These classic Traditional Easter Desserts are just as delicious as they were when you were a child. Included in this list are everyone's favorite pies, cakes, cheesecake and cupcakes that are all perfect for the season.
No holiday celebration is complete without something sweet! Take a look at this collection of Easter desserts that will be a delicious ending to your holiday celebration.
Our favorite part about Easter is being able to spend time with family and celebrate the resurrection of Christ. We also enjoy the candy along with the egg hunt in the backyard at some point during the day.
As wonderful as it is to gather around the table for a lovely meal, Easter wouldn't be complete without dessert.
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Favorite Easter Desserts
In our family, we always have Italian Rice Pie for Easter. Cheesecake is another family tradition and favorite dessert that makes an appearance for a few different celebrations.
Why do we color eggs on Easter?
Coloring eggs on Easter has been a part of celebrations for centuries. It actually started as drawing designs in wax on the eggs.
The practice of decorating eggs with color goes back at least 2,500 years. Although colored eggs didn't become treats for children until the late 1800s due to the Victorians.
The practice of coloring eggs, egg hunts and other traditions followed soon after here in America when the White House began hosting the annual Easter Egg Roll.
What is traditional food for Easter?
Your sure to find a variety of food served for the Easter holiday. Sweet breads and pastries, meat and side dishes, and plenty of cakes and cookies are among the cuisines that differ by religion, country and location. Here are a few:
- Ham, lamb, different types of seafood, even turkey make their appearance for Easter.
- For Italian households, we love lasagna or stuffed shells. Some families will serve the pasta as a first course followed by a second course of ham or turkey...with all the side dishes!
- Soup is popular in most cultures as well. In Greece, they may serve their version of chicken soup called, avgolemono, which is an orzo and lemon-egg mixture that's perfect for the beginning of their meal.
- Every culture seems to love the tradition of serving homemade sweet bread. Quite a few recipes use eggs to adorn the loaves as my family does with our Italian Easter Bread recipe.
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Traditional Easter Desserts
Cream Puffs are one of those traditional recipes everyone needs to have in the recipe box. Easy to make and fill your favorite pudding or pastry cream.
A simple no-bake cheesecake recipe full of flavor.
My mother's famous Italian cookies!
I used to make this fresh strawberry cake often for custom cake customers, and it was wildly popular in the summer months.
Carrot Cake Cheesecake - The Girl Who Ate Everything
Carrot Cake Cheesecake has a layer of carrot cake topped with a layer of cheesecake for the ultimate dessert. This is a copycat Cheesecake Factory recipe. Great for Easter!
This old-fashioned Coconut Cream Pie is the stuff dreams are made of. Flaky, buttery crust filled with a creamy, homemade custard and topped with lots of whipped cream and toasted coconut! It's heaven for coconut lovers.
This Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake is about to make you the most popular guest at the party. Once your friends take a bite of this sunshine-bright, supremely moist, and oh-so-second (and third)-sliceable beauty of a bundt, they will absolutely insist. I promise you won’t mind.
Decadent and delicious classic chocolate chess pie. This pie is a Southern staple, and it is absolutely incredible!
This Hummingbird Cake is tender, moist and delicious! An easy cake recipe full of banana, pineapple, pecans and spices, then covered in cream cheese frosting.
This Banana Cream Pie is such a treat! It's made with fluffy custard filling, and sweet whipped cream, nestled into a flaky, and buttery crust.
These easy Bird’s Nest Easter Cupcakes take a simple cupcake recipe and turns it into a special dessert for your table.
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is soft, moist, simple to make and loaded with fresh lemon flavor.
This Easter cake became a tradition in our family. Everyone LOVES a moist and super chocolatey chocolate cake especially when it’s paired with coconut.
This Key Lime Pie recipe is sweet, tangy, and silky smooth. Only requiring 6 ingredients and no bake, it’s perfect for summer or anytime throughout the year!
This Coconut Layer Cake could not be more perfect! Supremely moist and soft with a fluffy, tender crumb and a yummy coconut buttercream frosting topped with lightly toasted coconut to really drive home the coconut flavor!
Biscuit-like cake layers combined with sweet macerated strawberries and fresh whipped cream make this beautiful dessert a true show stopper.
There’s nothing quite like perfect, from-scratch lemon meringue pie. Made with a flaky butter pie crust, a creamy, slightly tart homemade lemon filling, and piled high with sweet, fluffy meringue, this is a pie lover’s dream come true.
This carrot cake is moist and delicious, with just the right amount of spice, and it’s paved with a thick tangy cream cheese frosting.
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