Spring is springin’, which means it’s Easter brunch scheming season!! Still frantically trying to figure out dessert? Don’t be scared. We’ve put together some ultra-cute and straight-up fire Easter dessert recipes to get you started.
Whatever your vibe is, these desserts will make it a brunch table for the books.
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Carrot cakes, pastel mini egg treats, bird’s nest desserts just waiting to get Instagrammed…this roundup has it all. Need a vegan-friendly or lighter option? You bet we have those too!
1. Easter Donuts With Pastel Glaze
These baked donuts got their Easter game on with pastel glaze for dayyyys. Soft, fluffy, and cuter than baby chicks, their sprinkle swag is bakery-level beautiful.
Zero filters needed. Also, it’s not super hard to make!
RECIPE: Easter Donuts With Pastel Glaze
2. Carrot Cake Roll
Forget basic carrot cake; we’re leveling up. This roll is giving warm spices, shredded carrot, and cream cheese swirl. It’s also soft and luscious as heck.
Here’s the kicker, it will convince people you labored more than you actually did.
RECIPE: Carrot Cake Roll
3. Easter Trifle Dessert
Layers on layers of cake, pudding, and whipped cream? Yes, please. This trifle is light, colorful, and looks fancy without any of the stress.
The best part? You can throw it together in no time, and it still looks like something out of a bakery display.
RECIPE: Easter Trifle Dessert
4. Easter Cookie Bars
These pastel-studded cookie bars are basically Easter’s answer to dessert. Soft, chewy, and studded with M&M’s and chocolate chips. No rolling, no chilling, just mix, bake, slice.
Perfect Easter Sunday grab-and-go treat when you’re too busy socializing to sit down with a fork. Always a crowd-pleaser.
RECIPE: Easter Cookie Bars
5. Healthy Easter Egg Fruit Pizza Cookies
Colorful AND fun dessert that doesn’t make you feel like you need a nap? Take a bow, fruit pizza cookies.
Sugar cookie base, yogurt, fresh fruit = sweet, refreshing, and healthy dessert (for the most part). Yes, you can definitely have seconds and not feel too bad for it.
RECIPE: Healthy Easter Egg Fruit Pizza Cookies
6. Mini Pavlova Nests
Crispy outside, and marshmallowy inside, these mini pavlovas are legit showstoppers.
Stuffed with whipped cream and fresh berries, they look like they belong in a fancy Parisian patisserie, but they’re easy to make at home and they taste even better than they look (I know, that’s saying a LOT).
RECIPE: Mini Pavlova Nests
7. Blue Ribbon Carrot Sheet Cake
This carrot sheet cake is the opposite of fry (thank you, oil) full of flavor (thank you, cinnamon), and covered in the most fabulous cream cheese frosting. It’s a blue ribbon for a good reason.
Plus it’s baked as one single layer so there are no special skills required…
RECIPE: Blue Ribbon Carrot Sheet Cake
8. Easter Rice Krispie Treats
Childhood nostalgia meets holiday cheer with chocolate-dipped Rice Krispie treats. Coated in pastel-hued chocolate, jazzed up with sprinkles, and oh-so-easy.
We’re talkin’ no-bake, no-stress, just marshmallow-y crunch magic that’ll have you feeling like a kid again, guaranteed.
RECIPE: Easter Rice Krispie Treats
9. Spelt Mini Simnel Cakes
A classic Easter dessert with a modern twist! Spelt mini Simnel cakes with warm spices, a rich marzipan layer, and juuuuust the right amount of sweetness.
Oh, and they’re also topped with golden marzipan balls, so they’re cute and delicious. Perfect for adding some old-school charm to brunch!
RECIPE: Spelt Mini Simnel Cakes
10. Easter Bunny Churros
Churros. Shaped like bunnies. Coated in cinnamon sugar. We’re doing it!
Crispy, sweet, adorable. Dip in chocolate or caramel. Gone faster than an Easter egg hunt. Kids will love them. Adults will love them.
RECIPE: Easter Bunny Churros
11. Vegan Carrot Cake Bread
A dairy-free dessert that tastes good? We gotchu!
This vegan carrot cake bread is moist, naturally sweetened, and full of warm spices. Slice it up for a warm Easter treat that’s luscious but still wholesome. Even non-vegans will be grabbing seconds.
RECIPE: Vegan Carrot Cake Bread
12. Bird Nest Cookies
No-bake? No-stress? Beyond cute? Yes, yes, and YES.
Chocolate-drenched crispy chow mein noodles (a.k.a. little nests) topped with pastel candy eggs. Easy, festive, adorbs. And the star of the dessert table parade. Prepare for compliments.
RECIPE: Bird Nest Cookies
13. Carrot Cake Blondies
Carrot cake but make it a blondie. These chewy, buttery bars are loaded with warm spices, shredded carrots, and white chocolate chips. And the thick layer of cream cheese frosting? Absolute perfection.
Good luck stopping at just one because these things are straight-up addictive.
RECIPE: Carrot Cake Blondies
14. Capirotada
This Mexican bread pudding was made for bread lovers (sugar and cheese lovers too!), nostalgia seekers, Easter enthusiasts, and people who love rich desserts with cinnamon syrup, nuts, and raisins.
If you’re still reading this, it’s made for you too. Goosebumps, amirite?
RECIPE: Capirotada
15. Crockpot Easter Candy
Dump, stir, and let the slow cooker do its thing. This lazy-day combo of melted chocolate, peanuts, and pastel candy is the sweet-and-salty Easter treat of our dreams.
