Happy Easter, folks! It is the day to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior – Jesus Christ. The day is observed as the return of Jesus from the dead. Easter is a movable feast, as in it doesn’t fall on the same day every year. This year it falls on the 17th of April. The details of how the day on which Jesus’s return is commemorated is quite interesting. All the Christian churches agree that Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the first full moon, on or after the 21st of March. The word “Easter” is derived from Easter, the ancient Greek goddess of Spring. Easter can be observed unconventionally with yummy Easter dessert recipes that are sure to get your mouth watering.
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As holy as the day of Easter is to the Christians, it is also a day filled with fun and festivities, including the non-traditional activities that involve the Easter Egg and the Easter Bunny. Here’s a list of more than forty of them.
1. Keto Sugar-Free Easter Eggs
Image and recipe by The Big Man’s World
This easy recipe is what you need to consider if you are going toward a healthy and balanced diet. These are adorably nicknamed “Keto Cups” and are nothing less than delicious. They take a ridiculously low total time of 15 minutes and just five ingredients.
2. Daisy Shortbread Cookies
Image and recipe by Family Around the Table
These sugar cookies are one of the fun Easter dessert recipes you will get your hands on. The recipe is easy to make with the ingredients available at your local store. However, it takes a little over an hour to be done entirely and nine ingredients.
3. Bunny Tail Cookies
Image and recipe by Somewhat Simple
This is the best dessert recipe that can boast of being a fun, kid-friendly Easter recipe. It has a resemblance to a bunny’s tail, hence the name. It is easy as pie and takes less than 30 minutes to be done entirely with just six ingredients.
4. Easter Chick Cookies
Image and recipe by Emily Fabulous
The go-to cute Easter dessert recipe. This recipe sure will get the people talking. The cookies are not just pretty to look at; they are deliciously fun and great for Springtime. The recipe takes close to 1 hour to be done with ten ingredients.
5. Easter Chicks Lemon Cookies
Image and recipe by The Gold Lining Girl
The Easter dessert recipe is easy and quick to bake. It is simple and adorable, makings it so fun to make with the family for the Easter festivities. It consists of a lemon cake mix and makes about 18 cookies with seven ingredients within 30 minutes.
6. Easter Egg Pancakes
Image and recipe by Girl Versus Dough
Easter egg pancakes should be the recipe that you go through on Easter Sunday if you are in trouble for not waking up in time to prepare for hosting the family. It is as easy as it can get. The recipe takes a total of 20 minutes to make and just three ingredients.
7. Super Moist Carrot Cake
Image and recipe by Layers of Happiness
It’s an all-time favorite of Easter brunches all over. This dessert recipe is a generational preference. It is best served to a crowd, mainly because of the amount one ends up with. It flows with flavors and is smooth in the mouth. Takes 45 minutes in total and requires 12 ingredients.
8. Easy Carrots and Dirt Pudding Cups
Image and recipe by Layers of Happiness
This easy Easter dessert recipe involves no baking and is ready within 10 minutes, including the prep time. It involves five store-bought ingredients and lots of fun.
9. Easter Bunny Chocolate Truffle Spoons
Image and recipe by A Spicy Perspective
The best Easter dessert recipe is a bar of chocolate. The Easter Bunny Chocolate Truffle Spoon will surely make you nostalgic about your childhood. This cute Easter dessert recipe is for the kids to love. It takes 45 minutes in total to be done and 11 ingredients.
10. Italian Easter Cookies (Taralli Dolci Di Pasqua)
Image and recipe by The Monday Box
This Italian delight is one of the best Italian dessert recipes and traditions. It has a citrus flavor that compares to nothing. It is sweet, and the sugar icing does its job amazingly. This recipe is for those who have a lot of time on their hands because it takes a little over a day to be completely done and ten ingredients.
11. Spring Shortbread Cookies
Image and recipe by The Café Sucre Farine
This Easter dessert recipe brings out the versatility of shortbread. This fun and easy recipe is bound to melt in your mouth with tiny explosions of sweetness. The buttery recipe takes 45 minutes to make with six ingredients.
12. Easter Chocolate and Strawberry Mousse Cups
Image and recipe by Peppers and Pennies
If you are going for something fleeting, look no more because this light Easter dessert recipe will blow your mind with chocolate and Canadian Eggs. The recipe takes seven ingredients and a total of 50 minutes to make.
13. Birds Nest Cookies
Image and recipe by DINNER AT THE ZOO
The perfect easy Easter dessert recipe is filled with tons of chocolate and butterscotch you do not want to miss out on this Easter. It takes four ingredients and 5 minutes to make this cute Easter dessert recipe.
