Looking for Easter dessert inspiration? We’ve rounded up over 35 of our favorite Easter cake recipes, dessert ideas, and decorating inspiration, to make your Easter celebration extra-sweet.
These delicious cake recipes include all kinds of classic Easter cake ideas, like Easter bunny cakes, Easter egg cakes, flower cakes, lamb cakes, and much more – you’re guaranteed to find a cake you love!
Easter Nest Cake
This Easter Nest Cake is a cute and easy Easter dessert recipe! It’s baked right in a bowl–no special pan required–and is decorated with chocolate frosting to look like a sweet little bird’s nest, complete with your favorite Easter egg candies.
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Sugar Easter Egg Cake
Looking for a knockout Easter cake? Try this Sugar Easter Egg Cake! The look is based on old-fashioned panoramic sugar eggs, but it's made out of CAKE! And unlike those classic sugar eggs, this dessert is entirely edible! It's a showstopping way to end an Easter feast.
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Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake
It just wouldn’t be Easter without at least one adorable bunny-themed treat, and this Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake delivers! Moist chocolate cake, smooth buttercream, and lots of mini fondant decorations on top make this bunny cake a favorite the whole family will love.
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Easter Polka Dot Cake
This Easter Polka Dot Cake is truly easy to make, don’t let it’s look be deceptive! Just combine a few simple steps and you’ll end up with this beautifully whimsical cake.
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Easter Egg Petit Fours
Make the Easter bunny jealous with these Easter Egg Petit Fours! They’re gorgeous mini cakes filled with raspberry and tangerine flavors, and decorated with a pretty speckled glaze in pastel colors.
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Strawberry Swirl Bundt Cake
Looking for the perfect bundt cake? Try this Strawberry Swirl Bundt Cake – a moist vanilla cake with a strawberry swirl inside, topped with fresh berries and beautiful buttercream flowers! This is a gorgeous choice for Easter brunch or dessert.
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Easter Push-Up Pops
These Push-Up Pops are perfect for Easter! Chocolate cake, frosting, and chocolate rocks are layered in push pop containers, then topped with adorable chocolate bunny ears, carrots, and bunny butts.
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Spring In Bloom Layer Cake
This Spring In Bloom Layer Cake is an extra-tall spring cake COVERED with gorgeous buttercream flowers! It’s filled with lemon curd and raspberry jam, and bursting with bright and colorful buttercream blooms. It looks and tastes like spring!
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Hydrangea Cakes
These Hydrangea Cakes are gorgeous miniature cakes that look like hydrangea flowers! You’ll be surprised to learn how easy it is to make the pretty, colorful blossom design on the outside. The inside is beautiful, too, with swirls of multicolored cake!
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Radiant Orchid Mini Cakes
Radiant Orchid Mini Cakes have layers of vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream, and fresh blackberries in the center. They are vivid, cheerful, and playful – just like dessert should be!
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Painted Flower Cake
Delicate painted buttercream flowers are perfect for Easter! This easy cake painting tutorial shows you how to hand paint beautiful floral art onto a cake using buttercream frosting, food coloring, palette knives, and paint brushes.
(via partylicious)
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Easter Loaf Cake
This Easter Loaf Cake is so much fun. The chocolate sponge is rich and tender, while the vanilla buttercream grass, fondant bunny butt, icing carrots and crunchy Mini Eggs come together to make the perfect spring scene.
(via amummytoo)
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Surprise Easter Bunny Cake
Regular pound cakes just can’t compete with this clever Easter version. This Surprise Easter Bunny Cake has a blue velvet bunny nested inside a flavorful lemon cake. It’s surprise fun for everyone!
(via all-thats-jas)
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Speckled White Chocolate Easter Cake
Speckled egg cakes are an Easter classic, and this Speckled White Chocolate Easter Cake is perfection! A white chocolate layer cake is decorated with delicate green peppermint buttercream. The best part? It’s topped with mini eggs, flowers, and decorative egg shells.
(via littlesugarsnaps)
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Vegan Creme Egg Cheesecake
This delicious no-bake Vegan Creme Egg Cheesecake pulls out all the stops! With a creamy tangy dairy-free vanilla filling on a cookie crust, stuffed with butterscotch sauce and topped with homemade vegan creme eggs.
(via addictedtodates)
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Cutest Easter Carrot Cake
This is the Cutest Easter Carrot Cake! This moist cake, made in a loaf pan, will amaze your family and friends with a hidden bunny in each slice!
(via spatuladesserts)
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Easter Bunny Sheet Cake
This cute bunny cake is super simple to decorate using a template. If you can pipe a frosting star, you can make this cake!
(via hungryhappenings)
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Mini Egg Easter Drip Cake
This Mini Egg Easter Drip Cake is just what you need to bring family and friends together this Easter! A beautiful buttercream cake is decorated with a chocolate drip, buttercream swirls, and Cadbury mini eggs.
(via simshomekitchen)
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Speckled Easter Cake with Ruby Chocolate
This Speckled Egg Cake features sponge cake with layers of strawberry compote and ruby chocolate whipped ganache frosting. It’s topped with a beautiful chocolate nest that’s filled with egg-shaped candy!
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Easter Mini Layer Cakes
Easter Mini Layer Cakes are made from a box mix and a jar of jam. They are delicious, pretty, and easy to make with included step-by-step instructions.
