31 Easy Easter Desserts to Make in No Time
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If you’re looking for easy Easter desserts, these simple recipes are super cute and festive whether you’re serving Easter Brunch or Easter Dinner. You will find easy dessert recipes and ideas for pudding cakes, carrot cakes, bunny donuts, egg nests, Easter cupcakes, and more. All to give you more time to hunt those eggs and enjoy your people!
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While these Easter desserts are beautiful enough for the Easter table, they’re also delicious crowd-pleasers.
In fact, there’s a dessert for every taste at your table this year. From beautiful to cute, baked to no-bake.
Holidays deserve showstopping desserts whether you’re serving an Easter Dinner or an Easter Brunch.
And while we have a whole post dedicated to Easter Cakes, these easy Easter desserts include recipes from loaf cakes to cupcakes, puddings, treats, cookies, and more.
What are you making for Easter this year?
Filling Easter Baskets?
If you are filling Easter baskets this year (as I am), and still deciding what candy to include, here are some ideas.
Top 10 Most Popular Easter Candy According to DoorDash!
According to DoorDash, Easter candy is more popular than Halloween or Valentine’s Day. So in case your’e looking for ideas to include in baskets, here is a list to get you started.
- Reese’s Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs Candies
- Cadbury Creme Egg Milk Chocolate Easter Candy
- Starburst Jelly Beans Original
- Hershey’s Kisses Milk Chocolate Candy Share Pack
- Snicker’s, Twix, Milky Way & More Assorted Easter Chocolate Candy Bulk Variety Pack
- Galerie Value Jelly Beans Filled Egg
- Lindt Milk Chocolate Bunny
- Dove Milk Chocolate Easter Eggs
- Peeps Marshmallow Chicks Candy
- Ferrero Rocher Fine Hazelnut Chocolates Easter Bunny
31 Easy Easter Desserts to Make this Year
Looking for easy Easter desserts? These simple recipes are festive and delicious! From pudding cakes to carrot cakes, find the perfect dessert for your Easter table.
Lemon Pudding Cake
Charm your Easter guests with this sugar-coated lemon cake.
DIY Easter Dessert Board
"With a few easy Easter recipes and how-to instructions, you can create your own colorful dessert board. Serve your finished platter after Easter dinner or as part of an Easter brunch buffet."
Mini Chocolate Easter Brownie Bites
Chocolate Easter Brownie Bites are tiny bites of dense, fudgy, rich chocolate brownies. Topped with a layer of decadent chocolate buttercream shaped into nests, they are filled with Easter egg candies. Cute and easy, and perfect for Easter.
Easter M&M Cookies Recipe
These Easter M&M Cookies are deliciously soft and chewy, bright with the pastel colors of Easter. With a vanilla sugar cookie base, they're easy to bake, no chilling, and perfect for Easter!
Simple Easter Basket Tarts (Puff Pastry Recipes)
These Easter Basket Tarts are a simple puff pastry recipe that is cute, easy, and fun for the holiday. Delicious with simple store-bought fillings or decadent with homemade lemon curd or chocolate ganache. Topped with coconut grass and Easter eggs, they bring a festive touch to your Easter or dessert table!
Easy Carrot Cake Loaf
This Carrot Cake Loaf is packed with flavor and grated carrots. Warm spices make it incredibly delicious, topped generously with cream cheese frosting!
Easy Citrus Iced Orange Cake Recipe
This simple Orange Cake is soft, moist, and delicious with bright citrus flavors. It's easy to make without a mixer and is perfect for your Easter table.
Banana Trifle
"Recipe excerpted from Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten. This banana dessert from the Barefoot Contessa herself gets a bigger flavor than most!"
Robin's Egg No-Bake Cheesecake
'Tis the season for Robin's Eggs, and this no-bake cheesecake is the perfect way to celebrate.
Donut Bunnies Recipe
"The bunny ears are just marshmallows cut on a diagonal. (Using wooden picks, you can also add ears to other treats, like cupcakes, too!)"
15 Minute Strawberry No Bake Mini Cheesecakes
These Strawberry No Bake Mini Cheesecakes are adorable and utterly creamy and delicious. Easy to make in about 15 minutes, plus chilling time, they’re filled with simple ingredients like cream cheese, whipping cream, and fresh strawberries. Effortless treats that are festive and perfect for special occasions.
