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This collection of Spring Desserts includes all types of recipes—cakes, cookies, pies, cheesecakes, and more—featuring all the light and bright flavors of springtime!

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A collage of Spring Dessert recipes.


Lighter and brighter desserts

When I think “spring desserts” my mind almost immediately goes to fresh fruit!

Berry and citrus flavors are especially appealing when the days start to warm up. Don’t you agree?

I’ve gathered plenty of tasty sweets for you to choose from. Many are even customizable, so feel free to change it up and incorporate your favorite flavors of the spring season!

Lemon bars dusted with powdered sugar on a white gold rimmed plate.

Flavors of Spring

To me, nothing is more Spring-y than a lemon! Some of my favorite desserts for spring are bright and lemony like Lemon Blossoms, lemon meringue pie, or Lemon Cheesecake.

Fresh strawberries are another signature flavor of spring. The pretty red and sweet taste of the berry pairs well with all types of desserts from tarts to cakes. A favorite of mine is Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Ice Cream.

Springtime produce, specifically fruits, can be made into all sorts of desserts.

  • Pies and Tarts are perfect for fruits.
  • Cakes can be flavored and decorated with the colors and produce of spring.
  • Shortbread crust is used as a base for many fruity desserts.
  • Cheesecake is another classic base and can be topped with fresh berries and sweet syrups.
Angel Food Cake dusted with powdered sugar and topped with fresh berries on a white plate.

Making festive springtime desserts

You’ll find beautiful and delicious Spring Dessert Recipes perfect for a special occasion as well as fun sweet treats just for the kids.

Flowers make a pretty decoration for spring desserts. Use frosting flowers, edible flowers, or even regular flowers that can be removed before serving.

Baby animals are often used to decorate springtime desserts; particularly bunnies, chicks, and lambs.

Incorporate favorite holidays like Easter and Mother’s Day into your Spring Desserts, or bring the rainbow of color for St. Patrick’s Day or any day!

Spring Colors:

Pretty much any dessert can be transformed into spring by the colors you use.

For example: Mix up Vanilla Buttercream Frosting in any pastel color, or use this pretty pink Berry Buttercream Frosting, and add it to the top of your favorite chocolate brownie or cupcake. Instantly, it’s perfect to serve as a spring dessert.

Pastel colored sprinkles and pastel M&M’s also add a spring look.


Best Spring Desserts

Whether they use bright flavors or colors, these desserts are perfect for spring!

Lemon IceBox Pie

Deliciously creamy & tangy Lemon Icebox Pie is a classic chilled Southern dessert that’s perfect for summer! It uses freshly squeezed lemon juice and zest for the brightest lemon flavor.

1 Lemon Icebox Pie Recipe

Dessert Lemon Icebox Pie Recipe
Total Time: 6 hours 50 minutes
5 from 19 votes
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Coconut Cream Pie

A classic pie recipe, filled with coconut pudding and topped with cool whip and toasted coconut shreds.

2 Coconut Cream Pie Recipe

Dessert Coconut Cream Pie Recipe
Total Time: 3 hours 15 minutes
4.90 from 29 votes
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Lemon Lasagna

This luscious lemon lasagna consists of 4 tasty layers, including a Lemon Oreo crust, cream cheese layer, lemon pudding layer and topped with whipped cream! 

3 Lemon Lasagna Recipe

Dessert Lemon Lasagna Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
4.96 from 129 votes
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Easter Dirt Cake

Easter Oreo Dirt Cake is a creamy and delicious Easter dessert filled with Oreos, pudding, and cool whip. Everyone will love to decorate and eat it!

4 Easter Dirt Cake Recipe

Dessert Easter Dirt Cake Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
4.95 from 144 votes
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Coconut Cake

This Coconut Cake is made from scratch, and topped with a scrumptious cream cheese frosting that is so addicting. The toasted coconut topping gives it an incredible flavor, making it a dessert to enjoy all year long!

5 Coconut Cake recipe

Dessert Coconut Cake recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes
5 from 18 votes
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Easter Sugar Cookies

Super cute and delicious Bird’s Nest Easter Sugar Cookies include a yummy sugar cookie, creamy frosting, sprinkles, shredded coconut, and Cadbury Eggs.

6 Easter Sugar Cookies Recipe

Dessert Easter Sugar Cookies Recipe
Total Time: 3 hours 20 minutes
5 from 6 votes
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No Bake Cheesecake

This NO BAKE cheesecake is the perfect recipe for summer. With a delicious graham cracker crust, and a creamy vanilla cream cheese mixture, you can top it with anything – like these sugared strawberries! Everyone goes crazy over this easy no bake cheesecake recipe!

