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)
A rectangular container of bright red strawberry sorbet with a scoop being pulled from it.
Strawberry Sorbet
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
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)
20130711-cookiemonster-brownbutterblondies.JPG
Brown Butter Blondies Recipe
A dessert bowl filled with homemade eggless chocolate mousse.
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
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
20180129-meyer-lemon-ice-cream-vicky-wasik-14
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
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
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
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
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
A table of various styles of cream puffs
Cream Puffs
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
Six choux au craquelins on a white platter with one of them cut in half.
Choux au Craquelin Recipe
20201210-choux-chouquettes-vicky-wasik-7
Chouquettes
Rhubarb crisp, served in a small bowl.
Rhubarb Crisp
20190501-ice-cream-pie-vicky-wasik-18
No-Churn Vanilla Ice Cream Pie Recipe
Side view of pouring sauce on sticky toffee pudding
How to Make Sticky Toffee Pudding, the Classic British Dessert
Overhead view of apple crisp
10-Minute Microwave Apple Crisp for One
2 babkas on a parchment paper, one sliced and one whole
How to Make a Bakery-Worthy Chocolate Babka That Stays Fresh for Days
Overhead view of waffles
Use Up the Whole Carton With These 9 Buttermilk Dessert Recipes
Overhead view of apple hand pies
Get Ready for Fall with These Portable Warm-Spiced Apple Hand Pies
Overhead view of moravian sugar cake
This Retro Moravian Sugar Cake Recipe Will Fill Your Home With the Scent of Cinnamon Sugar
Overhead view of black forest icebox cake
This No-Bake Black Forest Icebox Cake Is a Nostalgic Nod to the Classic Dessert
Overhead view of steps to make shoofly pie
Satisfyingly Gooey Shoofly Pie Recipe
Chocolate cupcake with smoking candle in the frosting on a stack of colorful plates. In the background, there is a plate of more cupcakes and a bowl of birthday candles.
How to Make Bakery-Worthy Chocolate Cupcakes
Side view of Victoria Sponge Cake
How to Make Victoria Sponge Cake, an Easy British Dessert Fit for a Queen
Side view of funny cake
Funny Cake Pie Is the Ridiculously Delicious Dessert That Sauces Itself
Side view of hot milk cake
This Foolproof Method for a Light, Fluffy Cake Will Never Let You Down
Overhead angle of 2 slices of Lemon Meringue Icebox cake on a marble plate. In the top right corner, there is a spoon with a bite of lemon meringue pie on it
This Vibrant Icebox Cake Tastes Exactly Like a Lemon Meringue Pie