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    Easter Roundup - The Best Easter Sweets, Treats, and Side Dishes

    Published: Feb 5, 2021 · Modified: Jan 13, 2025 by Karin and Ken · This post may contain affiliate links. Leave a Comment

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    Looking for simple sweets and treats for Easter? Have we got a list for you! If you already had Easter dessert planned, let me put a kink in those plans by offering some other delights that will enhance your Easter dinner menu. 

    Easter is sweet in so many ways. It's a time of optimism. Spring has arrived. The days are getting longer. The air is fresher and the birds, they are a singing! People are craving celebration. What better way to celebrate than with food? Start with a hearty main course, and end it with a variety of sweet delights that will round off your special day nicely!

    Assuming ham is at the heart of your meal, below you will find some easy Instant Pot side dishes to go along with it. But the real focus of this post is on Easter desserts. Edible treasures that will add a sweet touch to your feast. And this year, we've got quite an assortment to choose from! 

    Maybe lockdown fever is to blame for sparking these creations. Or maybe the imaginative juices were flowing anyway. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that they're here, and we had a blast making them! And the best part of all? We get to share these recipes with you! 

    Given the variety, I personally have a hard time choosing a favorite. Frankly, I love them all, and it's my hope you'll feel the same way too!

    There's an Easter sweet here for everyone on your list. Have fun deciding which one to start with first! Or why not give them all a try? A dessert buffet is not such a bad idea in my humble opinion.

    The Best Easter Sweets, Treats, and Side Dishes

    Cheesecake is an all-time classic that just about everyone on the planet loves. My husband can barely contain himself when they're sitting in front of him. And he's not alone. Whenever I have guests over, I find these Easter cheesecakes are the first to go.

    Mini Easter cheesecakes or Philadelphia mini cheesecakes are fun, cute and colorful.  Topped with toasted coconut and crowned with mini eggs (or whatever you fancy), these little edible jewels are the perfect size and will bring a little cheer to any Easter celebration.

    Mini Easter Cheesecakes
    Mini Easter Cheesecakes or Philadelphia Bites are an easy, classic, versatile recipe and so cute with Easter egg nests and toasted coconut or whatever!
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    Mini Easter Cheesecakes

    There's no getting away from it. Layered carrot cake from scratch simply tastes amazing! Super moist with that perfect texture, this cake is loaded with flavor and is just what you'd expect in a homemade carrot cake.  Try it once and this layered carrot cake could become an obsession!

    My son often asks when I plan on making this wonderful homemade carrot cake recipe again. I've seen him eat this layered carrot cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Not the most healthiest thing to do and I wouldn't recommend that to anyone. But when you're young, you can get do these sorts of things. 

    My point is that this carrot cake is so delicious, it's never far from my son's mind. Nor is it far from anyone else that's had a taste of it for that matter!

    Layered Carrot Cake from Scratch - Best EVER!!
    Layered Carrot Cake from Scratch is simply amazing. You're going to love the flavor, texture, and taste of this super moist, homemade carrot cake!
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    Layered Carrot Cake from Scratch

    Easy swirled Easter fudge is a white chocolate fudge candy recipe made with condensed milk, mini Easter eggs, sprinkles, sparkles, and a swirl! A pleasure to look at, and even more pleasurable from that first bite to the last. Although it's called Easter fudge, don't wait for a special occasion to try it. It's the perfect treat, any time, anywhere!

    Easy Easter Swirled Fudge
    Easy Swirled Easter Fudge is a white chocolate fudge candy recipe with condensed milk, mini Easter eggs, sprinkles, sparkles and a swirl! The perfect treat!
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    Aren't these Easter Egg cookie nests adorable? These easy cookie cups are almost too cute to eat. Notice how I said "almost"? These Easter egg nests taste as good as they look. And this cookie cups recipe is easier to make than you may think. The nest is made with cookie dough (with or without chocolate chips), filled with coconut and topped with colorful chocolate Easter eggs. Get the kids to fill the bowl with ice cream, Reese's Pieces or whatever they desire. 

    A super fun recipe the kids will want to be involved in from start to finish. The festivities of Easter brings out the kid in all of us. One look at these Easter egg cookie nests and you get my point!

    Easy Cookie Cups
    This Easy Cookie Cups recipe is made with or without chocolate chips, making a cookie dough cup, nest or bowl to fill with ice cream, and more!
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    Easy Cookie Cups.

    A beautiful dessert that is refreshingly light and absolutely delicious.

    Mini Lemon Bundt Cakes
    These Mini Lemon Bundt Cakes are the best combination of tangy and sweet! The lemon glaze pairs perfectly with the moist cake. It’s a match made in heaven!
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    A mini lemon bundt cake on a white plate with lemon slices and yellow flowers.

    The easiest sweet treat on earth and oh so good.

    Air Fryer Crescent Rolls with Nutella and Strawberries
    These air fryer crescent rolls are loaded with sweet and creamy Nutella and fresh strawberries for a simple, yet delicious treat! The air fryer cooks them until crispy, golden brown perfection on the outside!
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    Two air fryer crescent rolls on a white plate filled with strawberries and Nutella.

