We all love Easter. The reason could be many, and one of them is the ultimate dessert recipe we enjoy during the Easter season. As much as Christmas, many families enjoy baking and cooking for Easter. So now that Easter is rolling around, it’s time to plan out our adorable Easter Cake recipes and stash things away for Easter baskets!
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But wait, do you also struggle with dessert ideas every year when Easter rolls around? Does the variety of desserts from all around the world confuse you? Are you finding an easy way to bring Easter to your holiday celebration? If yes, you no longer need to look for any other sources since we are here to help you out. We have compiled 41 delicious desserts that will please everyone who tries them. So consider these cake recipes that can add a lot of flair to your sweets table for a simple seasonal treat.
1. Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Image and recipe by: sunnysweetdays
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 11
Making these cupcakes is quite easy. For this relatively easy yet delicious and eye-catching dessert, all you need is frosting, cupcakes, marshmallows, and pink sprinkles. Make bunny ears from marshmallows by cutting them diagonally and adding sprinkles!
2. Easter White Chocolate Mug Cake
Image and recipe by: chocolateandcarrots
Number of Ingredients: 7
Easy to prepare, this White Chocolate Mug Cake is filled with a delicious flavor. All you need is to stir the ingredients and microwave them until the center is no longer wet. In addition to this, you can Melt white chocolate and drizzle it on top, along with sprinkles to decorate it even more.
3. Pistachio Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Image and recipe by: howsweeteats
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 19
Wanna switch things up so that you can eat veggies? The best cake for those who have a cream cheese frosting obsession but are also very health-conscious. This cake looks lovely. It’s flavorful and moist, with a little bit of spice and some crunch from the pistachios.
4. Easy Easter Chick Cupcakes
Image and recipe by: notquitesusie
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 7
This is a cute yet super-easy way to decorate cupcakes for Easter! We all, at some points, prefer Cupcakes because they’re easy, they’re quick, and you can decorate them in a lot of different ways. And the best part about cupcakes is if you mess one up, you can always put it aside; it won’t interfere with the overall look of your dessert.
5. Easter Mini Bundt Cakes
Image and recipe by: myorganizedchaos
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 17 min
Servings: 1
Number of Ingredients: 4
Although these mini cakes are ideal for Easter, they can also be enjoyed for Mother’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and Christmas.
The best thing about this particular recipe is it can be customized for any occasion with a simple change of toppings. For instance, you can use whichever cake mix flavor you prefer and then can top it up with your very own decorating edibles like sprinkles, choco chips,..etc.
6. Confetti Coconut Classic Bunny Cake with M&M’S
Image and recipe by: howsweeteats
Servings: 8
Number of Ingredients: 17
This cake is made of coconut confetti cake as a base. The confetti cake can be used with some almond flake coconut mixed in. It is frosted with an absolutely delicious coconut cream cheese frosting. Lastly, to give it a bunny-like appearance, it is covered in coconut, especially the face and ears.
7. Buttercream Bunny Cupcakes
Image and recipe by: bakerella
These floppy, eared friends are super cute. They can be simply decorated by using melted candy coating for the pretty pastel colours and vanilla buttercream frosting for making the little bunny bodies. As of now, you might have figured out that despite the simplicity of the decorations, the floppy ears give them such a unique twist!
8. Easter Egg Cupcakes
Cook time: 10 min
Servings: 24
Number of Ingredients: 7
These Easter egg cupcakes are a fun alternative to hard-boiled egg Easter eggs or traditional Easter-themed sweet treats. For preparing these sweet little cupcakes, the Cupcake batter is stuffed into a dyed shell, frosted, and sprinkled to create a festive Easter dessert.
9. Best Homemade Carrot Cake Mix
Image and recipe by: sewlicioushomedecor
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Servings: 38
Number of Ingredients: 14
This easy yet incredibly delicious homemade recipe is full of rich carrot cake flavour and perfect for cupcakes and cookies, too! You can turn it into cupcakes or even cookies if you want. You can sandwich the cookies with cream cheese icing for yummy treats.
10. Mini Easter Cakes
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 22 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 12
Looking for an easter dessert recipe that is both easy to make and looks beautiful? Try these adorable mini colorful easter cakes, which are sure to brighten up your dessert table!