Minimal effort, max deliciousness. What else do you need in life? Seriously, just let the crockpot take over.
RECIPE: Crockpot Easter Candy
16. Easter Egg Cookies
Behold these adorable Easter egg cookies! So buttery, so soft, so pastel. They’re and gluten-free, totally customizable to your color whims, 100% prettier than actual eggs.
Made for the ‘gram, made to be devoured. Case closed.
RECIPE: Easter Egg Cookies
17. Vegan Easter Egg Cake
If you doubt vegan desserts can taste like magic, this cake is your proof.
Moist vanilla layers, pastel buttercream, and a secret Easter egg candy middle? Yas! Stunning, delish, worth the effort. No one will know it’s vegan!
RECIPE: Vegan Easter Egg Cake
18. Jelly Bunny Jello Jigglers
Let’s take a trip down memory lane with these bright, fruity, and fun wiggly, jiggly bunny treats. This is fun and made easy for your Easter table.
Kids will love them and let’s be real, so will you! Go ahead and take seconds. We won’t tell.
RECIPE: Jelly Bunny Jello Jigglers
19. Carrot Patch Cupcakes
These cupcakes are almost too cute to eat. Rich chocolate cake is topped with “dirt” cookie crumbs and a mini candy carrot peeking out.
If you’re after an Easter dessert that’s basically an edible Pinterest board, this is IT! A total must if you love desserts that double as décor.
RECIPE: Carrot Patch Cupcakes
20. Italian Easter Bread Recipe
This gorgeously braided sweet bread is as delish as it is gorg. Soft, fluffy, and delicately sweetened, this bread is decorated with pastel-dyed eggs for full-on Easter vibes.
Whether you slice it up for brunch or slather it with a little butter, it’s *chef’s kiss* perfection.
RECIPE: Italian Easter Bread Recipe
21. Easter Peep Cake
This bad boy is a whole Easter basket in dessert form. Fluffy colorful cake, blanketed in buttercream and topped with a freakin’ army of Peeps?
It’s fun, it’s festive, and it’s practically BEGGING for a place on your brunch table. Extra points if you match your Peeps to your decor.
RECIPE: Easter Peep Cake
22. Spring Flower Pretzels
It’s the sweet and salty combo we can’t resist and it comes in the form of adorable pastel chocolate-covered pretzels! They’re super easy to make, and they are INSANELY addictive.
You know, that recipe that disappears 10 seconds after you put it out? Yeah, that’s this one.
RECIPE: Spring Flower Pretzels
23. Vegan Peanut Butter Cups
Only 4 ingredients, zero dairy, and these PB cups taste like chocolate bliss. Super rich, creamy, and way better than store-bought. And they take like 10 minutes to make!
Try whipping up a batch and not eating all of them at once. We dare you.
RECIPE: Vegan Peanut Butter Cups
24. Peanut Butter Easter Egg Recipe
Step back, Reese’s. These DIY peanut butter eggs are smooth, chocolatey, and packed with delish PB filling. Easy, no-bake, Easter-must-haves.
The hardest part? Trying not to eat them right out of the freezer.
RECIPE: Peanut Butter Easter Egg Recipe
25. Easter Mini Egg Cheesecake Cups
Mini cheesecakes + crushed Mini Eggs = dessert heaven. These little cups are creamy, sweet, and have the perfect amount of crunch. And they’re adorable. And totally brunch-worthy.
No need to share, grab your own and enjoy every last bite for yourself.
RECIPE: Easter Mini Egg Cheesecake Cups
26. Victoria Sponge Cake
Light, fluffy, jammed with jam and whipped cream, this British classic is the ultimate afternoon tea treat.
Simple but elegant, perfect for Easter brunch. A dusting of powdered sugar on top makes it look super fancy with zero effort from you.
RECIPE: Victoria Sponge Cake
27. Walnut Roll (Cozonac Cu Nuca Si Stafide)
Travel the world with this Romanian walnut roll! It’s packed with cinnamon, nuts, and raisins, and wrapped with a super soft dough that hugs in all the delish-ness.
It’s comfort and festivity rolled into one, ideal for a post-brunch coffee date.
RECIPE: Walnut Roll (Cozonac Cu Nuca Si Stafide)
28. Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Carrot cake gets a GF glow-up! Meet your spiced-to-perfection, moisture-forward darlings piled high with cream cheese frosting. Annnnd they’re cupcakes, so you don’t have to throw hands for the last bite.
Oh, and picky eaters won’t even know they’re gluten-free cause’ they’re perfect!
RECIPE: Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes
29. Carrot Cake Macarons
Behold! Easter perfection in the form of delightfully dainty French macarons. They’ve got a crisp exterior and a soft interior with dreamy cream cheese frosting sandwiched between. Basically a petite carrot cake in macaron form!
They’re nearly too pretty to eat, but you’ll obviously do it anyway.
RECIPE: Carrot Cake Macarons
30. Strawberry Tres Leches Cake
Light, spongey cake drenched in three kinds of milk, topped with fresh strawberries? Don’t mind if I do.
It’s rich, creamy, sweet but not too sweet. The perfect balance of light and luscious, this tres leches cake is simply irresistible… and it also happens to be the ideal Easter dessert.
RECIPE: Strawberry Tres Leches Cake
Conclusion
This bad boy is a whole Easter basket in dessert form. Fluffy colorful cake, blanketed in buttercream and topped with a freakin’ army of Peeps? It’s fun, it’s festive, and it’s practically BEGGING for a place on your brunch table. Extra points if you match your Peeps to your decor.
