30+ Easy Easter Dessert Ideas for Kids

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Over 30 adorable and easy Easter desserts for kids. These cute Easter dessert recipes include cupcakes, cookies, cakes, brownies, peeps treats, no bake desserts, and more.

Over 30 adorable and easy Easter desserts for kids. These cute Easter dessert recipes include cupcakes, cookies, cakes, brownies, and more.

There is so much to love about Easter desserts. They are typically bright and colorful, and of course sweet.

I am always on the lookout for new Easter dessert ideas. So with Easter coming up, I decided to gather up all the best Easter dessert recipes and list them for you (and for myself!) in this post.

Easy Easter Desserts for Kids

These cute Easter desserts all have 2 things in common: They are easy to make, and great for kids.

But don’t get me wrong — the whole family will love these easy Easter desserts too. You don’t need to be a child to love fun Easter goodies.

Kid-Friendly Easter Desserts

Many of these easy easter recipes are kid-friendly too. So bring the kids into the kitchen and have them join in and help prepare them.

Cooking with the kids in the kitchen is such a great way to make memories that will last a lifetime.

30+ Easy Easter Desserts for Kids

Below you will find over 30 cute and easy-to-make Easter desserts for kids. They don’t call for a ton of ingredients, and many are even no-bake recipes as well.

Check out my easter dessert ideas story as well.

Edible Easter Peeps Cars made with twinkies.

Easter Peeps Mobiles

No list of fun Easter desserts would be complete without a few Peeps treats. And it doesn’t get much cuter than these Peeps Bunny Mobiles.

Made using Twinkies, Peeps, licorice, Necco wafers, M&Ms, and sprinkles, they are more of a fun food craft than an actual recipe. With no actual cooking or baking necessary — aside from microwaving candy melts — these Peeps Twinkie Car Treats are one of my favorite no-bake Easter desserts.

Easter cake roll with whipped cream filling and mini eggs.

Easter Cake Roll

This bright and festive Easter cake roll is a sweet and fruity Easter cake filled with whipped cream filling and a surprise sprinkling of mini egg chocolate candies.

Make this beautiful Easter cake in just 30 minutes by using a strawberry boxed cake mix as your base.

Easter Egg Rice Krispie Treats.

Crispy Rice Easter Egg Treats

From Kids Activity Blog

Turn a batch of classic Rice Krispies Treats into colorful Easter eggs with this easy Easter egg rice crispy treats recipe.

Have the kids decorate their own Easter Egg Treats for even more fun!

Bunny Bait Easter Snack Mix with pretzels, popcorn, and more.

Bunny Bait

Kids and adults alike will love this “bunny bait” popcorn snack mix.

The easy Easter recipe is loaded with bright spring colors and is the perfect combination of sweet and salty. Don’t forget to leave some out for the Easter Bunny!

If you would prefer a sweet snack mix made without popcorn, try this tasty puppy chow version.

Easter magic cookie bars topped with crushed pastel mini eggs cut into squares and laid on a pink surface with additional mini eggs scattered around.

Easter Magic Cookie Bars

Easter Magic Cookie Bars are a heavenly, gooey Easter dessert made with a golden oreo cookie crust, sweetened condensed milk, and layers of shredded coconut, chocolate chips, and mini eggs.

The chewy easter cookie bars are easy to make, packed with flavor, and always a hit at Easter parties.

No-bake chocolate birds nest cookies arranged on a white plate with additional colored eggs in the background.

No-Bake Birds Nest Cookies

Birds nest cookies are an easy no-bake Easter treat made in just 20 minutes with just four simple ingredients: chow mein noodles, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and mini egg candies.

They taste like crispy, chocolatey perfection!

Hatching Chick Easter Sugar Cookies.

Hatching Chick Easter Cookies

From Simple Everyday Mom

These may just be the most adorable Easter cookie for kids. EVER!

This easy recipe will show you, step-by-step, how to transform store-bought sugar cookie dough into these cute Easter chick cookies.

