We’ve compiled our favorite Easter bunny-approved treats 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 best Easter dessert recipes has traditional, beautiful (and most importantly easy) ideas everyone will love.
Best Easter Dessert Recipes
Cinnamon Roll Pull-Apart Bread
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. Get the recipe
Peeps Pops
Turn your favorite marshmallow creatures into adorable spring treats. Get the recipe
Spring Hummingbird Cupcakes
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. Get the recipe
Best Carrot Cake Recipe
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. Get the recipe
Easter Hugs Pretzel Snaps
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. Get the recipe
Frog Eye Salad
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. Get the recipe
Bunny Rabbit Easter Tart
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. Get the recipe
Pineapple Cornbread Shortcake Trifle
Give this impressive, change-of-pace dessert a place at your Easter table and settle in for the compliments. Get the recipe
Easter Bunny Cupcakes
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. Get the recipe
Chocolate Honey-Nut Pie
With coffee, honey and chocolate, this pie makes a decadent dessert for Easter or any of your spring gatherings. Get the recipe
Olive Oil Cake with Brown Butter-Citrus Glaze
This olive oil cake recipe is a well-balanced blend of subtle, yet distinct, flavors: honey, almond, lemon and orange. Get the recipe
Easter Peeps Pretzel Rods
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. Get the recipe
Blueberry Muffin Cookies
Morph a morning classic into an anytime treat with an assist from a pantry mainstay. Get the recipe
Lemony Hazelnut and Blueberry Cake
If you love cream, berries and nuts, you’ll love this easy Easter Lemon-Blueberry Cake. Get the recipe
Hop to It Bunny Cake
Celebrate Easter with this sweet bunny cake. Get the recipe
Ooey-Gooey Peeps Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies come out of the oven perfectly oozing from the Peep stuffed inside. What better way to celebrate Easter and Peeps 60th Birthday than with a fun and easy dessert? Get the recipe
Adorable ‘Carrot’ Carrot Cakes
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. Get the recipe
Orange Creamsicle Salad
This Orange Creamsicle Salad is a cool, refreshing dessert for Easter Sunday. Get the recipe
Lemon-Almond Strata with Fresh Raspberries
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. Get the recipe
Easter Candy Bark
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. Get the recipe
Easter Egg-clairs
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. Get the recipe
Easter Candy Blondies
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. Get the recipe
Bunny Bark
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! Get the recipe
Cherry-Almond Orange Glazed Scones
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. Get the recipe
Pretzel Goat Cheesecake Bites
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. Get the recipe
Easter Bunny Cake
Easter and bunnies basically go hand in hand and this might just be the cutest cottontail (cake) ever! Get the recipe
Pastel Easter Cake
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. Get the recipe
Lemon Chiffon Cupcakes
No cupcake is more decadent than lemon chiffon topped with Italian buttercream. Get the recipe
Easter Coconut Truffles
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! Get the recipe
Lemon Tart with Chocolate Cookie Crust and Marmalade Cream
This luscious lemon tart has a surprise chocolate crunch. Get the recipe
Best Baked Pastel Donuts
Easter is just a few weeks away. How about some freshly baked, not-fried donuts?! These are so easy to prepare that you will want to make them all year round. Get the recipe
Chocolate and Banana Mini Cups
This low-sugar treat is sweet enough to keep kids (and adults!) from raiding Easter baskets. Get the recipe
Baa Baa Black Sheep
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. Get the recipe
Green Jello Salad (aka Mormon Jello Salad)
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. Get the recipe
Carrot Pudding Cups
Candy-coated strawberries perch in chocolate pudding for this snack that looks like carrots ready to be pulled from the garden. Get the recipe
Fudge Pie
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. Get the recipe
Martha Stewart’s All-Time Favorite Bundt Cake
Pistachios, rose water and dried rose petals lend this buttermilk Bundt cake, from Martha Stewart’s Cake Perfection, haunting flavors of the Middle East. Get the recipe
Banana Split Fluff
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. Get the recipe
Cookies and Cream Fluff
Chocolate sandwich cookies, pudding, Cool Whip and marshmallows come together in a creamy, sweet treat that makes you want to lick the bowl clean. Get the recipe
Easter Bunny Bark
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. Get the recipe
Vanilla Cupcakes
A basic vanilla treat that’s perfect for Easter decorating. Get the recipe
Easter Egg Hunt Cake
This super-easy cake recipe starts with a cake mix and your favorite toppings and ends up looking like an Easter egg hunt! Get the recipe
Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies
These fun sweets have all the flavors of carrot cake, in sandwich cookie form! Get the recipe
Rainbow Fruit Fluff
This easy fluff dessert looks and tastes like spring in a bowl! It will also be a great addition to your Easter menu! Get the recipe
Strawberry-Banana Sheet Pan Pancakes
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. Get the recipe
Cake Batter Blondies
Cake mix gets a rich, chewy makeover in colorful bars perfect for Easter (or any spring celebration). Get the recipe
Carrot Cake with Fresh Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
This is one pretty cake. That’s what you’ll say to yourself as you smooth the delectable frosting on so effortlessly. Get the recipe
Raspberry Zinger Poke Cake
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. Get the recipe
4-Ingredient No-Bake Pie
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. Get the recipe
