The ultimate guide to Easter dessert recipes including fun and festive treats like a lemon meringue tart, cake balls and peanut butter eggs!
These amazing recipes will take your Easter dinner to the next level. You can enjoy cupcakes, cookies, candies, pies, cakes and more! There’s an Easter dessert idea for every gathering, big or small.
Do you plan a big meal for Easter? I love a big Easter spread. It’s great to have a succulent ham like my Easter ham or my honey baked ham. I also enjoy some of my favorite sides such as cream cheese mashed potatoes and candied carrots. Finally, I always make a lot of desserts. Dessert is not just for kids. The truth is that as much as I love Easter dinner, I love Easter desserts even more!
Easter is my favorite time of the year for sweets. Those special Easter candies are in all the stores and fresh fruit starts getting ripe in spring. There are so many amazing flavors for Easter desserts.
I love incorporating candy into my desserts. Try some of my favorites like Jelly Belly Easter cookies, a Mini Eggs brownie parfait or an Easter dirt cake with bunny Peeps. I can’t get enough of those marshmallow treats!
You can enjoy the first berries of the season for Easter. Try recipes like berry cheesecake salad, fresh strawberry pie or blueberry shortcake to put those berries to good use.
Don’t forget the chocolate and make your own decadent chocolate desserts. You can make chocolate truffles or chocolate peanut butter eggs that are better than anything you’ll find in the store!
Make your dessert spread so good that everyone will be dreaming about it until next Easter with these 30 Easter dessert recipes. Let me know which ones you try and if you have any other amazing dessert ideas in the comments below!
30 Easter Dessert Recipes
Berry Chantilly Cake
This recipe for berry chantilly cake is a light and yellow cake with plenty of fresh berries and a unique fluffy whipped cream frosting. The perfect cake for a celebration!
This recipe for blueberry shortcake is vanilla ice cream and homemade blueberry sauce sandwiched between lemon shortcake and finished off with whipped cream. This easy and elegant dessert is perfect for any occasion!
These no bake birds nest cookies are made with chocolate, butterscotch and chow mein noodles, then finished off with candy eggs. The perfect easy Easter dessert!
This brownie pizza is a chocolate crust topped with cream cheese frosting and plenty of fresh berries. A unique dessert pizza that’s perfect for entertaining!
A recipe for cake balls that uses cake mix, frosting and candy melts to create fun and festive bites. Cake balls are perfect for gift giving and they’re easy to turn into cake pops!
These chocolate truffles are made with a dark chocolate ganache that's shaped into balls and rolled in an assortment of toppings. Homemade truffles are easy to prepare and make for a super impressive dessert option for any event.
These cute little carrot patch cupcakes are perfect for spring! They’ve got a chocolate base, buttercream frosting, cookie “dirt” and a strawberry “carrot” on top.
These cheesecake stuffed strawberries are fresh berries that are hollowed out, then filled with sweetened cream cheese and topped with crushed graham crackers. A simple no-bake treat that always get rave reviews!
This classic carrot cake is one you’ll want to add to your recipe collection! A moist and delicious cake paired with a not-too-sweet cream cheese frosting.
This recipe for Greek yogurt cheesecakes is mini cheesecakes that have been lightened up with Greek yogurt and topped with fresh berries. A quick and easy sweet treat!
This fruit pizza is a sugar cookie crust topped with cream cheese frosting and a variety of fresh fruit. A fun and easy dessert option that’s perfect for feeding a crowd!
These pops are a cute and easy Easter dessert that even the kids can help with! Chocolate cake, frosting and chocolate rocks are layered in push pop containers, then topped with adorable chocolate bunny ears, carrots, and bunny butts.
This fresh strawberry pie recipe is a no bake delight that’s made with a graham cracker crust, loads of fresh strawberries and a sweet glaze. Top it with whipped cream for a show stopping finish to any meal!
These adorable Easter basket cookie cups are almost too fun to eat! An Easter dessert recipe filled with buttercream frosting, chocolate bunnies and eggs.
This recipe for a classic lemon bundt cake with cream cheese frosting is a simple yet elegant cake that’s full of sweet-tart lemon flavor – perfect for a birthday or any other special occasion!
Make the Easter Bunny jealous this year with marbled Easter egg truffles! White chocolate truffles and pastel swirls make these the perfect Easter candy.
These hydrangea cakes are gorgeous miniature cakes that look like hydrangea flowers! You’ll be surprised to learn how easy it is to make the pretty, colorful blossom design on the outside.
These Mini Eggs Easter brownie parfaits are the easiest Easter dessert! Made with everyone’s favorite candy-coated Easter eggs, fudgy brownies and cream!
Can you use oreo cookies for the crust?
Yes that’s fine!
I love the mini Easter egg cheesecakes, so cute.I think I will flavour mine orange and chocolate.