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23 Ideas for Easter Dessert

By Food & Wine and Bridget Hallinan
Updated April 07, 2020
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Carrot cakes are certainly popular for Easter, and we have a few different spins you can try, from carrot and orange cake with sour cream glaze to a cocoa-carrot cake with a touch of chocolate. But we’ve also gathered up more spring desserts for your table, including strawberry-buttermilk cobbler and rhubarb tart. Read on for those recipes and more Easter dessert ideas.

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Raspberry Tart with a Pistachio Crust

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This raspberry tart has a creamy filling and a pistachio-studded crust. If you want to prepare it ahead of time, the pastry cream can be refrigerated for three days and the tart shell can be stored at room temperature for two days.

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Lemon Upside-Down Cake

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Cal Peternell likes teaching recipes that are extremely versatile, like this one. The cake is wonderful when it’s made with almost any type of fruit, from figs and blood oranges to pineapple. Peternell usually uses sweet Meyer lemons from his neighbor’s tree. Regular lemons are tasty too and add a bitter note that’s a lovely contrast to the gooey brown-sugar topping.

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Apricot, Almond and Brown Butter Tart

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This dried-apricot tart is crispy and tender, tangy and sweet all at the same time. The recipe also works with fresh apricots; just omit the poaching step.

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Lemon-Curd Cakes with Poppy Seeds

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“The lemon—poppy seed combo is classic,” says Vinny Dotolo. “When I was a kid, I ate lemon—poppy seed muffins for breakfast and with ice cream for dessert.” Now he turns the pairing into lovely cakes: They have a tender cakey layer on the bottom, a luscious curd-like layer on top and poppy-seed crème fraîche to finish the whole thing off.

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Rhubarb-Cheese Strudel with Vanilla Sauce

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Strudel is a classic Austrian pastry made by wrapping layers of paper-thin dough around a variety of fillings. This simplified version, made with store-bought phyllo dough, features a cheesecake-like mixture and tangy rhubarb compote. A crème anglaise served alongside makes it extra-decadent.

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Lemon-Citrus Pound Cake

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Grapefruit juice in the pound cake and lemon juice in the glaze give this sweet, tender cake an especially citrusy taste. Be sure to use cake flour rather than self-rising to ensure a feather-light texture.

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Strawberry Cream Puffs

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A sweet glaze made with strawberry preserves and confectioners’ sugar is the finishing touch for these lovely cream puffs.

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Greek Yogurt Panna Cotta with Honey-Glazed Apricots

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Kate Neumann describes this cool, delicate dessert as “just fruit and cream, barely sweetened. It has the qualities of custard without the egginess. Greek yogurt makes it wonderfully tangy.” She tops the panna cotta with dried apricots that she’s plumped in wine and honey, often adding a scattering of crunchy, salty toasted almonds or pistachios.

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Almond, Elderflower and Lime Travel Cakes

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Inspired by French travel cakes (small sweets meant for bringing to parties, picnics and other events), William Werner created these miniature desserts. He calls them “gussied-up pound cakes.”

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Classic Carrot Cake with Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting

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Jodi Elliot’s take on the classic carrot cake is moist and not too sweet.

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Honey Cake with Citrus Frosting

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This tender, light honey cake, laced with hints of coffee and orange juice, is perfect with a cup of tea.

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Tiramisu Icebox Pie

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If you’d prefer a fruit-free dessert, this icebox pie from pastry chef Mathew Rice includes a dense coffee mousse and salty-sweet coffee crunchies.

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Pear Crostata

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Firm pears are the key to this impressive dessert; look for a thin layer of green under the skin as you peel them. Stir the caramel and pear mixture gently with a wooden spoon to preserve the shape of the pear slices.

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Cocoa-Carrot Cake with Cocoa Crumble

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William Werner likes carrot cake but was curious to experiment with the classic. So he added cocoa to the batter, resulting in this moist loaf with a chocolaty crumb topping.

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Lemon Loaf Cakes with Poached Rhubarb

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These moist, lemony cakes are the quintessential spring dessert, but you can omit the rhubarb and simply serve them on their own or with lightly sweetened whipped cream.

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Carrot and Orange Cake with Sour Cream Glaze

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Nik Sharma’s carrot-and-orange cake with sour cream glaze celebrates the way oranges trigger our senses—the bright sweetness of the juicy oranges marries perfectly with the equally orange spring carrots.

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Strawberry-Buttermilk Cobbler

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A mixture of spelt and almond flours, gently combined with cold butter and creamy buttermilk, creates tender, fluffy biscuits that cover this juicy strawberry cobbler filling.

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Strawberry-Honey Cake with Sour Whipped Cream

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This floral, honey-inflected strawberry cake from Eli Dahlin, the chef at Dame in Portland, Oregon, is his fruity take on a sticky toffee pudding.

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Rhubarb Tart

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Spring rhubarb is wonderfully pink and tender, so you can pile the uncooked stalks straight into a pastry case with a little brown sugar before putting it in the oven. The sugar caramelizes to give an almost toffeelike flavor. Make it the day before so that the flavors have a chance to soak into the pastry, or eat it immediately. Either way, it goes well with cream, custard or ice cream.

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Lemon Meringue Cheesecake

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This Lemon Meringue Cheesecake brings together a crisp graham cracker crust, a luscious lemon-mascarpone filling, and loads of pillowy Italian meringue.

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Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes

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These dense, gluten-free carrot cake cupcakes are topped with an easy cream cheese frosting and can be made up to two days in advance.

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Four-Layer Coconut Cake

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Coconut oil and toasted ground coconut are baked into the batter of this beautiful cake, which is then layered with bittersweet marmalade and fluffy white frosting.

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Strawberry and Mascarpone Trifles with Riesling Syrup

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These elegant trifles come together in just 25 minutes.

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1 of 23 Raspberry Tart with a Pistachio Crust
2 of 23 Lemon Upside-Down Cake
3 of 23 Apricot, Almond and Brown Butter Tart
4 of 23 Lemon-Curd Cakes with Poppy Seeds
5 of 23 Rhubarb-Cheese Strudel with Vanilla Sauce
6 of 23 Lemon-Citrus Pound Cake
7 of 23 Strawberry Cream Puffs
8 of 23 Greek Yogurt Panna Cotta with Honey-Glazed Apricots
9 of 23 Almond, Elderflower and Lime Travel Cakes
10 of 23 Classic Carrot Cake with Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting
11 of 23 Honey Cake with Citrus Frosting
12 of 23 Tiramisu Icebox Pie
13 of 23 Pear Crostata
14 of 23 Cocoa-Carrot Cake with Cocoa Crumble
15 of 23 Lemon Loaf Cakes with Poached Rhubarb
16 of 23 Carrot and Orange Cake with Sour Cream Glaze
17 of 23 Strawberry-Buttermilk Cobbler
18 of 23 Strawberry-Honey Cake with Sour Whipped Cream
19 of 23 Rhubarb Tart
20 of 23 Lemon Meringue Cheesecake
21 of 23 Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes
22 of 23 Four-Layer Coconut Cake
23 of 23 Strawberry and Mascarpone Trifles with Riesling Syrup

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