Dessert ideas for Easter celebrations (2024)

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What flavors are associated with Easter? ›

Spices and Herbs: Fragrant spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves infuse Easter treats with warmth and nostalgia. Meanwhile, fragrant herbs such as mint, rosemary, and thyme lend freshness and depth, creating a harmonious balance of flavors.

In this roundup, you'll find a coconut-crusted rhubarb tart, a few riffs on flourless chocolate cake, a spring-y strawberry cobbler crowned with matzo streusel, and sweets like chewy almond cake and classic macaroons that'll fit right in at your Passover seder dinner and beyond.

Brioche Pascale (Easter Brioche)

The buttery brioche is sometimes studded with candied fruit or pearl sugar, adding a touch of sweetness to the meal.

​A dessert table is any offering other than the wedding and groom's cake, and can range from a variety of cupcakes to a smorgasbord of treats. Popular goodies include, cookies, tarts, brownies, macarons, and cereal treats.

Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs are on top of the world

Candy shoppers during the Easter season may buy marshmallow Peeps and chocolate bunnies in massive quantities, but more than anything, they can't get enough Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs.

Eggs – Symbolize fertility and birth. Christians perceive the egg as a resurrection of Jesus, in which the egg itself symbolizes Jesus, who rose from the tomb. Mesopotamian Christians first adopted them as an Easter food, dying them red to represent Christ's blood.

Because of this, any type of leavened bread or bread product is prohibited during Passover. These leavened products, known as chametz, include certain grain-based foods like breads, pasta, pastries, breadcrumbs, crackers, etc. Unleavened bread, aka “matzo,” traditionally takes the place of chametz during Passover.

In order to be classified as kosher, any dairy products used in the creation of desserts must be derived from kosher animals and must not contain any non-kosher derivatives. As long as those two conditions are met, milk can be used in the creation of kosher desserts.

A bean stew, lamb, olives, bitter herbs, a fish sauce, unleavened bread, dates and aromatized wine likely were on the menu at the Last Supper, says recent research into Palestinian cuisine during Jesus's time.

What's a traditional Easter menu include? The main dish for an Easter meal varies, but some typical dishes include honey-baked ham, pot roast, pork chops, and fish. Some popular side dishes include scalloped or mashed potatoes, spring vegetables, and dinner rolls.

What is the name of the Italian Easter cake? ›

Colomba, the Italian Easter Cake.

A traditional Easter meal consists of lamb, which represents innocence and humility, accompanied by fresh vegetables and potatoes. Festive cakes are, of course, also a staple ingredient for a Easter Sunday afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen.

We recommend 2-4 items per guest, but don't worry, we'll help make sure you have enough servings to go around!

For all those sweet recipes such as cakes, biscuits and hot cross buns, cinnamon, allspice, cloves and cardamom are traditional, along with Mixed Spice. For extra fragrance and flavour, try using our Fragrant Sweet Spice Blend as an aromatic substitute.

Easter Dots in Blueberry (blue), Lemon (yellow), Lime (green), Cherry (red), and Orange (orange) (introduced in 2010) Springtime Dots in Grape (purple), Mango (orange), Strawberry (pink) and Pineapple (yellow) (introduced in 2024)

First appearing in the 1890s, jelly beans quickly became a year-round penny favorite and--due to their egg-like shape--an Easter staple. Jelly beans are so commonplace that it's easy to forget that they're a modern candy engineering marvel, combining the production of two of the most important candy machine inventions.