Cute Easter Dessert Ideas | GoldbellyGoldbelly

Published on March 21st, 2024

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What Desserts Do People Eat for Easter?
Festive Easter Cakes & Cupcakes
Fun & Fancy Easter Cookies
Yummy Easter Treats

THESE SWEET TREATS ARE PERFECT FOR ANY BUNNY’S EASTER BASKET

Easter may conjure up visions of springtime and bunnies, but for us, it’s all about the sweets! While there will always be a place in our heart for Easter candy like jelly beans, Cadbury Creme Eggs, and Peeps, these convenience store treats never quite live up to how we remember them tasting in our childhood. Thankfully, there’s a whole world of stunning Easter desserts handmade by some of America’s top bakers!

What Desserts Do People Eat for Easter?

There aren’t too many traditional Easter desserts, like, for example, Buche De Noel for Christmas. As long as it seems springy (and ideally incorporates some pastel colors), anything goes! That said, there are a handful of desserts that are usually traditionally enjoyed around Eastertime:

Chocolate Bunnies
Chocolate Easter Eggs
Hot Cross Buns
Icing-Topped Easter Cookies
Simnel Cake (British fruitcake layered with marzipan)
Colomba Pasquale (Italian sweet bread similar to panettone)
Capirotada (Mexican bread pudding)

Festive Easter Cakes & Cupcakes

Misha’s Cupcakes’ Peeps Easter Cake

Misha’s has seven locations throughout Miami and they’re freshly baking more than 10,000 cupcakes every day, but it began back in 2005, when founder Misha Kuryla started making them in her home kitchen as gifts to friends and family. To make this Peeps Easter Cake, two layers of vanilla cake are frosted with ombre yellow buttercream and topped with sweet marshmallow.

Junior’s Easter Egg Cheesecake

Junior’s is a world-renowned Brooklyn landmark, and it’s best known for its light and super-creamy cheesecake. To make this stunning Easter Egg Cheesecake centerpiece, classic Junior’s cheesecake is coated with chocolate ganache and decorated by hand.

We Take the Cake’s Bouquet Cupcakes

At Fort Lauderdale’s We Take the Cake, each cake and cupcake is crafted by hand with the best ingredients. To make these elegant Bouquet Cupcakes, rich chocolate and golden butter cupcakes are topped with colorful buttercream flowers.

Duff Goldman’s Easter Bunny Carrot Cake

Hoppity hop into Easter with this Duff Goldman four-layer carrot cake filled with vanilla cream cheese frosting! From none other than the Ice of Cakes himself, it’s decorated with white buttercream, buttercream eyes, fondant ears, and buttercream roses, and presented on a silver board for an extra special touch.

Ovenly’s Lemon Lavender Cake

Ovenly is a women-led, award-winning bakery and cafe based in New York City. To make this sweet & springy Lemon Lavender Cake, classic vanilla cake is filled with housemade tart lemon curd and topped with lavender buttercream.

Misha’s Cupcakes’ Speckled Easter Egg Cake

Another whimsical masterpiece from Misha’s, this Speckled Easter Egg Cake is two layers of chocolate cake, frosted with robin’s egg blue buttercream and topped with a toasted coconut nest of candy Easter eggs!

Erin McKenna’s Bakery’s Vegan + Gluten-Free Easter Bunny Booty Cake

It’s a bunny butt! Since its founding in New York in 2005, Erin McKenna’s Bakery has become renowned for its vegan, gluten-free desserts. This Easter Bunny Booty Cake is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, and it’s available in both brownie chocolate and vanilla flavors.

The Cheesecake Girl’s Reese’s Easter Egg Cheesecake

For a seriously decadent Easter dessert, look no further than the always-dependable Cheesecake Girl, turning out endlessly creative homemade cheesecakes with a buttery shortbread crust. This Reese’s Easter Egg Cheesecake has a chocolate shortbread crust, a layer of Reese’s Eggs, and peanut butter Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cheesecake, and is topped with chocolate ganache and more Reese’s Eggs!

Fun & Fancy Easter Cookies

The Goddess & Grocer’s Tic-Tac-Toe Easter Cookie Board Game

In 1990 A-list catered Debbie Sharpe settled in Chicago and opened several critically acclaimed restaurants, and in 2004 she realized her dream of opening an Australian-style cafe, called The Goddess & Grocer. This Tic-Tac-Toe Easter Cookie Board Game redefines playing with your food: it includes an edible cookie board and cookie “game pieces”!

Bread & Roses Bakery’s Easter Cookies

Bread & Roses Bakery started out in a tiny 400 square-foot alley shop in Ogunquit, Maine, in 1989, and today it’s renowned as one of the best bakeries in the state. These Easter sugar cookies are made from scratch with Cabot butter, King Arthur Flour, and other quality ingredients. These Easter sugar cookies are decorated in spring-like colors and pastels.

