can we talk about that color??
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Peach Cobbler Pound Cake with Bourbon Glaze
This Peach Cobbler Pound Cake is a delicious cinnamon-peach pound cake with a gooey brown sugar top, drizzled with a vanilla bourbon glaze! This cake is serious comfort food!
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Raspberry White Chocolate Loaf Cake
This Raspberry White Chocolate Loaf Cake is a tender white chocolate pound cake topped with a scrumptious raspberry glaze! The flavors are so amazing you'll find yourself taking seconds!
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Neapolitan Cake
The classic flavors of vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate combine in this Neapolitan Cake! This three-layer beauty is a celebration cake!
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Strawberry Angel Food Cake
This Strawberry Angel Food Cake is light and fluffy with serious strawberry flavor thanks to freeze-dried berries! Also delicious using blueberries, with the bonus of a showstopping purple color!
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Lavender Lemon Cake
This Lavender Lemon Cake is two layers of light, moist lemon cake with a smooth and silky lavender buttercream! The textures and flavors of this beauty are a masterpiece!
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Lavender Pound Cake with Strawberry Glaze
This Strawberry Lavender Pound Cake is so tender thanks to kefir (or buttermilk!), delicately flavored with lavender, and topped with strawberry-vanilla bean glaze! Pound cake perfection!
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Blackberry Lemon Bread
This Blackberry Lemon Bread is a moist, flavorful lemon bread studded with fresh blackberries and topped with the most gorgeous blackberry glaze!
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Strawberry Filled Cupcakes
These Strawberry Filled Cupcakes are soft & fluffy vanilla bean cakes with homemade honey-strawberry filling, topped with strawberry cream cheese frosting!
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Pies & Tarts
These Easter pie and tart recipes have all the bright, seasonal flavors of Spring, and a decadence worthy of a holiday! From mini tartlets to layered pies with towering meringue, you're sure to please a crowd with these!
Blackberry Lavender Brownie Pie
The crust of this beauty is a fudgy brownie swirled with blackberry jam. The filling is a lavender-infused dark chocolate icebox pie, all topped with blackberry meringue. The flavors and textures are outstanding!
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Chocolate Coconut Pie with Dalgona Coffee Topping
This Chocolate Coconut Pie has a toasted coconut pastry crust filled with dark chocolate custard, topped with dalgona coffee swirled with whipped coconut cream! It's toasted coconut meets a mochaccino and I am HERE for it!!
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No Bake Turtle Pie
This No Bake Turtle Pie has an Oreo crust filled with a dulce de leche cream cheese filling, and topped with vanilla bean whipped cream, chocolate, more dulce de leche, and toasted pecans!
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Raspberry Tartlets with Pistachio Crust
These Raspberry Pistachio Tartlets have a pistachio tart crust filled with homemade honey-raspberry jam, topped with toasted honey meringue!
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Blueberry Curd Tart
This Blueberry Curd Tart is a sweet pastry crust filled with homemade blueberry curd! You'll fall in love with both the flavor and that gorgeous color!!
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Cheesecakes
Don't forget about cheesecake! Cakes and pies tend to get all the Easter glory, but these cheesecake recipes are up to the task! These recipes will have your guests asking for Easter cheesecake every year!
Raspberry Lemon Cheesecake
This Raspberry Lemon Cheesecake is a dream of textures and flavors! The lemon cheesecake is swirled with a homemade raspberry sauce, all in a classic graham cracker crust!
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Vanilla Bean Blondie Cheesecake
This Vanilla Bean Blondie Cheesecake is a creamy, no-bake vanilla bean cheesecake with a funfetti blondie crust and whipped cream!
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Strawberry Crunch Cheesecake
This No Bake Strawberry Crunch Cheesecake is layers of strawberry and vanilla bean cheesecake in a graham cracker crust, topped with strawberry crunch topping! Completely no bake and delicious, you'll want this beauty on repeat in your kitchen!
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Cookies & Bars
For something a little easier and hand-held, how about some cookies or bars this Easter? Just because they're quicker doesn't mean they're any less worthy of the holiday! These recipes are festive and flavorful--perfect for your Easter table!
Strawberry Thyme Blondies
These Strawberry Thyme Blondies are a dream combination oftextures and flavors! The browned-butter blondies are topped with astrawberry-thyme mascarpone mousse that is *almost* too pretty to eat!
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Lemon Curd Cookies
These Lemon Curd Cookies are soft, chewy lemon cookies topped with homemade lemon curd! The mix of textures and the sweet-tart lemon flavor will make these a new favorite!
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Blondie Brownies
These Blondie Brownies are two desserts in one! The browned butter blondie layer is topped with a fudgy brownie layer for the ultimate treat! I drizzled a few of mine with homemade salted caramel sauce for a truly decadent dessert, but these are so rich and delicious they don't really need it!
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Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
These Strawberry Shortbread Cookies have fantastic strawberry flavor thanks to freeze-dried strawberries in both the cookies and the strawberry glaze! With these cookies you can have a taste of summer year-round! Recipe can be used to make slice-and-bake shortbread or cut-outs--it's up to you!
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Honey Cookies
These Honey Cookies are tender and chewy, with the floral flavor of honey! Drizzled with a honey vanilla bean glaze, these cuties are simple and delicious!
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Honey Lavender Latte Cookies
These Honey Lavender Latte Cookies are espresso sugar cookies frosted with honey lavender buttercream! Your favorite drink in cookie form!
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Strawberry Jam Cookies
These Strawberry Jam Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth vanilla bean thumbprint cookies filled with strawberry jam, then drizzled with vanilla bean glaze! So versatile and delicious, you'll find yourself making them for every occasion!
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Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers
These Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers are crisp homemade graham crackers dipped in chocolate! Whether you use dark, milk, or white chocolate (or a combination of all three) is up to you!
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Sprinkle Cookies with Browned Butter
These Sprinkle Cookies are thick, chewy, and delicious! The deep, rich flavor of browned butter and festive sprinkles make these cookies a year-round favorite!
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Lemon Sugar Cookies
These Lemon Sugar Cookies are simple, lemony perfection!! Crisp on the edges, chewy in the middle, and with fantastic lemon flavor, you won't be able to stop at one!
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Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
These Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies are cream cheese sugar cookies sandwiched with swirls of strawberry cream cheese frosting!
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More Easter Desserts
These recipes are outliers that don't fall into one of the previous categories, but they are not to be overlooked! The Homemade Marshmallow Peeps are not to be missed!
Cookie Dough Bark
This Cookie Dough Bark is a classic dark chocolate bark covered with safe-to-eat sugar cookie dough cut-outs and festive sprinkles!
Check out this recipe!
Homemade Peeps
Check out this recipe!
I hope you have the sweetest Easter with this roundup of my 30+ Best Easter Dessert Recipes! Happy Easter to you and yours! <3
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Updated 3/11/2023
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