7 No Bake Cheesecake Recipe

This no bake strawberry cheesecake is the perfect recipe for summer. So creamy, so easy & topped with fresh berries. Everyone goes crazy over this easy cheesecake recipe!
Dessert No Bake Cheesecake Recipe
Total Time: 6 hours 25 minutes
5 from 25 votes
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Carrot Cake Cookies

With the use of a boxed cake mix, these Carrot Cake Cookies are so easy to make. Topped with homemade cream cheese frosting, they’re hard to resist!

8 Carrot Cake Cookie Recipe

Dessert Carrot Cake Cookie Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 22 minutes
4.77 from 21 votes
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Lemon Bundt Cake

This is the most delicious and moist Lemon Bundt Cake recipe! It is covered in a sweet lemon glaze and topped off with an amazing cream cheese frosting with lemon zest, making it irresistible.

9 Lemon Bundt Cake recipe

Dessert Lemon Bundt Cake recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
5 from 6 votes
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Fruit Tart

Prettiest and yummiest fruit tart you will ever make! Sweet, buttery, and perfect for spring and summer parties, holidays or get togethers.

10 Fruit Tart Recipe

Dessert Fruit Tart Recipe
Total Time: 50 minutes
5 from 19 votes
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Lemon Sugar Cookies

These Lemon Sugar Cookies are buttery and soft, with the perfect hint of lemon. The lemon frosting makes them over the top delicious. A perfect cookie recipe for lemon lovers!

11 Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipe

Dessert Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipe
Total Time: 30 minutes
4.99 from 118 votes
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Easter Chick Cupcakes

Easter Chick Cupcakes are the cutest and most simple Easter treat made with Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs (a favorite Easter candy).

12 Easter Chick Cupcakes Recipe

Dessert Easter Chick Cupcakes Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes
5 from 10 votes
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Lemon Sheet Cake

This super moist and delicious Lemon Sheet Cake recipe topped off with a tasty lemon buttercream frosting is our new favorite dessert, and it’s perfect for feeding a crowd!

13 Lemon Sheet Cake Recipe

Dessert Lemon Sheet Cake Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes
4.85 from 51 votes
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Strawberry Shortcake

Light and refreshing, this classic old fashioned dessert is perfect for spring and summer! Strawberry Shortcake is simple, beautiful, and incredibly delicious.

14 Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

Dessert Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
Total Time: 34 minutes
5 from 6 votes
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Easter Basket Cookie Cups

Peanut butter Easter Basket Cookie Cups are filled with homemade buttercream frosting and topped with festive Easter egg candies.

15 Easter Basket Cookie Cups Recipe

Dessert Easter Basket Cookie Cups Recipe
Total Time: 20 minutes
4.92 from 24 votes
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Lime Sheet Cake

Perfectly moist lime cake, topped with a homemade lime buttercream frosting, and sprinkled with lime zest! Just the right balance of citrus and sweet in this yummy sheet cake. It’s easy, refreshing, and great for feeding a crowd!

16 Lime Cake Recipe

Dessert Lime Cake Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes
4.97 from 29 votes
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Chiffon Cake

Chiffon cake is moist and airy-like sponge cake with delicate flavor. our version is light and is topped with a citrusy frosting with berries.

17 Chiffon Cake Recipe

Dessert Chiffon Cake Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
5 from 10 votes
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Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes

Sweet & tangy Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes start with fluffy, moist lemon cupcakes and are topped with a fresh strawberry frosting!

18 Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes

These Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes are so pretty and perfect for spring or summer. They start with fluffy, moist lemon cupcakes. Then they're topped with strawberry frosting made from fresh berries!
Dessert Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes
Total Time: 25 minutes
4.69 from 29 votes
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Pineapple Upside DOwn Cake

Pineapple upside down cake is a classic dessert that is so soft and moist, filled with the perfect amount of pineapple flavor!

19 Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe

Dessert Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe
Total Time: 45 minutes
4.91 from 65 votes
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Lemon Bars With Cake Mix

Lemon Bars with Cake Mix take a classic and make it even simpler!! It’s still a little tart and a little sweet, and perfectly delish.

20 Lemon Bars with Cake Mix Recipe

Dessert Lemon Bars with Cake Mix Recipe
Total Time: 47 minutes
5 from 53 votes
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Angel Food Cake

This tender, light as air angel food cake is a must-try! With the perfect amount of sweetness, it’s perfect to enjoy all year long.

21 Angel Food Cake Recipe

Dessert Angel Food Cake Recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes
5 from 13 votes
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EASY SPRING DESSERTs

Easy and delicious, these are sure to be go-to sweets and treats during spring!

Lemon Blossoms

Bright and tasty Lemon Blossoms are a delicious bite-size lemon treat topped with homemade lemon glaze. They are utterly addicting!

22 Lemon Blossoms Recipe

Dessert Lemon Blossoms Recipe
Total Time: 20 minutes
4.91 from 20 votes
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Easter Oreo Bark

Easter Oreo Bark is a festive, simple and delicious treat that only takes 5 minutes to put together! It includes vanilla candy coating, Easter M&M’s, Oreos, and sprinkles!