They do require a few steps but are simultaneously quite easy to make and are sure to impress.
11. Easter Chocolate Cake
Image and recipe by: thebakingexplorer
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 14
This cake appears like a chocolate sponge filled and topped with plenty of chocolate buttercream. Besides this, you can also decorate the top with crushed flake bars and mini eggs to create an Easter nest appearance. The best thing about this recipe is whether or not it is Easter, you can make it any time of the year and decorate it with the chocolate of your choice.
12. Bunny Bundt Cakes for Easter
Image and recipe by: yourcupofcake
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 17 min
Servings: 1
Number of Ingredients: 4
These Bunny Bundt Cakes are made from mini chocolate Bundts with a little chocolate icing and Oreo crumbs. They are relatively easy to make. The main thing that should be surely done for the perfectly adorable look is to press a PEEP bunny into the center to give it a look as if a sweet little bunny pops its head out of the ground!
13. Speckled Egg Easter Cake
Image and recipe by: momontimeout
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 15
This is an absolutely delightful Easter cake recipe that’s both enjoyable and delicious! So, get yourself a bag of Cadbury Eggs, and get ready to make the cutest Easter cake ever! For the overall delight of this dessert, serve this beautifully layered vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream!
14. Brown Butter Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Image and recipe by: girlversusdough
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 15
The soft and moist layers of this carrot cake are topped with an icy layer of tangy cream cheese icing. This cake is a classic combination of spices, tender carrots, and sweet raisins. Additionally, chopped pecans or walnuts can be added to the batter before baking if you like to eat nuts in your carrot cake.
15. Pastel Bunny Cake
Number of Ingredients: 7
Made using the cake mix and decorated with icing pouches, this treat is perfect for beginning decorators. Prepare four decorating bags. Fill bags with icing, one each of yellow, pink, violet, and white. Pipe stars, alternating colors, until the cake is completely covered.
16. Easter Fault Line cake
Prep time: 1 hr 20 min
Number of Ingredients: 10
Social media is going crazy for the new trend in cakes called Fault Line Cakes.
Featuring bunnies, chicks, eggs, and a rainbow of pastel swirls, this Easter Fault Line Cake is sure to impress.
17. Paleo Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Image anreciped recipe by: primallyinspired
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 15
This recipe for Paleo Carrot Cake Cupcakes contains no dairy, no grains, no refined sugar, and no nuts, making them suitable for people preferring healthy desserts. These cupcakes are absolutely delicious! They are moist, perfectly sweet, and filled with wholesome goodness like carrots, dates, and metabolism-boosting coconut oil.
And if you like adding dry fruits to your desserts then, You can also add an extra sprinkle of cinnamon, chopped pecans, or walnuts.
18. Easter Egg Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Number of Ingredients: 5
This small chocolate cake is frosted in green buttercream icing. It’s easy to make and uses seasonal candies. On the sides, the cake is decorated with cute bunny and duck-shaped sprinkles, and the top is covered in an Oreo cookie nest and speckled Easter egg candies!
Kids enjoy these cakes pretty much, mostly because of the incredibly adorable looks.
19. Easter Bunny Cake
Image and recipe by: preppykitchen
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Servings: 10
Number of Ingredients: 20 (including the ingredients for Italian Meringue and American Buttercream)
This cake is filled with strawberry lemon buttercream and then covered in vanilla Italian meringue buttercream, which tastes super yummy because it’s so creamy and not too sweet.
One fantastic thing about this cake is you can Take the bunny and eggs off, and now it’s an amazing strawberry cake perfect for almost any occasion.
20. Easter Nest Cake
Image and recipe by: sugarhero
Prep time: 3 hr
Cook time: 1 hr 10 min
Servings: 16
Number of Ingredients: 19
This recipe is super delicious and is thus worth all the time. It’s simply baked in a bowl, and the decorating part is truly fun-loving. It actually starts with a moist, dense food chocolate cake cut into three layers. For garnishing and giving it a perfect nest-like look, It’s filled with dark chocolate buttercream and frosted with that same buttercream to resemble the bird’s nest.