    Chocolate covered strawberries are a match made in heaven as far as I am concerned and this recipe is worth the effort. Enjoy every bite.

    Easter Chocolate Covered Strawberries
    These Easter chocolate covered strawberries have the classic flavor we love, but they're wrapped up in a fun Easter theme.
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    A plate with bunny, carrot and easter egg decorated chocolate dipped strawberries.

    If you love unicorns in the springtime his fudge is for you! All the pretty colors and great taste make this an amazing addition to any celebration.

    Spring Fudge
    This unicorn fudge is rich, creamy, and so delicious. Its pastel colors make it a fun, tasty spring fudge recipe you'll love.
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    These cookies are always a hit and the first to disappear.

    Blossom Sugar Cookies
    If you're looking for festive desserts to welcome spring or celebrate Easter, these Sugar Cookie Blossoms are the perfect answer! These sugar blossom cookies are super colorful, tender, and delicious, plus they look like a field of spring flowers. 🌺🌸🌼🌸🌻
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    If you thought I was done with the carrot cake theme, think again! These soft carrot cake cookies with cream cheese frosting are of bakery quality, but so easy to make. How often do you get to enjoy carrot cake in the form of a cookie? If you haven't tried these, now's the time!

    These chewy little morsels are one of the best treats around! 

    Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
    These soft Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are bakery quality, chewy, easy, like a carrot cake in cookie form and the best sweet treat!

    Not to be outdone by carrot cake cookies, check out these carrot cake bars! So moist, and covered in a wonderful cream cheese buttercream frosting, these are the best in what carrot cake has to offer in bar form.

    Can you tell I love all things carrot cake? If I could bottle up this flavor, I would take it with me wherever I go! Carrot cake bars are one of my personal favorites and I know I'm not alone.  

    Easy Carrot Cake Bars
    Easy Carrot Cake Bars are easy, moist and covered in a wonderful cream cheese buttercream frosting. Just like eating the best carrot cake in a bar form!
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    Carrot Cake Bars

    I always decorate Oreo cookies for every celebration and they're always a hit with everyone. I also love getting kids to decorate them with me. So much more fun than decorating them all by myself!

    Easter Chocolate Covered Oreos
    These Easter chocolate covered Oreos are the perfect holiday treat. They're sweet, colorful, and so easy to make!
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    I can't get enough of these popcorn bars. Perfect for anyoccasion these bars never disappoint.

    Easter Popcorn Bars
    These Easter Popcorn Bars make the perfect treat for the spring holiday season — they're easy, versatile, and full of festive colors! My popcorn bar recipe combines light and airy popcorn with sticky marshmallows, rich chocolate, crunchy candy, and brightly colored sprinkles for a sweet treat everyone will love. 
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    These easy bunny cake pops are the perfect treat for any Easter celebration.

    Bunny Cake Pops
    These Easter Bunny Cake Pops are festively fabulous and delightfully decadent. Featuring homemade vanilla cake mashed with tangy cream cheese frosting that is shaped into adorable bunnies, dipped in white candy melts, and decorated to look like everyone’s favorite springtime character, these animal cake pops are the weekend baking project you’ve been looking for.
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    There's nothing like this refreshing 3 ingredient lemon fudge to brighten your celebration!

    Lemon Fudge
    This super easy lemon fudge recipe only uses a handful of ingredients to deliver sweet, zingy fudge that everyone will love.
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    These cookies are to die for.

    Mini Cadbury Egg Cookies
    Rich, chocolatey, and absolutely adorable to boot, these mini Cadbury Egg Cookies are the perfect Easter cookies to make this year. Loaded with everyone’s favorite springtime candy, chocolate Cadbury mini egg cookies are just what the Easter Bunny ordered.
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    These chocolate chip cookies are so easy and always disappear fast on our dessert table. Everyone loves a great chocolate chip cookie.

    Easter Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Easter chocolate chip cookies take the classic cookie we all know and love turn them into the perfect Easter cookie treat with a white chocolate and sprinkle coating.
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    Easter chocolate chip cookies on table with white chocolate and sprinkles.

    An easy cake that's always a colorful crowd pleaser. I love it because it requires minimal icing to taste amazing.

    Easy Easter Cake Recipe
    This easy Easter cake recipe is perfect for your Easter holiday table. With its beautiful pastel layers in classic Easter colors and just the right amount of frosting, this pastel layer cake is one that even first time bakers can master.
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    Slice of traditional Easter cake on plate with pastel layers and creamy frosting.

    There's no other fudge recipe that quite compares to this one. With that creamy texture we all love in fudge, these bars really do taste like a Cadbury Creme eggs, too! 

    Another fast and easy recipe for the kids to try, these Cadbury Creme egg fudge bars are guaranteed to be a hit no matter who you serve them to. A sweet vibe everyone is sure to fall in love with! 

    Cadbury Creme Egg Fudge
    This Cadbury Creme Egg Fudge is so good, and it's really simple to make.
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    These butterscotch haystack bird nests are an absolute delight and another fun and festive treat for the kids to get involved in. Begin making them and see just how many little volunteers show up in the kitchen! Getting them from the kitchen to the table might be a challenge, as they won't be able to keep their hands off them.