10 pastel-colored flowers made from M&Ms and pretzels on a white serving platter. A bowl of pretzel snaps and a bowl of M&Ms are next to the platter.

Pretzel Flower Bites

These beautiful flower pretzel bites are easy-to-make using just 3 ingredients: snap pretzels, white chocolate melting wafers, and Easter M&Ms.

The pastel colors make these salty-sweet treats perfect for Easter.

Easter Bunny Bark with pretzels, jelly beans, candy eyes, and candy ears.

Bunny Bark

Who says that chocolate bark is just for Christmas?

Made with pretzels, candy eyes, candy ears, pink jelly beans, and white chocolate melts, this adorable Easter bunny bark makes a perfect Easter dessert.

Colorful Easter Blossom Cookies with Hershey Kisses on white plate.

Easter Blossom Cookies

These beautiful pastel cookies are a colorful, festive twist on classic blossom cookies.

A soft and chewy sugar cookie base is rolled in colorful sugar, baked to perfection, and topped with a Hershey’s kiss to create these beautiful and tasty Easter blossom cookies.

Easter bark (aka saltine toffee) with pink chocolate and pastel candies.

Easter Bark

This pretty pink easter bark is an Easter twist on classic saltine toffee made with white chocolate and topped with Easter M&Ms, mini eggs, and festive sprinkles.

Everyone will love this salty-sweet and festive easter treat, and you will love how easy it is to make.

Easter snack mix in a large white serving bowl surrounded by Easter candies and egg decorations.

Easter Muddy Buddies

Easter Muddy Buddies (aka Easter Puppy Chow) is the perfect homemade Easter snack mix recipe. Chex cereal, pretzels, white chocolate, Funfetti cake mix, and colorful Easter candies come together to make this salty and sweet treat.

Plus, the kids will love getting in the kitchen and helping make the easy no-bake recipe.

Bunny oreo balls decorated with feet and tails to look like bunny butts. Lemon oreo cookies and easter eggs are in the background.

Bunny Oreo Balls

These adorable Easter oreo truffles are decorated to look like bunny butts with a cotton tail and pink tootsies. So cute!

Plus, these bunny oreo balls are made with lemon oreo cookies for a delicious burst of Spring flavor. The kids are sure to love them!

Carrot cake cookies with cream cheese frosting piped on top in zig zag pattern.

Carrot Cake Cookies

These thick and chewy carrot cake cookies are topped with sweet cream cheese frosting for an irresistible treat. Plus, they pack at least a little bit of nutrition in them since they are made with carrots. Or at least that is what I tell myself when I eat a couple for breakfast.

Easter Layer Cake decorated with marshmallow peeps, shredded coconut, and candy eggs.

Easter Peep Cake

This beautiful Easter layer cake will be the star of your dessert table. It is almost too beautiful to eat!

Not only is the three-layer Easter Peep cake decorated with green shredded coconut, colorful Peeps, and candy eggs, but it also has a colorful surprise inside that you will only see once the cake is sliced.

Eggs made from different colors of jello gelatin.

Jello Eggs

From Squirrels of a Feather

Kids love Jello. It is colorful, jiggly, and tastes yummy. These bright and colorful Jello eggs are going to be loved by all the littles at your Easter celebration.

No egg mold? No problem! The recipe also shows you how to make your own egg mold step by step.

Chocolate layer cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate egg candies.

Easter Candy Cake

Chocolate lovers will go crazy for this Easter Candy Cake! The delicious chocolate layer cake is topped with all your favorite Easter candy: Cadbury Eggs, REESE’S Eggs, and Cadbury Shimmer Mini Eggs. Yum, yum, and yum!

Easy Bunny Pretzels treats.

Bunny Pretzels

From The Decorated Cookie

These bunny pretzels aren’t simply easy — they are SUPER EASY. And super cute, too.

Plus, they have that salty sweet combo that everyone loves.

I can assure you that the kids and adults will be coming back for seconds once they get a hold of these sweet Easter treats.

Chocolate Rice Crispy Cake topped with pastel mini candy eggs.

