Cute and Easy Easter Desserts to Make This Year

From chocolate eggs to bird's nest haystacks here are 25 easy Easter desserts to make during the spring!

Spring is such a fun time for baking. Bunny and egg-shaped treats are so festive and it's easy to incorporate seasonal candy into so many recipes. Here is a collection of 25 treat recipes for Easter and spring time. Click the title of each recipe to be taken to the step-by-step instructions and printable recipe card! Most also include a video tutorial.

1. Copycat Reese's Chocolate Eggs

These chocolate peanut butter eggs are the real deal. So delicious, easy to make, and perfect for Easter! Here’s how to make your own Reese’s peanut butter eggs.

2. Speckled Egg Sugar Cookies

Our speckled robin egg sugar cookies are easy to make and so pretty for spring and Easter! Frosted in buttercream and speckled with Oreo cookie crumbs. Makes 32-36 speckled sugar cookies.

3. Bird's Nest Scotcheroos

If you love scotcheroos you’ll love these scotcheroo bird’s nest treats! Bite-sized, topped with chocolate eggs, and perfect for Easter! Make a batch and bring them to a spring gathering, they’ll go fast!

4. Peeps Bunny Sugar Cookies

These peeps bunny sugar cookies are a fun treat for Easter and taste a lot better than peeps marshmallows! Frosted in buttercream and covered with sanding sugar. They are easy to make!

5. Cadbury Peanut Butter Cookies

There’s nothing dry or crumbly about these Cadbury egg peanut butter cookies! Loaded with Cadbury Mini Eggs and peanut butter chips they are rich, CHEWY, and stay soft for days!

6. Pop Tart Bunny House

This Pop Tart bunny house is perfect for spring! A fun centerpiece that kids can make using their favorite Easter candies.

7. No-Bake Cadbury Cream Egg Cookies

No-bake Cadbury Creme Egg cookies are easy to make and so fun for Easter! A peanut butter Rice Krispies base topped with melted chocolate then a Cadbury creme egg. Crispy and gooey. You’ll love these treats!

8. Easter M&M Cookies

You won’t find a more festive cookie for spring than these Easter M&M cookies complete with M&M bunnies and white chocolate chips!

9. Frosted Fudge Bunny Cookies

These frosted chocolate bunny cookies look just like chocolate bunnies for Easter! Buttery shortbread cookies frosted with fudge frosting and topped with a chocolate bow.

10. Easter Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

These Easter peanut butter cup cookies look like bunnies! Peanut butter cookies, white chocolate peanut butter cups, and candies.

11. Butterscotch Bird's Nest Haystacks

Bird’s nest cookies are a classic no-bake treat! Made with butterscotch chips, chow mein noodles, peanuts, and chocolate egg candies—the perfect Easter treat!

12. Carrot Cake Bars

The BEST carrot cake bars and you don’t have to shred a single carrot! Would you believe that you can get the same delicious flavor using carrot baby food? Soft and fluffy carrot cake bars spread with cream cheese frosting. Your family will love these!

13. Carrot Cake Cookies (Made With Carrot Baby Food)

Soft carrot cake cookies frosted in buttercream and topped with chopped walnuts. These cookies are easy to make, stay soft for days, and are so delicious!

14. Bunny Bait Snack Mix

This bunny bait snack mix is made from popcorn, pretzels, peanuts, M&Ms, yogurt raisins, and peanut butter eggs. Drizzled and tossed in melted white chocolate. This Easter snack mix is the perfect balance of sweet and salty. Always a hit with kids!

15. Toasted Coconut Poke Cupcakes

These toasted coconut poke cupcakes are ridiculously light and fluffy. Topped with a sweet glaze, whipped topping, and toasted coconut. The perfect spring dessert.

16. Easter Basket Sugar Cookies

Use an egg cookie cutter to make adorable Easter basket sugar cookies with buttercream frosting! Two different styles!

17. Mini Carrot Bundt Cakes With Cream Cheese Frosting

These mini carrot bundt cakes are so EASY to make! I’ll share how to make ANY cake mix cake taste amazing by adding two ingredients. You’ll love our homemade cream cheese frosting, and I’ll even show you how to ice them just like the ones from your local bakery!

18. Oreo Chick Pops

These chick oreo pops are so fun for spring! Yellow candy melts, and candy accents bring them to life!

19. Easter Bunny Cake

Have the kids make dessert for Easter dinner this year! A quick and easy Easter bunny cake that is fun to decorate for an Easter dessert or a spring birthday.

20. Chicken Cake

A chicken cake that is as delicious as it is cute! The perfect little cake for a first birthday. Would you believe that the details are made out of Starburst candies? Yep! No fondant! Super easy to decorate, I’ll show you how!

21. Butterfly Cupcakes

Making your own beautiful butterfly cupcakes is as easy as 1-2-3! Frost, add a gummy worm, then add two gummy candies for wings! A fun springtime activity to make with kids. This could also be a fun “Lifecycle of a Butterfly” activity and snack for a preschool or kindergarten class!