    To preserve their crispiness and flavor though, these bird nests need to be stored immediately in a container with a lid.  

    Butterscotch Haystack Bird Nests Recipe
    This Butterscotch Haystack Bird Nests cookie recipe is the best. Not only delicious but super easy and fast to make, with or without chocolate.
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    Two Bird Nest Butterscotch Haystacks on top of each other with top one missing a bite.

    Fruity Pebbles fudge takes an easy, delicious white chocolate fudge recipe and injects it with a dose of fruity flavor that takes it to the next level. It’s easy to make, super tasty, and super festive, too!

    Fruity Pebbles has been one of my favorite foods since childhood, so when I can incorporate them into a recipe, I absolutely will. These are my latest Fruit Pebbles experiment, and they are ah-mazing

    Fruity Pebbles Fudge
    This fruity pebbles fudge is so delicious and so easy to make. This white chocolate fudge is the perfect fun snack for any occasion.
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    So easy and super tasty this pretty fudge is always a hit!

    Spring Fudge
    This unicorn fudge is rich, creamy, and so delicious. Its pastel colors make it a fun, tasty spring fudge recipe you'll love.
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    One of the easiest desserts on earth to make!

    Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers
    Chocolate covered graham crackers combine graham crackers with three kinds of chocolate and sprinkles. Make a batch of these chocolate dipped graham crackers quickly for a tasty snack or dessert any time your sweet tooth wants!
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    Chocolate covered graham crackers stacked atop one another on plate.

    Crock Pot carrot cake with caramel frosting is no joke; although you won't be able to keep the smiles of their faces! This going to be your new favorite dessert. This slow cooker carrot cake with caramel frosting is everything you've ever loved in a carrot cake with a delicious caramel twist. And it uses a boxed cake mix, making it incredibly easy and surprisingly delicious!

    Being a carrot cake hound, I can sniff out carrot cake a mile away! As I spill the the beans about my sniffer, there's a HUGE difference between a carrot cake and a spice cake. Plain and simple. 

    They're not the same. In my opinion, they don't even come close. My taste buds can tell the difference every single time. Moral of the story? If you want that true carrot cake flavor, make certain it's a carrot cake you're making and not a spice cake. 

    C]rock Pot Carrot Cake with Caramel Dolce Cream Cheese Frosting
    This crock pot cake is so good, and it's so easy, which makes it even better! You just put it in the crock pot, let it bake, and you have a moist, delicious cake with very little effort. It's so simple to do, you can have it done for dinner. It's even better for a midnight snack. You're gonna love this recipe. Make sure to keep this one in your favorites!
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    Good golly, Molly, these are cute! ALMOST too cute to eat, but not quite...who says you can't drink hot chocolate on Easter? Everyone will be lining up for a glass with one of these Easter cocoa bombs sitting in it! 

    A fabulous Easter project for the whole family to get involved in.

    Not only are these cocoa bombs great fun in hot chocolate, they also make a cute addition for the kids Easter baskets, too. Throw one in a mug of delicious hot cocoa for them at the same time and it becomes a real chocolate party to remember! 

    Easter Hot Cocoa Bombs
    Easter hot cocoa bombs are shaped like Easter eggs and full of pretty pastel colors, these beautiful Easter hot chocolate bombs are as cute as they are delicious. 
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    If you're looking for an easy, sweet and fancy treat, this white chocolate strawberry layered pudding dessert rises to the occasion. A parfait of melted white chocolate and pudding, this is one sweet treat that's pretty to look at and the taste is undeniably good. Ideal for parties and holidays, this dessert can also be enjoyed with family on a quiet weeknight or weekend at home!

    My taste-tester friend and beloved neighbor, Renate admits she's never been much of a pudding lover. But she never shies away from trying something at least once. Before she gave this dessert a try, I asked her if she liked white chocolate and strawberry flavors. When she said yes, I knew before she put the spoon to her lips, she would enjoy this pudding. For someone who doesn't like pudding, she gave this treat two thumbs up!  

    Give yourself a break from baking and cooking by whipping up something fast and simple like this white chocolate strawberry layered pudding. It puts pudding in a whole new light. I've made this layered pudding recipe on many occasions, and it hits the mark every single time!

    What I love about this layered dessert in a glass is that it looks real fancy but it’s actually made from a pudding mix in a box! A crazy simple recipe that has class!

    White Chocolate and Strawberry Layered Pudding
    Are you looking for an easy, sweet and fancy treat? This White Chocolate and Strawberry Layered Pudding Dessert are certain to make your day.
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    Chocolate Strawberry Layered Pudding Dessert.

    No Easter celebration would be complete without ham and those wonderful side dishes! This list of side dishes recipes including ham will go the distance and give you some fabulous dishes to add to your Easter table! 

    Who knew there were so many ways of eating ham? Ham is not just the main entree that pairs up beautifully with other sides...but this list proves that ham can actually be a dynamite side dish of its own! 

    Enjoy the holidays. Hope to see you on your next food journey!

     

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