30 Spring Dessert Recipes
Brighten your spring with any of these delicious spring dessert recipes! Whether you’re looking for a fruity dessert like lemon bar cookies and lemon poppy seed muffins, or a classic cake recipe like my perfect carrot cake and funfetti sheet cake, these treats will make the spring season that much sweeter.
SPRING COOKIE RECIPES
Strawberry Jam Sugar Cookies
These strawberry sugar cookies were inspired by a delicious combination of sweet strawberries and smooth vanilla! Soft and buttery sugar cookie dough is swirled with fruity strawberry jam and baked to soft and tender perfection. With ribbons of jam throughout each cookie, each bite is met with soft cookie and jammy strawberry.
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.
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.
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).
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!
SPRING CAKE RECIPES
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
This lemon poppy seed cake is made with SO much fresh lemon flavor and is all topped with a swirled lemon curd cream cheese frosting. It’s bright, zesty, moist, soft, and so delicious.
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!
Gooey Lemon Butter Cake
This gooey lemon butter cake is a combination of the two best lemon desserts – lemon bars and lemon cake. A soft lemon cake is baked with a puddle of lemon cream curd on top. It sinks into the cake as it bakes, creating a tender and moist cake that is bursting with fresh lemon flavor.
Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake
This strawberry cake is incredibly moist and made with FRESH strawberries! No mixes, no food coloring, just natural strawberry flavor with a silky strawberry cream cheese frosting.
Lemon Raspberry Cake
This lemon raspberry cake is bursting with flavor, including layers of white lemon cake, lemon pastry cream, raspberry jam, and whipped raspberry cream cheese frosting.
Funfetti Sheet Cake
This funfetti sheet cake is inspired by my ever popular funfetti layer cake! It’s just as moist and fluffy (or maybe even more so) and has that classic birthday cake flavor. Using clear vanilla extract is what gives it that nostalgia factor and shortening in the frosting creates that grocery store sweetness (but in the best way). It’s perfect for any celebration!
SPRING BARS AND BROWNIES RECIPES
Strawberry Pop Tart Shortbread
This buttery shortbread makes the most delicious strawberry pop tart bars! Shortbread is baked with a layer of sweet and tart strawberry preserves in the center and topped with vanilla icing.
Raspberry Lemon Cheesecake Bars
These raspberry lemon cheesecake bars are a combination of fresh raspberries, lemon bars, and cheesecake! They’re baked with a buttery shortbread crust, creamy lemon cheesecake, and a layer of raspberry lemon filling on top. Top with a dusting of powdered sugar and these bars taste just like pink lemonade!
Brown Butter Frosted Banana Bread Bars
These banana bread bars are the perfect way to use up those spotty ripe bananas sitting on your counter! They’re also made extra special with brown butter both in the batter and in the sweet frosting on top.
Brown Sugar Berry Crumble Bars
These berry crumble bars have the most delicious and jammy triple berry filling with a sweet and buttery brown sugar crumble! They’re so quick and easy to make and are the perfect way to celebrate berry season.
Strawberry Shortcake Cheesecake Bars
These strawberry shortcake cheesecake bars are a twist on a classic dessert! Layered with a graham cracker crust, vanilla cake, no bake cheesecake, and juicy strawberries on top, this is strawberry shortcake on a whole other level.
Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tart Shortbread
My absolute favorite pop tart flavor reinvented in this delicious brown sugar shortbread! Buttery shortbread is baked with a layer of brown sugar cinnamon in the center. It smells just like a freshly toasted brown sugar cinnamon pop tart, but tastes ten times better!
NO BAKE SPRING DESSERT 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!
Raspberry Smash Paloma
This raspberry paloma is so refreshing with sweet mashed raspberries, tart grapefruit juice, tequila, and a splash of ginger beer. I’ve also included a mocktail version in the recipe notes!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Treats
These easy no bake marshmallow treats are like extra gooey rice krispie treats with chocolate and peanut butter melted in! They’re so quick to make but yield a thick and rich marshmallow treat that tastes way better than any basic version.
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.
Raspberry Aperitif Mocktail
This raspberry mocktail is a non-alcoholic spin on an aperitif sour. Shaken with fresh citrus, raspberry jam, aperitif alternative, and aquafaba for a frothy finish, this cocktail has the perfect mix of sweet, tart, bitter, and smooth.
Strawberry Pretzel Marshmallow Treats
These strawberry marshmallow treats have all the delicious flavors of a classic strawberry pretzel salad! Crunchy roasted pretzels and flavorful freeze dried strawberries are mixed into the most ooey gooey rice krispie treats. It’s a fun spin on this traditional no bake treat!
JENNA’S FAVORITE SPRING DESSERTS
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.
Lemon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
This moist lemon coffee cake is taken to the next level and layered with lemon cream cheese, lemon curd, and a fine crumble sprinkled on top! It’s SO lemony and well worth all the dirty dishes required to make it.
Wild Blueberry Crumble Bars
These wild blueberry crumble bars have perfectly thin layers of buttery crumble and jammy lemon blueberry filling! They’re so quick and easy to make using frozen berries and melted butter. Plus, since they’re so thin, they cool quickly so they’re ready to slice in under 2 hours!
The BEST Banana Cake
This banana cake is made extra special with a vanilla pudding frosting! The incredibly moist and tender cake paired with a rich and not-too-sweet pudding on top will leave you wanting more than just one slice.
Lemon Blueberry Loaf
This lemon blueberry loaf is so tender and loaded with fresh blueberries and zesty lemon flavor! Topped with a sweet layer of crumble and a lemon icing drizzle, this loaf cake is NEXT LEVEL good.
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
These are the BEST lemon poppy seed muffins! They’re bakery-quality with super tall muffin tops, a moist texture, super fresh lemon flavor, and homemade lemon simple syrup brushed on top.
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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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