Looking for delightful Easter dessert ideas to make your holiday extra special? Easter is the perfect holiday to practice your cooking skills; even if you aren’t a fan of the complicated side of cooking, you can throw a perfectly delightful event with the simpler stuff. Today, I am sharing with you my 21 all-time favorites in the Easter dessert department. Take a look at the awesome ideas below and make your Easter even more tasty!
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Classic Carrot Cake
Carrot cake is an Easter classic. Its moist consistency, soft and gooey texture, and vibrant colors will delight you and your guests, making your Easter even warmer.
Classic carrot cake recipe
Perfect a classic with our next level carrot cake recipe. It’s been meticulously tested so you can bake the best version of this traditional cake
A twist of the classic cheesecake, these Easter egg cheesecake bites are an easy and creative way to impress your guests.
Mini Egg Easter Cheesecake Bites
Easy Mini egg Easter Cheesecake bites are a perfect family-friendly recipe. As they are no bake cheesecakes is the perfect fun and tasty Easter activity to do with the kids.
Lemon lavender shortbread cookies are a delightful, zesty option that brings a whiff of spring to your already-inspired Easter table.
Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies
These Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies are rich and buttery with a little hint of spring and summer! They’ve got a delicious balance of lemon and lavender flavor!
These whimsical sweets will bring out the Easter spring spirit in your guests of all ages. Simple and elegant, it will quickly become the start of your gathering.
Homemade Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Bunnies
These homemade chocolate-covered marshmallow bunnies are the perfect treat for Easter. Your children will love those bunny silhouettes with their marshmallow cottontails. They are easy to make and even easier to eat!
No Easter table is complete without these traditional and wholesome buns. Easy to make and very delicious, ensure you have some extra ones because your guests will definitely be reaching for seconds.
Hot Cross Buns Recipe
Fluffy, fragrant, homemade Hot Cross Buns recipe. With my quick video recipe and some cheeky but effective tips, these take time but are easy to make!
Chocolate eggs and brownies are simply a match made in heaven. These mini egg brownies are fudgy, rich, and packed with Easter candy, making them the perfect dessert if you have little ones around your table.
Mini Egg Brownies!
Deliciously chocolate mini egg brownies with a thick fudge brownie, stuffed with mini eggs and chocolate chips, topped with even more! – Jane’s Patisserie
Refreshing, delicious, and with a vibrant yellow color, this pie is one of the best Easter desserts you can serve. With a bit of creativity, you can add floral details, making it the delight of the season.
Lemon Meringue Pie
My lemon meringue pie recipe yields a perfectly set filling and billowy meringue that won’t weep. 100% from scratch with just 10 ingredients!
If you plan on hosting a wholesome and traditional Easter cake with marzipan and dried fruits, this Simnel cake will add warmth and flavor to your gathering.
Simnel Cake
Originally, this cake was made for Mothering Sunday, but it has for a long, long time been an essential Easter confection, the marzipan balls on top representing the apostles: eleven in total as, for understandable reasons, Judas is persona non grata.
Pavlova cake works wonders on a regular Tuesday, let alone a special day like Easter. To capture the spring Easter spirit, decorate it with mixed berries to add more color to this ballerina of a cake.
Berry pavlova
Light and fluffy pavlova topped with seasonal berries is the ultimate Christmas dessert.
Traditional and delicious, this Italian Easter bread is a work of art. Sweetened with a hint of sugar and decorated with colored eggs, it will add both class and wholesomeness to your table.
Italian Easter Bread
Italian Easter bread is a fluffy, soft bread, braided around dyed eggs and seasoned with lemon or orange zest or vanilla extract.
I hosted the most spectacular Easter gathering a few years ago, but I forgot about my vegan friend. After seeing her empty-plated during dessert, I swore to make this cake a mandatory element of my future Easter feasts.
The Best Vegan Chocolate Cake
The Best Vegan Chocolate Cake- A quick and easy recipe, made in 1 bowl! This really is the best chocolate cake ever, vegan or otherwise.
Blueberry lemon trifle is a gorgeous, layered dessert that’s both easy to assemble and delicious. If you don’t feel like going too far, yet you want something extraordinary, this trifle is the golden overlap between easy and fancy.
Blueberry and Lemon Trifle
Blueberry and Lemon Trifle. This is just sublime! Layers of fresh Lemon Cake, Creamy Custard and Whipped Cream and of course a generous sprinkling of blueberries throughout.
This irresistible salted caramel Easter popcorn is an easy, snackable dessert that’s perfect for munching on throughout the holiday weekend.
Salted Caramel Popcorn Recipe
Salted caramel marshmallow popcorn with pretzel pieces and Pretzel M&M’s. This sweet and salty popcorn treat is perfect for Easter and spring time snacking!
Laura Bais is the owner of Julie's Cafe Bakery food blog. From a young age, she had a passion for cooking, and at the age of 13, she made her first meal. After finishing high school, she undergraduates in Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka, and graduates in Journalism at the University of Zagreb. At that time she honed her cooking skills, but also worked in marketing. Since her love for cooking never faded, in 2021 she finally decided to share her recipes with the world. Laura turned her hobby into a career and loves every moment of it. Now she writes about common mistakes in the kitchen and how to avoid them, about adding twists to traditional meals, etc. Her love for trying new foods often leads her to visit restaurants and attempt to recreate the meals at home. She has been featured on F and B Recipes and BOXROX, to name a few.