Mini Egg Chocolate Rice Crispy Cake

From Fab Food 4 All

This beautiful cross between rice crispy treat and cake will be the star of your dessert spread on Easter Sunday.

Plus, this Mini Egg Chocolate Rice Crispy Cake is no-bake and easy to make as well!

Vanilla cupcake with green frosting and yellow peeps and colorful candy flowers sticking out of the top.

Peek-a-Boo Peeps Cupcakes

How stinkin’ cute are these vanilla cupcakes with colorful Peeps bunnies popping out like they are playing peek-a-boo? These Easter Peeps cupcakes have been a reader favorite here at Crayons & Cravings for years.

You can make the Easter cupcakes from scratch, or use a box mix for a short cut. Then it is as simple as decorating your cupcakes with green frosting, candy flowers, and of course Peeps!

Easter Egg shaped OREO Cookies coated in colored melted chocolate and decorated to look like colorful easter eggs and easter chicks.

Easter Egg OREO Cookies

From Down Red Bud Drive

Chocolate covered OREO cookies have always been a favorite of mine. SO GOOD.

These chocolate covered OREOs are cleverly transformed into Easter Eggs with a little bit of decorating.

How fun would it be to make a tray and let the kids decorate their Easter Egg OREO cookies themselves?

Chocolate brownies topped with crushed oreos and melted chocolate carrot tops.

Carrot Patch Brownies

Carrot Patch Brownies are a chocolatey and delicious Easter treat. They are perfect to make for dessert on Easter, or for any Spring gathering.

Instead of making the brownies from scratch as the recipe is written, you can easily use a store bought brownie mix instead to make the recipe even easier.

Vanilla frosted round Cake topped with pastel M&Ms and surrounded by marshmallow peeps.

Peeps Bunnies Easter Cake

From Confessions of a Disney-Aholic Mom

I love how bright and colorful this Peeps Bunnies cake is — perfect for Easter. Plus with only 4 ingredients, it is truly simple to max.

This cake is an example of how a little bit of decorating can transform a regular cake to a festive Easter cake in no time.

Peeps chicks houses made using Peeps Chicks, graham crackers, egg candies, and edible grass.

Peeps Chicks House

Looking for a super creative Easter idea for kids? Let the kids make and decorate their own make peeps house with graham crackers. Just set out some peeps chicks and bunnies, egg graham crackers, edible grass, and egg candies and let them get to work. I love this creative and easy no-bake Easter treat idea!

Easter Bunny Brownie truffles mad by coating brownie truffles with shredded coconut and decorating them with candy ears, bows, and glasses.

Easter Bunny Brownie Truffles

From Beyond Frosting

I can’t wait to make these super cute Easter bunny brownie truffles.

They are the kind of Easter dessert that is perfect to make for the kids at your Easter party. These Easter brownies are decorated to look like adorable fluffy bunny rabbits — how cute!

Vanilla pudding cups decorated with pink and white foam ears, googly eyes, a pom-pom nose, and pink pipe cleaner whiskers.

Easter Pudding Cups

While not actually a recipe at all, this Easter treat is essentially a craft.

Made using store-bought pudding cups, these Easter bunny pudding cups are fun Easter desserts/crafts to make with the kids. You could even make them to hand out in the classroom, put in the kids’ easter baskets, or line up on the dessert table at your Easter party.

Malt egg topped chocolate bark candy.

Malt Easter Bark

From Snappy Gourmet

Bark doesn’t have to be reserved for Christmas. This delicious bark recipe combines two kinds of chocolate and malt Robin Eggs for a treat that any chocolate-lover will approve of.

And with only 3 ingredients, it doesn’t get any simpler than this malt easter bark recipe!

Sugar cookies decorated to look like bunny butts.

Bunny Butt Cookies

These adorable iced sugar cookies are made to look like a bunny’s behind!

Make these fun Easter cookies using store bought sugar cookie dough to save some time and make the bunny butt cookie recipe easy peasy. You can even find pre-made royal icing in more grocery stores as well. Gotta love a good shortcut!

