Easter Dessert Ideas: Egg-cellent Cupcakes and Treats

After the egg hunt, throw a party that has your guests dashing for more goodies! Set the scene with pretty balloon “flowers” and a fun banner on the wall. Then fill your dessert table with platters and baskets full of scrumptious cupcakes, cake pops, cookies and more. Browse this gallery for tons of sweet ideas that’ll have your little bunnies jumping for joy!

What's more fun than painting brightly colored Easter eggs? Eating brightly colored desserts! To create these vibrant springtime treats, start with cupcakes baked in colorful baking cups. Top with frosting and sprinkles, plant flower lollipops in each one, and cut green gummy slices for leaves. Be sure to grab one for yourself – this garden of goodies will disappear quickly!

Everyone will make a beeline to these super-fun candy flowers! To create the pretty effect, snip colorful baking cups into petal shapes and place mini cups filled with colorful sixlets on top. Visit your Party City store for an array of sixlets and other colorful candies. Your creative display will get your Easter crowd buzzing!

Peeps on a stick = fun take-home gift for everybunny! Just thread pink and yellow bunny Peeps onto skewers, then enclose them in clear bags and tie with curling ribbon for a fancy Easter treat. (Clear cello "pretzel" bags available at your Party City store.) Leave them in a basket near the door so little bunnies can find them on their way out.

Get ready for "awww!" when everyone sees your lamb cake pops on a field of candy! Start by making cake balls that are dipped in candy melt. Decorate them with pearl sprinkles for fleece and cake pop sticks for legs. For the faces, attach Jordan almonds with melted chocolate on a toothpick and use an edible marker to make dots for the eyes. Set the scene by corralling them on a dinner plate in a field of green gumballs. Special thanks to Meaghan at thedecoratedcookie.com for her baaa-rilliant styling inspiration!

They'll giggle when they discover these playful bunny ears double as napkins for your brunch – and the Easter egg "bunny faces" have treats inside! Simply layer pink and white napkins and fold around a plastic egg filled with jelly beans and little fluffy chicks. See our egg-cellent Easter Bunny Napkin How-To for step-by-step instructions. Make one for each place-setting and add to the fun by hiding a few around the house for egg hunters to find!

To make a spring-inspired edible bouquet: Roll out sugar cookie dough to ½” thickness and cut out flowers and tulips with cookie cutters. