Favorite Easter Treats and Desserts
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At Southern Plate, we love celebrating the holidays—and no celebration is complete without something sweet! Today, we’re sharing our favorite Easter treats and desserts to make your holiday extra delightful. With bright flavors like lemon, strawberry, and chocolate eggs, we wish you a joyful spring and a very happy Easter!
Cadbury Mini Eggs are one of my favorite parts of Easter, and these Cadbury Cookie Easter Bars take them to the next level. They’re festive, easy to make, and perfect for sharing!
This is an easy and simple homemade version of the famous Sam’s Club strawberry cake recipe, which includes a moist cake topped with whipped icing, juicy fresh strawberries, and a scrumptious strawberry glaze.
Carrot cake has to be on our list of favorite Easter treats and desserts. Carrot cake blondies feature everything you love about carrot cake in the form of a decadent fudge brownie. Cream cheese marbled throughout keeps people coming back for just one more bite.
Lay your eyes on the cutest mini bundt cakes you’ve ever seen. Made with Aunt Sue’s famous vanilla pound cake recipe, these moist and buttery bundt cakes are the most delicious treats, so spoil yourself today!
This light and flavorful lemon angel food cake roll recipe combines a Swiss roll technique and an angel food cake for heavenly perfection.
Strawberry season always heralds Spring for me. Can’t you just see a tall glass of juicy pureed strawberries mixed with tangy lemonade this on your Easter table or your Spring parties?
Our carrot cake bars taste just like carrot cake but are moister and denser, with pecans, oats, carrots, spices, and cream cheese frosting. Perfect for every Easter Celebration!
If you love the Publix Chantilly Cake as much as I do, you need this Chantilly Sheet Cake recipe in your life. The rich and finely crumbed baker-style cake is topped with a slathering of preserves, a fluffy whipped Neufchatel icing, and garnished with fresh berries.
Mama’s Classic Strawberry Cobbler
This strawberry cobbler recipe is a classic Southern dessert that’s quick, easy, and packed full of flavor. Use fresh strawberries while they are in season and top with ice cream for this lovely warm dessert.
When searching for a simple cake recipe, it doesn’t get easier than this deliciously moist vanilla cake recipe. Perfect for strawberry shortcake.
Dive into the zesty delight of Lemon Earthquake Cake! It’s a perfect blend of tangy lemon, creamy sweetness, and crunchy toppings—a dessert you’ll crave!
There is nothing like a sweet slice of my 4-ingredient homemade fresh strawberry pie recipe, made with juicy strawberries and strawberry jello in a perfectly textured pie crust.
Grandmama’s Coconut Cake With No-Fail Seven Minute Frosting
How could we share our favorite Easter treats and desserts without this beauty? Prepare yourself for an old-fashioned coconut cake recipe like no other, thanks to Grandmama’s decadent no-fail 7-minute frosting. Try not to lick the bowl clean!
These easy glazed lemon cookies taste like sunshine and include a tender shortbread cookie topped with a sweet lemon glaze. An old favorite from Grandma’s recipe box and affectionately known as lemon blossom cookies, they’re sure to be a favorite at your house.
7-Up Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze
This old-fashioned 7-Up pound cake recipe with lemon glaze is a classic Southern dessert that uses 7-Up to make a buttery and moist from-scratch cake that has a hint of lemon flavor.
All you need is four ingredients to make a batch of these delicious melt-in-your-mouth cream cheese mints. They are so quick and easy to make and they’re destined to disappear in a flash!
Along with our favorite Easter treats and desserts, we want to share a few of our favorites to dress up your Easter table and home. We love this paper grass & glower shred. These darling paper plates will make clean up a cinch. If you like a more formal table, these napkin rings are for you! To help plan your Easter dinner, check our our Easter Menu Ideas for 2025.
We wish you all the joy of this season of renewal and hope.