S'more Dip topped with marshmallow peeps.

Easter Peeps S’more Dip

From The Decorated Cookie

Dessert dips are always a hit at parties, and this Peeps bunny dip will be no exception.

With just 2 ingredients, it doesn’t get much easier than this Peeps s’more dip!

Easter Bunny Cupcakes made by topping chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and peanut butter cups decorated as bunny faces.

Easter Bunny Cupcakes

Oh my goodness, those little bunny faces are almost too cute.

These fun Easter bunny cupcakes are one of the first Easter recipes I shared on this blog, and they have since been a hit with readers each year when Easter rolls around.

Tip: Use a boxed chocolate cake mix and store-bought icing to make this Easter cupcake recipe sure simple and save a little bit of time.

Two glasses with a pink Easter drink topped with marshmallows and peeps.

Easter Punch (Non-Alcoholic)

This festive Easter punch is made with ice cream, marshmallows, and peeps so I think it is safe to consider it both a beverage and a dessert. Sort of like an Easter version of a root beer float.

The easy recipe combines sweet strawberry lemonade, creamy strawberry ice cream, and fizzy soda and then tops the pretty pink drink with mini marshmallows, sprinkles, and a colorful peeps bunny.

Give the festive drink a try– it is the perfect dessert drink for Easter celebrations!

Coconut coated balls.

Bunny Tails

From Kids Activity Blog

These fudgy lemon coconut flavored treats are designed to look like bunny rabbit tails. SO CLEVER!

This kid-friendly bunny tails recipe will get the kids involved in the kitchen making these tasty treats.

Three rice krispie nests with mini eggs and edible grass.

Rice Krispie Nests with Mini Eggs

Easy no-bake rice krispies Easter nests make a perfect Easter dessert. And you can’t deny how super adorable they are!

We filled our birds nests with green edible grass, but you could also fill them with green icing like Almost Supermom does here.

Peeps Bunny Topped coated Pretzel sticks.

Peeps Bunny Easter Pretzel Treats

From Thrifty Jinxy

These chocolate covered pretzels are topped with Peeps bunnies for a truly adorable Easter treat. And you can’t beat how easy this Peeps Easter pretzel treat is to make — no oven required.

Dirt cups with pretzels decorated as carrots sticking out of the top.

Carrot Patch Easter Dirt Cups

From Savvy Mama Lifestyle

With little “carrots” poking out of the top, these carrot patch chocolate pudding cups are sure to be a huge hit. They are very easy they are to make as well, with no baking required.

Marshmallo Bunny Ear Cupcakes.

Bunny Ear Cupcakes

From Moore or Less Cooking

Everyone will love these sweet bunny ear cupcakes. Made using store-bought cake mix and icing, they are nice and easy to make. They key is the decorating, which only requires 3 ingredients!

Easter cookies with pastel M&Ms, served on a white plate.

Jumbo M&M Easter Cookies

The combination of milk chocolate M&Ms and chewy cookies is hard to resist. You can choose to make these Easter M&M cookies from scratch using the recipe provided or use premade sugar cookie dough as a shortcut.

Easter Basket Cupcakes made with candy eggs and a green twizzler handle.

Easter Basket Cupcakes

From Slap Dash Mom

These Easter Basket cupcakes are another great example of how a little bit of decorating and transform a cupcake into a festive holiday dessert.

I am thinking of making these cute Easter basket cupcakes for my family this year — they are so cute that I can’t resist!

Orange chocolate covered Strawberries that resemble carrots for Easter.

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Carrots

From Building Our Story

If you are looking for an Easter treat that is a bit more nutritious, you should consider making these chocolate-covered Easter strawberries.

These berries are transformed into adorable little carrots by dipping them in orange chocolate.

This is the kind of Easter dessert that the adults will love as much as the little ones — I mean who doesn’t love chocolate covered strawberries?

Pistachio Pudding Parfaits topped with chocolate bunnies and candy eggs.

