Easter desserts are all about bright colors, playful treats, and easy recipes that bring a festive feel to the table. From soft cookies and creamy cheesecakes to fun no-bake sweets and kid-friendly creations, these treats are perfect for celebrating the season.
Whether you are planning a family gathering, putting together a dessert table, or simply looking for something fun to make at home, this collection includes a variety of simple and creative options. Many of these recipes use everyday ingredients and require minimal prep, making them ideal for busy schedules.
Browse through the list below to find easy Easter desserts that are as fun to make as they are to eat.
Sour Cream Easter Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Celebrate Easter with these adorable sour cream sugar cookies with a cream cheese frosting! The dough is perfect for cutting into bunnies, eggs, and more!
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How To Make Easter Basket Pudding Cups
Using Peeps in an Easter dessert instantly adds color, personality, and that unmistakable marshmallow sweetness kids can’t help but recognize. Those fluffy bunny shapes turn ordinary snacks into a proper Easter bunny treat. In these Easter basket pudding cups, a Peeps bunny becomes the centerpiece of a tiny edible basket filled with pudding, candy eggs, and edible grass.
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Jelly Bean Bark
Easter candy always incorporates pretty pastels, and jelly bean bark fits perfectly into that tradition. This simple Easter treat for kids combines smooth chocolate with colorful jelly beans and cute sprinkles to create a candy bark that looks beautiful on dessert trays, party tables, and in Easter baskets.
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Lemon Tassies
These Lemon Tassies have a buttery cream cheese crust and a delicious creamy lemon curd filling. They are bite-sized treats that melt in your mouth and are a perfect Easter and spring dessert ideal for baby and bridal showers, brunches, dessert platters, or afternoon tea.
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Easter Pudding Cups
These Easter Pudding Cups are a fun and festive treat featuring layers of colorful white chocolate pudding, crunchy golden Oreo crumbs, and sweet decorations. The cups are topped with shredded coconut, bright mini eggs, and a cute Peeps bunny for the perfect holiday touch.
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Marshmallow Flower Cookies
These marshmallow flower cookies start with an easy cake mix cookie base and are topped with a simple vanilla frosting. Colorful marshmallows and sanding sugar turn them into playful flowers, perfect for spring.
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Crockpot Easter Candy Clusters
These Crockpot Easter Candy Clusters are sweet, crunchy and perfectly balanced, with creamy white chocolate, salty roasted peanuts and pastel M&Ms. Each cluster sets up firm, making them an easy homemade candy for Easter baskets or your next festive dessert tray.
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No Bake Easter Swirl Cheesecake
This Easter Cheesecake is creamy, smooth and lightly tangy, set on a buttery graham cracker crust and finished with a soft swirl of pastel colors. Made with sweetened condensed milk and fresh lemon juice, it has a rich yet refreshing flavor and a silky, no-bake texture.
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Mini Springtime Cheesecake Tarts
When spring arrives, it brings bright colors, fresh flavors, and plenty of reasons to bake something beautiful. These Mini Springtime Cheesecake Tarts are the perfect dessert to celebrate the season. With a buttery sweet pastry crust and a creamy no-bake cheesecake filling in soft pastel colors, these charming little tartlets look just as lovely on an Easter dessert table as they taste.
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Soft & Chewy Easter Cookies
If you’re looking for a fun and easy Easter baking recipe, these Soft & Chewy Easter Cookies made using the freezer method are the perfect treat. They’re buttery, tender, and loaded with colorful candy-coated chocolates that make them ideal for springtime celebrations, Easter parties, or a festive weekend baking activity with kids.
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Sourdough Discard Sugar Cookies
These Sourdough Discard Sugar Cookies are perfect for cutting out in your favorite shapes, and topping with your favorite colored icing and sprinkles! They’re very customizable and fitting for any holiday or celebration. They’re a not-too-sweet cookie, but the frosting really makes them a sweet, festive dessert.
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Peep Bars
Satisfy your sweet tooth with these delicious Peep Bars! Made with colorful marshmallow Peeps, these bars are a fun twist on traditional cake bars. Perfect for any Easter celebration or Spring gathering!
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Peep Bars
This Easter Trifle recipe is a flavorful, colorful Spring dessert made with layers of cake, pudding, cool whip, and Easter candies! An easy to make trifle dessert that everyone will enjoy! Using only 5 ingredients, this no fail dessert is the showpiece at your Holiday gathering!
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Peanut Butter M&M Cookies
When it comes to cookies, for me, they have to be gooey and chewy! I’m not a huge sweets person but I do love a good cookie! These Peanut Butter M&M Cookies were so perfect! They totally gave that peanut butter vibe! They were so crunchy, creamy, and chewy! And the insides were packed with those melty M&Ms! They were just so balanced!
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Lemon Lime No Bake Cheesecake
Sometimes all ya need in life is something sweet and bright to snack on! Something that just feels like sunshine! You know how they say, when life gives ya lemons (or a giant snowstorm in MARCH after the grass just started to turn green…) ya make cheesecake! This Lemon Lime No Bake Cheesecake was creamy, rich, and SO vibrant. It almost gave sprite vibes! Those lemon and lime flavors, the homemade graham cracker crust, that decadent cheesecake flavor we all know and love?! This was super indulgent and super easy to make! It would totally rock all through spring and summer!
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Healthy Gluten-free No Bake Bird’s Nest Cookies
These Gluten-free No Bake Bird Nest Cookies are the perfect healthier fun Easter treat. They’re a creative twist on traditional no bake cookies, are super easy to make, and are made with healthier minimal easy to find ingredients.
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Easter Skillet Cookie Recipe
This Easter Skillet Cookie recipe is perfectly delicious, really pretty, and festive for Easter! Use your favorite malted milk eggs, Easter M&Ms, and white chocolate chips in this brown sugar cookie dough for a perfect Easter treat!
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Raspberry Cream Jell-O Pie
For something cool, creamy, and dreamy enjoy a slice of this heavenly Raspberry Cream Jell-O Pie. You need only 3 ingredients and 5 minutes of prep to make this easy no-bake summer dessert recipe.
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Fudgy Strawberry Brownies
This easy recipe for the best Fudgy Strawberry Brownies made from cake mix is so simple to make. Just 3 ingredients to make these moist pink brownies. It’s a pretty sweet treat you must try.
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Sherbet Layered Jello Mold
This make-ahead sherbet layered jello mold is a classic retro dessert with bold stripes and a creamy, fluffy bite. Raspberry, orange and lime layers get richness from cream cheese and Cool Whip, giving that orange creamsicle vibe in a fun jello mold format. It’s a no-bake dessert that looks impressive on a serving plate and slices into bright layers that always get noticed. The flavors are sweet and fruity, the texture is soft and creamy and it’s an absolute dream for sharing.
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Kool-Aid Cookies
These Kool-Aid cookies take a standard sugar cookie dough and push it in a completely different direction with a bold hit of fruity flavor mixed right into each portion. The edges are a little crisp while the centers stay soft with a little chew. You’ll love the fruity, slightly tart flavor from the Kool-Aid. Dividing the dough means each color brings its own flavor, so you get a batch that tastes varied and doesn’t just look it. Everyone will love these cookies, grownups and kids alike.
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