21. Light Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Image and recipe by: foodfunfamily
Cook time: 20 min
Number of Ingredients: 9
The best thing about this dessert is it’s much lighter than all other regular treats. It’s exciting and fun for people who love to experiment with the cake mix to make something extraordinary. Additionally, to make them look fantastically adorable, try the Bakery Crafts decorating kit.
22. Easter Egg Cake
Image and recipe by: preppykitchen
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 10
Number of Ingredients: 15
This moist and easy-to-make cake can be a wonderful treat for vanilla lovers. The simple splatter of cocoa mixed with vanilla creates so much visual interest; the soft blue frosting and the little chocolate eggs on top are indeed eye-catching and fantastically adorable.
23. Carrot Cake Cream Cheese Pudding Trifles
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 2 hours
Servings: 9
Number of Ingredients: 15
These trifles are easy to make and assemble. They make for a stunning presentation, regardless of what occasion you serve them. With layers of soft, fluffy carrot cake and rich cream cheese pudding, the topping is made up of generous dollops of whipped topping, a drizzle of caramel sauce, and a sprinkle of nuts.
24. Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake
Image and recipe by: thecakeblog
Number of Ingredients: 4
The chocolate bunny and jelly beans make this cake perfect. This design is great because of the contrast between the chocolate bunny and the green! The grass used for covering the cake all over is edible; made of potato starch, much like wafer paper, this gives it a playful confetti-like appearance for the edible grass.
25. Easter Basket Cake
Image and recipe by: thecakeblog
Number of Ingredients: 5
It uses stringy marshmallows. Marshmallow is pulled and stretched around the cake in order to create the look of woven vines. To top off this basket cake, green shimmery is sprinkled, creating the look of sparkling grass. The best part is, even though it is a little messy since kids thrive on mess, they are sure to love it.
26. Coconut Bunny Cake
Image and recipe by: jennysteffens
This cake is decorated in a basket with fake green Easter “grass” surrounded by cupcakes and topped with jelly beans.
The bunny is covered in icing and if you like a lot of icing, then put the cake in the refrigerator, then add the second coat.
Cover the bunny with flaked coconut or Spanish moss to give it a perfect natural bunny look.
27. Easter Candy Drip Cake
Image and recipe by: thesweetsensations
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 55 min
Servings: 12-16
Number of Ingredients: 12
Topped with little bunnies and mini eggs, this Victoria Sponge drip cake dripping in ganache is simply adorable, suiting the Easter vibes perfectly. In terms of drip cakes, this cake is very simple; it isn’t difficult to pull together.
28. 4-Ingredient Chocolate Easter Egg Nest Cupcakes
Image and recipe by: layersofhappiness
Number of Ingredients: 4
You’d love these cupcakes because they look exceptionally delicious and are very easy to make. All you need to prepare them is one box of Cake Mix, Frosting, Dark Chocolate, and Blue coated candy as soon as you bake your cupcakes, Spoon on plenty of icing!
Top with shaved chocolate and a blue candy-coated chocolate egg.
29. Carrot Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Swirl
Image and recipe by: bunsenburnerbakery
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 1 hour
Servings: 16
Number of Ingredients: 20
This is a pretty dense cake, and Packing the cake full of carrots makes it extra moist, and this moistness is what makes it super delicious. A bundt pan is used for baking it, and then a cream cheese swirl and cream cheese frosting are used for topping.
30. Mini Easter Cheesecakes
Image and recipe by: mykitchencraze
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 18 hours
Servings: 18
Number of Ingredients: 11
The amazing part of these sweet little cheesecakes is there are a wide variety of possibilities for decoration. They can be decorated in any way you like, from using green coconut “grass” and chocolate eggs to using marshmallows, peeps or even jelly beans and licorice for a U-shaped upside-down cake.
31. Peeps Easter Garden Poke Cake
Image and recipe by: cincyshopper
Servings: 15
Number of Ingredients: 8
Make this Easter Cake with a box cake mix and its ingredients; chocolate pudding (with milk), Cool Whip, OREO cookies, and colorful PEEPS of your choice. Cake, pudding, Cool-Whip, and crushed OREOs combine to make this cake amazing!
