Top Five Easter Desserts to Make

By: Ellie Ziegelbein

Every year, when Easter comes around, these desserts are staples in my family's dinner. Finish your Easter meal with one of these cakes, cookies, or pies.



1.Classic Cheesecake

Cheesecake is a rich dessert cake made with cream and soft cheese on a graham cracker, cookie, or pastry crust, typically topped with a fruit sauce.

Cheesecake recipe

“Fantastic recipe! Creamy and delicious restaurant -quality cheesecake with no cracks. Thanks for sharing the recipe” -Jamima (Comment section from recipe)



2.Surprise Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is a moist cake containing grated carrot and typically topped with a buttercream or cream cheese icing.

Carrot cake recipe

“A cousin gave me this carrot cake recipe. It's a wonderful potluck pleaser with its "surprise" cream cheese center. My husband and our two young children love it, too!” —Lisa Bowen, Little Britain, Ontario (Comment section from recipe)



3.Key Lime Pie

Key lime pie is a custard pie made with the juice of Key limes.

Key lime pie recipe

“I’d never made Key Lime Pie before and this was the first recipe I found. No need to search any further! This was absolutely fantastic, and I love that it is egg free. I made the crust with gluten free graham crackers and it got rave reviews. This is a keeper. Thank you for the delicious recipe.” - Shawn (comment section from recipe)



4.Crumble Snickerdoodle Cupcake cookies

A cookie that is made with usually butter, sugar, and flour and that is rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking.

Snickerdoodle cookie recipe

“I am a DIE HARD Crumbl fan but I dont live close to a location 🙁 I have been following this blog for awhile now and decided to try a recipe out….AMAZING!! I now plan on coming back to this blog for all my sweet tooth cravings.” - Corinne Brubaker (From recipe comment section)



5.Easter Egg Sugar Cookies

A sugar cookie is a cookie made from sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, and either baking powder or baking soda.

Sugar cookie recipe

“Fantastic cookie recipe. I have made them twice already. For those who don't use the stick measurement for butter, I used 120 grams ( one webiste told me the conversion was 115 and another 125 so I just went in the middle.) Turned out perfect!” - Farah (comment section from recipe)