Easter Dessert Recipes

From an airy fruit mousse to a tall and fluffy angel food cake, our Easter dessert recipes help you round out your holiday meal with something sweet.

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A slice of lemon ricotta cheesecake plated next to the whole cake.
Lemon-Ricotta Cheesecake
A slice of dairy-free chocolate cake served on a slate-colored plate. The remaining cake is nearby, perched on a stainless steel cake stand.
Dairy-Free Chocolate Cake
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Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits (McVities)
A rectangular container of bright red strawberry sorbet with a scoop being pulled from it.
Strawberry Sorbet
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No-Bake Greek Yogurt Cheesecake
Overhead image showing sliced lemon bar squares topped with powdered sugar on a marble countertop.
Sunny Lemon Bars Recipe
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White Cake With Brown Butter and Toasted Sugar Recipe
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Pistachio Cake
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Freshly baked choux pastry puffs on a parchment lined baking sheet.
How to Make Choux Pastry (Pâte à Choux)
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Brown Butter Blondies Recipe
A dessert bowl filled with homemade eggless chocolate mousse.
Eggless Chocolate Mousse Recipe
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Lacy Brown Butter and Ricotta Cookies
A slice of chocolate cream pie topped with vanilla meringue
Double-Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
a piping bag piping meringue onto the filling of a fresh and creamy lime pie.
Fresh and Creamy Lime Pie
A loaf of honey semifreddo, topped with macerated cherries and Marcona almonds.
Honey Semifreddo (Frozen Italian Dessert) Recipe
A slice of cherry clafoutis on a speckled ceramic plate on the left side of the image. On the right side is the remaining clafoutis, showing a slice has been removed.
Classic Cherry Clafoutis
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Meyer Lemon Ice Cream Recipe
A glass of cranachan topped with fresh raspberries.
Cranachan (Scottish Whipped Cream With Whisky, Raspberries, and Toasted Oats) Recipe
Overhead of slices of no-bake cheesecake made with freeze-dried fruit.
No-Bake Cheesecake With Freeze-Dried Fruit Recipe
Fresh basil mousse, served in shallow drinking glasses and garnished with sliced strawberry.
Fresh Basil Mousse
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Easy Coconut Cupcakes Recipe
A slice of chocolate cherry layer cake is served on a grey plate. The rest of the cake is visible in the background.
Chocolate Cherry Layer Cake Recipe
A plated wedge of upside down blueberry muffin cut from a whole cake, with a fork pierced into a piece,
Upside-Down Blueberry Muffin Recipe
slice of angel food cake plated with chantilly cream, fresh fig, blueberries, and blackberries
Effortless Angel Food Cake Recipe
serving up a slice of chiffon cake with cream and berries
Classic Chiffon Cake With Vanilla Chantilly Recipe
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Dark Chocolate Easter Cookies Recipe
A small pink speckled stoneware plate with three classic éclairs on it, each topped with chocolate icing. A bakers rack with more éclairs is in the background.
Classic Éclairs
A japanese cotton-soft cheesecake, served on a round wooden platter.
Japanese Cotton-Soft Cheesecake Recipe
A top-down image of six composed strawberry shortcakes, on a speckled ceramic plate on a textured cloth background.
5-Ingredient Strawberry Shortcakes Recipe
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Upgraded Grasshopper Ice Cream Pie
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Meyer Lemon Ice Cream That's as Easy as Pie
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Meringue Nests With Orange Curd Cream and Easter Eggs Recipe
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Easiest Summer Ever: Sweet-Sour Cherries With Mint and Ricotta
A table of various styles of cream puffs
Cream Puffs
Chocolate Coconut Nests With Jelly Bean Eggs Recipe
Chocolate Marshmallow Peeps Recipe
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Turn Leftover Easter Candy Into These Ultra-Chocolaty Cookies
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Meringue Nests With Orange Curd Cream and Easter Eggs Make the Cutest Easter Dessert Ever
Six choux au craquelins on a white platter with one of them cut in half.
Choux au Craquelin Recipe
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Chouquettes
Rhubarb crisp, served in a small bowl.
Rhubarb Crisp
A slice of no-churn vanilla ice cream pie, served on a white speckled dish. The rest of the pie is nearby.
No-Churn Vanilla Ice Cream Pie
Lemon pound cake with glaze on a wooden board, surrounded by lemons, a knife, and a bowl of fresh berries.
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Side view of hot milk cake
Hot Milk Cake
Overhead view of crepes suzette
Crepes Suzette
Overhead view of almond cream
Crème d’Amande (French Almond Cream)
Matcha Swiss roll on a white plate sliced to show the spiraled filling
Matcha Chiffon Cake
A slice of orange and saffron flan on a plate with caramel sauce placed beside a full flan serving in the background
Orange and Saffron Flan
Chocolate cake frosted with eggless chocolate frosting.
Creamy Eggless Chocolate Frosting
Spoon of mug cake
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Hands pulling apart a sticky textured crispy rice treat
Malted Cocoa Rice Krispies Treats
Side view of eclair cake
Éclair Cake
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Tray of chocolate sandwich cookies topped with crushed peppermint
10 Editor-Loved Cookies to Bake When You Want Guaranteed Crowd-Pleasers
Overhead view of black forest icebox cake
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Pile of chocolate chip meringue cookies with cross-section view of cookie's interior
Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies
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