30 Amazing Easter Desserts to Try Out
As Easter approaches, it’s time to indulge in delicious desserts that celebrate the spirit of renewal and abundance. Easter desserts hold a special place in culinary traditions around the world, but, in addition to classic treats like sweet breads and cheese-based desserts that have been cherished for generations, there’s also room for creativity and innovation in the kitchen.
Whether you’re hosting a festive gathering or simply looking to add a touch of sweetness to your Easter celebration, our selection of desserts are guaranteed to impress.
1. Easter Chick and Bunny Cupcakes
This recipe demonstrates how to craft delightful chick and bunny cupcakes that will undoubtedly brighten your Easter festivities.
These delightful confections are not only enjoyable to prepare but are also ideal for infusing a hint of whimsy into your holiday spread. So, dive in and start baking!
2. Egg-shaped Lemon Curd Cookies
This Easter, don’t forget to prepare some delicious egg-shaped filled cookies that are sure to delight both kids and adults.
3. Easter Bunny Bread
Get into the Easter spirit with this charming Greek Easter bread recipe by Chef Giorgos Tsoulis, featuring an adorable bunny shape. It’s an ideal recipe for crafting with your little ones, adding an extra layer of fun to your holiday celebrations.
4. Neapolitan Cheese Easter Pie (Pastiera Napoletana)
This Easter pie recipe has a great pastry base made with butter and sour cream, while the filling bets on cream cheese, eggs, honey, and cooking cream. The semolina flour in the filling helps make it light and fluffy.
5. Amaretto Cheesecake
Mascarpone cheese, cream cheese, amaretto extract, and crunchy pomegranate seeds all held together by delicate ladyfingers – this cheesecake really has a lot going for it. If you never had a reason to bake your own ladyfingers, this is it. You can, of course, skip that part and use store-bought ones.
6. Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Easter wouldn’t be Easter without carrot cake in some form, and these cupcakes are the ideal creation, as they look great and save you from the effort of having to slice an actual cake. Use some green food coloring for the frosting to make them more festive, and decorate with candy eggs, chocolate rabbits, and so on.
7. Chocolate Coffee Cake
Returning to the classics, you might want to give this chocolate coffee cake a try: it’s velvety, moist, and has an intense chocolate taste, perfectly complemented by the aroma of good coffee. With a simple icing made of chocolate and cream, it all comes together to make perfection.
8. White Chocolate Raspberry Cake
Elegant and sophisticated, both in form and in taste, this cake is designed to impress. It takes some time and effort, like all great things, but the end result is truly out of this world: delicate, golden Genoese sponge, white chocolate mousse, and a raspberry cream brightened with lemon juice and lemon zest.
9. Zebra Cake
This light and fluffy cake looks cheerful and festive. More than that, it takes little time and effort to make, and you probably have all the ingredients needed in your pantry and fridge right now. Give it a try, you’ll be very pleasantly surprised.
10. Italian Easter Bread (Pane di Pasqua)
This traditional Italian Easter sweet bread has Easter eggs embedded in it – so it makes a gorgeous and delicious centerpiece for your celebratory meal. The sweet bread itself is easy to make, but it’s a yeast dough that takes time to rise, so plan accordingly. You can bake this Easter bread a day or two in advance.
For more local treats, check out our story on the most popular Italian Easter desserts, cakes and cookies.
11. Chocolate Paska Bread
This dessert combines an airy, soft cake sponge and cream cheese filling with chocolate – it can hardly get any better. Try this traditional Central and Eastern European dessert with a modern twist to impress all your guests.
12. Birds’ Nest Cookies
Creativity knows no bounds with these amazing birds’ nest cookies. You probably never considered coating chow mein noodles in chocolate and butterscotch, but the sweet and salty combo does wonders, and they really look like nests made of twigs. Add a few colorful candy eggs to each.
13. Easter Trifle
Are you looking for a dessert that feeds a crowd, looks spectacular, but it’s actually very low effort to make? Well, you just found the perfect candidate: a trifle that’s easy to customize, and that, with a few neat decorating tricks, turns into the prettiest Easter dessert ever.
14. Koulourakia (Greek Easter Cookies)
Remaining in the Mediterranean region – after all, they do have one of the best cuisines – maybe you should try some delicious Greek cookies. Made with plenty of butter and sour cream, they’re airy, crunchy, and with a fresh burst of flavor from the citrus zest.
For more Greek Easter treats, check out our story on the most popular Greek Easter foods & desserts.
15. Mango and Chocolate Cheesecake
The symphony of flavors continues with this bold combination of cream cheese, mango, and white chocolate. The base is made of graham crackers, and the filling has two layers, one of white chocolate and cream cheese, and the second one of mango and cream cheese. This is a no-bake cheesecake, so you’ll need a good 12 hours for the filling to set.
