Easter Desserts

[smilie]

What kind of desserts do you serve on Easter? Obviously, we'll have candy . Just trying to figure out something new to have as a dessert.

 

[fla4fun]

What kind of desserts do you serve on Easter? Obviously, we'll have candy . Just trying to figure out something new to have as a dessert.

I have a plain cheesecake and a Key Lime Pie on the menu. After all the sweet candy, having something tart is especially nice. I also have some lemon ice cream available if the other desserts don’t spark any interest.

 

[NotUrsula]

I always make the lemon variation on Chocolate Delight. (It's known by many different names around the US: an icebox pie normally made with a graham cracker crust, topped by a layer of sweetened cream cheese, topped by a layer of chocolate pudding, then stabilized whipped cream or Cool Whip, with pecans and chocolate chips on top for garnish.)

The lemon version is still graham cracker crust topped with sweetened cream cheese, but the pudding layer is lemon, and the garnishes on top of the whipped cream are crushed lemon drop candy and crushed almond bits, (or if you want to go very fancy, candied lemon slices.)

PS: I'm allergic to strawberries, so I never ate it, but my mother and eldest sister always liked to serve strawberry pie on Easter. Sometimes if they were short on time, just bowls of strawberries and clotted cream.

 

[HannaBelle]

Fruit Pizza

I make a sugar cookie sheet, then carve it into an egg shape, cover it in fruit dip (1 brick of cream cheese, 1 jar of marshmallow fluff, and 1 tsp of lemon juice or vanilla), and bring containers of sliced fruit for the kids to "decorate" the easter egg. Depending on how many kids we have, I might make 2. I like strawberries, kiwi, grapes, clementines, and various berries.
This recipe is very similar:

https://thebakermama.com/recipes/giant-easter-egg-fruit-pizza/

The kids are all grown adults now, and we don't get together for easter egg hunts, but it was a favorite every year. One year, I decided to change it up, did not bring the cookie, and was met with little faces of disappointment.

 

[tetera]

Always carrot cake! (This is my first time realizing that apparently not everyone does that!)

 

[disney212]

Carrot cake is a tradition in my family. I make it every Easter. It's what is also served at our local restaurants that serve an Easter meal. I always look but always end up cooking.

 

[Kitty 34]

Never had a traditional Easter dessert but carrot cake sounds delicious.

 

[maddiel]

It varies, but it's often citrus-y. I have a vanilla cake with lemon-lime filling and coconut cream frosting that I often do. I may go simple with a lemon meringue pie this year, since there are only 4 of us. My son-in-law and my probably-future-other-son-in-law are both lactose intolerant. Some recipes can can be easily adapted to have no lactose, but others are more difficult.

 

[fla4fun]

Always carrot cake! (This is my first time realizing that apparently not everyone does that!)

We eat a lot of carrot cake through the year as it is a favorite dessert in our house. I try to aim for items we don’t have so often for holidays.

 

[Micca]

DW and DGDs have a tradition of making a bunny cake for Easter. It's just a box mix, but they decorate it real cute

 

[HopperFan]

Nothing. But wonderful memories of my Mom making a bunny cake. White cake, white icing, covered in coconut with jelly bean eyes and nose. It was a legit bunny sitting like a real bunny. Took so long to make but as a kid, just loved it!!

Not hers but looked like this.

 

[hardcorestitch]

I’m still on the fence with that… but in any case if I still don’t have any progress to Disneyland this May… then Easter will be cancelled.

 

[_19disnA]

Growing up I can't recall that Easter dessert was ever a certain/specific item. The entree was usually ham which seemed somewhat traditional.

We also would dye Easter eggs ahead of time, but never ate them since they sat around at room temperature for a few days.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

Key lime pie, strawberry shortcake cakes, banana pudding have always been our desserts and recent years I’ve added cake pops. These were last years, chicks and Easter eggs.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Making a dairy and nut free trifle/ice box cake.

Spouse wanted a lemon raspberry dip with fresh berries and shortbread. So, I'm flipping that into the "cake".

Layers of Lorna Doone shortbread cookies, all fruit raspberry preserves, lemon jello pudding made with lemon zest and dairy-free milk, Coco whip with raspberry and lemon swirled in (gotta figure this part out, b/c the idea came to me today) and then topped with a pile of fresh strawberries and raspberries.

I refuse to serve chocolate or candy on Easter b/c kids have eaten that all morning. So, I like light and sharp (and easy, b/c folks have eaten so much sugar, so no need to add more something incredibly sweet sugar-focused or complicated) for dessert...

 

[TwoMisfits]

Growing up I can't recall that Easter dessert was ever a certain/specific item. The entree was usually ham which seemed somewhat traditional.

We also would dye Easter eggs ahead of time, but never ate them since they sat around at room temperature for a few days.

Yeah, we dye eggs Good Friday, take pics, and put them in the fridge for eventual Easter lunch tray deviled eggs. When I was a kid, my mom hid the dyed eggs for us to find and I never understood that, b/c what if you miss one? Well, we eventually did, and it tooks months for the smell to fade from that area once we found it (thanks to the growing smell).

I vowed never again. So my kids are used to my tradition. Plastic eggs with candy for hiding...dyed eggs in food safe dye that get peeled for Easter morning...

 

[maddiel]

Yeah, we dye eggs Good Friday, take pics, and put them in the fridge for eventual Easter lunch tray deviled eggs. When I was a kid, my mom hid the dyed eggs for us to find and I never understood that, b/c what if you miss one? Well, we eventually did, and it tooks months for the smell to fade from that area once we found it (thanks to the growing smell).

I vowed never again. So my kids are used to my tradition. Plastic eggs with candy for hiding...dyed eggs in food safe dye that get peeled for Easter morning...

We had someone at our church that taught Ukrainian egg dying. You can blow the eggs out of the shells, but the traditional thing to do is to allow the raw egg innards to dessicate over time.

One year I broke one at Halloween that I"d dyed in the spring. It was definitely NOT fully dried out and smelt like something unimaginable. That was it for us doing traditional Ukraine-style eggs!

 

[rndmr2]

Nothing. But wonderful memories of my Mom making a bunny cake. White cake, white icing, covered in coconut with jelly bean eyes and nose. It was a legit bunny sitting like a real bunny. Took so long to make but as a kid, just loved it!!

Not hers but looked like this.

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My mom used to make a bunny cake too with the white icing and coconut. Hers was a more simplified/flat bunny.

I am in charge of dessert for Easter this year (My BIL and his wife are hosting). I was originally thinking of making a cheesecake. But I might make a bunny cake.

 

[cayennews]

I made this a few years back.
I think this year I am going to make a cream cheese chocolate chip dip. My mom is making a chocolate cream pie. Yim!

 

[amcnj]

The only dessert item that has been consistently served for my entire life is a ricotta pie. Other desserts may have been around for many years at a time, made an occasional appearance, or even a single appearance. But the ricotta pie lives on and is still requested by the youngest subsequent generation.