In this post I’ll be sharing lots of scrumptious Southern Easter Desserts and Sweets Recipes.
If you’re anything like I am then you’ve likely spent the past month putting together and Easter basket for the littles. Each basket with carefully chosen Easter treats and plastic Easter eggs filled with jelly beans and other surprises.
It gives me a lot of joy putting together those baskets. I also love a good special occasion meal and the planning that goes along with it.
I have been planning what will be on the Easter dinner menu and shopping to make sure that I have everything that I need to prepare our Easter celebration feast.
As important as the meal itself, everyone will gaze their eyes on the scrumptious dessert table filled with traditional Easter desserts and plenty of sweet treats.
With the help of some of my foodie friends, I have put together and incredible selection of tasty treats, cakes, pies and more!
Oh, and before I forget, be sure to check out my list of Best Easter Casseroles for your Easter Brunch and Easter Dinner.
I thought that I’d start with a few Southern Easter Dessert highlights before we dive into the long list of goodies.
Southern Easter Desserts
Homemade Southern Coconut Cake Recipe
This wonderful scratch made coconut cake with a homemade frosting topped in flakes of sweet coconut. This cake is a classic dessert that you’ll find displayed on the Easter table.
It is a family favorite and for good reason….it is so delicious!
Easy Easter Dessert
Hummingbird Cake Recipe
A moist hummingbird cake is always a crown pleaser with its decadent cream cheese frosting. This classic layer cake has all of the good stuff. I love the flavors of the pineapple, coconut, banana, pecans and all of the wonderful spices.
Hummingbird cake is great on its own or serve a slice with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Easter Dessert Recipes
World’s Best Carrot Cake Recipe from Norine’s Nest
Y’all, I just have to share my friend Norine’s classic carrot cake. Isn’t it beautiful! This is very popular among favorite Easter desserts. This cake has all of the wonderful flavors that we love in a homemade carrot cake.
Fresh Strawberries
Classic Strawberry Pie Recipe with Fresh Berries
Since our fresh strawberry season is just getting started here in South Carolina, I had to highlight the classic strawberry pie. It is such a simple but delicious dessert that is perfect for sharing with family and friends after the kids finish their Easter egg hunt.
Southern Easter Desserts and Sweets Recipes
And, here we go friends, with the big list of Easter desserts. These sweet treats are beloved in the South and all over the place.
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Old Fashioned Banana Pudding
Classic banana pudding from scratch with a delicious vanilla custard layered with bananas and vanilla wafers. Some also enjoy this classic pudding with a baked meringue made from egg whites.
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Blueberry Lemon Crumble
Blueberry Lemon Crumble is loaded with plump blueberries and lemon zest for a tart and tangy treat. The crumble topping is buttery and crisp, which makes this dessert outrageously good and easy to bake in just minutes!
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Creamy No-Bake Cherry Lime Pie Recipe
This delightfully light and creamy no-bake cherry lime pie has a wonderful blend of sweet and tart flavors.
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Coconut Macaroon Easter Nests – A Fun Twist
Coconut Maracroon Easter Nests are filled with chocolate, then topped with Easter Egg Candies!
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Gluten Free Victoria Sponge – Allergy Free Alaska
This tender gluten free Victoria sponge is perfect for when you crave a light and fluffy vanilla cake. Air is whipped into the batter resulting in a luxurious feather-light and springy texture.
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Old Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
Traditional strawberry shortcake dessert with fresh strawberries, sweet flaky shortcakes and whipped cream area classic favorite dessert.
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Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns are wonderfully spiced yeast bread rolls studded with raisins and drizzled with cream cheese glaze in the form of a cross. Such a classic Easter recipe.
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Orange Bundt Cake
This Orange Bundt Cake is brimming with the bright flavor of fresh orange zest. A vivid purple drizzle of blackberry icing couldn’t be prettier for a Spring celebration.
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No-Bake Rice Krispie Nests – Perfect For Easter and Spring!
These No-Bake Rice Krispie Nests are the treat you want for Easter! With chocolate eggs and chewy candy in a tasty nest, everyone will enjoy this dessert!
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Raspberry Cookies
This Raspberry Cookie Recipe is sure to be a favorite for Easter. These buttery cookies are covered in the prettiest pastel sprinkles, and in every bite, you will find a surprise raspberry filling.
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Easter Surprise Peeps Cupcakes
These Peep-themed Easter cupcakes can be your child's favorite candy for an Easter surprise. Made with a boxed cake mix, it's an easy festive dessert.
