Easter Dessert Recipes + Lemon Dessert Buttercream
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.
Servings: 12
Calories: 5404kcal
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!
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Notes
What are the most popular 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.
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.
Nutrition
Serving: 12g | Calories: 5404kcal | Carbohydrates: 969g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 184g | Saturated Fat: 117g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 48g | Trans Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 488mg | Sodium: 1482mg | Potassium: 200mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 943g | Vitamin A: 5694IU | Vitamin C: 70mg | Calcium: 116mg | Iron: 1mg