Cookies & Schmear’s Hippity Hop Easter Egg Cookies

A third-generation pastry chef, Cookies and Schmear founder Julia Sandberg started baking cookies “schmeared” with indulgent icings as a hobby, and they proved to be so popular that she went all-in in 2016. These Hippity Hop Easter Egg Cookies are loaded with milk & dark chocolate chips and colorful egg-shaped chocolate bonbons and topped with your choice of four frostings.

Mini Melanie’s Easter Cookie Decorating Kit

Brooklyn bakery Mini Melanie was founded in 2015 by sisters Diana Moss and Melanie Moss, a former pastry chef at New York’s Babbo and Blue Hill at Stone Barns. This Cookie Decorating Kit includes everything you need to frost and decorate your own fresh-baked Easter cookies.

Daniel Boulud Kitchen’s Bake-at-Home Easter Sugar Cookie Kit

If you’d prefer to bake your cookies from scratch, look no further than Daniel Boulud Kitchen’s Bake-at-Home Easter Sugar Cookie Kit. From one of America’s most renowned French chefs, each kit includes enough brown sugar sablé cookie dough for 20 cookies, Easter egg and Easter bunny shaped cookie cutters, and royal icing in a variety of spring colors to decorate at home.

Zola Bakes’ Easter Rainbow Cookies

Zola Bakes founder Samantha Zola is putting her own spin on the classic rainbow cookie, with unicorn-inspired colors. This pack of Easter Rainbow Cookies offers a box of rainbow cookies with assorted white and dark chocolate drip and edible Easter decoration.

Big Fat Cookie’s Giant “Spring Forward” Cookies

When we say these cookies are GIANT we mean it — each one is 6 ounces — just shy of half a pound! These cookies are crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, and are meant for sharing. This Giant “Spring Forward” Cookie Box comes in a variety of flavors, including Lemon Brown Butter, Chocolate Chip Toasted Coconut, Oreo Fudge, and M&M Chocolate Chip.

Yummy Easter Treats

Jacques Torres Chocolate’s Easter Bunny Gift Basket

Jacques Torres (a.k.a. Mr. Chocolate) is a chocolate expert. The world’s most famous chocolatier is famous for his decadent bean-to-bar chocolate made in his Brooklyn chocolate factory, so it goes without saying that his Chocolate Easter Bunny Gift Basket is going to be full of some of the tastiest Easter chocolate treats, including delicious milk & dark chocolate eggs, bunnies, duckies, and bars!

Economy Candy’s Easter Candycare Pack

Economy Candy is a neighborhood staple on the Lower East Side, going strong since first opening its doors in 1937. With over 2,000 varieties of candy, chocolate, dried fruits and nuts on offer, there’s something for everyone, and their Easter Candycare Pack is overflowing with an assortment of chocolate bunnies, chocolate eggs, jelly beans, fun toys, and other Easter treats.

Daniel Boulud‘s Chocolate Easter Eggs

From the mind of chef Daniel Boulud, these Chocolate Easter Eggs are presented in a colorful egg carton in flavors including Cadbury, hazelnut feuilletine, and raspberry jelly.

Flour Bakery’s Hot Cross Buns

Widely regarded as one of the very best bakeries in America, Boston’s iconic Flour Bakery + Cafe is the creation of legendary pastry chef Joanne Chang, who founded it in 2000 and was awarded the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker in 2016. Their limited-batch hot cross buns are slightly sweet, soft, spiced buns finished with a crisscross of clove glaze.

Ferrara Bakery’s Easter Combo

With secret recipes that span three centuries, Ferrara is a fifth-generation family-owned bakery that continues to handcraft Italian desserts from the same location in NYC’s Little Italy since 1892. This Easter Assortment includes a pound of assorted Ferrara Italian cookies, a mini Columba Di Pasqua (Easter dove bread), Casatella bread, & mini struffoli.

Settepani’s Traditional Easter Colomba Panettone

Italian-born chef Nino Settepani opened a traditional Italian bakery, Settepani, in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood in 1992, and it was such a success that a second location has been serving Harlem since 2000. His Traditional Easter Colomba Panettone is a classic Italian treat traditionally enjoyed during the Easter holiday season, flavored with almond and orange peel.

Knipschildt Chocolatier’s Easter Egg Sampler

Denmark-born chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt is one of America’s most renowned chocolate makers, a true pioneer in the world of artisan chocolate. Open up this Easter Egg Sampler to find nine Easter eggs in three flavors: citrusy passion fruit and dark chocolate ganache, rich hazelnut-milk chocolate ganache, and dark chocolate ganache.

Tiny Pies’ Bunny & Egg Hand Pies

Founded in 2011, Amanda Bates’ Tiny Pies are made with old family recipes and the highest quality ingredients. In this pack of Easter hand pies, her signature flaky pie crust is shaped into adorable bunny and egg shaped hand pies; four are filled with blueberry filling and four are filled with tart cherry pie filling.

When it comes to Easter, the more sweet treats the better – shop dozens of stunning Easter desserts. And that’s not all: Find all of our Easter foods – both sweet & savory – here. Hoppy Easter!

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