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.

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Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits (McVities)
A rectangular container of bright red strawberry sorbet with a scoop being pulled from it.
Strawberry Sorbet
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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
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White Cake With Brown Butter and Toasted Sugar Recipe
Overhead shot of chocolate hazelnut rolls mascarpone drizzled with glaze
Overnight Chocolate-Hazelnut Breakfast Buns Recipe
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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)
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Brown Butter Blondies Recipe
A dessert bowl filled with homemade eggless chocolate mousse.
Eggless Chocolate Mousse Recipe
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Lacy Brown Butter and Ricotta Cookies Recipe
A slice of chocolate cream pie topped with vanilla meringue
Double-Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
a piping bag piping meringue onto the filling of a fresh and creamy lime pie.
Fresh and Creamy Lime Pie
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
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Meyer Lemon Ice Cream Recipe
A glass of 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
Fresh basil mousse, served in shallow drinking glasses and garnished with sliced strawberry.
Fresh Basil Mousse Recipe
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No-Bake Chocolate-Nutella "Cheesecake" Verrines Recipe
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Easy Coconut Cupcakes Recipe
A slice of chocolate cherry layer cake is served on a grey plate. The rest of the cake is visible in the background.
Chocolate Cherry Layer Cake Recipe
A plated wedge of upside down blueberry muffin cut from a whole cake, with a fork pierced into a piece,
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
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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
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Japanese Cotton-Soft Cheesecake Recipe
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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
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Grasshopper Ice Cream Pie Recipe
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Meyer Lemon Ice Cream That's as Easy as Pie
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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
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Easiest Summer Ever: Sweet-Sour Cherries With Mint and Ricotta
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Cakespy: Cadbury Creme Deviled Eggs Recipe
A table of various styles of cream puffs
Cream Puffs
Chocolate Coconut Nests With Jelly Bean Eggs Recipe
Chocolate Marshmallow Peeps Recipe
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Turn Leftover Easter Candy Into These Ultra-Chocolaty Cookies
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Meringue Nests With Orange Curd Cream and Easter Eggs Make the Cutest Easter Dessert Ever
Six choux au craquelins on a white platter with one of them cut in half.
Choux au Craquelin Recipe
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Chouquettes
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Rhubarb Crisp
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No-Churn Vanilla Ice Cream Pie Recipe
Overhead view of Rasgulla
These Are the Cardamom-Scented Indian Sweets We Can't Stop Eating
Side view of pouring syrup onto puddings
This Creamy Chilean Pudding Belongs In Your Dessert Repertoire ASAP
Homemade sweetened condensed milk dripping off a spoon
16 Sweetened Condensed Milk Recipes To Make Use of Everyone's Favorite Canned Dairy
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Lavender Syrup
Overhead view of Fifteens on a green platter
Fifteens (Northern Irish Digestive Biscuits and Marshmallows With Cherries)
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Grill-Baked Smoked Ancho Chile Skillet Brownie
Three strawberry shortcakes
Strawberry Shortcake
Overhead view of peach crisp served with ice cream
Peach Crisp
Stack of baklava
Pistachio Baklava
Blue moon ice cream in a glass bowl, set on a white ceramic plate which also holds a metal spoon. The background is pink and in the top left of the image is the ice cream scoop which had been used to scoop the ice cream.
Blue Moon Ice Cream Recipe
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Mixed Berry Pie (Made with Frozen Berries) Recipe
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Crêpe Cake (Gâteau de Crêpes)