Last Updated August 14th, 2023 at 10:28 pm by Lisa
These Easter dessert recipes are delicious and downright adorable for Sunday dinner after church. Choose from bright and happy cupcakes, a bunny cake, a fruit pie, and more. Because everyone always remembers dessert...
Easter Dessert Ideas
Pick a classic traditional Easter recipe or a creative twist for Spring celebrations and potluck parties with family and friends.
Once the kids finish their egg hunt with their Easter baskets full of treats, it's time for Easter brunch. Add some cookies or a slice of pie for an extra special treat.
Bunny Butt Easter Cupcakes
Some people call these "Bunny Bums", as these naughty bunnies are digging up the garden on these Bunny Butt Easter Cupcakes. 🐇🍃😂 The decorations are easy to find online and in craft stores. They are white chocolate candy kit that takes just minutes to assemble...
Easter Sugar Cookies
Who doesn't love sugar cookies? A famous holiday and party dessert, these Easter Sugar Cookies 🐰 💕are a classic butter sugar cookie dough drizzled with vanilla buttercream for easy icing, and sprinkles...
Easter Bunny Cake
An adorable Bunny Cake that is an EASY dessert for Easter Sunday! Learn step-by-step to make this "cut-up" Easter cake plus all the decorating tips. 🐰🍰💕
This cake is one of the first recipes I ever remember making.
I baked this bunny cake (with Mom's help) and took it to a school bake sale, I was so proud of it!
What an adorable Bunny Cake for your Easter celebration, it is made from two round cakes, vanilla frosting, and decorated with candy...
Cake Mix Cookies
Cake Mix Cookies are an easy cookie recipe baked in 11 minutes and with just 4 ingredients. Top with candies, sprinkles, or chocolate chips!
Who doesn't love cookies? 🐰🥣🍪 Cake Mix Cookies are such a popular dessert right now. Mix a box of cake mix, butter, and eggs, and decorate with some adorable Easter candy like pastel color M&Ms...
Pineapple Coconut Madeleines
These Pineapple Coconut Madeleines have fresh pineapple pieces and sweet coconut to create a nice crumb and prevent them from drying out while baking. Enjoy the tropical island twist on a classic French madeleine recipe. These are great for Easter brunch or having with coffee while the kids hunt for eggs. Ohhhh and the tropical flavors take you straight to an island paradise...🍍🥥🌴
Coconut-Lime Lemon Bars
A tropical version of traditional lemon bars, the toasted coconut shortbread cookie crust, and lemon-lime filling are simply out of this world. A fresh twist on a classic, and very Eastery!
The crust on these Coconut-Lime Lemon Bars gets golden, it is after all a cookie! This easy lemon bar recipe has tart lemon and lime notes balanced with sweet coconut, what could be better in a dessert...🥥🍋
Peach Cheesecake Pie (No-Bake)
Peach Cheesecake Pie is a 30-minute no-bake recipe with a crisp graham cracker crust, sweet whipped filling, juicy peaches, and a pile of whipped cream!
A recipe that came from my Mom, it was one of our favorites. Only 7 ingredients for this refreshing easy Spring and Easter dessert! 🍑🥧
Raspberry Scones
White Chocolate Raspberry Scones filled with white chocolate, studded with sweet raspberries, and drizzled with vanilla icing!
Many times, dessert scones are cakey, dry, and crumbly. These raspberry scones are soft, light, and fluffy because they are made with crème fraîche and heavy whipping cream. These are everything you want and great for brunch...💕🥣
Fresh Strawberry Cake
You can taste the real strawberry flavor in this fresh Strawberry Cake, as it skips ingredients like food coloring and jello gelatin and uses strawberry jam and real strawberries!
Use this recipe to bake into layers, a sheet cake, a bundt cake, or even cupcakes for Easter, and decorate with some fresh berries and Easter candies. Then spread on the strawberry buttercream frosting with its beautiful pink color on every layer, and decorate with sweet juicy strawberries, it's the real deal.
I used all-natural ingredients, no dye, jello, or preservatives. 🍓🍰 The strawberry buttercream frosting 🥣 is divine...