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Easter Brownies
If you need a super easy dessert this Spring, make these Easter Brownies! They are fudgy, chocolatey brownies made with and topped with mini chocolate eggs and a colorful frosting. So fun and festive for Easter celebrations and easy enough for beginning bakers!
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Healthier Peanut Butter Eggs (Copycat Reese’s)
Healthier Copycat Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs are an amazingly simple and clean version of the iconic Easter candy. They are vegan, dairy and gluten free and made with only 5 ingredients but they taste like the real deal!
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The Best Easter Brownies
Is there anything better than brownies? YES…these Caramel Cadbury Egg Brownies!
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Eggless carrot cake
This eggless carrot cake is made with no eggs and a secret ingredient to keep it moist and delicious. Made with fresh carrots and a tangy lemon frosting!
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Cute & Easy Easter Bunny Ear Cupcakes
These Bunny Ear cupcakes are super fun and easy to make for Easter!
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Flower Cupcakes For Spring
These Sunflower Cupcakes are the perfect desserts for spring and Easter! Using Easter Peeps and tasty cake mix, these fun treats will be a hit with everyone!
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Easter Basket Cake Recipe
A delicious homemade strawberry and vanilla cream bundt cake decorated like a beautiful Easter Basket filled to the brim with everyone’s favorite holiday treats!
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Easy Orange Balls Recipe (Snowballs)
Old fashioned orange balls just like grandma used to make rolled in coconut are a classic holiday treat. These easy make orange balls require no baking and just need to be kept chilled until ready to serve. These are the perfect treat for your Easter dessert table.
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Bunny Rabbit Easter Cookies
Cute bunny sugar cookies that are colorfully decorated are perfect for Easter. Make a batch of the cottontail rabbit cookies for you holiday.
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Easy Carrot Cake Traybake
Our favorite carrot cake traybake with cream cheese frosting, spices, and walnuts, this simple cake is genuinely addictive – the perfect bake for Easter family gatherings.
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Easy Strawberry Cobbler Recipe
You'll love this easy strawberry cobbler made with the freshest strawberries of the growing season. This amazing recipe is so delicious on its own or enjoy with a little vanilla ice cream for an extra special treat.
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Coconut Cream Bars
A simple shortbread crust is topped with a luscious coconut filling and finished with whipped topping and toasted coconut for these easy and crowd-pleasing coconut cream bars.
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Coconut Pound Cake
Coconut Pound Cake has an even crumb, melt-in-your-mouth texture and great coconut flavor. Coconut is added 5 different ways. This pretty cake will satisfy both your coconut and your pound cake cravings!
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Best Pound Cake Recipe
Great grandmother's best pound cake recipe. A traditional vanilla pound cake that is moist with perfect dense texture and so delicious.
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Southern Butter Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Glaze
Southern Butter Pecan Pound Cake with Praline Glaze is a wonderful semi-homemade dessert that everyone loves.
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Easter brownies with Mini Eggs
Learn how to make the best Easter brownies with this easy recipe! Mini eggs are mixed into the brownie batter and scattered on top for a festive chewy brownie everybody will love!
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Birds Nest Cookies
These Birds Nest Cookies are the perfect treat for spring! Chow mein noodles are coated in a blend of butterscotch and chocolate chips, then topped with robin’s egg candies. They’re so easy to make, and no bake, too!
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Easter Basket Kit Kat Cake
Making a Kit Kat Easter Basket Cake will wow your guests and liven up your festivities. Made with fluffy yellow cake, decadent chocolate frosting and crunchy Kit Kat bars.
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Mini Egg Blondies
These delicious mini egg blondies are chewy, fudgy and gooey, with chunks of white chocolate and a generous topping of the iconic mini eggs. Tried and tested crowd pleaser that is always a winner!
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Easy Banana Cream Pie
This smooth and creamy Banana Cream Pie is the perfect dessert for Easter! It’s super quick and easy to make and a total crowd pleaser.
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Paula Deen’s Banana Pudding
This iconic recipe using cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk isn't the banana pudding that you grew up with but is a classic for a reason – it is insanely delicious. This pudding is the perfect addition to your lineup of Easter desserts.
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Strawberry Pretzel Salad
This Strawberry Pretzel Salad is obviously not a salad, but as long as I have known about this dessert, it’s always been called a salad.
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Easter Bunny Poke Cake
This Easter Bunny Poke Cake is poked with Jell-O, topped with a fun whipped “grass” frosting and topped with bunny Peeps and Cadbury eggs. A fun, flavorful Easter cake!
