From cupcakes to bark, get baking easy Easter desserts with these recipes.
Hop hop, Easter is almost here! Between Easter egg coloring, Easter egg hunt planning and Easter basket stuffing, you have to find time for the most important part: the Easter menu. Whether your family is more of an Easter brunch squad or an Easter dinner crew, one thing's for certain: there needs to be plenty of Easter desserts.
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We've compiled our favorite Easter bunny-approved recipes to help make this spring holiday a little sweeter. From carrot cake and carrot pudding cups, to Easter cookies, cupcakes, cakes and pops loaded with Peeps, this list of 49 easy Easter desserts has traditional, beautiful (and most importantly easy) ideas everyone will love.
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Best Easter Desserts
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Melted Peeps lend a colorful twist to this sweet brunch treat. TIP: Let each icing mixture cool about three minutes to thicken for easier drizzling.
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Turn your favorite marshmallow creatures into adorable spring treats.
Teresa Blackburn
These Spring Hummingbird Cupcakes dress up a white cake mix with fruit and nuts for a simplified—yet spectacular—spin on a classic Southern dessert.
Parade
This Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is laced with finely shredded carrots, topped with velvety smooth cream cheese and whipped into frosted perfection.
Skinny Sweets Daily
This quick and easy Easter Hugs Pretzel Snaps recipe is fun for the kids to help out with, especially when they're bored at home over break or you need to keep them busy while preparing the rest of your Easter menu.
Frog Eye Salad is a sweet dessert salad made with small round pasta (yes, that's where the name comes from), whipped topping and egg yolks. It has canned oranges and pineapple, plus marshmallows added to round out the sweetness and flavor.
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Spring is here. Easter or Resurrection Sunday is around the corner. And, the bunny rabbits are... mating. In honor of this breathtaking time of year, make a sweet, spring bunny rabbit tart.
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Give this impressive, change-of-pace dessert a place at your Easter table and settle in for the compliments.
The best part about this recipe is how easy it is. You can also see that the finished cupcakes are not perfect—maybe even a little messy on the bunny ears—but that's the way a baking adventure should turn out.
Jessica Merchant
With coffee, honey and chocolate, this pie makes a decadent dessert for Easter or any of your spring gatherings.
Baked Chicago
This olive oil cake recipe is a well-balanced blend of subtle, yet distinct, flavors: honey, almond, lemon and orange.
Pro tip for this recipe: Use any kind of Peeps you like; however, the little chicks work well and come in all different colors. Same goes for the sprinkles.
Hayley Parker
Morph a morning classic into an anytime treat with an assist from a pantry mainstay.
If you love cream, berries and nuts, you'll love this easy Easter Lemon-Blueberry Cake.
Sheri Giblin
Celebrate Easter with this sweet bunny cake.
Lauren Lilling
These cookies come out of the oven perfectly oozing from the Peep stuffed inside. What better way to celebrate Easter than with a fun and easy dessert?
KELLY SENYEI
It’s easy to turn a boxed mix (or bakery sheet cake) into a special dessert, with these simple steps from Kelly Senyei, blogger at justataste.com.
Krista Marshall
This Orange Creamsicle Salad is a cool, refreshing dessert for Easter Sunday.
Take the stress out of serving something special next Sunday—or at any brunch—with this sweet, rich strata. Similar to a bread pudding, it easily comes together the night before. The Lemon Raspberry Sauce adds a spring-y punch of citrus and it’s simple: Dump everything into a pot and boil.
Lori Lange
Melted chocolate bars provide the base for this easy Easter candy bark that contains mini chocolate malted eggs and pastel sprinkles. After a few minutes in the freezer, the bark is ready to chop into bite-sized pieces.
Laurie Farmer
Creamy chocolate glaze melts in your mouth as you bite into a slightly sweet pastry dough. A luscious vanilla cream filling brings it all together.
Kat Jeter and Melinda Caldwell
Use up leftover candy in this colorful treat from bloggers Kat Jeter and Melinda Caldwell of homemadeinterest.com. If using Peeps marshmallows, add them in the last five minutes of baking so they don’t burn.
