20 Easy Easter Desserts

February 28, 2020
Time Inc. Video Studio
Get out of the kitchen and spend more time with your family with our 20 easiest Easter desserts. Whether you're looking for an uncomplicated-yet-impressive cake (this 2-Step Pound Cake certainly fits the bill), quick cookies (these Lemon Cake Mix Cookies are perfect for spring), or a classic pie (an Easy Key Lime Pie will never steer you wrong), our easy Easter desserts will make your holiday a lot simpler. 
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Shortcut Carrot Sheet Cake

Photo: Kelsey Hansen; Food Styling: Karen Rankin; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis
Shortcut Carrot Sheet Cake Recipe

This moist, delicious carrot cake has traditional ingredients like carrot, pineapple, and walnuts, with the addition of toasted coconut flakes to dress up cream cheese icing.

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Bisquick Topped Blueberry Cobbler

Photo: Kelsey Hansen; Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland; Food Styling: Robin Bashinsky
Bisquick Topped Blueberry Cobbler Recipe
This biscuit topped blueberry cobbler recipe couldn’t be easier. Breaking out your trusty Bisquick baking mix keeps the recipe effortless, but you could also top the vibrant berry filling with a simple homemade drop biscuit dough as well.

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Easy Key Lime Pie

Meredith Food Studios 
Easy Key Lime Pie Recipe
Dessert doesn’t get easier, or more delicious, than a no-bake key lime pie. Requiring just a handful of ingredients, this easy pie is a great recipe for less experienced bakers—especially considering what a crowd-pleaser it is.
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Easy Peach Cobbler

Photo: Greg DuPree Food Styling: Rishon Hanners Prop Styling: Thom Driver
Easy Peach Cobbler Recipe
What could be a more perfect ending to a summertime meal than easy peach cobbler? Savor the flavors of summer with sliced fresh peaches cooking away with butter and spices. The topping can made from pantry ingredients you have on hand and peaches can easily be substituted with any fruit you have depending on the time of year.

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Easy Chocolate Babka Buns

Jen Causey; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners; Prop Styling: Kay Clarke
Easy Chocolate Babka Buns Recipe
These aren’t your typical babka buns—crescent roll dough makes the cooking process much easier and yields buns that are bready rather than dry. The chocolate filling is rich and deliciously swirled throughout the buns. If you’re eating them warm, they’d be fantastic paired with a chocolate ganache glaze.

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Perfectly Easy Blackberry Pie

Photo: Lee Harrelson; Styling: Jan Gautro
Perfectly Easy Blackberry Pie Recipe
If you haven’t eaten any blackberry pie yet, is it really summer? This perfectly easy blackberry pie comes together in a little more than an hour and highlights one of summer’s best fruits. This recipe works with either fresh or frozen blackberries (or a mixture of the two), but fresh blackberries have more flavor and won’t take as long to cook.
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Easy Blackberry Cobbler

Caitlin Bensel; Prop Styling: Christina Daley; Food Styling: Marianne Williams
Easy Blackberry Cobbler Recipe
Rather than breaking a sweat over the perfect pie crust and lattice top for your farmers' market blackberries, use them up in a hassle-free cobbler. All you need are fresh berries plus 5 more ingredients to whip up this Easy Blackberry Cobbler recipe.

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Easy Vanilla Cake

Photo: Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Torie Cox; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke
Easy Vanilla Cake Recipe
Fresh flowers make this cake simply gorgeous—no decorating skills required! Simply choose edible blooms and petals (such as Carnations, English daisies, freesia, lavender, nasturtium, pansies, peonies, roses, stock, sweet William, tuberous begonias, or violets).

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Easy Strawberry Cobbler

Photo: Aaron Kirk; Prop Styling: Christina Daley; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall
Easy Strawberry Cobbler Recipe
Just because it’s easy doesn’t mean this biscuit-topped strawberry cobbler won’t impress. In fact, bursting with vibrant berry flavor (regardless of how perfectly ripe your strawberries may or may not be), we can just about guarantee that it will.
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Easy Macarons

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Easy Macarons Recipe

This simplified method for making classic French Macarons is the perfect recipe for a first-timer to practice with. Just be sure to wait for a day that isn’t rainy or humid to embark on this baking adventure, as the delicate cookies need dry air in order to set.

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5-Ingredient Easy Peach Hand Pies

Greg DuPree
5-Ingredient Easy Peach Hand Pies Recipe
Nothing screams "summer!" with more enthusiasm than a peach pie. But as nice as the traditional dish is, it's meant to be enjoyed sitting at the table, hopefully a la mode. Nothing against that, but sometimes you want something a little more portable because you're reading a book poolside or running around the lawn with a huge dog.

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Easy Berry Tart

Easy Berry Tart Recipe

This vibrant and impressive dessert literally couldn’t get any easier.

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Simple Homemade Dreamsicles

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Simple Homemade Dreamsicles Recipe

Light, creamy, and refreshing, these easy DIY Dreamsicles taste like nostalgia on a stick. The ice pops can also be made in paper cups (instead of plastic popsicle molds), which can be cut away for easy release.

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Easter Egg Cake

Meredith Food Studios
Easter Egg Cake Recipe
It’s not Easter without a themed cake! Rather than deal with a fussy animal-shaped pan, bake two round cake layers with an 8-inch diameter and let a little food styling and frosting do the work. You can use a box cake mix make a favorite recipe from scratch, depending on the level of effort you want to put in.

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Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies with Strawberry Buttercream  

Photo: Caroline Arcangeli; Prop Styling: Christine Keely; Food Styling: Chelsea Zimmer
Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies with Strawberry Buttercream   Recipe
No one will believe these impressive (yet low-effort) spring treats start with a boxed cake mix. The strawberry buttercream filling for these sandwich cookies uses both fresh and freeze-dried berries in order to deliver a potent punch of vibrant strawberry flavor.
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Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

Liz Mervosh
Lemon Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

Nobody will know you used boxed cake mix and Cool Whip for these irresistible, buttery cookies. These were a hit in our test kitchen, especially with their soft texture and crisp bottoms.

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Easter Cookies

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas; Styling: Lisa Powell Bailey
Easter Cookies Recipe

Too cute to eat? Almost! This five-ingredient Easter cookie dough can be made up to three days ahead, making it the perfect addition to your Easter recipe collection.

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Peach Cobbler Dump Cake 

Aaron Kirk; Food Styling: Marianne Williams; Prop Styling: Christina Daley
Peach Cobbler Dump Cake  Recipe
Pair the crowd-pleasing appeal of peach cobbler with the convenience factor of a boxed cake mix and you have this ridiculously easy dump cake. Requiring only five ingredients, this is the perfect recipe for when you need to whip up dessert in a hurry.
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Two-Step Pound Cake

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas; Styling: Amy Burke
Two-Step Pound Cake Recipe

You'll need a heavy-duty stand mixer with a 4-qt. bowl and paddle attachment for this recipe.

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Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake

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Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe

This simple, fresh strawberry cake is the perfect springtime dessert. Besides being wonderfully easy to slice and serve for a crowd, sheet cakes (like this pink beauty) are great for entertaining because they require no special cake frosting skills to look impressive. 

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