Easter dessert recipes
Discover our favourite easy Easter dessert recipes. We’ve rounded up the very best chocolate desserts, cheesecakes, trifles, pavlovas and tarts to finish off your Easter lunch in style.
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- Traditional Easter recipes: Keep things classic with a timeless simnel cake or sticky toffee pudding. We love this chocolate Easter nest cake filled with mini eggs.
- Inspiration from around the world: Our hero dessert for 2025 is this Middle East-inspired baklava dome cake with vibrant pistachio frosting. We’ve also got a Viennetta twist on New York cheesecake you’ll love and cozonac, a Romanian Easter bread ideal for serving with coffee.
- Make-ahead ideas: These simple two-layer chocolate mousses can be made up two days ahead. Our fan-favourite limoncello and white chocolate cheesecake also keeps for 48 hours in the fridge.
- Easy and impressive: How about an Easter trifle? Try our hot cross bun pudding version. This chocolate mousse cake is always a hit, too.
- Light and zesty: Make an elegant rhubarb and rose crumble tart or these fun rhubarb and custard blondies. Citrus desserts are refreshing after a heavy Sunday lunch: think French lemon tart or American key lime pie.
Plan your Easter Sunday menu with all our top Easter recipes.
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Giant recipes
Giant banoffee eton mess
This symphony of sweet treats combines banoffee pie flavours with Eton mess for a spectacular sharing dessert to feed a crowd.
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Rice puddings
Rice pudding brûlée with caramel bananas
If you love rice pudding, you'll love this indulgent rice pudding brûlée with caramel bananas from dinner party expert Rosie Mackean.
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5-ingredient
Chocolate and raspberry custard pots
These speedy chocolate custard pots are one of the easiest desserts you can throw together. They're a great way to use up Easter chocolate.
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Best Easter cakes
Baklava dome cake
This baklava-inspired dome cake is covered in pistachio icing, concealing walnut sponges sandwiched with pistachio paste and raspberry cream.
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Biscuits
Ottolenghi’s rhubarb and custard yo-yos (sandwich biscuits)
Yo-Yo biscuits are a beloved treat in Australia. Try Yotam Ottolenghi's rhubarb and custard version. Perfect for a spring baking session.
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Hot cross buns
Orange hot cross bun treacle tart
Treacle tart gets an Easter makeover in this impressive pud recipe. The tart filling is enriched with hot cross bun crumbs, spice and citrus.
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Blueberries
Blueberry latte cheesecake
This beautiful blueberry latte cheesecake balances the flavours of blueberries and coffee, with a chocolate crumb base.
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Baked cheesecakes
Mint ‘Viennetta’ New York cheesecake
Packed with nostalgic retro flavours, this mint chocolate cheesecake is baked in a loaf tin to give it that classic ‘Viennetta’ look and feel
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Tropical desserts
Passion fruit tart no-bake cheesecake
The tangy zing of the passion fruit topping offers just the right contrast to the rich creaminess below in this no-bake cheesecake recipe .
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Baked cheesecakes
Basque forest cheesecake
We've given Basque cheesecake a decadent Black Forest spin, with cherries, cream and chocolate. it’s a cheesecake you’ll keep coming back to.
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Perfect puddings
Malt chocolate self-saucing pudding
The toasty flavour of malt brings an extra layer of comfort to this easy, self-saucing chocolate pudding. Bring it to the table and dig in!
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Italian desserts
Chocolate budino
With only five ingredients, this creamy Italian pudding – chocolate budino – is incredibly simple but beautifully smooth and indulgent.
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Cheesecakes
Caramelised white chocolate cheesecake
This showstopping cheesecake has a chocolatey biscuit base, a creamy caramelised white chocolate filling and golden ganache topping.
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White chocolate
Caramelised white chocolate
Fan of blond chocolate? Learn how to make caramelised white chocolate at home. It sounds cheffy but is simple to make – and so versatile.
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Baking recipes
Chocolate custard brioche
Set aside some time at the weekend to make these gorgeous chocolate brioche loaves from master baker Richard Bertinet.
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Pannacotta
Burnt honey pannacotta with rhubarb and chamomile syrup
Ravinder Bhogal's burnt honey pannacotta with rhubarb is the perfect make-ahead dessert for spring, including your Easter lunch.
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