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I absolutely love coming up with creative desserts to make for Easter. The pretty pastel colors, fresh spring flavors, seasonal ingredients, and cute holiday-inspired designs (so many chicks and bunnies!), always leave me looking forward to warmer, sunnier days ahead.
Easter baking also offers an opportunity to embrace family traditions and to spend time creating new memories—many of these are desserts that kids and parents can make together. Plus, it’s fun to share your homemade Easter treats with those around you.
Easter Baking Recipes
The Easter baking ideas in this roundup include some of my favorites for spring, like these slice and bake lemon cookies, and pretty pastel piped floral wreath meringue cookies. And of course, I’ve included plenty of Cadbury egg recipes, like my mini egg blondies with white chocolate ganache, and these chocolate mini egg Easter cookies, too.
Easter Candy Recipes
This roundup includes traditional Easter desserts like buttercream Easter eggs (a family favorite, based on a recipe from an old Central Pennsylvania cookbook!) and cream cheese peppermints, as well as less traditional sweets such as Easter candy corn. I especially like making candies for Easter because the longer shelf life makes these sweet treats perfect for sharing, shipping, gifting, and serving throughout the Easter season.
Easter Candy Corn
Make your own Easter candy corn! This easy homemade candy corn recipe features an assortment of pretty pastel colors, just in time for for spring.
Buttercream Easter Eggs
A classic Easter candy recipe! These sweet, creamy eggs feature a soft buttercream center enrobed in tempered chocolate and decorated with sprinkles.
Easter Blondies with Mini Eggs and White Chocolate
These sweet and simple blondies feature crushed mini eggs in a blondie base, with colorful layers of white chocolate ganache sandwiched in between. The perfect Easter treat!
Easter Bark Recipe with Mini Eggs
An Easter bark recipe featuring swirls of dark and pastel-tinted white chocolate, Cadbury mini Eggs, and two kinds of sprinkles. This Easter bark is fun to make, and comes together in a matter of minutes!
Sunny Lemon Daisy Cookies
These cheerful slice-and-bake lemon cookies feature a sunny yellow sugar cookie dough, plus a fun daisy surprise in the middle!
Cadbury Egg Brownie Cup Recipe
Rich, dark chocolate brownie cups with a homemade creme egg filling. A fun twist on a classic Easter basket treat!
Easy Easter Brownies with Buttercream
Made with box mix and homemade buttercream frosting and decorated to like eggs, these easy Easter brownies are sure to delight. The perfect Easter baking project for kids and adults to do together, without the hassle of making brownies from scratch!
Cream Cheese Peppermints in Tie-Dye Colors
Made with soft cream cheese and natural peppermint oil, these pastel tie-dye cream cheese peppermints are a crowd-pleaser at Easter, or any time of the year.
Easter Rice Krispie Bird Nest Treats
Made with gooey marshmallow, melted butter, and puffed rice cereal and decorated with coconut and chocolate mini eggs (plus plenty of pastel sprinkles!) these Easter Rice Krispie treats make a fun addition to any springtime celebration.
Easy Coconut Eggs Recipe for Easter
These easy coconut Easter eggs feature a sweet, chewy, and slightly sticky homemade candy mixture, hand-rolled into egg shapes and decorated with pastel sprinkles. I’ve drizzled my eggs in white chocolate, but feel free to omit it for a chocolate-free Easter candy option.
Floral Wreath Meringue Cookies Recipe
A floral wreath meringue cookies recipe made from egg whites and sugar. The prettiest piped meringue wreaths, inspired by the Chelsea Flower Show and springtime in London.
Chocolate Frosted Creme Egg Brownies
Loaded with chocolate chips and miniature Cadbury creme eggs, these rich, gooey chocolate frosted creme egg brownies are the ultimate Easter treat!
Chocolate Mini Egg Easter Cookies
These bakery-style chocolate mini egg Easter cookies feature Cadbury mini egg candies, chocolate chips, and plenty of pastel sprinkles!
Peanut Butter Eggs Recipe
Enrobed in milk chocolate, these creamy peanut butter eggs will disappear quickly in a household of peanut butter lovers. The best peanut butter eggs recipe for gifting and sharing during the Easter holiday season.
How to Make Homemade Sprinkles
Learn how to make homemade sprinkles with this DIY sprinkles recipe. I made this batch in fun Easter colors, but once you learn how to make sprinkles, you can easily adapt this recipe for holidays, sports team colors, or anything else you’d like!
More Desserts to Make for Easter
For even more desserts to make for Easter, please visit my candy and confectionery, biscuit and cookie, and chocolate recipe galleries, too. You can also check out my Easter Pinterest board, which is full of creative recipe ideas.
And if you do make these, or any of my recipes, dont forget to tag me @bastecutfold or use the hashtag #bastecutfold on Instagram. I always love to see what you’re making!
Rebecca Frey is a freelance recipe developer, food writer, photographer, stylist, and pastry chef. She earned the Diplôme de Pâtisserie (French Pastry Techniques Diploma) from Le Cordon Bleu London in 2020 and an MSc in Culinary Innovation from Birkbeck, University of London in 2022, where she focused her dissertation research on Pennsylvania Dutch recipes. She also holds a Professional Chocolatier’s Certificate from Ecole Chocolat. Rebecca has developed recipes for websites including Serious Eats, The Spruce Eats, Wine Enthusiast, and others. Follow her on Instagram @bastecutfold.
