20 Easter Dessert Recipes
Celebrate Easter with a classic carrot cake or a fun unique treat like Easter bunny chow! These easy dessert recipes are bright, sweet, and perfect for sharing with friends and family.
EASTER CAKE RECIPES
Roasted Strawberry Cheesecake
This strawberry cheesecake is made extra special with fresh roasted strawberries! The process of roasting brings out such a sweet and rich strawberry flavor and with roasted strawberries both in the batter and on top, it creates a VERY strawberry cheesecake.
Perfect Carrot Cake
This is truly the BEST EVER carrot cake recipe. It’s incredibly moist, perfectly spiced, and smothered in cream cheese frosting. It’s the only carrot cake recipe you’ll ever need!
New York Style Cheesecake
This New York Cheesecake is dense, creamy, crack-free, and absolutely delicious. It’s also baked low and slow for the most incredible texture! If you’re a beginner, this recipe is full of tips to help you along the way.
Carrot Cake Cupcakes
These are the BEST carrot cake cupcakes! Not only are they extra moist with loads of fresh grated carrots and warm spices, but they’re also topped with a rich and silky cream cheese frosting.
Moist Chocolate Carrot Cake
This chocolate carrot cake is SO moist, SO fudgy, and topped with a creamy chocolate pudding frosting. It’s baked in a loaf pan for perfect snack slices and is completely gluten free and vegan!
NO BAKE EASTER RECIPES
Easter Bunny Chow
This Easter puppy chow is a festive take on a no bake classic! It’s made salty and sweet where white chocolate and powdered sugar are balanced with sunflower seed butter, pretzels, popcorn, and rice square cereal. This Easter bunny chow is so easy to make but is always an absolute crowd pleaser!
Classic Tiramisu
This incredible tiramisu recipe is a delicious no bake dessert with a silky smooth mascarpone filling and espresso soaked lady fingers. Taking extra care to pick the right ingredients, this tiramisu has the best flavor with a texture that just melts in your mouth. This recipe also fills an 8×8 pan, but a larger 9×13 option is in the recipe notes!
No Bake Peanut Butter Pie
This no bake peanut butter pie is light and airy, yet so rich and creamy! The filling has the silkiest consistency, and it’s bursting with lots of peanut butter flavor. A few secret ingredients and essential baking tips make this the most life-changing peanut butter pie you’ll ever have!
Lucky Charms Marshmallow Treats
These lucky charms marshmallow treats are so gooey and loaded with sweet marshmallow candies! The pastel colors of the marshmallows makes this a super easy Spring dessert recipe that everyone will love.
Cookie Dough Easter Eggs
These healthy cookie dough eggs are made up of 8 simple ingredients, are mixed by hand, and are completely gluten free, vegan, and refined sugar free.
EASTER COOKIE RECIPES
Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are the ULTIMATE bakery style chocolate chip cookies that you can make right at home. They’re large and in charge with a gooey center, chewy edges, and rich flavor using a few secret ingredients.
Lucky Charms Frosted Sugar Cookies
Soft and tender sugar cookies topped with smooth vanilla buttercream and a pile of Lucky Charms cereal
Lemon Bar Butter Cookies
This lemon cookie recipe combines two delicious desserts – lemon bars and gooey butter cookies. A puddle of homemade lemon curd is baked into the center of each cookie.
Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies
These soft frosted sugar cookies are WAY better than Lofthouse! Made with a combination of butter and oil, the cookies are super tender and soft throughout. They’re then topped with a smooth vanilla butter cream and, of course, sprinkles!
Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies
These peanut butter cookies are absolute PERFECTION with a soft, rich, and chewy texture and a coating of crunchy peanut sprinkles (because they’re way more fun than the classic fork criss cross).
Frosted Lemon Sugar Cookies
These frosted lemon sugar cookies are so light but so flavorful! Made with the zest and juice of fresh lemons, these cookies are bright and zesty with a sweet lemon frosting and a sprinkle of lemon sugar on top.
EASTER BRUNCH RECIPES
BEST Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
These BEST EVER cinnamon rolls are soft, moist, fluffy, and topped with a silky cream cheese icing.
Cream Cheese Carrot Coffee Cake
This is the ULTIMATE carrot cake dessert! Carrot cake batter is baked with a layer of sweet cheesecake and topped with a brown sugar walnut crumble. It makes the most delicious carrot coffee cake that’s so moist and so delicious.
Iced Lemon Loaf Cake
This incredibly moist lemon loaf cake is so much better than Starbucks! It’s bursting with fresh lemon flavor, both in the cake and the lemon icing. Using a special creamy method, it’s also super soft, tender, and buttery.
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Following up my popular chocolate chip banana bread, these are my chocolate chip banana muffins! They’re just as moist and are rich with banana flavor. Just like the bread, these muffins are baked with mini chocolate chips so there’s a speckling of chocolate in every bite!
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I’m the creator, baker, and photographer behind Butternut Bakery. Here I share desserts for every diet because I believe everyone should have a chance to indulge!
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