14. Easter Blossom Cookies
Image and recipe by OMG Chocolate Goodness
Easter Blossom Cookies are easy to make and fun-filled, and the Easter dessert recipe you should consider is sugar cookies with a dash of chocolate. This colorful recipe takes less than 30 minutes to complete and yields 36 cookies with 12 ingredients.
15. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Easter Eggs
Image and recipe by My Organized Chaos
The complete chocolate Easter dessert recipe combines two of the best things involved in the world of baking – chocolate chips and cookie dough. It is an easy dessert recipe that involves no baking. It takes a day to make and ten ingredients.
16. Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cadbury Egg Cookies
Image and recipe by 4 Sons ‘R’ Us
This chocolate Easter dessert recipe is made with Cadbury Mini Eggs that take the place of choco chips. The easy dessert is soft, moist, and just the thing for Easter. It takes 13 ingredients.
17. Easter Bunny Butt Chocolate Cheesecake Cheese Ball
Image and recipe by 4 Sons ‘R’ Us
Easter bunnies are an adorable part of the Easter traditions. This cute Easter dessert recipe showcases how lovely a festival can be that is considered holy. The recipe takes 10 minutes of prep time and nineThe complete ingredients.
18. Easter Bunny Chocolate Cake
Image and recipe by La Tartine Gourmande
The chocolate Easter dessert recipe you don’t want to miss out on. It is one of the cute dessert recipes that can double up as a birthday cake. It is perfect for celebrations of new beginnings because of what the day of Easter stands for. The recipe takes ten ingredients and 40 minutes to bake.
19. Easter Blossom Sugar Cookies
Image and recipe by My Kitchen Craze
Sugar cookies are all the craze. This Easter dessert recipe is the most popular, yummy recipe now. It takes 30 minutes to make 11 ingredients that include Hershey’s Kisses.
20. Chocolate Bird’s Nest Brownies
Image and recipe by Blissfully Domestic
Chocolate Bird’s Nest Brownies is the chocolate Easter dessert recipe you want if you are going for the fun and frolic-filled atmosphere at home with the kids involved. It is a kid-friendly dessert recipe. The recipe involves 11 ingredients and needs close to an hour to be done.
21. Easter Nest Eggs
Image and recipe by The Pioneer Woman
The Easter dessert recipe has breakfast cereal, candy, and loads of fun in store for your Easter celebration. The recipe takes a total time of 30 minutes and nine ingredients. This recipe is yummy, excellent, and best enjoyed with loved ones.
22. Mini Easter Cheesecakes
Image and recipe by My Kitchen Craze
What is better than Cheesecakes on Easter? The answer we are going for is Mini Easter Cheesecakes. This easy Easter dessert cake recipe is for the laid-back kind that wants to chill and hang out with the family.
23. Easter M&M’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Image and recipe by Family Around the Table
M&Ms in a chocolate cookie taking the place of chocolate chips is exactly what chocoholics need on Easter Sunday while surrounded by loved ones to share them with. The chocolate Easter dessert recipe is nothing less than a miracle as it takes a little over 30 minutes to be done and eight ingredients.
24. Easter Cookie Cake
Image and recipe by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
The Easter dessert cake recipe of the season. It is jam-packed with Easter candy and chocolate chips. It takes 40 minutes to make this yummy Easter dessert recipe with ten ingredients.
25. Easter Bunny Shortbread Cutout Cookies
Image and recipe by The Monday Box
Easter Bunny Shortbread Cutout Cookies are as delicious as pleasing to the eyes. The Easter dessert recipe consists of buttery shortbread and edible glitter that is sweet. This is the go-to dessert if you want a light Easter dessert recipe.
26. Easter Brownie Cookies
Image and recipe by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
Loaded with rich chocolate and love, this chocolate Easter recipe is the chewy cousin of cookies and brownies. They are chocolate cookies turned into Easter cookies by pushing a couple of M&Ms onto their surface right after taking them out of the oven. This chocolate Easter dessert recipe takes eight ingredients and 30 minutes to bake.
27. Easter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Image and recipe by Marla Meredith
This Easter dessert recipe is heaven-sent! It is chocolate chip cookies filled with Easter candies with M&Ms in cute marshmallow peeps on each candy. The recipe is gorgeously delicious.
28. Chocolate Nest Easter Crinkle Cookies
Image and recipe by Marla Meredith
Chocolate Nest, Easter Crinkle Cookies, is a gluten-free Easter dessert recipe for those who are busy feasting but like to take care of their health. The Easter dessert recipe is chocolatey and filled with M&Ms.
