Colorful Easter Sweets to brighten up your table
These colorful Easter sweets recipes are going to bring a lot of joy to your holiday table this year.
Easter is a wonderful time to gather together as a family and celebrate the cool breezes of Spring and the Resurrection. As such, I for one want to have my food reflect the joy of the season. Away with the muted warming flavors of Winter and bring on bright happy colors and bolder flavors!
Whether you’re gathering with your immediate family for Easter or hosting a proper Easter potluck, there’s a fun Easter dessert recipe here just for you.
Find your perfect Easter sweets
Bar Cookies Recipes for Easter
Bar cookies are always an easy way to add on dessert to a meal. None take too long to make, and there’s no fussy decorating needed. Cut them in smaller pieces for more people or if you have a lot of goodies on your Easter dessert table.
Bar cookies for Easter
Bar cookies are a harried cook’s best friend. You can make all of these without too much fuss, mostly in one-bowl.
Easter blondies: bright happy colors in a chewy bar cookie
Bright happy bar cookies with bold pastel Easter M&Ms, butterscotch chips, and coconut in the best crinkly topped brown butter blondies base. Cut them into 1″ squares for your Easter snacking crew or top a larger one with ice cream for the ultimate Easter blondie sundae.
Quick Easter Brownies perfect for your Easter lunch
Studded with Cadbury Mini Eggs, these adorable brownie bites are the perfect dessert for your Easter lunch.
Carrot Cake Blondies just might be your new favorite mashup
Get all the taste of carrot cake in a bar cookie form. Topped with swizzles of cream cheese frosting over a chewy, spiced up bar filled with carrot shreds, white chocolate, coconut, and walnuts, these bars will give you all the Spring feels of proper carrot cake without the stress or mess of cake decorating.
Easy Strawberry Cereal Treats (No-Bake Recipe)
These easy to make strawberry cereal treats have all the pastel pink feels of Easter. You can cut them in squares, or grab a cookie cutter (how cute would a bunny be?!) to make these even more fun for Spring.
Easter Potluck Desserts
Big family get-togethers are always more fun when there is a selection of desserts to choose from. All of these desserts travel well and you can cut servings to suit the size of your crowd.
Easter Potluck Desserts
If your Easter dinner is a big family affair, a good old-fashioned Easter dessert table full of all kinds of goodies might be in order. Try one of these homey crowd-pleasing desserts.
Apple Crumble Bars are the best Sunday lunch dessert
Take cozy apple crisp and put it in a bar form, and then you’ll get these juicy crumb bars with buttery crisp streusel doing double duty up top and also as a crisp crust that lets you cut perfect bars. Serve these warm with your favorite ice cream or better yet, a drizzle of cream.
Easy Orange Bars Recipe (Like Lemon Bars but Better!)
Shortbread crust topped with a creamy orange vanilla filling baked into a silky smooth custard then topped with little jeweled wedges of candied orange slices. These are a simple elegant bright Springy dessert you’ll love for Easter, Mother’s Day, or any other time you’re looking for a sunny pick me up kind of treat.
Perfect berry crisp
The strawberries are just starting to get pretty around Easter, and they taste so so good in this easy strawberry crisp. Add a scoop of the best vanilla ice cream and you have Easter potluck dessert perfection.
Make these adorable mini strawberry tarts now
Sugar cookie shells filled with luscious vanilla pastry cream and chopped strawberries, topped with a strawberry slice. If you want to serve pie for Easter but still have room for other dessert, these tarts will serve you well.
Easter Bake Sale Cookies
It’s always a good time to have a bake sale, and with all the beautiful bright happy cookies there are to make in Spring, I can’t think of a better time to pack up some cookies than Easter. Here are some incredible easy-to-pack cookies for Easter bake sales.
Easter Bake Sale Cookies
Spring sports teams are always gearing up around Easter. Why not host an Easter bake sale and raise some money making these beautiful cookies?!
Strawberry Crumb Cake Cookies are worthy of the best berries
With strawberry jam swirled into orange scented soft sugar cookie dough then topped with more strawberry slices and some crunchy cardamom streusel and a swizzle of pinky pink strawberry glaze, these cookies are as pretty as they are good to eat. Be sure to let the glaze set before packing them.
Lemon Blueberry cookies are beautiful and taste like pure sunshine
Spring is all about explosions of vibrant colors coming up out of the ground after a Winter’s nap, and these cookies, with swirls of rich blue jam throughout a soft lemon sugar cookie are a reflection of just that.
