22 Easter dessert recipes
Celebrate Easter Sunday with our decadent Easter desserts. Our sweet treats include cakes, cheesecakes and hot cross bun bread and butter pudding
Looking for the perfect Easter desserts? Want to find the best Easter cake recipes? Celebrate the Easter holiday with our indulgent dessert recipes. The whole family is sure to love our showstopping cheesecakes, puddings and more.
Browse our Easter desserts below or find more inspiration with our best Easter baking ideas and our easy dessert recipes. For dinner inspiration, check out our best Easter dinner recipes. Catering for vegans is effortless with our vegan Easter recipes, and make sure to use up any leftovers from Easter weekend with our best Easter leftovers recipes.
If you like the look of our Easter desserts, wyh not treat friends or family to an afternoon tea with an Easter twist?
Easter dessert recipes
White chocolate Easter cake
Take your baking to the next level with this showstopping Easter-inspired white chocolate cake. We've decorated ours with broken white chocolate eggs and crunchy mini eggs, but you can get creative with your favourite Easter treats.
Baked raspberry cheesecake
A classic and really indulgent dessert, baked cheesecake is a crowdpleaser. The fresh raspberries on top cut through the rich body of the cheesecake.
Easter simnel cake
Whip up this traditional fruit cake for your bank holiday Easter baking treat.
Creme egg cupcakes
Present these pretty Crème Egg cupcakes to friends and family and watch them disappear in seconds. With their yolk-yellow frosting and super-chocolatey sponge, they’re hard not to love.
Easter trash tiffin
Put that leftover Easter chocolate to good use with this indulgent fruit and nut chocolate tiffin. Break into squares and serve with a pot of tea.
Easter rocky road
Super simple, super fun and super moreish, a batch of our rocky road traybake is a must. Topped with leftover chocolate eggs, it’s perfect for an easy Easter baking project with the whole family.
Creme Egg brownies
The best Easter cake to make for your favourite chocolate lovers. Whip up our chocolate traybake for a special Easter treat, or make it any time of the year (we certainly do)!
Italian Easter cake
The whole family will enjoy a slice of this traditional Easter cake – it’s shaped like a dove and topped with candied fruit, sugar and almonds.
Hot cross bun bread and butter pudding
Got leftover hot cross buns to use up? Make this ramped up version of the British classic pudding, perfect for Easter entertaining.
Cuban bocado de principe
Wrap up Easter festivities with this Cuban cake topped with custard and dusted with cinnamon. It’s great for a celebration and well worth the effort.
Easter cupcakes
Bake a batch of chocolate cupcakes and top with vanilla buttercream and Mini Eggs for an easy Easter treat.
Easter cheesecake
Use up any leftover chocolate eggs in this stand-out Easter cheesecake, perfect for the chocolate lovers in the family.
Kelewele cinnamon buns
If you’re looking for something different to bake this Easter, Zoe Adjonyoh’s soft cinnamon bun recipe filled with buttery spiced sugar is a real winner.
Maltesers marble cake
Wow family this Easter with Edd Kimber's showstopping marble bake, topped with malt milk chocolate glaze and Maltesers.
Gelupo's ginger gelato and hot cross bun sandwich
Put a scoop or two of homemade gelato in-between a sliced hot cross bun for the ultimate Easter treat.
Biscoff cake
Flavoured with your favourite biscuit spread and decorated with crumbled biscuits, this triple-layered showstopper is perfect for an Easter dinner party or afternoon tea.
Chocolate biscuit cake
There's no need to turn on the oven with this chocolate biscuit cake. Prepped in just 15 minutes, it’s a winner on so many levels.
White chocolate and raspberry cake
Impress with a three-tiered cake, piled high with white chocolate icing and tangy raspberries. It's quick to make and assemble – but just as quick to demolish!
Caramac cheesecake
This luxuriously creamy malted caramel dessert is easy to whip up, and sure to impress. It makes a gorgeous Easter dessert as it's full of Caramac, white chocolate and salted caramel.
Easter blondies
You can never have too much chocolate at Easter – bake a batch of these gooey, sweet blondies with an Easter-themed twist.
Affogato chocolate mousse
If you're hosting Easter dinner and looking for an indulgent dessert that can easily be made ahead, try these gluten-free creamy puds – ready in 15 minutes.
Baked rhubarb and custard cheesecake
We've jazzed up this classic combination and baked it in the style of a cheesecake. This creamy recipe isn't just easy to make, it looks super impressive, too. Just check out those swirls.
Sticky toffee self-saucing pudding
A glorious mash-up of two favourite puds, this rich recipe is the perfect indulgent Easter dessert. Serve with a generous scoop of ice cream to take it over the top.
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