16. Classic Key Lime Pie
Moving on from French classics to American classics, a key lime pie is actually perfect for Easter – it’s light, fresh, fruity and colorful. It’s also a breeze to make: a simple graham crackers base and a delicious filling made with condensed milk, key lime juice and zest, and eggs.
17. Panna Cotta with Raspberries
The simple yet sophisticated panna cotta dessert is made even more delicious by a vibrant sauce made with raspberries. The panna cotta itself is relatively easy to make – you just need to pay extra attention to the quality of ingredients. Make sure you use double cream and full fat milk.
18. Walnut Ricotta Cake
The contrast between the dense and rich walnut and cocoa cake layers and the fluffy filling made with ricotta and honey is very interesting, and the flavors complement each other perfectly. Make this cake a day in advance as the filling contains gelatin and needs time to firm up completely.
19. Italian Easter Egg Cookie with Eggs
Italians truly love incorporating hard boiled eggs into their Easter desserts, and why not? They are a symbol of prosperity, fertility, rebirth, and good luck. If you want some of that, add these very cute cookies to your Easter menu.
20. Paska Bread with Sour Cream
Unlike other varieties of paska breads made with cream cheese, this one has a sour cream filling. This makes it lighter and gives it a very unique, tangy flavor that will delight your taste buds. Make it a day or two in advance to ensure that the filling sets up properly.
For more Eastern European treats, check out our story on popular Ukrainian Easter foods, Polish Easter dishes and Romanian Easter foods.
21. Beigli (Hungarian Nut and Poppy Seed Roll)
These traditional Hungarian rolls are simply exquisite – the dough is an interesting combination of fluffy yeast dough but with enough fat in it to make it flaky. The classic fillings are walnut and poppy seed – and you should be generous with the filling, as that’s the secret of really good beigli.
22. Cantucci (Italian Almond Cookies)
These double-baked Italian cookies are filled with almonds, making them extra crunchy and satisfying. It’s the type of dessert you can make way in advance, as they keep very well in an airtight container. They are delicious with a glass of sweet dessert wine or a cup of cappuccino.
23. Fraisier Cake (French Strawberry Cake)
Not just very tasty but also gorgeous, this French cake is everything an Easter dessert should be. The base is made of a delicate sponge, while the filling is a delicious combination of vanilla custard and whipped cream. Arrange strawberries around the side and top it off with a refreshing strawberry jelly.
24. Easter Brownies
Those brownies will look amazing on your Easter table and the kids will absolutely love them – both the taste and how cute they are. The fudgy chocolate brownies get coated in swirls of white and pink chocolate (you can use other colors as well, if you want to), then are decorated with Easter egg candy.
25. Easter Basket Cupcakes
These cupcakes are the perfect choice if you are planning to involve children in your Easter preparations. The cupcakes are no fuss and easy to make, using cake mix. Decorating them to look like little cute baskets with Easter eggs, on the other hand, will be an absolute blast.
26. Authentic Italian Easter Ricotta Pie
This ricotta pie is lighter and fluffier than a regular cheesecake, but still velvety smooth. The crust is a delicate, flaky, buttery pastry that takes a little time and effort to make, but is well worth it.
The chocolate chips and candied citrus peel in the filling are a nice touch.
27. Revani (Greek Orange Cake with Orange Syrup)
Sweet, dense, sticky, and incredibly flavorful, this orange cake is a one bowl, one pan affair, involving just 10 minutes of preparation time. The syrup takes it up a notch or two – make sure you bake it at least a day in advance to give it time to rest properly before being served.
28. Coconut Rum (Coquito) Cream Pie
The coconut, cinnamon, and rum flavors work perfectly together, while the flaky homemade crust makes a world of difference. The flavors in this cream pie are inspired by a popular Puerto Rican cocktail, coquito.
Don’t worry, the pie can be safely consumed by children, as it contains very little rum, and the alcohol evaporates anyway during cooking.
29. Greek Baklava
This Greek classic is good enough for the gods on Mount Olympus and, although it looks like a handful, it’s actually not that difficult to make. You simply need to layer up phyllo sheets, butter, and the walnut mixture. The baklava is finished with generous amounts of syrup.
30. Hungarian Easter Cheese (Sárga Túró)
This traditional Hungarian Easter dessert is a mixture of milk and eggs flavored with spices and oftentimes containing raisins. The milk and egg custard is mixed with lemon juice, which causes it to curd. The curds are then strained through cloth and allowed to become firm enough to be sliced. The end result is a unique, creamy and rich dessert.
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