Here are the best sweet treats to make when the warmer days of spring arrives. You will love these simple Easy Spring Dessert Recipes all season long - and into summer. These desserts are the best for enjoying yummy seasonal fruits, berries, & colorful pastels that all scream spring.
Once spring has sprung, I dream about anything with lemon, lime, blueberries, strawberries, apricots, pineapple and more. Whether I bake something from scratch, for the Easter holiday, or churn up one of my many recipes for homemade ice cream this can be the sweetest of all the seasons.
This collection of simple desserts features family favorites. They range from simple make-ahead desserts that feed a crowd to cozy comforting baked goods that are amazing fresh from the oven.
I guarantee you will find many new sweets to enjoy. Discover how to eat seasonally even when it comes to the final course of your meal. I am including cookies, cakes, cobblers, pies, ice creams, candies, & no-bake desserts.
Here are my Top 20+ EASY SPRING DESSERTS!
Raspberry Lemon Loaf
This moist & sweet raspberry lemon loaf is the ultimate spring cake recipe. It's great for breakfast, snack, or dessert. Bursting with fresh berries & amazing citrus flavor the combination is hard to resist. An easy one-bowl recipe that tastes better than a slice from Starbucks.
Raspberry Lemon Loaf
Cake Mix Strawberry Brownies
Strawberry brownies made from cake mix are a fun & colorful dessert that is so simple to make. Just 3 ingredients for chewy pink brownies. A great recipe for Easter, Spring, pink-themed parties, birthdays, showers, & Mother's Day.
Cake Mix Strawberry Brownies
Cherry White Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best chewy Cherry White Chocolate Chip Cookies are fun, fruity, & pretty. Loaded with red sweet maraschino cherries, tons of rich white chocolate, & a yummy pink cookie dough for a colorful dessert or snack everyone will fall in love with. The easy recipe is great for Valentine's Day & holidays.
Cherry White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cadbury Mini Egg Cookie Bars
These soft chewy cookie bars are loaded with Cadbury mini eggs & chocolate chips. Great for before or after Easter when you can't get enough of the milk chocolate coated in colorful pastel candy shells. This holiday dessert is so easy and feeds a crowd.
Cadbury Mini Egg Cookie Bars
Soft Italian Lemon Ricotta Cookies
For soft Italian ricotta cookies with a hint of lemon, this classic recipe is the best. This traditional cookie served often at Christmas or Easter is amazing any time of year. The small cake-like cookie has a sweet lemon glaze and crunchy nonpareil sprinkles.
Soft Italian Lemon Ricotta Cookies
Bunny Rabbit Easter Cookies
Adorable cottontail rabbit cookie recipe is great for Easter, holidays, and parties. The vanilla sugar cookie with a darling marshmallow bunny tail is decorated with sugar or coconut. The no spread cookies to hold their shapes. So yummy, soft, chewy, & brightly colored for a fun & tasty dessert.
Bunny Rabbit Easter Cookies
Strawberries & Cream Cookie Bars
Thick & chewy strawberries and cream cookie bars are a delightful recipe everyone will love. These colorful cookies with chewy strawberry pieces, white morsels, and more are rich, buttery, & gooey. These make a great spring or summer dessert.
Strawberry & Cream Cookie Bars
Green Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies
This quick & easy recipe for Green Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies is a St Patrick's Day and Christmas dessert favorite. The colorful cookies are soft, chewy, & sweet.
Green Cake Mix Cookies
Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
This fun & easy recipe for sugar cookies with sprinkles is a colorful dessert everyone loves. The soft & chewy cookies are loaded with nonpareils for a crunchy rainbow treat. The simple sprinkle cookie recipe is the best for birthday parties, Christmas, Easter, holidays, pride month, & celebrations.
Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
Ritz Cracker Toffee Cookies
If you love Christmas Crack, try this easy recipe for Ritz Cracker Toffee Cookies. They're sweet, salty, & chocolatey. The best holiday treat with just 4 ingredients and takes only 15 minutes of cooking time.
