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If you’re planning your Easter menu, I’ve rounded up all of my favorite Easter dessert recipes in one place to make it easy. Think bright spring flavors like lemon cake, carrot cake, coconut cream pie, frosted sugar cookies, no-bake cheesecakes, and strawberry desserts that are perfect for brunch or after dinner.
Why You Will Love These Easter Desserts:
- Perfect for Spring – These desserts are filled with bright, fresh flavors like lemon, berries, and coconut that feel light, seasonal, and perfect for Easter gatherings.
- Easy & Crowd-Pleasing Recipes – From simple no-bake treats to classic baked desserts, these recipes are easy to make and guaranteed to be a hit.
- Beautiful Desserts – These recipes aren’t just delicious, they’re also visually stunning making them perfect for serving as a centerpiece at your Easter brunch or dessert table.
Looking for more Easter recipe ideas? Be sure to check out my round-ups featuring all of my Easter recipes, plus a collection of delicious Easter Brunch favorites!
Easter Cake and Cupcake Recipes:
Cake is a great crowd pleasing dessert and we have a bunch of fresh spring flavors!
The Best Carrot Cake Recipe
The Best Carrot Cake Recipe. A moist, tender carrot cake with sweet cream cheese frosting. The perfect carrot cake recipe!
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Lemon Blueberry Cake
Light, fluffy, moist lemon cake with with fresh blueberries with a sweet cream cheese frosting. This is the best lemon blueberry cake recipe!
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Strawberry Shortcake Cake
This Strawberry Shortcake Cake is a soft, buttery vanilla cake layered with fluffy homemade whipped cream and juicy strawberries.
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Lemon Cupcakes
Light, fluffy homemade lemon cupcakes with fresh lemon frosting are the perfect dessert for lemon lovers. This is the best lemon cupcake recipe!
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Lemon Raspberry Cake
The Best Light and Fluffy Lemon Cake with Fresh Raspberries and a Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting.
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Key Lime Cake
Key Lime Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Moist key lime cake with sweet cream cheese frosting. A light and fluffy citrus lime cake with the perfect lime buttercream frosting! The BEST Lime Cake Recipe!
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Orange Olive Oil Cupcakes
How to make the best orange olive oil cupcakes with orange cream cheese frosting.
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Hummingbird Cake
This Hummingbird Cake is a classic Southern dessert. This moist cake is made with pineapple, bananas, pecans, and frosted with a sweet cream cheese frosting.
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Citrus Sheet Cake
Citrus Sheet Cake made with fresh-squeezed orange, lemon, and lime juices in a moist, fluffy cake and topped with a creamy and silky homemade cream cheese frosting and topped with citrus slices. A beautiful Spring and Summer celebration cake!
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Strawberry Cream Crunch Cake
This Strawberry Cream Crunch Cake is a strawberry cake soaked with sweetened condensed milk after baking and topped with fresh sweet whipped cream, fresh strawberries, and crushed golden Oreos for crunch. This strawberry poke cake has it all!
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Berry Chantilly Cream Cake
This Berry Chantilly Cake is the perfect homemade yellow cake, layered with sweetened chantilly cream frosting, jam, and fresh berries. A dupe of the famous Whole Foods Berry Chantilly cake. A lovely Spring and Summer dessert!
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Coconut Cupcakes
Coconut Cupcakes Moist coconut cupcakes with a secret ingredient to keep them extra soft and tender with a sweet coconut cream cheese frosting.
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Lemon Cake
The Best Lemon Cake Recipe is moist, light, and fluffy made with fresh lemon juice and layered with lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting. This is the lemon cake of your dreams!
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Coconut Poke Cake
This Coconut Poke Cake is made with a baked cake mix and filled with cream of coconut and sweetened condensed milk and topped with sweet whipped cream and coconut. This Coconut Tres Leches Cake is so easy to make and is perfect for potlucks and parties.
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Easter Pie Recipes:
These easy pie recipes are perfect for serving a crowd or just your family!
Easy Coconut Cream Pie
Easy Homemade Coconut Cream Pie made with pudding mix, sweetened condensed milk, whole milk, whipped cream, and sweetened shredded coconut all in a buttery pie crust and topped with sweet whipped cream.
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Banana Cream Pie
Homemade banana cream pie made with a creamy sweet vanilla filling with fresh bananas, handcrafted whipped cream, all in a buttery pie crust.
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Raspberry Cream Pie
This Raspberry Cream Pie has a no-bake cheesecake filling topped with fresh raspberry sauce all in a buttery, flaky pie crust.
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Key Lime Pie
Learn how to make the best key lime pie with a perfectly sweet and buttery graham cracker crust. This easy key lime pie recipe features fresh key lime juice for a tangy, refreshing filling, balanced with the sweetness of condensed milk. Ideal for summer gatherings or as a classic dessert, follow our step-by-step guide to create this homemade key lime pie that everyone will love! Key Lime Pie with graham cracker crust and whipped cream.
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Passion Fruit Pie
Creamy Passion Fruit Pie topped with fresh whipped cream is the perfect tropical cream pie recipe that will make you feel like you are in Hawaii! This Lilikoi Pie is similar to a key lime pie but made with passion fruit. This Passionfruit pie is made with a graham cracker crust, creamy passion fruit custard filling, and topped with billowy sweet whipped cream.
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Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie
An easy sweet cream cheese pie in a buttery graham cracker crust and topped with glazed strawberries.