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Easter Lamb Cake
This tried and true Easter Lamb Cake recipe has been passed down for generations. The rich and buttery pound cake recipe is paired with a sweet frosting that has a hint of orange.
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Easter Piñata Cake
This Easter Piñata Cake has a surprise inside and is super easy to make. People will be mystified how you did it! It’s a box mix hack so any type of cake can be used (regular, gluten-free, allergy-friendly, etc)!
(via boulderlocavore)
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Mini Egg Cake
This Mini Egg Cake is for serious Cadbury mini egg lovers. Soft milk chocolate cake layers are covered with mini egg buttercream and covered with chocolate drip, bright confetti sprinkles and more mini eggs!
(via cakedbykatie)
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Easter Coconut Cake
Decorating an Easter cake doesn’t have to be difficult. This Coconut Cake has spongy layers of coconut flavored cake and mascarpone buttercream. I’ll provide you with a few basic decorating tips to help you create a beautiful holiday cake!
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Surprise Easter Bunny Cake
This Neapolitan Cake is a three-layer queen! It has the traditional flavors of chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla bean, and is covered in graham bunnies. It’s an Easter crowd pleaser!
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Swirled Mini Egg Cheesecake
This creamy no-bake Swirled Mini Egg Cheesecake is a simple cake with a colorful cheesecake filling, and a graham cracker crust packed with mini chocolate eggs. The top is decorated with an easy-to-make rich, chocolatey nest!
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Tall Easter Layer Cake (With peeps inside!)
This Tall Easter Layer Cake gets its height from layers of spongy homemade yellow cake, sweet almond buttercream, and surprise peeps inside. Decorate the sides of the cake with blue speckles, then top it all off with candy eggs for a deliciously cute holiday indulgence!
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Chocolate Bunny Bundt Cake
This rich, dense Chocolate Bunny Bundt Cake is a gorgeous addition to your Easter dessert table. Thrill your Easter guests by topping it with adorable chocolate bunnies.
(via xoxobella)
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Multi-Colored Easter Peeps Cake
A fun and beautiful Multi-Colored Easter Peeps Cake is so easy to make when the decorations are made out of candy! It has vibrant multi-colored layers and an Easter theme; it’s perfect for holiday celebrations this spring.
(via littlesunnykitchen)
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Egg-Shaped Chocolate Easter Cheesecake
Why have plain cheesecake when you can have an Egg-Shaped Easter Cheesecake?! Half of a large chocolate Easter egg is filled with creamy chocolate cheesecake filling that hides a crumbly cookie base below. Drizzle chocolate on top and it’s heavenly!
(via amummytoo)
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Old Fashioned Carrot Cake with Pineapple
This Old Fashioned Carrot Cake with Pineapple is guaranteed to be the best carrot cake you’ve ever made! It’s a super moist carrot cake with pineapple, coconut and walnuts. Bake as a delicious layer cake, bundt cake, or even carrot cake cupcakes.
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Easter Bunny Poke Cake
Love poke cakes? You’ve gotta try this Easter version! It’s poked with flavorful Jell-O, topped with a fun whipped “grass” frosting and decorated with bunny Peeps and jelly beans or chocolate eggs. A fun, flavorful Easter cake!
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Bunny-Shaped Easter Carrot Cake
This Bunny-Shaped Easter Carrot Cake will be the showstopper cake on your Easter table. This carrot cake starts with a simple sheet cake, topped with fluffy cream cheese mousse frosting shaped into a super cute bunny head – no special mold needed!
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Easter Cake Roll
This Easter Cake Roll is a sweet and delicious Easter cake filled with a surprise sprinkling of mini egg chocolate candies! Make this bright and festive Easter cake in just 30 minutes by using a strawberry boxed cake mix as your base.
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Lemon Easter Cake with Zesty Cream Cheese Frosting
This easy Lemon Easter Cake with Zesty Cream Cheese Frosting is the perfect dessert to enjoy after Easter dinner. Made with lots of fresh lemons and decorated with fresh flowers and Easter bunnies – it is both delicious and oh-so-pretty.
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White Chocolate Easter Egg Cheesecake
When it comes to sweet treats, they just don’t get any better than a White Chocolate Easter Egg Cheesecake. Just imagine… scrumptious, melt-in-your-mouth white chocolate mixed into a delectable cream cheese filling, spooned on top of a buttery Oreo base and topped with delicious filled Easter eggs.
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What a great list! I can’t wait to try them all! Going to start trying them out now to prepare for Easter.
Thanks Tracy! Come back and share how they turn out! 🙂
So festive and fun I dont know which to choose they are all something my kids will flip over with big smiles!
Aren’t they all so fun!? Thank you for your comment!
Thanks for this fantastic compilation! Baking time!
You are so welcome! They are all so festive and beautiful aren’t they!?
What a great compilation for fun Easter cake ideas. Bookmarked to try some with the kids.
Thank you, I hope you enjoy making them! Come back and share!
These Easter cake recipes and ideas were so awesome! I am so excited to have some great recipes to try out for the holidays! They are sound so good.
Hi Heidy! There are SO MANY beauties in this bunch! You can’t go wrong!
What a wonderful collection! These Easter cakes are super cute, indeed!
Thank you! I loved putting this together 🙂
Love all these ideas!!