Soft Raspberry Cookies with chocolate: beautiful happy pink
Bright raspberry flavor in a soft sugar cookie. For Easter, you can skip the chocolate heart centers or swap in a white chocolate Hershey’s kiss for a brighter, Spring look.
Marshmallow Crispy Cookies
Forget Costco’s viral cookies, this intriguing mashup between a Rice Krispie treat and a chocolate-less chocolate chip cookie will have your family clamoring for more. For Easter, you can top each one with a Peep or mix in your favorite Easter chocolate candy.
Carrot cake cookies: big cake flavor in a chewy cookie
The earthy flavor of vivid bright carrots pairs with sweet chai spice, coconut, and pecans to create a chewy, soft cookie with all the good flavor of carrot cake without the mess. Chill the cookies to set the frosting before packing them and keep them cold at your bake sale.
Confetti Sugar Cookies: sprinkles make cookies better
The perfect soft sugar cookies get the sprinkles treatment for big soft confetti cookies. Mix in some Easter sprinkles and you’ve got an Easter sugar cookie that people will love.
Lemon Desserts for Easter
If you’re a lemon lover, Easter is probably your favorite holiday. Somehow the vivid sourness of a lemon fits the renewal Easter brings. From crunchy to creamy to soft, there’s all kinds of textures represented here in your lemon desserts.
Lemon Desserts for Easter
Lemon desserts never go out of style, but their bright refreshing flavor just seems to fit Easter just a little bit better. After a big Easter dinner, these will definitely cleanse the palate in the best possible way.
The best lemon meringue bars are the dreamiest ever
Dreamy creamy lemon meringue bars with cloud-like meringue topping, and an impossibly smooth lemon filling on top a lemon spiked vanilla cookie crust. If you love lemon meringue pie, but want a simpler version for easy Easter entertaining, this recipe is for you.
Lemon Crinkle Cookies are a bake sale favorite with surprising softness
Super soft sugar cookies are made even softer with the addition of lemon juice. These cookies will stay soft for days and have a pleasing bright citrus flavor that’s welcome any time of year. Add a couple drops of pastel food coloring, and you can easily turn these into Easter crinkle cookies.
Lemon poppy seed cookies will surprise you
These are happy making cookies with the crunch and mysterious floral nuttiness of poppy seeds boosted with lemon and cloves. The lemon flavor in these is subtle and the crunch is hard-to-eat-just-one good.
Lemon Pistachio Biscotti for a bright crunchy coffee time
These cookies are bright springy dunking cookies perfect for an afternoon cup of coffee. While biscotti take a while to bake, it’s mostly unattended, so you can bake these while you’re doing other work in the kitchen. Be sure to use unsalted pistachios here as salted nuts will be overly salty.
Crowd-pleasing Easter cakes
Cakes are the granddaddy of them all when it comes to feeding a lot of people for big holidays. Still, most people don’t want to commit to fussy cake decorating, including myself, someone who bakes nearly every day. These easy to pull-off cake recipes require no extra fussing about in the decorating realm, and they taste just as good as the fancy looking cakes!
Crowd-pleasing Easter cakes
These are easy cakes (+ one cake adjacent recipe) that’ll feed a crowd. Place these Easter cakes out on your Easter dessert table, and you’ll bring a lot of smiles to faces.
Carrot Mini Easter Egg Cakes: an easy bake to make with your kids
These adorable Easter egg cakes are really just a different form of carrot cake cupcakes. Made with a simple one-bowl batter, these are as easy to bake as they are to decorate. Farmer MacGregor would’ve had a hard time keeping Peter Rabbit from these.
Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls to welcome in Spring
While these aren’t cake per se, these make-ahead carrot-flecked cinnamon rolls have all the taste of traditional carrot cake wrapped up in moist raisin, pecan, caramel flavored sweet rolls. Make the dough the night before you serve them, and you can make them up in minutes.
Easy vanilla sheet cake is the easy birthday cake you can make in no time
A simple mix and bake cake you can bake in a 13×9 pan, as cupcakes, or really any pan you have. The tender vanilla crumb and cream cheese icing are good almost anywhere. Add some Easter colored sprinkles for the day for some extra flair. This is a homey kind of cake everyone will flock to.
These lemon buttermilk strawberry mini cakes are secretly easy
Adorable strawberry mini cakes with lemon buttermilk cake and sandwiched with whipped cream and strawberry slices. Don’t let the looks fool you–these are easy peasy to build. Think of these like strawberry shortcakes but better.
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