Easter Desserts - Cake Journal

Easter is right around the corner, so why not celebrate with these 4 Spring inspired desserts? These treats are a perfect fit for your Easter celebration and are too tasty and adorable to pass up. You’ll have your whole family drooling over these delectable Easter desserts. These Easter dessert recipes will impress all of your peers. They’ll be asking for the secret trick, and lucky for you, you’ll already have the inside scoop.

If you have a sweet tooth or a knack for baking these Easter dessert ideas will have you in the kitchen because you won’t be able to resist these recipes. Today’s recipes include: Cadbury Egg Brownies (they taste as good as they sound), Carrot Patch Cupcakes (made with chocolate-covered strawberries, yum), Chocolate Bird’s Nests (that resemble a real bird’s nest), and Flower Pretzel Bites (perfect bite-size treats you don’t have to feel bad about eating). All of these recipes are relatively easy to make. You can make this into a perfect Easter Sunday activity for you and the family, and you’ll have delicious Spring inspired treats as a finished product! Of course you don’t have to wait until Easter to make these treats. These are great ideas for the Spring season in its entirety. So let’s jump right into these 4 Easter Desserts.

Cadbury Egg Brownies

For the brownies:

1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/3 cocoa powder
1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt

For the filling:

1/2 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
3 cups powder sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
yellow food coloring

For the frosting:

6 cups powder sugar
10 tbsp. cocoa powder
10 tbsp. evaporated milk
3/4 cup (1 1/2 stick) butter
2 tsp. vanilla

(P.S. the measurements for the frosting are large because we made enough for the brownies and Carrot Patch cupcakes. You can half this recipe if you are only making one of the treats.)

Preheat your oven to 350°F and coat your square pan in baking spray.
With a hand or stand mixer beat the sugar, eggs, butter and vanilla until creamy. Add in the cocoa powder, flour, baking powder and salt gradually.
Spread batter into pan and bake for 25 minutes.
While your brownies are baking prepare the filling and frosting. For the filling, combine the corn syrup, butter, and vanilla with a hand mixer or stand mixer. Gradually add in the powder sugar and mix until creamy.
Transfer 1/2 of the filling into another bowl. Add a few drops of yellow food coloring into one of the bowls with the filling. Now you will have a bowl of white filling and a bowl of yellow filling.
For the frosting, sift the powder sugar and the cocoa powder together. Set aside.
Cream your butter with a mixer. Add in the butter, vanilla and evaporated milk. Once fully combined, gradually add in the powder sugar and cocoa powder mixture.
Once your brownies are done, spread the yellow filling on top of the brownies and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Then spread the white filling on top of the yellow filling and refrigerate for another 15 minutes.
Microwave the chocolate frosting for 30 seconds and spread it evenly on top of the white filling. Refrigerate for another 15 minutes. Cut into squares and serve.

Carrot Patch Cupcakes

What you need:

Pre-made chocolate cupcakes (here’s our recipe)
Chocolate frosting (see above for frosting recipe)
1/2 package Oreos, creme removed and crushed
Strawberries, washed and dried
2 tsp. coconut oil
1 bag of white chocolate chips
Orange food coloring

Microwave the coconut oil for 30 seconds and add it to the white chocolate. Microwave the chocolate and coconut oil for 30 seconds. Stir and microwave for another 30 seconds.
Add a few drops of orange food coloring to the chocolate and stir until chocolate is orange.
Dip the strawberries into the chocolate and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Allow the chocolate to harden or put it in the fridge for a few minutes.
Core a small hole in the center of the chocolate cupcakes.
Frost the cupcakes with the chocolate frosting. Avoid the center of the circle when frosting.
Add the Oreo crumbs on top of the frosting to replicate dirt.
Place the strawberry in the center of the cupcake.
Repeat for all cupcakes and serve!

Chocolate Bird’s Nests

What you need:

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
4 cups mini marshmallows
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
4 cups chow mein noodles
Mini Cadbury Eggs

In a medium sauce pan, melt the butter. Once melted add the marshmallows and stir. Add in the chocolate chips and peanut butter. Stir until the mixture is light brown and completely melted.
Remove the mixture from heat. Add the chow mein noodles to the chocolate mixture and mix until all of the noodles are fully coated in the chocolate.
Form the mixture into 2 inch balls and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Immediately, (because the balls will harden quickly), with the back of a spoon, indent the center and place 3 mini Cadbury Eggs in the center and you’re done!

Flower Pretzel Bites

What you need:

Mini pretzels snaps
1 bag of white chocolate chips
Easter (pastel) M&M’s

Lay out the pretzels on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Melt the white chocolate and scoop it into a ziplock bag. Cut the corner of the ziplock bag to make a make-shift piping bag.
Place a dot of white chocolate in the center of a pretzel. Immediately place one M&M in the center, then 5 more around it. Use one color for the 5 “petals” that is different than the center M&M. Keep the “M” side of the M&M down for good looking “flowers.”
Let them harden and serve!