Chocolate Easter Bunny Cupcakes
One Easter, I found some silicone baking cups that looked like garden pots at the craft store (they work great in paper wrappers too), baked Chocolate Easter Bunny Cupcakes with a cake mix, grabbed some little chocolate bunnies, and some sprinkles. These are so easy and fun to make, kids adore them! 🍫🧁🐰
Easter Coconut Macaroons
These Easter Coconut Macaroons aka Birds Nest Cookies are drop-style cookies using shredded coconut for an easy Easter dessert. They have rough edges that turn brown and are chewy inside, they look like a bird's nest, and are so fun to decorate with melted chocolate and candy eggs or jelly beans! 🥥
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Traditional Easter Desserts
Some of the most popular Spring flavors for Easter recipes are citrus, and coconut, with lemony desserts being some of the most loved. A drizzle of lemon glaze over any cake, cream cheese frosting on a carrot cake, or a slice of pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream are super traditional.
Cakes & Cupcakes: Carrot cakes, cupcakes, or any dessert with carrots works for Easter! Classic vanilla and chocolate are always a welcome flavor and pair well with different kinds of frosting and candy toppings.
Cookies & Bars: Sugar cookies or any dessert bars with lemons are always popular. Cut out cookies with shapes like bunnies, a cross, eggs, and flowers, and decorate with pastel sprinkles.
Fruit Pies & Tarts: Fresh citrus flavors like lemon pie, orange, strawberry, or peach pies are a great choice. A slice of lemon meringue pie is always classic for Easter. Berries are great for breakfast parfaits, scones, or cheesecakes and are wonderful for Easter weekend. And don't forget coconut pie, it's always a favorite!
Banana Pudding: This is one of the most beloved Spring desserts, whether you bake yours or make the recipe off the Nilla wafers box.
More Easter Recipes
Dozens of Easter Menu Ideas are included in this collection of recipes. You will find all the traditional Easter Dinner classics like either Orange Honey Glaze Ham, Kalua Pineapple Glazed Ham, Cabernet Rack of Lamb, sides like glazed carrots, Roasted Potatoes, or Mashed Potatoes, and scrumptious desserts like an adorable Bunny Bake.
There are also inspiring non-traditional Easter dishes, fresh new appetizers like Deviled Eggs that look like little Spring baskets, drinks, cocktails, potluck sides, and more for your Easter celebration.
Lemony Buttercream
Bake a lemon cake or cupcakes for Easter, it would be great as a birthday cake, for baby showers, or for afternoon tea. The full printable recipe is below in the recipe card.
The buttercream is "lick the spoon" delicious. You can decorate any cake with edible flowers, cute buttercream decorations piped on, seasonal candy like jelly beans, chocolate foil eggs, and a bunny, or colorful sprinkles...
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Easter Dessert Recipes + Lemon Dessert Buttercream
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 6 tablespoons lemon zest
- 8 cups powder sugar
- 1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
- ¼ cup fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Beat butter until creamy, add lemon zest, lemon juice, and powder sugar. Add extra lemon juice to make the frosting spreadable.
- Use an offset spatula to frost cakes or cupcakes.
- For Easter, decorate with jelly beans, chocolate eggs or an Easter bunny!
Notes
Cakes & Cupcakes: Carrot cakes, cupcakes, or any dessert with carrots works for Easter! Classic vanilla and chocolate are always a welcome flavor and pair well with different kinds of frosting and candy toppings.
Cookies & Bars: Sugar cookies or any dessert bars with lemons are always popular. Cut out cookies with shapes like bunnies, a cross, eggs, and flowers, and decorate with pastel sprinkles.
Fruit Pies & Tarts: Fresh citrus flavors like lemon pie, orange, strawberry, or peach pies are a great choice. A slice of lemon meringue pie is always classic for Easter. Berries are great for breakfast parfaits, scones, or cheesecakes and are wonderful for Easter weekend. And don't forget coconut pie, it's always a favorite!
Banana Pudding: This is one of the most beloved Spring desserts, whether you bake yours or make the recipe off the Nilla wafers box.
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Loving all of these desserts for Easter!! They are all simple to make and so adorable!!