45+ Easy Easter Desserts To Try

From cupcakes to bark, get baking easy Easter desserts with these recipes.

Hop hop, Easter is almost here! Between Easter egg coloring, Easter egg hunt planning and Easter basket stuffing, you have to find time for the most important part: the Easter menu. Whether your family is more of an Easter brunch squad or an Easter dinner crew, one thing's for certain: there needs to be plenty of Easter desserts.

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We've compiled our favorite Easter bunny-approved recipes 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 easy Easter desserts has traditional, beautiful (and most importantly easy) ideas everyone will love.

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Best Easter Desserts

Cinnamon Roll Pull-Apart Bread

<p>Mark Boughton Photography / Styling by Teresa Blackburn</p>

Mark Boughton Photography / Styling by Teresa Blackburn

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.

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Peeps Pops

<p>Andrew Purcell for Dash; Food styling, Carrie Purcell; Prop styling, Heather Chontos</p>

Andrew Purcell for Dash; Food styling, Carrie Purcell; Prop styling, Heather Chontos

Turn your favorite marshmallow creatures into adorable spring treats.

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Spring Hummingbird Cupcakes

<p>Teresa Blackburn</p>

Teresa Blackburn

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.

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Best Carrot Cake Recipe

<p>Parade</p>

Parade

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.

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Easter Hugs Pretzel Snaps

<p>Skinny Sweets Daily</p>

Skinny Sweets Daily

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.

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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.

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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.

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Pineapple Cornbread Shortcake Trifle

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MARK BOUGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY / STYLING BY TERESA BLACKBURN

Give this impressive, change-of-pace dessert a place at your Easter table and settle in for the compliments.

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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.

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Chocolate Honey-Nut Pie

<p>Jessica Merchant</p>

Jessica Merchant

With coffee, honey and chocolate, this pie makes a decadent dessert for Easter or any of your spring gatherings.

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Olive Oil Cake with Brown Butter-Citrus Glaze

<p>Baked Chicago</p>

Baked Chicago

This olive oil cake recipe is a well-balanced blend of subtle, yet distinct, flavors: honey, almond, lemon and orange.

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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.

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Blueberry Muffin Cookies

<p>Hayley Parker</p>

Hayley Parker

Morph a morning classic into an anytime treat with an assist from a pantry mainstay.

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Lemony Hazelnut and Blueberry Cake

If you love cream, berries and nuts, you'll love this easy Easter Lemon-Blueberry Cake.

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Hop to It Bunny Cake

<p>Sheri Giblin</p>

Sheri Giblin

Celebrate Easter with this sweet bunny cake.

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Ooey-Gooey Peeps Chocolate Chip Cookies

<p>Lauren Lilling</p>

Lauren Lilling

These cookies come out of the oven perfectly oozing from the Peep stuffed inside. What better way to celebrate Easter than with a fun and easy dessert?

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Adorable 'Carrot' Carrot Cakes

<p>KELLY SENYEI</p>

KELLY SENYEI

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.

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Orange Creamsicle Salad

<p>Krista Marshall</p>

Krista Marshall

This Orange Creamsicle Salad is a cool, refreshing dessert for Easter Sunday.

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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.

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Easter Candy Bark

<p>Lori Lange</p>

Lori Lange

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.

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Easter Egg-clairs

<p>Laurie Farmer</p>

Laurie Farmer

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.

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Easter Candy Blondies

<p>Kat Jeter and Melinda Caldwell</p>

Kat Jeter and Melinda Caldwell

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.

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Bunny Bark

<p>Kellie Tate</p>

Kellie Tate

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!

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Cherry-Almond Orange Glazed Scones

<p>Melissa Sperka</p>

Melissa Sperka

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.

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Pretzel Goat Cheesecake Bites

<p>Cindy Rahe</p>

Cindy Rahe

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.

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Easter Bunny Cake

<p>Con Poulos</p>

Con Poulos

Easter and bunnies basically go hand in hand and this might just be the cutest cottontail (cake) ever!

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Pastel Easter Cake

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MARK BOUGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY / STYLING BY TERESA BLACKBURN

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.

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Lemon Chiffon Cupcakes

No cupcake is more decadent than lemon chiffon topped with Italian buttercream.

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Easter Coconut Truffles

<p>Everyday Mom's Meals</p>

Everyday Mom's Meals

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!

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Lemon Tart with Chocolate Cookie Crust and Marmalade Cream

<p>Andrew Purcell for Dash; Food styling, Carrie Purcell; Prop styling, Heather Chontos</p>

Andrew Purcell for Dash; Food styling, Carrie Purcell; Prop styling, Heather Chontos

This luscious lemon tart has a surprise chocolate crunch.

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Best Baked Pastel Donuts

<p>Skinny Sweets Daily</p>

Skinny Sweets Daily

Easter is just around the corner. How about some freshly baked, not-fried donuts?! These are so easy to prepare that you will want to make them all year round.

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Chocolate and Banana Mini Cups

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This low-sugar treat is sweet enough to keep kids (and adults!) from raiding Easter baskets.

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Baa Baa Black Sheep

<p>Photo by: Karen Tack and Alan Richardson</p>

Photo by: Karen Tack and Alan Richardson

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.

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Green Jello Salad (aka Mormon Jello Salad)

<p>Krista Marshall</p>

Krista Marshall

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.

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Carrot Pudding Cups

<p>Deonna Wade</p>

Deonna Wade

Candy-coated strawberries perch in chocolate pudding for this snack that looks like carrots ready to be pulled from the garden.

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Fudge Pie

<p>Krista Marshall</p>

Krista Marshall

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.

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Martha Stewart's All-Time Favorite Bundt Cake

<p>Photo by Lennart Weibull</p>

Photo by Lennart Weibull

Pistachios, rose water and dried rose petals lend this buttermilk Bundt cake, from Martha Stewart's Cake Perfection, haunting flavors of the Middle East.

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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.

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Cookies and Cream Fluff

<p>Krista Marshall</p>

Krista Marshall

Chocolate sandwich cookies, pudding, Cool Whip and marshmallows come together in a creamy, sweet treat that makes you want to lick the bowl clean.

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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.

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Vanilla Cupcakes

<p>Andrew Purcell</p>

Andrew Purcell

A basic vanilla treat that's perfect for Easter decorating.

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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!

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Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies

<p>Andrew Purcell for Dash; Food styling, Carrie Purcell; Prop styling, Heather Chontos</p>

Andrew Purcell for Dash; Food styling, Carrie Purcell; Prop styling, Heather Chontos

These fun sweets have all the flavors of carrot cake, in sandwich cookie form!

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Rainbow Fruit Fluff

<p>Everyday Mom's Meals</p>

Everyday Mom's Meals

This easy fluff dessert looks and tastes like spring in a bowl! It will also be a great addition to your Easter menu!

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Strawberry-Banana Sheet Pan Pancakes

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MARK BOUGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY / STYLING BY TERESA BLACKBURN

Breakfast for a crowd is fast and no-sweat with these easy-?x pancakes that can be served right from the sheet pan. Fruit and fat-free yogurt add sweetness with no additional sugar.

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Cake Batter Blondies

<p>CALLIE BLOUNT</p>

CALLIE BLOUNT

Cake mix gets a rich, chewy makeover in colorful bars perfect for Easter (or any spring celebration).

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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.

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Raspberry Zinger Poke Cake

<p>JENNIFER BLUME</p>

JENNIFER BLUME

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.

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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.

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