29. Nutter Butter Chicks Easter Cookies
Image and recipe by The Soccer Mom Blog
The Nutter Butter Chicks Easter Cookies are an easy-to-bake, kid-friendly Easter dessert recipe. They are unbelievably cute once done. The adorable Easter dessert recipe takes 45 minutes with six ingredients.
30. Easter Coconut Cake
Image and recipe by Café Johnsonia
This is an Easter dessert recipe that only some of us were able to enjoy during our childhood days, primarily because of the time spent at grandma’s place during Easter. This delicious Easter dessert recipe is made with shredded coconut along with 11 other ingredients. The decorative Easter dessert recipe takes 1 hour to make.
31. Easter Bunny Cookies Recipe
Image and recipe by Desserts on a Dime
The yummy Easter dessert recipe is one heck of a festive treat for the family. This delicious recipe provides you with a bunch of cute bunny cookies filled with sugar that are sure to keep the entire family happy. There are 13 ingredients and a little over 2 hours involved in making this yummy Easter dessert recipe.
32. Greek Easter Orange Cookies
Image and recipe by Siftnwhisk
The Greek Easter Orange Cookies are traditionally enjoyed on Holy Saturday after Lent is observed. The elegant Easter dessert recipe is easy and simple. It takes a total of 50 minutes to make and involves ten ingredients.
33. Carrot Cake Bread
Image and recipe by How Sweet Eats
The yummy Easter dessert recipe is for all the yummy mummies to try and bake. This unique Easter dessert recipe has the healthy bits that are mainly carrots, and then there are the tasty bits made of Nutella and lots of it. It takes over an hour to bake and 18 ingredients, including the cream cheese frosting.
34. Lemon Chick Peeper Cookies
Image and recipe by Hoosier Homemade
Lemon Chick Peeper Cookies are made with an easy Easter dessert recipe that involves just three ingredients and takes just 20 minutes in total to be done with. It is a cute Easter dessert recipe that one can’t get enough of.
35. Easter Cookie Cake
Image and recipe by The Soccer Mom Blog
Easter Cookie Cake comprises every one of your chocolate-based candies. You don’t want to miss out on the delicious Easter dessert recipe. It is soft and tasty and is sure to have the whole family drooling. The mouth-watering Easter dessert recipe takes 18 ingredients and a total of 35 minutes to make.
36. Easter Sundae Mini Cream Scones
Image and recipe by Joy Love Food
The favorite Easter dessert recipe of the day. It is filled with colorful M&Ms and is a brilliant, easy Easter dessert recipe. It takes 20 minutes to make and needs seven ingredients.
37. Bunny Pancakes
Image and recipe by Lovely Indeed
The Bunny Pancakes are the perfect, easy Easter dessert recipe that can come in handy on Easter Sunday. This simple recipe takes 20 minutes to make and just three ingredients.
38. Easter Marshmallow Oreo Truffles
Image and recipe by Will Cook For Smiles
This Easter dessert recipe is delicious and an absolute treat. It is made with Oreos and golden marshmallows and fits perfectly in the scene of Spring holidays. Also, it’s ready in just 30 mins with only four ingredients.
39. Alphabet Jello Treats
Image and recipe by Lovely Indeed
Easter jello dessert recipes are in, people! This Easter dessert recipe may seem tough while going over it but the use of molds to set the jello makes it all easy and quick. This Easter dessert recipe is unconventional, sure is delicious, and who could say no to these cute little alphabets.
40. Carrot Cake Cookies
Carrot Cake Cookies are healthy because of carrots; the homemade cream cheese frosting makes them even better. The recipe takes 2 hours and 22 minutes to complete with 17 ingredients.
41. Easter Basket Cookies
The Easter dessert recipe brings cookies and cupcakes together. It takes 20 minutes to make in total, and 15 ingredients can be found at home. The goodness of buttery cream frosting is sure to bless your mouth.
42. Cadbury Easter Egg Cookies
Image and recipe by Good Things Baking
Cadbury Easter Egg Cookies are simply fantastic! This Easter dessert recipe combines chocolate chip cookies with dark chocolate and Cadbury Mini Eggs. The recipe sets the mood for the festivities and is perfect for family gatherings. It takes ten ingredients and closes to 30 minutes to be done.
Easter or not, these recipes will come in handy on any given day. Desserts have proven to be the way to people’s hearts. Sweet and delicious recipes have a long-lasting effect on everyone. These Easter dessert recipes are best enjoyed with loved ones. The more, the merrier.
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