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Lemon Cream Pie
Lemon Cream Pie. A simple creamy lemon cream pie with fresh lemon zest in a buttery graham cracker crust with sweetened whipped cream. The BEST Lemon Pie Recipe.
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Fresh Fruit Tart with Vanilla Pastry Cream
Flaky, buttery crust filled with homemade vanilla bean pastry cream and topped with an assortment of fresh fruits.
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Strawberry Cream Cheese Tart
This Strawberry Cream Cheese Tart is made with a buttery tart crust, sweet vanilla cream cheese filling, and fresh strawberries with a shiny glaze. The perfect easy Summer strawberry dessert.
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Pavlova
A stunning dessert with a crisp, crunchy outer shell with a soft, marshmallow-like center. Topped with fresh whipped cream and fresh fruit. It is a beautiful and delicious dessert to wow a crowd!
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Fruit Pizza with Sugar Cookie Crust
Fruit Pizza with a Sugar Cookie Crust is made with a large, pizza-sized baked sugar cookie and topped with a sweet cream cheese whipped cream and sprinkled with glazed fresh fruit.
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Easter Cookie and Bar Recipes:
Cookies are such a great option to make if you want to keep things easy.
Levain Bakery Lemon Cookies
These soft, thick, chewy, bakery-style Levain Bakery Lemon Cookies are made with three types of lemon flavoring plus lemon chips. You will love these bakery style lemon cookies!
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Easter Cadbury Mini Egg Blondies
These Easter Cadbury Mini Eggs Blondies are chewy milk chocolate chip cookie bars filled with mini Cadbury eggs. These are the best mini egg blondies!
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Key Lime Cookies with Coconut Lime Frosting
Key Lime Cookies with Coconut Lime Frosting. Chewy fresh coconut lime cookies with a creamy coconut lime frosting. The perfect tropical Caribbean cookie!
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Lemon Bars
These classic lemon bars are made with tangy and sweet lemon curd and a buttery shortbread crust. If you love lemon desserts, you will love this lemon bar recipe. How to make the perfect lemon bar!
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Frosted Strawberries and Cream Cookies
These Frosted Strawberries and Cream Cookies are soft, buttery sugar cookies topped with velvety smooth, sweet cream cheese frosting and topped with fresh strawberries. The perfect frosted strawberry cookie recipe!
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Carrot Cake Blondies
These soft, chewy carrot cake bars with cream cheese frosting are perfect for your Spring gathering. These carrot cake blondies taste even better than carrot cake!
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Lemon Crinkle Cookies
Soft chewy lemon cookies with fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and lemon extract to give them the extra lemon tang! These lemon crinkle cookies are rolled in powdered sugar and baked until soft and chewy. The best lemon cookie recipe!
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Chocolate Cadbury Eggs Cookies
Cadbury Egg Cookies. These soft and chewy Cadbury egg cookies made with mini chocolate Cadbury eggs are the perfect Easter cookie.
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Lemon Sugar Cookies
Soft and Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies are the perfect balance of sweet and slightly tart.
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Lemon Brownies
This chewy, fresh lemon brownie with a sweet lemon glaze in made with fresh lemon juice, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, and salt and topped with a tangy lemon sugar glaze.
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RubySnap Judy Orange Cream Cookies
Soft citrus orange dough cookies topped with sweet orange zest cream cheese frosting.
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Fruit Pizza Cookies
These Fruit Pizza Cookies are made with soft, chewy, buttery sugar cookies topped with a sweet cream cheese frosting and fresh fruit. These Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizzas are always a huge hit!
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Easter No-Bake Desserts:
A no-bake dessert is perfect when you’re juggling cooking Easter dinner and dessert. No oven space needed!
Easter Candy Board
How to make a beautiful Easter Candy Charcuterie Board featuring colorful and sweet Easter candies and decadent chocolates. I will share tips for making a gorgeous Easter dessert board.
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Magnolia Bakery Strawberry Shortcake Pudding
This Magnolia Bakery Strawberry Shortcake Pudding is such a quintessential summer dessert. It is made with fresh or roasted strawberries in a creamy vanilla pudding and whipped cream with Nilla wafers. This Strawberry Shortcake Pudding will be your favorite no-bake summer dessert recipe. This strawberry trifle will be a hit!
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Lemon Posset
This Lemon Posset recipe is a silky, smooth, lemon custard that is so simple yet elegant and the perfect quick and easy lemon dessert. This bright and creamy lemon dessert is served in fresh lemons for a luxurious dessert.
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Panna Cotta
Panna Cotta. A silky smooth, creamy vanilla bean dessert made with cream, sugar, gelatin, and vanilla beans. An Italian favorite dessert!
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No Bake Cheesecake
This easy no bake cheesecake is made with only 7 ingredients and doesn't require baking in the oven. It has a light, creamy, velvety and rich cheesecake filling paired with a buttery crust. It is the perfect no bake dessert recipe.
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Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding Recipe
The Famous Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding is the best banana pudding recipe ever! This iconic NYC Bakery is known for its banana pudding and I am sharing their famous banana pudding recipe with you!
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No-Bake Raspberry Cheesecake Squares
No-Bake Frozen Raspberry Cheesecake Squares. Creamy no-bake raspberry cheesecake filling on top of a shortbread or graham cracker crust topped with fresh raspberries. A creamy no-bake frozen dessert.
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