If you’re looking for dessert inspiration for your next Spring gathering, look no further! On this list you’ll find over 34 of my favorite Spring cakes and cupcakes, no-churn ice cream with fun seasonal flavors, crowd pleasers like strawberry shortcake sheet cake, and easy make-ahead desserts like no-bake cheesecake and s’mores icebox cake. I hope you find the perfect dessert for your next gathering on this list!
Spring Dessert Ideas
Strawberry Shortcake Sheet Cake
Bakery-style vanilla sheet cake baked in a 9×13 pan, topped with whipped cream cheese frosting and homemade strawberry sauce. The perfect easy Spring dessert for a crowd!
Orange Poppyseed Cake with Mascarpone Frosting
This orange poppyseed cake is tender and moist, bursting with bright citrus flavor, and kept so light and refreshing with whipped mascarpone frosting! You get the crunch of poppy seeds in every bite which I find so satisfying.
No-Bake Marbled Strawberry Cheesecake
Tangy no-bake cheesecake with swirls of beautiful strawberry reduction, set on a buttery graham cracker crust. Stunning, delicious, and perfect for making ahead!
The Perfect No-Bake Cheesecake
Velvety smooth, creamy filling that has all the traditional flavor of cheesecake (without any baking!) set on a buttery graham cracker crust. This one is perfect for making ahead!
Hummingbird Cake
As a mom, I can attest that this cake is so comforting! Stick-to-your-fork moist, perfectly spiced, and has incredible flavor between the ripe banana, crushed pineapple, and toasted pecans.
Berry Fruit Pizza
A giant chewy sugar cookie with cream cheese frosting, dressed up with fresh berries for a dessert that will impress your mom big time! It’s quick, easy, and so fun to decorate.
Strawberry Lemon Cake
Soft and zesty lemon cake layers with bright strawberry buttercream that’s bursting with authentic flavor – this is the BEST strawberry lemon cake and it’s unbelievably easy to make.
Strawberry Cupcakes
These cupcakes are delightful and bursting with natural strawberry flavor! They are a labor of love (you’ll have to cook some strawberries) but worth it for this amazing natural flavor.
Easy Smores Icebox Cake
Layers of graham crackers (which soften into a cakey consistency), easy chocolate ganache, and pillowy soft homemade marshmallow meringue that gets toasted on top! An easy make ahead dessert that everyone will obsess over.
Lemon Cupcakes
These lemon cupcakes are light and refreshing, perfectly fluffy, bursting with natural lemon flavor, and irresistible topped with lemon cream cheese buttercream.
Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake
This lemon blueberry cake is so moist, delicious, and bursting with Springtime flavor! It features layers of zesty lemon cake dotted with beautiful blueberries, filled and frosted with lemon cream cheese buttercream.
Berry Chantilly Cake
Inspired by the iconic Whole Foods bakery dessert, this cake features layers of fluffy white cake, Chantilly cream frosting, and fresh berries throughout.
Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes
Super soft yet moist lemon cupcakes with fresh blueberries perfectly suspended inside and irresistible lemon cream cheese frosting. These are always a hit and I have a layer cake version too!
Lemon Sheet Cake
My favorite extra moist and fluffy lemon cake recipe, baked in a 9×13 cake pan and paired with delicious lemon buttercream for the brightest flavor. Perfect for feeding a crowd!
Vanilla Raspberry Layer Cake
This vanilla raspberry layer cake is a complete showstopper with its naturally pink raspberry buttercream, and it tastes just as dreamy as it looks! Inside are layers of soft bakery-style vanilla cake with bright, jammy bursts of homemade raspberry filling that add just the right amount of tartness.
Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Cake
This cake is so nostalgic – anyone from the 90’s would remember a strawberry shortcake ice cream bar! This cake version is no-churn strawberry and vanilla ice cream with layers of strawberry crunch.