32. Easter Bunny Cake
Image and recipe by: hungryhappenings
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 24
Number of Ingredients: 13
This cake can be prepared easily, starting from a simple sheet cake, a printable bunny template, and some fluffy white, pink, blue, and chocolate frosting.
The decorating part is pretty simple. A pink border is piped to create an Easter bunny design on the cake, and then pink ears, nose, and paws are put together, along with the filling of the white frosting.
33. Rainbow Cheesecake Easter Eggs
Image and recipe by: hungryhappenings
Serve these lusciously creamy Rainbow Cheesecake Easter Eggs as a treat for your Easter dessert table. Although layering each color to make these eggs is a bit tedious, the end product is pretty cool. Each bite displays the colorful cake layers in astonishment and a purely attractive way.
34. Easter Cookie Cake
Image and recipe by: thatskinnychickcanbake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 8
Number of Ingredients: 10
This Easter Cookie Cake is full of spring candy and chocolate chips and is perfect for leftover Easter treats! If you’ve made chocolate chip cookies, this Easter Cookie Cake will be an easy bake!
In addition to their super delicious taste, the colorful round candies make them even more appealing.
35. Easy Easter Simnel Cake
Image and recipe by: supergoldenbakes
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 2 hours
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 14
The traditional Easter cake, Simnel Cake, has a really long history dating back to Medieval times. This light fruit cake is a gently spiced cake with dried fruit, mixed peel, and two layers of marzipan.
36. Cadbury Mini Eggs Easter Cookie Cake
Image and recipe by: lolalambchops
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 8-12
Number of Ingredients: 15
The recipe of this dessert simply involves the cool combination of Easter Cookie Cake plus Cadbury Mini Eggs. Using a mixer, butter, powder sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream are combined. The frosting is mixed until it combines entirely and becomes stiff. At last, add Easter sprinkles to the cookie cake once the frosting is rolled around the edge.
37. Simple Lemon Drizzle Easter Cake
Image and recipe by: kitchenmason
Number of Ingredients: 10
This cake is loved for a bunch of reasons! Not only is it a baking classic, but it’s also incredibly simple to make and really easy to turn into an Easter dessert. It’s also a wonderfully simple bake that the kids can get involved with over the holidays.
38. Vanilla Buttercream Easter Egg Cake
Image and recipe by: womansday
Total time: 1 hr 45 min
Servings: 16
Number of Ingredients: 14
The garnishing and colorful decoration of this cake makes it look amazing and irresistible. After outlining an Easter egg shape to the cake, make zigzag sections as shown in the image and fill each of them with colorful sprinkles, nonpareils, and sanding sugar to create an eye-catching mosaic cake.
39. Sugar Easter Egg Cake
Image and recipe by: sugarhero
Prep time: 3 hrs
Cook time: 2 hrs 20 min
Servings: 16
Number of Ingredients: 20
Sweet, beautiful, and definitely a show-stopper on Easter tables, this Sugar Easter Egg Cake takes things to the next level with its retro design and candy scene inside. Is the preparation and decoration of the cake seem difficult? It isn’t at all. I’ll summarize it so you can relate to my words. To start, add some buttercream grass and leaves to the center of the cake, then a white chocolate rabbit with chocolate eggs and royal icing flowers. On top of that, add a shell border, green vines and leaves, and some buttercream roses.
40. Adorable Easter Bunny Butt Cake
Image and recipe by: julieblanner
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 50 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 5
This easy and adorable Easter Bunny Cake makes a memorable Easter cake and works for baby showers, birthday parties, and more!
This cute bunny butt cake is easy to make and is something that can be enjoyed by kids as well as elders. The uniqueness of this cake lies in the round bunny butt making it an adorable display on any dessert table!
41. Easter Rainbow Cake
Image and recipe by: goodhousekeeping
Prep time: 1 hr 30 min
Cook time: 1 hr 30 min
Servings: 30
Number of Ingredients: 17
This stunning Easter Cake is made with Simnel-inspired flavors of almond, citrus fruit, and mixed spice. Its amazing appearance and creamy taste make it one of the most popular cakes among children. Kids love it due to its vivid colors.
In preparation for the coming Easter, these are some of the easiest, best, and most delicious desserts to make. Make sure to treat your friends and family to these ultimate delights this Easter!
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