Once the menu for Easter dinner is planned, the next step is deciding which of these 15 Italian Easter Desserts to serve alongside that cup of coffee or tea.
From Honey Balls to Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cheesecake, you'll find a wide range of Easter Desserts that I know you're going to enjoy with your family and friends.
Italians are huge on flavor but you should know that a lot of our desserts don't include frostings or rich fillings. We love natural flavors with a little hint of sweetness.
Tradition plays a huge role in an Italian household. Most of the desserts we bake for the holidays are served every year and have been handed down to us by our grandmother.
Make sure you check out my Italian Easter Recipes and Italian Holiday Cookies collections to help round out your celebration.
Don't worry about the recipes being complicated! These 15 recipes are ones that you can easily prepare with confidence, whatever of your degree of experience in the kitchen or baking aisle.
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Traditional Italian Easter Desserts
Here are a few traditional Italian Easter Desserts that are served in most homes for the holiday celebration:
- Italian Easter Cookies, Pizzelle Cookies and Ricotta Cookies are all popular cookies served for holidays.
- Most Italian families have a tradition of preparing Easter Bread. Which is a sweetened, yeast bread dough with colored eggs baked right into the dough.
- Most of us are familiar with Panettone that's popular around Christmas, Columba di Pasqua is popular around Easter. It's basically a sweet bread made with yeast in the shape of a dove.
- Every year my sister makes my grandmother's Italian Ricotta Rice Pie as part of our dessert.
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Tips for Prepping Ahead Desserts
The majority of desserts may be prepared ahead of time. Depending on the ingredients, desserts may need to be refrigerated before serving.
I like to prepare dessert the day before my company arrives. So I usually choose a recipe that works great being refrigerator and stored for at least 24 hours. Cookies can be baked a few days if not the week before...especially if you freeze them.
You can freeze my mom's Italian Easter Cookies for up to 3 months before you need them. However, it's best not to freeze them with the glaze. You'll want to add the glaze the day before you need them.
It makes sense to do whatever you can ahead of time to reduce the amount of tasks to be completed before everyone arrives for Easter dinner.
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Italian Easter Desserts
15 Italian Easter Desserts that include family favorites like Italian Honey Balls - Panna Cotta - Italian Ricotta Cake - Italian Easter Cookies - Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cake.
Classic Italian Easter Cookies with a lemony flavor, sweetened glaze and fun spring colored sprinkles.
This Italian breakfast cake is great with lots of fruit or to dunk in your morning coffee. Simple. Classic. Italian.
These braided lemon cookies are a simple, delicate treat, and utilize everyday ingredients.
This traditional Italian Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cake is the perfect dessert or snacking cake to have on hand.
Italian Lemon Almond Flour Cake (grain-free, gluten-free) - Texanerin Baking
This Italian lemon almond flour cake (also known as torta caprese bianca) is full of lemon flavor and has a lovely texture!
Taralli dolci are also known as Italian Easter cookies. These sweet and simple ring cookies are perfect holiday treats, glazed with pastel colors and topped with flower sprinkles.
Crostata is one of the best Italian desserts! This traditional jam tart recipe is easy to make and all you need is basic pantry ingredients.
This is a simple Italian cake that is all about carrots. Moist, mildly sweet, and with a lovely orange hue and orange flavor.
Struffoli Italian Honey Balls are very small crunchy dough balls mixed with honey and decorated.
Individual Italian Easter Bread Rings are baked around an egg, and decorated with icing and sprinkles. Not only are they really easy to make, but make the perfect Italian Easter dessert
The most sinfully delicious chocolate cake also known as a Caprese Cake or Torta Caprese.
This Creamy Limoncello Italian Ricotta Cake Recipe is a light and refreshing gluten free, ricotta dessert with just the right amount of sweetness.
These Traditional Cookies are made with a quick and easy dough. A simple lemon glaze tops these Italian Easter Cookies.
Cassata Siciliana, a classic Italian confection! There are a few different versions across its geographic origins with varying instructions. This one with its marzipan cover is an Easter classic.
Pastiera Napoletana Recipe is an Italian citrus scented wheat berry and ricotta pie which is immensely popular in Naples.
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