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Banana Pudding Poke Cake (+Video)
Banana Pudding Poke Cake is an easy recipe made with cake mix poked with banana pudding, topped with Cool Whip and crushed Nilla Wafers!
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Old Fashioned Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Imagine a cake that is old fashioned and reminiscent of a time when things were simpler. A cake that has a beautiful caramelized top and sweet pineapple flavor.That’s right, we’re talking about old fashioned pineapple upside down cake.
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EASY Easter Bread Recipe – Using Frozen Dough!
Easter egg bread is so fun. Use frozen dough to make these pretty desserts with chocolate eggs in the center
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Italian Easter Cookies Recipe
These festive Easter holiday cookies may soon become an annual tradition. They are cake-like, buttery and soft lightly sweetened sugar cookie frosted with a decadent almond glaze and colorful sprinkles.
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Carrot Sheet Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot Sheet Cake with a rich and creamy Cream Cheese Frosting is so unbelievably moist and perfectly spiced. Perfect for entertaining, learn how to make this easy Carrot Sheet Cake Recipe and enjoy all the flavors of traditional layered carrot cake, in a fraction of the time.
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Easter Cookie Cake – Fun for ALL Ages!
This Easter Cookie Cake is super easy to make and so festive! The whole family will love it!!! Chocolate Chip cookie dough is filled with chocolate chips and Easter M&Ms.
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Blackberry Cheese Danish
Blackberry Cheese Danish is filled with lemon-thyme cream cheese, then topped with fresh blackberries on a buttery puff pastry crust. It's finished with a delightful sugar glaze!
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Carrot Patch Cupcakes (Easter Dessert Idea)
These easy and cute carrot cupcakes are perfect for Spring and Easter.
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Honey Lime Fruit Salad with Mint
For a light dessert make this Fruit salad with honey lime dressing and fresh fruit.
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Granny’s Goody Bars Recipe
Granny's good bars recipe are an easy sweet treat made with a boxed cake mix. This layered dessert cookie bars are a classic and have been around forever. The creamy ooey gooey top layer is so delicious with just the right amount of coconut flavor.
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Easy Coconut Macaroons Recipe
Delicious coconut macaroon cookies with toasted out edges and a soft and chewy center are the perfect treat for holidays or any time of year. With just a few simple ingredients you'll have a wonderful cookie in minutes.
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Lemon Pudding Poke Cake
Celebrate Easter with a tangy and sweet lemon pudding poke cake! This dessert features a fluffy lemon cake with holes poked throughout and filled with a luscious lemon pudding, then finished off with a layer of whipped cream and a lemon crunch for a perfect springtime treat.
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Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies
The perfect cookie for Easter with Cadbury mini eggs and chocolate chips.
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Easter Egg Truffles
These Easter egg truffles are not only the cutest thing on the dessert table at Easter, but they're also easy to make! Made with cookies, and a few other ingredients, these will be ready for all of the kids and adults this year!
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Easter Rice Krispies Nests
Mini Cadbury eggs make this Easter Rice Krispies Nests recipe disappear in no time. These no bake Easter treats never last long in our house. These Mini Egg Easter Nests made with nests of Rice Krispies treats and topped with that most delicious of Easter chocolates – Mini Eggs!
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Pineapple Chess Pie {Granny’s Recipe}
Pineapple Chess Pie, all the ingredients of a regular chess pie except for the addition of a small can of crush pineapple.
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Easter Gnome Cookies
These Easter gnome cookies are a fun and festive treat for the holiday season! With their adorable designs and delicious taste, they're sure to be a hit with both kids and adults alike.
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Carrot Cake Cupcakes With Pineapple (Small Batch)
This recipe for small batch Carrot Cake Cupcakes with pineapple, coconut, walnuts, and raisins is a super moist carrot cake from scratch decorated with homemade cream cheese frosting.
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Carrot cake cookies with cream cheese frosting
These delicious carrot cake cookies with cream cheese frosting are a must-have Easter dessert! They are thick, soft, chewy, filled with lots of carrots, crunchy nuts, oats, and flavored with cinnamon. Cream cheese frosting takes them over the top! They taste like carrot cake in portable form, but are so much easier and quicker to make!
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Strawberry Topping Recipe for Cheesecake
Fresh strawberry topping recipe for cheesecake and other desserts that you love a strawberry glaze sauce.
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Kool Aid Pie
Kool Aid pie is a vintage no bake dessert made with just 3 ingredients plus a store bought pie crust.
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Wishing you all a Happy Easter Sunday!
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