Ritz Cracker Toffee Cookies
Fruity Pebbles Cereal Bars
Instead of Rice Krispies treats, make this easy recipe for the best colorful Fruity Pebbles cereal bars. The squares are chewy, gooey, crunchy, & tasty. Top with a drizzle of vanilla candy melts for the ultimate sweet treats.
Fruity Pebbles Cereal Bars
Lemon Icebox Cake
The best summer no-bake dessert. Creamy & cool Lemon IceBox Cake is a great sweet treat. It takes just 10 minutes to prep & feeds a crowd.
Lemon IceBox Cake
Fresh Strawberry Mousse Parfait
Fresh strawberry mousse is an easy parfait dessert. It’s light and healthy with mounds of yummy berry whipped cream and puree layer making for a great no-bake recipe.
Fresh Strawberry Mousse Parfait
North Carolina Lemon Pie
The sweet-tart combo of North Carolina lemon pie has a saltine cracker crust with a creamy lemon curd filling all topped with fresh whipped cream. Enjoy a big cold slice of this chilled pie all summer. This Southern classic dessert is a copycat of the famous Atlantic Beach pie from Crooks' Corner in Chapel Hill. This easy pie bakes in just 30 minutes and is a great make-ahead recipe.
North Carolina Lemon Pie (aka Atlantic Beach Pie)
Raspberry Cream Jell-O Pie
This easy no-bake dessert is a summer favorite. The 3-ingredient JellO pie is creamy, cool, & sweet. Serve slices cold after chilling in the fridge overnight. This foolproof recipe will set, slice easily, & can be made with any flavor of gelatin. Best make ahead treat for birthday parties & BBQ cookouts.
No-Bake Raspberry Cream Jell-O Pie
Easy 4-Ingredient Key Lime Pie
This easy 4-ingredient key lime pie recipe is a slice of heaven. The creamy filling is tart, sweet, tangy, & the perfect summer dessert.
Easy 4-Ingredient Key Lime Pie
Easy Apricot Galette
The best quick & simple fresh fruit dessert. It's sweet, tart, & yummy. Bake this 30-minute easy apricot galette recipe with a flaky pie crust all summer long.
Easy Apricot Galette
Easy Blueberry Cobbler
This simple old-fashioned recipe for blueberry cobbler is so easy. It has a classic southern biscuit topping & fresh blueberries bursting with the perfect sweet tart combination. Serve it warm with vanilla ice cream for the best summer dessert.
Easy Blueberry Cobbler
Strawberry Peach Cobbler
Homemade peach and strawberry cobbler made in a cast-iron skillet is a classic American recipe. Fresh fruit and a biscuit topping make this the best old-fashioned dessert. It is easy to make all in one pan from stovetop to oven. Top with ice cream for cobbler ala mode - the best summer dessert ever!
Old-Fashioned Strawberry Peach Skillet Cobbler
Berry Crisp with Steel Cut Oats
This berry crisp with steel cut oats is sweet, tart, crunchy, & chewy. The simple easy recipe is a fun twist on a classic Southern dessert.
Berry Crisp
Blueberry Ice Cream
Homemade blueberry ice cream is the best spring frozen dessert. This easy recipe takes a wonderful vanilla ice cream base and adds luscious fresh berries for a sweet tasty summer treat.
Blueberry Ice Cream
Best Ever Mango Ice Cream (with Ice Cream Maker)
Homemade mango ice cream is the best ever creamy frozen dessert. This tasty recipe takes a wonderful vanilla ice cream base and adds luscious fresh mango for the easiest mango ice cream.
Mango Ice Cream
Shamrock Shake Ice Cream
Tastes & looks just like the McDonald's St. Patrick's Day favorite. This easy Shamrock Shake Ice Cream recipe is minty, green, & irresistible. The cool & creamy sweet treat is a holiday favorite.
Shamrock Shake Ice Cream
How to Make Tanghulu (Chinese Candied Fruit)
This easy recipe for beloved Chinese street food, tanghulu, couldn't be more fun or tasty. Skewered fresh fruit on bamboo sticks coated in simple sugar syrup and then set to harden. The candied outer shell is great crunchy and cracks open when you bit into it. The sweet shell is paired with tart or sweet fruits like strawberries, oranges, pineapple, and more.
How to Make Tanghulu
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