53 Fun & Easy Treats Sweeter Than Your Easter Basket
Every-bunny is gonna love these treats.
It's wild, I know, but Easter is fast approaching once again (on April 20, 2025, in fact). What does this mean? Well, you're going to need plenty of treats that everybody (and every-bunny) will love. We're not just talking candy, either (although we're filling our baskets with as much Easter candy as we can grab this year). Why stop at just offering up Peeps, Reese's Eggs, or Cadbury Eggs? Which is why we had to make even more holiday-perfect cakes, candies, and cupcakes to round out your Easter brunch, lunch or dinner table. And with recipes like our jelly bean-decorated bunny cake, you can have your candy (and cake) and eat it too!
There couldn't be anything more Easter-y than one of our favorite candies, Robin's Eggs. A crisp pastel outer shell enclosing a creamy center, these bite-sized candies are just begging to be turned into a host of different Easter treats. We've put it in Robin's Egg ice cream, Robin's Egg brownies, and even Robin's Egg cheesecake. You could say we're a little obsessed, and you'd be right.
Want even more ideas for what to do with all that Easter candy? If you're lucky to have any, that is. We love using leftover Peeps for Peeps s'mores brownies, Peeps Rice Krispies, and Peeps skillet s'mores. Cadbury Eggs and jelly beans are also perfect for decorating any post-Easter cakes and brownies (like our carrot patch brownies and cheesecake) too!
If you're looking for treats of the grown-up variety, you can even add a variety of Easter candies to your cocktails, because of course you can. Adding Peeps to vodka for a creamy infused vodka that's reminiscent of marshmallow vodka. We also love infusing vodka with Reese's Pieces for our Drunken Peanut Butter Cup cocktail, and you know we had to create a recipe for a Cadbury Creme Egg martini too.
Easter Bunny Cinnamon Rolls
If you’re looking for the easiest sweet treat to make for your Easter brunch, look no further than these adorable bunnies. All you need are store-bought canned cinnamon rolls to make these bunny-shaped treats that are as fun to decorate as they are to eat.
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Mini Cadbury Easter Egg Blondies
Brownies get a lot of love, but we think that blondies deserve their chance to shine. They’re soft, chewy, and perfect for dressing up any way you’d like. Case in point: these Cadbury egg blondies. We decided to shake up the holiday dessert game with these egg-shaped blondies littered with the chocolatey candy everyone loves.
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Bunny Cake
Want to take your Easter dessert table to the next level? This impressive bunny cake looks like it came from a bakery, but is actually so straightforward to make. It starts with a super-moist carrot cake (what else?), creatively cut, frosted, and decorated with Easter candy to look like an adorable bunny. Allow yourself the time to really follow the steps and have fun with the decorations—you and your holiday guests will be so “hoppy” you did!
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Bunny Pawprint Cookies
Easter can’t pass without some form of a bunny treat. These “pawprint” cookies are not only so adorable, but one of the easier bunny-themed desserts I’ve made (no shade, bunny cupcakes). The base is a classic sugar cookie with an easy strawberry icing to fill the paws in with.
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Bird’s Nest Cookies
These bird's nest cookies are so simple to make and way too fun to eat. Crunchy chow mein noodles are folded into melted chocolate and peanut butter, then formed into little nests with chocolate eggs on top… they're possibly the funniest thing you’ll ever make. The cookies are low effort and so worth the chocolate mess they might make; licking the bowl is advised!
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Peeps Skillet S'mores
You could go the classic route and make carrot cake for your Easter dinner, or, you could get creative with this Peeps skillet s'mores (c'mon...you know the right answer). This adorable recipe starts with a creamy melted chocolate base, topped with an array of colorful Peeps before being baked in the oven. Served with graham crackers, this skillet turns into a a festive, dippable version of everyone's favorite campfire snack.
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Peeps Cheesecake Bars
Whether you’re a long-time stan of this classic Easter confection or a forever hater, you cannot deny that Peeps are essential to marking the turn of the season. When Peeps hit the shelves, you know it’s springtime. We promise you, these Peeps cheesecake bars will convince even your most stubborn friends of the magic of Peeps.
