Easter Dessert Recipes

From an airy fruit mousse to a tall and fluffy angel food cake, our Easter dessert recipes help you round out your holiday meal with something sweet.

Explore Easter Desserts

All Desserts
20170301-chocolate-digestives-mcvities-vicky-wasik-27.jpg
Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits (McVities)
20120613-strawberry-sorbet-primary.jpg
Strawberry Sorbet Recipe
20191107-greek-yogurt-cheesecake-vicky-wasik-19
No-Bake Greek Yogurt Cheesecake Recipe
Overhead image showing sliced lemon bar squares topped with powdered sugar on a marble countertop.
Sunny Lemon Bars Recipe
20180924-brown-butter-cake-vicky-wasik-21
White Cake With Brown Butter and Toasted Sugar Recipe
20190521-chocolate-hazelnut-rolls-vicky-wasik-16
Overnight Chocolate-Hazelnut Breakfast Buns Recipe
20190524-pistachio-oil-cake-vicky-wasik-5
Pistachio Cake Recipe
24 Bright and Spring-y Easter Dessert Recipes
Freshly baked choux pastry puffs on a parchment lined baking sheet.
How to Make Choux Pastry (Pâte à Choux) Recipe
20130711-cookiemonster-brownbutterblondies.JPG
Brown Butter Blondies Recipe
20171023-chocolate-mousse-vicky-wasik-20.jpg
Eggless Chocolate Mousse Recipe
20180129-ricotta-cookies-vicky-wasik-11
Lacy Brown Butter and Ricotta Cookies Recipe
A slice of chocolate cream pie topped with vanilla meringue
Double-Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
20171129-lime-meringue-pie-vicky-wasik-12-1500x1125
Fresh and Creamy Lime Pie Recipe
A loaf of honey semifreddo, topped with macerated cherries and Marcona almonds.
Honey Semifreddo (Frozen Italian Dessert) Recipe
A slice of cherry clafoutis on a speckled ceramic plate on the left side of the image. On the right side is the remaining clafoutis, showing a slice has been removed.
Classic Cherry Clafoutis Recipe
20180129-meyer-lemon-ice-cream-vicky-wasik-14
Meyer Lemon Ice Cream Recipe
Cranachan topped with fresh raspberries
Cranachan (Scottish Whipped Cream With Whisky, Raspberries, and Toasted Oats) Recipe
Overhead of slices of no-bake cheesecake made with freeze-dried fruit.
No-Bake Cheesecake With Freeze-Dried Fruit Recipe
20180530-basil-white-chocolate-mousse-vicky-wasik-31
Fresh Basil Mousse Recipe
20150222-no-bake-chocolate-and-nutella-cheesecake-nila-jones-4.jpg
No-Bake Chocolate-Nutella "Cheesecake" Verrines Recipe
20140413-289750-coconut-cupcakes-primary2.jpg
Easy Coconut Cupcakes Recipe
20170127-chocolate-cherry-cake-vicky-wasik-6.jpg
Chocolate Cherry Layer Cake Recipe
20180409-blueberry-upside-down-cake-vicky-wasik-24
Upside-Down Blueberry Muffin Recipe
slice of angel food cake plated with chantilly cream, fresh fig, blueberries, and blackberries
Effortless Angel Food Cake Recipe
serving up a slice of chiffon cake with cream and berries
Classic Chiffon Cake With Vanilla Chantilly Recipe
20170302-easter-candy-chocolate-cookies-vicky-wasik-25.jpg
Dark Chocolate Easter Cookies Recipe
A small pink speckled stoneware plate with three classic éclairs on it, each topped with chocolate icing. A bakers rack with more éclairs is in the background.
Classic Éclairs Recipe
20150804-kenji-lopez-alt-japanese-cotton-soft-cheesecake-step-by-step16.jpg
Japanese Cotton-Soft Cheesecake Recipe
20130328-246162-easter-egg-cake.jpg
Easter Egg Cake Recipe
A top-down image of six composed strawberry shortcakes, on a speckled ceramic plate on a textured cloth background.
5-Ingredient Strawberry Shortcakes Recipe
20171220-grasshopper-pie-vicky-wasik-27
Grasshopper Ice Cream Pie Recipe
20180129-meyer-lemon-ice-cream-vicky-wasik-12
Meyer Lemon Ice Cream That's as Easy as Pie
20150331-meringue-nests-with-orange-curd-nila-jones-1.jpg
Meringue Nests With Orange Curd Cream and Easter Eggs Recipe
Homemade Peeps Rice Krispy treats cut into a rectangle, a star, and a heart on a plate.
Peeps Krispies Treats Recipe
20150630-cherry-ricotta-salad-tartine-vicky-wasik-2.jpg
Easiest Summer Ever: Sweet-Sour Cherries With Mint and Ricotta
20110321-142792-deviledcreme2.jpg
Cakespy: Cadbury Creme Deviled Eggs Recipe
20201210-choux-cream-puffs-vicky-wasik-16
Cream Puffs Recipe
Chocolate Coconut Nests With Jelly Bean Eggs Recipe
Chocolate Marshmallow Peeps Recipe
20170302-easter-candy-chocolate-cookies-vicky-wasik-15.jpg
Turn Leftover Easter Candy Into These Ultra-Chocolaty Cookies
20150331-meringue-nests-with-orange-curd-nila-jones-1-thumb.jpg
Meringue Nests With Orange Curd Cream and Easter Eggs Make the Cutest Easter Dessert Ever
20210217-choux-au-craquelinRAW-debbie-wee
Choux au Craquelin Recipe
20201210-choux-chouquettes-vicky-wasik-7
Chouquettes Recipe
20170414-rhubarb-crisp-vicky-wasik-4.jpg
Rhubarb Crisp Recipe
20190501-ice-cream-pie-vicky-wasik-18
No-Churn Vanilla Ice Cream Pie Recipe
Chocoholic: Chocolate Coconut Nests with Jelly Bean Eggs
Overhead view of cornflake crispies
Cornflake Marshmallow Treats
Side angle view of Chocolate Pecan Galette
Chocolate Pecan Galette
Overhead view of suman next to a cut mango topped with sugar
Suman (Filipino Steamed Sticky Rice Cakes)
Overhead view of Basbousa Bel Ashta
Basbousa Bel Ashta (Semolina Cake With Ashta Cream Filling)
Side angle view of a spoon lifting up chocolate mousse
Chocolate Mousse
Overhead view of ile flottante
Île Flottante (French Floating Meringues With Crème Anglaise)
Overhead view of finished che on a platter with peanut toppings
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
Overhead view of ile flottante in creme anglaise
Crème Anglaise
Overhead view of creme brulee
Crème Brûlée
Crouquemboche
Croquembouche
20210317-Paris-BrestRAW-Debbie-Wee-4
Paris–Brest (Pâte à Choux With Praline Crème Mousseline) Recipe