Pistachio Pudding Parfaits

From Finding Zest

How cute are these little pudding parfait Easter desserts? Topped with coconut “grass,” mini robin eggs, and chocolate bunnies, they are simply precious!

This no bake Easter dessert will be raved about by the kids and grown-ups on Easter.

Sugar cookies decorated to look like bunny faces.

Bunny Cookies

From This N’ That With Olivia

Who can resist that cute bunny face?

This Bunny cookie recipe is pretty kid-friendly as well. The kids can help use cookie cutters to cut the sugar cookies out of the dough. Then after they are baked, they can help decorate their cookies as well.

Vanilla cupcakes topped with green icing and butterflies made with M&Ms and white chocolate covered pretzels.

Butterfly Cupcakes

From Thrifty Jinxy

As someone who has a thing for butterflies, I knew that I had to include these pretty butterfly cupcakes in my list of the best Easter desserts.

These cute butterfly cupcakes are yet another great example of how with a little bit of decorating, plain ‘ol cupcakes can be transformed into festive holiday desserts.

Easter Chocolate Cheesecake Dip topped with easter candies.

Easter Chocolate Cheesecake Dip

From Grits and Pinecones

This no-bake Easter cheesecake dip is easy to make, and great for the kids on Easter. The kids will love dipping graham crackers or cookies into this fun and festive Easter dip.

Pastel decorated Cheesecake Eggs.

Cheesecake Eggs

From DIY Candy

Another cheesecake-flavored goodie for all my cheesecake-lovers out there- cheesecake eggs!

These tasty and beautiful Easter egg cheesecake desserts will look great on your dessert table this Easter.

Easter Bunny Cake decorated with frosting and sprinkles.

Easter Bunny Cake

From My Heavenly Recipes

Turn a box mix cake into an adorable Easter bunny cake with this easy recipe. The kids will love helping to decorate their Easter bunny cake.

Easter Chick Cupcakes with candy eyes.

Easter Chick Cupcakes

From Not Quite Susie Homemaker

No one at your Easter party will be able to resist these cute little chick faces.

These easy Easter chick cupcakes for kids are made using boxed mix and packaged frosting. Then, they are decorated to look like little chicks with just a few common ingredients.

Peeps Rice Krispies Treats.

Easter Peeps Rice Crispy Treats

From Not Quite Susie Homemaker

Yes, another rice treat Easter idea… but this time topped with frosting and Peeps chicks! The kids will love the double dose of sweet marshmallow goodness that these Peeps Rice Crispy Treats pack.

Peeps Easter Trail Mix

From Totally the Bomb

This Peeps trail mix is perfect for the little ones on Easter. With only 5 ingredients, it is nice and easy to make as well.

Colorful Rice Krispy Easter Eggs

From Almost Supermom

I have another easy Easter dessert idea made using Rice Krispies for you: Rice Krispy Eggs.

These colorful Easter eggs can be filled with jelly beans or other candies as a fun surprise that the kids will love.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs

From Almost Supermom

These copycat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Easter Eggs are sure to be a hit. Who can deny that classic peanut butter and chocolate combination? I know I can’t!

Easter Bunny Cones

From Almost Supermom

Ice cream cone desserts are always fun, but these 5-ingredient bunny cones are super awesome. The best part is that the kids will be very excited to find a secret surprise at the bottom of the cones!

Easy Easter desserts including cute peeps treats, Easter cupcakes, cookies, and more.

I hope that you will love these easy and adorable Easter desserts as much as I do.

Enjoy and have a very happy Easter!

First Published: March 21, 2016. Updated: March 23, 2019.

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34 Comments

  1. Every single one of the Easter desserts are adorable! I would have a hard time picking one or even two to make but I think I like the Peek-a-Boo Peeps Cupcakes the best. Thanks for sharing these!

  2. Thes are all great ideas for Easter desserts and I shall be trying some of them , even though itis after Easter now.

  3. I love those filled easter eggs made of rice krispies and filled with jelly beans..

  4. This is a real good list of fun things to make for Easter time . Lots of them to try as new ones too. Thanks so much for sharing them all.

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