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Easter Chick Cupcakes
Easter desserts are some of the cutest to make, and these little chick cupcakes are so fun! Make homemade vanilla cupcakes with our recipe, or save some time and use your favorite boxed cake mix. You can always make chocolate cupcakes or whatever your favorite flavor is instead! These are simple enough for kids to help decorate, but cute enough to still be the star of Easter dinner.
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Bunny Cupcakes
Along with all of the classic ham and asparagus side dishes, Easter is ALL about the adorable desserts too. These bunny cupcakes aren't too over the top, and are fun and easy to make and decorate (get the kids in on the action too!).
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Paska Bread
Ukrainian paska stems from a line of bread that's similar to brioche. It’s an enriched yeast bread made with butter, eggs and egg yolks, milk, and sugar. It’s heavy and delightful, the exact thing you want to wake up to in the morning and smear butter all over. It might be tall or short and stout with braids or other symbolic ornaments molded on top. People bring their paska to Easter mass for a blessing before anyone can try to devour them.
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Pavlova Cupcakes With Raspberry Sauce
Pavlovas have a crispy exterior with a soft, marshmallow-like interior, and these mini ones made into cupcakes are ideal for serving to guests. Dollop with a little homemade whipped cream and raspberry sauce for the perfect bite.
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Carrot Cake Blondies
These dessert bars are the mash-up of your dreams, featuring a fudgy blondie base, spiced and decorated just like a carrot cake, with pecans and cream cheese frosting.
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Peeps Kiss Cookies
This festive recipe combines the best parts of Peeps with classic Kiss cookies in this bright and adorable Easter dessert. Marshmallow Peeps serve as the color inspiration for these simple sugar cookies pressed with a milk chocolate Kiss. Even Peeps haters won't be able to get enough of these too-cute treats.
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Lemon-Blueberry Blondies
Blondies are often overlooked in lieu of brownies, but when it comes to adding springy flavors like lemon and blueberry, only one bar reigns supreme. Blondies are all about two things—brown sugar and vanilla—which pair perfectly with lighter, more delicate fruit flavors. The lemon and blueberry here help mellow out the overt sweetness of the blondies, making these bars reminiscent of blueberry muffins or lemon pound cake.
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Carrot Patch Brownies
While we used store-bought brownie mix here so we could focus on these mega-cute toppings, feel free to use our favorite homemade brownie recipe. Carrots have never looked so adorable.
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Resurrection Rolls
Resurrection rolls, also known as “empty tomb rolls,” are such a fun Easter treat. In them, crescent dough is wrapped around a marshmallow—as it bakes, the marshmallow melts and disappears, leaving a hollow inside full of a buttery, sugar syrup that makes these a pure delight. It’s a mystery and miracle all in one.
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Easter Bunny Twists
Here at Delish, we love celebrating special occasions with easy-to-make holiday treats, and our Easter bunny twists are no exception. Made with store-bought puff pastry and a quick cinnamon sugar filling, these adorable bunny-shaped pastries will delight everyone at the Easter dessert buffet. Oh, and did we mention the cream cheese frosting bunny tails?
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Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
Where your average cheesecake can be a real labor of love worthy of special occasions only, cheesecake bars are relatively straightforward to make. Take this strawberry version—to make them, we topped a simple graham cracker crust with a creamy cheesecake layer, a sweet pink fruit layer, and then crumbled a cinnamon-spiced streusel on top. The result is a cute, springy dessert that’s remarkable enough to share for holidays and potlucks, but also easy enough to make anytime you’re craving cheesecake.
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Chocolate Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns are great and all, but we just felt they were missing something. Chocolate to the rescue! This chocolate roll with a trace of orange, cinnamon, and chocolate chips makes for the perfect Easter treat.
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Easter Bread
Easter bread is an Italian and Greek tradition. It's a sweetened, yeasted dough, similar to brioche, with colored eggs baked right into the dough (but don't eat the purely-for-decoration eggs!).
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