Berry Chantilly Sheet Cake
Inspired by the iconic Whole Foods bakery dessert, this sheet cake version features fluffy white cake, Chantilly cream frosting, sweet jam, and fresh berries.
Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
If you thought carrot cake with cream cheese frosting was good, just wait until you try this recipe! It’s my favorite carrot cake that’s deeply moist, perfectly spiced, and taken to the NEXT LEVEL with brown butter cream cheese frosting.
Pistachio Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Turns out that pistachio cake and cream cheese frosting are a match made in cake heaven! The pistachio cake layers here are soft and moist with the perfect nutty flavor. The cream cheese frosting is silky smooth and adds a creamy richness to every slice.
Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake
Layers of soft lemon cake with raspberries baked into each layer (and perfectly suspended!), fresh raspberry cake filling, and lemon raspberry buttercream. These flavors are so heavenly together and I’m obsessed with how visually stunning the cake layers turned out!
Easy Oreo Icebox Cake
7 layers of Oreo cookies and homemade whipped cream, refrigerated until the cookies soften into the perfect dessert consistency. Just four ingredients, easy to make, and every bite tastes like a milk-dunked Oreo.
Coconut Cupcakes
Soft and moist, perfectly flavored coconut cupcakes topped with silky smooth coconut buttercream and shredded coconut. Inspired by the ones Ina Garten writes about in her memoir.
No-Churn Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream
No-churn vanilla ice cream with sweetened strawberries and baked shortcake crumbles in every bite. So dreamy and easy to whip up (no ice cream maker needed)!
Sheet Pan Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars
Sometimes you just need a giant frosted sugar cookie and these easy sheet pan sugar cookie bars are just the thing! They’re extra soft and moist, deliciously thick, and frosted with just the right amount of vanilla frosting to make them extra tasty.
No-Bake Oreo Cheesecake
The dreamiest cookies and cream cheesecake made without any baking! Rich and creamy French Vanilla filling studded with Oreo cookies on a delicious Oreo crust.
Strawberry Sheet Cake
The sheet cake version of my favorite strawberry layer cake recipe that’s extra soft, moist, and bursting with fresh strawberry flavor. The freeze-dried strawberry buttercream takes this recipe beyond!
Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake
Layers of soft lemon cake with raspberries baked into each layer (and perfectly suspended!), fresh raspberry cake filling, and lemon raspberry buttercream.
No-Churn Blackberry Lavender Ice Cream
Lavender-infused ice cream with the perfect floral flavor and ribbons of easy homemade blackberry jam. This recipe is beginner-friendly and there’s no need for an ice cream maker!
Strawberry Layer Cake
Layers of fluffy, flavorful strawberry cake and strawberry buttercream. Flavored with the perfect combination of fresh and freeze-dried strawberries.
Lemon Lavender Cake
Layers of soft, zesty lemon cake paired beautifully with lavender infused buttercream. Perfectly refreshing, deliciously earthy, and delightfully aromatic.
Strawberry Shortcake Layer Cake
Layers of moist and fluffy white cake, homemade whipped cream frosting, fresh sweetened strawberries, and baked shortbread crumbs. So light and refreshing!
Lemon Layer Cake
My favorite extra fluffy lemon cake recipe paired with zesty lemon buttercream for the ultimate lemon layer cake. This one also tastes amazing and extra tangy with lemon cream cheese buttercream.
Coconut Layer Cake
Layers of fluffy, moist coconut cake with decadent coconut cream cheese buttercream, topped with shredded coconut to make it classic. It’s what coconut cake dreams are made of!
No-Churn Strawberry Ice Cream
Easy and delicious strawberry ice cream flavored with freeze dried strawberries for the most flawless flavor. No ice cream maker needed!
I hope you found the perfect Spring dessert on this list! Let me know what you make in the comments and feel free to share on Instagram. Be sure to tag @sugarandsparrowco if you post a photo – I love to see what you bake
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