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
A serving of ginger pudding in a ramekin with a spoonful lifted out placed on a red patterned cloth
3-Ingredient Chinese Ginger Milk Curd
A caramel apple tart with decorative crust garnished with nuts placed on a red table setting
Apple Chestnut Tart With Salted Caramel
Overhead view of pear tart
Pear and Almond Tart
Tray of chocolate sandwich cookies topped with crushed peppermint
Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies
Plate of lemon sugar cookies on a yellow textile on top of yellow and white tiles.
Lemon Sugar Cookies
A plate of cookies topped with crumbled nuts
Melomakarona (Greek Christmas Cookies)
Side view of pouring sauce on sticky toffee pudding
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A slice of chocolate olive oil cake served with a scoop of ice cream on a plate
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Decorative board with pican tassies on it, on top of a dark green velvet fabric. Smaller plate with 3 tassies on it, one bitten into. 2 cups of water.
A Southern Holiday Classic, Perfected: The Gooey, Toasty Pecan Tassies Our Editors Make Every December
A stack of crescentshaped cookies dusted with powdered sugar arranged on a green plate placed over a festive napkin
Vanillekipferl (Austrian Crescent Cookies)
A closeup of hands holding a chocolate chip cookie with other cookies visible on a plate in the background
10-Minute Air-Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookies for Two
A plate of gingerbread cookies on a table setup with coffee mugs nearby
Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Latte Cookies
Thumbprint cookies with seeds and jam filling on red wrapping paper
Tahini Thumbprint Cookies
Slice of pecan pie cheesecake on a plate with a fork and mug on a table
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