Kellie Tate
This salty-sweet no-bake treat from blogger Kellie Tate of nestofposies.com can be made with white or milk chocolate. Better yet, make a batch of each!
Melissa Sperka
Easter brunch is a time-honored tradition held by many people. It’s one of those occasions that calls for a departure from the ordinary. Scones fit that mold perfectly.
Cindy Rahe
A combo of cream cheese and goat cheese adds an extra layer of flavor in these bite-size desserts with a pretzel crust from Cindy Rahe, blogger at hungrygirlporvida.com.
Easter Bunny Cake
Con Poulos
Easter and bunnies basically go hand in hand and this might just be the cutest cottontail (cake) ever!
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Shhhh....No one needs to know how easy this cute Easter cake is. Putting a show-stopping spring dessert on the table takes little effort with help from a box cake mix.
No cupcake is more decadent than lemon chiffon topped with Italian buttercream.
Everyday Mom's Meals
These coconut truffles are super simple to make for Easter and everyone from the kids to the adults will love them. Plus, they just happen to look like bunny tails!
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This luscious lemon tart has a surprise chocolate crunch.
Skinny Sweets Daily
Easter is just around the corner. How about some freshly baked, not-fried donuts?! These are so easy to prepare that you will want to make them all year round.
This low-sugar treat is sweet enough to keep kids (and adults!) from raiding Easter baskets.
Photo by: Karen Tack and Alan Richardson
Have you any wool? No sir, no sir, just pound cake with mini marshmallows and a Milano cookie head. The black sheep’s color comes from a tasty dusting of cocoa powder.
Krista Marshall
Green Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese (also known as Mormon Jello Salad) is a retro Easter dish made with lime jello, cottage cheese, crushed pineapple, evaporated milk and chopped nuts and it got its name because the state of Utah eats more Jell-O than any other in the country. Home of the Mormon faith—and this salad.
Deonna Wade
Candy-coated strawberries perch in chocolate pudding for this snack that looks like carrots ready to be pulled from the garden.
Krista Marshall
Calling all chocolate lovers! This decadent sweet treat is best described as what would happen if brownies, a hot fudge sundae and a chocolate cream pie all got together and had a baby.
Photo by Lennart Weibull
Pistachios, rose water and dried rose petals lend this buttermilk Bundt cake, from Martha Stewart's Cake Perfection, haunting flavors of the Middle East.
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What if we told you you can have all the same flavors as a classic banana split in a new fun, delicious sweet treat, no ice cream required? Yep. Pineapple, cherries, banana, nuts and chocolate syrup in every single bite.
Krista Marshall
Chocolate sandwich cookies, pudding, Cool Whip and marshmallows come together in a creamy, sweet treat that makes you want to lick the bowl clean.
Easter Bunny Bark is a great recipe to make when you are short on time, because it takes practically no time at all to make! And you can switch up the toppings.
Vanilla Cupcakes
Andrew Purcell
A basic vanilla treat that's perfect for Easter decorating.
This super-easy cake recipe starts with a cake mix and your favorite toppings and ends up looking like an Easter egg hunt!
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These fun sweets have all the flavors of carrot cake, in sandwich cookie form!
Everyday Mom's Meals
This easy fluff dessert looks and tastes like spring in a bowl! It will also be a great addition to your Easter menu!
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Breakfast for a crowd is fast and no-sweat with these easy-fix pancakes that can be served right from the sheet pan. Fruit and fat-free yogurt add sweetness with no additional sugar.
CALLIE BLOUNT
Cake mix gets a rich, chewy makeover in colorful bars perfect for Easter (or any spring celebration).
This is one pretty cake. That’s what you’ll say to yourself as you smooth the delectable frosting on so effortlessly.
JENNIFER BLUME
Add some razzle-dazzle to a white cake mix for a tasty treat that’s special enough for Easter, Mother's Day and all your summer celebrations.
Creamy, chilled and luscious, this pie will be everyone’s favorite. The best part about this recipe is that it’s so versatile. You can use any flavor of your favorite brand of gelatin and it only requires four ingredients.
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