You’re going to love these dreamy Easter desserts tailor made for your spring holiday table. From citrusy sheet cakes and bars to stunning layer cakes and pies, divinely delicious spring flavors like coconut, pineapple, lemon and orange shine!
It’s just not Easter without a showstopping dessert. Whether you celebrate with an Easter brunch, lunch or dinner, there’s always a place for cakes, pies or sweets on the table. This week’s Saturday Seven pulls together 7 of our most loved spring desserts guaranteed to steal the show at your Easter feast.
From Layered Lemon Cake, a Honey Lime Fruit Tart and a decadent Pineapple Trifle to an Old Fashioned Coconut Cream Pie and Coconut Ice Box Cake, Orange Creamsicle Poke Cake and Lemon Bars with an updated twist, these desserts are nothing if not delightful and fresh.
So let’s get our shopping lists ready, this list has all the Easter feels!
Dreamy Easter Desserts Recipes
A Triple Layer Lemon Cake with rich lemon curd sandwiched between its layers and clouds of lemon curd buttercream piled high on the top and swathed around the sides. Perched atop its pedestal, it’s sunshine yellow and truly something to behold.
Golden and dreamy, this Old Fashioned Coconut Cream Pie has a rich custard filling loaded with coconut and is piled-high with a fluffy meringue. A little bit of heaven in a pie crust, this classic dessert is as long on flavor as it is tradition.
Orange Creamsicle Poke Cake is a light & refreshing citrus dream! An easy sheet cake recipe made using a boxed cake mix and a few extra special ingredients just sings with sunshine-y orange flavor from orange soda, orange jello and and delightfully fluffy orange whipped topping!
If loads of real strawberries baked up in a pink dream are what you crave, I’ve got your answer with this Old Fashioned Homemade Strawberry Cake recipe! We’re talking a dreamy, soft strawberry cake wrapped in a fluffy strawberry buttercream that’s guaranteed to make all your berry dreams come true.
Lightly spiced with the warm flavors of cinnamon and ginger, this Homemade Carrot Cake is what simple, delicious classic recipes are all about! Made with 3 cups of freshly grated carrots, applesauce, brown sugar, plenty of buttery pecans and topped with a fluffy cloud of whipped cream cheese frosting, this cake makes everyone a carrot cake lover!
If you love fruit pizza, then this beautiful, easy recipe is just for you! A dazzling dessert or a star at brunch, there’s really no time that’s a bad time for this colorful gem, with its fresh fruit, cream cheese lime filling, honey lime glaze and sugar cookie crust.
Tart lemon and plump, round blueberries are the perfect sunny partners in this moist and buttery pound cake with a bright lemony glaze! Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake is a wonderful partner for coffee, a star at brunch and a delight for dessert.
What could be better than scooping up a delicious ray of sunshine? That’s just what you get when serve this dreamy Coconut Pineapple Trifle with it’s layers of crushed pineapple, tender yellow pineapple cake, rich cream cheese pudding filling, all piled high with whipped topping and toasted coconut. Get ready for a little taste of paradise!
Creamy Toasted Coconut Lime Bars are like little key lime pies as a fun dessert bar! Tart and tangy lime, sweet shredded coconut and a buttery shortbread crust with macadamia nuts and lime zest make this tropical delight the perfect treat for summer cookouts, bridal and baby showers and your favorite holidays.
A classic summer dessert, this easy no-bake Fresh Strawberry Pie is bursting with plump, ripe strawberries bathed in a simple sweet strawberry glaze all cradled in a flaky, buttery pie crust.
Calling all my lemon lovers! These light and lemony sweet, Lemon Drop Crinkle Cookies are just for you! These pretty little bites of sunshine are just bursting with that sweet tartness that puts the pucker in all good things lemon! Plus, with just 6 ingredients, these crinkled classics are so easy to bake, they’re sure to become your new favorite lemon dessert.
Classic Strawberry Shortcakes are a must! Tender golden shortcakes that taste like sweet biscuits piled high with mountains of juicy, red strawberries and strawberry syrup with pillows of fresh whipped cream on top are just what your Easter dinner, cookouts and backyard get togethers need.
Loads of sweet, caramelized pineapple and the softest, buttery rich yellow cake combine to create one of the most gorgeous, delicious Homemade Pineapple Upside Down Cakes around! You’re going to love serving (and eating) this classic cake every chance you get.
This cake is best after about 2 days in the fridge. It's called an ice box cake for a reason. While your cake is in the refrigerator that coconut milk and sour cream just soak in, getting into every nook and cranny, making this just about the best coconut cake you have ever put in your mouth. Your cake making status is about to become legendary.
Tart and tangy, these classic squares of lemony heaven with a fresh twist of bright basil are perfect bites of sunshine. When temps warm up, these Lemon Squares are just what your sweet tooth needs.
Layers of dreamy lemon, blueberry pie pfilling, vanilla wafers and whipped topping make a luscious desserts that so easy!
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