10 Minute No Bake Cheesecake
This No Bake Cheesecake is a 10-minute, no-bake, foolproof way to make cheesecake, the easy way. And, it's utterly delicious. Change up the topping in any way you like!
Strawberry Baked Donuts
This incredibly delicious, super easy Baked Strawberry Donut recipe is packed with fresh strawberries, dipped in strawberry glaze, and so tender and moist they almost melt in your mouth.
Egg Nest Easter Cupcakes
For a quick and easy Easter treat that's fun and whimsical and spring-like, try these Easter Egg Nest Cupcakes with our Simple Vanilla Cupcakes recipe posted here.
Lemon Cut Out Sugar Cookies
It’s spring, and Easter is nearly here! Make a batch of these Lemon Cut Out Sugar Cookies! They are delicious, buttery, sunny and bright with lemon flavor, and super easy to make in any shape you want.
Layered Peep-Crispy Treats Recipe
Grab four different colors of peeps and 6 cups of rice crispy treats and you’re on your way to creating the most playful and crunchy Easter dessert on your table.
Zesty Lemon Icebox Pie
A silken, old fashioned Zesty Lemon Icebox Pie is a quintessential spring dessert perfect for Easter.
Chocolate Nests Recipe
Candy coated chocolate eggs take these nests over the top with cuteness!
Simple Lemon Curd Tart Recipe
This French Lemon Curd Tart is inspired by Tarte au Citron, or French Lemon Tart. It's a creamy, slightly tangy lemon custard filling baked in a crisp, buttery shortbread crust. It's incredibly simple to make, and utterly delicious!
Mini Lemon Pudding Cakes
Mini Lemon Pudding Cakes are a refreshing, melt-in-your-mouth, lemony dream. Simple and quick to make, this dessert magically forms two layers when baked. A light and airy cake on top with a lemon pudding custard on the bottom.
Lemon Cupcakes with Lavender Frosting
"Sweet lemon cupcakes topped with vanilla lavender frosting are not only delicious, but a super fun way to change up your usual vanilla or chocolate cupcake! From Jessica Merchant of How Sweet It Is."
Coconut Cream Pie Bites
Coconut Cream pie is a perennial favorite dessert at Easter. These mini versions are super simple and super quick!
Shortbread Tea Cookies with Lemon Curd
Shortbread Tea Cookies with Lemon Curd, topped with fresh blueberries, are tiny bites of perfection. Petit and perfectly sized for afternoon tea, they are melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Cake
This Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Cake is deliciously bright, ultra-soft, and moist. Both sweet and slightly tangy, it's a delightful anytime cake. Made with yogurt, it's a bit healthier without sacrificing the lemon poppy seed flavors we love.
Lavender Tea Bread
This Lavender Tea Bread is a moist and sweet tea loaf, perfect for afternoon tea or simply to celebrate when the lavender blooms. Delightfully rich with butter and lavender cream, and unforgettable with the vanilla flavoring.
Lemon Crinkle Cookies
Lemon Crinkle Cookies are sweet and soft and pillowy… and utterly delicious. Made with fresh lemon juice and zest, and then tossed in powdered sugar that “crinkles” as they bake, these cookies are a favorite. And perfect for Easter!
2 Minute Coconut Mug Cake
Coconut Mug Cake is a decadently delicious 2-minute microwave dessert that's perfect for coconut cake lovers. It's a simple moist and tender mug cake you'll fall in love with.
Easy Lemon Cookies
Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies are a soft and chewy cookie to fall in love with. Old fashioned, homemade, zesty with fresh lemon, and oh-so-wonderful.
Strawberry Napoleon Dessert
A stress-free easy Easter dessert with 4 ingredients made in minutes!
Easy Key Lime Pie with Graham Cracker Crust
A vibrantly sweet pie made simply and beautifully. All in our favorite shades of Easter.
Hummingbird Cupcakes
"Fruity cupcakes are the perfect big-batch Easter dessert. Dress them up with blueberry and pineapple flowers for a bit of springtime flair."