23 Easter Oreo Bark Recipe

Dessert Easter Oreo Bark Recipe
Total Time: 36 minutes
4.94 from 15 votes
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Lemon Cupcakes

Moist & bright Lemon Cupcakes with a delicious homemade lemon cream frosting are the perfect summer dessert!!

24 Lemon Cupcakes Recipe

Dessert Lemon Cupcakes Recipe
Total Time: 36 minutes
5 from 8 votes
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Easy Carrot Cake

This Carrot Cake is super moist, packed with big carrot cake flavor & slathered with tangy cream cheese frosting. Made as a sheet cake, it’s super easy and perfect for Easter!

25 Carrot Cake Recipe

Dessert Carrot Cake Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes
5 from 18 votes
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Cheesecake Strawberries

These creamy cheesecake stuffed strawberries are filled with a sweet cream cheese filling and topped with crushed graham crackers!

26 Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries Recipe

Dessert, Snack Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes
5 from 19 votes
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Neiman Marcus Cake

Neiman Marcus Cake – if you’ve ever had this before, you know how INCREDIBLE the pecan and coconut crust is, with a gooey cream cheese batter layer on top! AMAZING!!

27 Neiman Marcus Cake Recipe

Dessert Neiman Marcus Cake Recipe
Total Time: 42 minutes
4.95 from 19 votes
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Easter Cookies

Chewy and chocolatey Easter cookies are perfect for spring. They are packed with M&M and white chocolate goodness.

28 Easter Cookie Recipe

Dessert Easter Cookie Recipe
Total Time: 17 minutes
5 from 25 votes
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Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs

Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs are a simple version of a classic. Fluffy cake and strawberries are drizzled in melted vanilla candy coating! 

29 Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs Recipe

Dessert Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes
5 from 13 votes
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Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Topped with a heavenly brown sugar cream cheese frosting, these moist Carrot Cake cupcakes have just the right amount of spice, and will be perfect for any Spring or Easter celebrations!

30 Carrot Cake Cupcake Recipe

Dessert Carrot Cake Cupcake Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes
4.97 from 59 votes
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Easy Lemon Bars

These classic Lemon Bars are simple, delicious, and sweet, with just the right amount of tart! Add a bit of powdered sugar, and these easy lemon bars are irresistible!

31 Lemon Bar Recipe

Dessert Lemon Bar Recipe
Total Time: 50 minutes
5 from 111 votes
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Resurrection Rolls

Resurrection rolls are a special Easter tradition. They are a simple and sweet lesson of love.

32 Resurrection Rolls Recipe

Bread Resurrection Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes
5 from 41 votes
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Rice Krispie Easter Nests

Cute and simple Easter rice krispies, topped with creamy frosting and Easter egg candies, made to look like a nest. Everyone loves these adorably festive Rice Krispie Easter Nests!

33 Rice Krispie Easter Nests Recipe

Dessert Rice Krispie Easter Nests Recipe
Total Time: 42 minutes
4.92 from 24 votes
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Fruit pizza cookies

With a sugar cookie base, these Fruit Pizza Cookies are individual-sized versions of a classic favorite. They’re fresh and customizable!!

34 Fruit Pizza Cookie Recipe

Dessert Fruit Pizza Cookie Recipe
Total Time: 18 minutes
5 from 17 votes
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Sugar Cookie Blossoms

Sugar Cookie Blossoms are a chewy, soft sugar cookie rolled in sugar and topped with a Mint Meltaway candy. They’re simple and delicious!

35 Sugar Cookie Blossoms Recipe

Dessert Sugar Cookie Blossoms Recipe
Total Time: 17 minutes
5 from 7 votes
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Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies

Quick and easy Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies are festive and fun, perfect for a birthday party or celebration!

36 Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies Recipe

Dessert Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
Total Time: 48 minutes
5 from 5 votes
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Easter Chocolate Covered Strawberries

These Chocolate Covered Strawberries are dipped and drizzled in orange candy melts to look like adorable little carrots for Easter! Pair them with crushed Oreos and chocolate pudding for a cute dirt cup Easter dessert.

37 Easter Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipe

Dessert Easter Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipe
Total Time: 20 minutes
5 from 8 votes
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Blueberry Dump Cake

This easy blueberry dump cake is made with only 3 ingredients! With a layer of juicy blueberry pie filling and a buttery topping, it’s perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

38 Blueberry Dump Cake Recipe

Dessert Blueberry Dump Cake Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
5 from 12 votes
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Hard to Pick a Favorite!

We sure love ALL of the scrumptious Spring Desserts listed above – it’s so hard to pick a favorite! You’re sure to find the perfect treat to make your Easter celebration or any other Springtime get-together even sweeter!

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