If you’re looking for Easter dessert recipes to end your meal on a sweet note, I’ve got you covered! From classics like carrot cake and coconut cake to irresistible lemon blueberry cupcakes, easy no-bake desserts, sheet pan frosted sugar cookies, and plenty of Spring flavors. There’s something for everyone here!
Easter Cakes
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
When I think of Easter, I think of carrot cake! This is my all-time favorite carrot cake recipe for many reasons: it’s extra moist, has the most incredible spice flavor, is so easy to throw together, and is downright irresistible with cream cheese frosting.
Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
My favorite carrot cake recipe, taken to the NEXT LEVEL with brown butter cream cheese frosting. The rich nutty caramel notes in the frosting enhance all the warm spices in the cake, and the tang of the cream cheese balances everything beautifully.
Hummingbird Cake
Layers of incredibly moist, perfectly spiced hummingbird cake flavored with ripe banana, crushed pineapple, and toasted pecans, then filled and frosted with tangy cream cheese buttercream. A classic!
Cadbury Mini Egg Cake
Moist and decadent chocolate cake with Cadbury Mini Egg ganache filling, topped with pastel vanilla buttercream to make it a showstopper inside and out.
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!
Lemon Blueberry Cake
Layers of soft and zesty lemon cake with fresh blueberries suspended in every slice, filled and frosted with irresistible lemon cream cheese buttercream. The perfect Spring flavors!
Lemon Sheet Cake
My favorite extra moist and fluffy lemon cake baked in a 9×13 pan, topped with lemon buttercream and perfect for feeding a crowd!
Small Batch Carrot Cake
For a mini Easter celebration! This small batch version of my favorite carrot cake recipe serves 2-4 people and can be baked as a mini layer cake or a single layer 6-inch cake.
Strawberry Layer Cake
The most deliciously moist and fluffy strawberry cake layers and strawberry buttercream. The cake is made with fresh strawberries, the frosting can either be made with freeze-dried OR fresh strawberries!
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 perfect Spring or Summer cake to please a crowd!
Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake
Layers of soft, zesty lemon cake with raspberries in every slice, fresh raspberry filling, and lemon raspberry buttercream. The ultimate lemon raspberry cake!
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. Always a crowd pleaser!
Berry Chantilly Sheet Cake
The sheet cake version of the iconic Whole Foods bakery dessert, designed to feed a crowd! Soft and moist white cake with jam, fresh berries, and Chantilly cream frosting.
Lemon Layer Cake
My favorite extra soft and moist lemon layer cake recipe, filled and frosted with zesty lemon buttercream for the ultimate lemon layer cake!
Lemon Cake with Blueberry Buttercream
Layers of moist, fluffy lemon cake with amazing zesty citrus flavor, topped with refreshing blueberry buttercream (made with freeze-dried blueberries)!
Pistachio Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Deliciously moist and flavorful pistachio cake layers, filled and frosted with tangy cream cheese buttercream to make each slice extra irresistible.
Raspberry Pistachio Cake with Mascarpone Frosting
My favorite pistachio layer cake paired beautifully with raspberry buttercream filling and mascarpone buttercream frosting. Elevated pistachio cake!
Lemon Lavender Cake
Layers of zesty lemon cake paired beautifully with lavender infused buttercream. Perfectly refreshing, deliciously earthy, and delightfully aromatic.
Easter Cupcakes
Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes
Super soft and moist and lemon cupcakes with the perfect zesty flavor and blueberries in every bite, topped with irresistible lemon cream cheese frosting.
Coconut Cupcakes
Soft and moist, perfectly flavored coconut cupcakes topped with silky smooth coconut buttercream and shredded coconut.
Oreo Cupcakes
Because Oreo is always a good idea! Amazingly moist black velvet cupcakes (made with black cocoa powder just like the shell of an Oreo cookie!), topped with a swirl of cookies and cream buttercream.
Easter No-Bake Desserts
No-Bake Cadbury Mini Egg Cheesecake
Rich and velvety no-bake cheesecake speckled with crushed Cadbury Mini Eggs on a delicious graham cracker crust. Top it with chocolate ganache and chocolate whipped cream “nests” to make it extra festive.
The Perfect No-Bake Cheesecake
The easiest cheesecake ever with a rich, velvety texture the perfect tangy flavor, and sets up beautifully in the refrigerator. Set on a buttery graham cracker crust and is the ideal make-ahead dessert!
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.
Easter Cookies & Bars
Sheet Pan Frosted Sugar Cookies
Buttery soft sugar cookie bars baked in a 13×18 pan, frosted with vanilla buttercream and topped with rainbow sprinkles. Perfect for a big gathering!
Fruit Pizza with Fresh Berries
Fruit pizza is ALWAYS a crowd favorite and incredibly easy to make with homemade sugar cookie dough (no chilling necessary!), cream cheese frosting that’s the perfect amount of sweet, and fresh berries.
I hope you’ve been inspired to make one (or more!) of these desserts for your Easter gathering! 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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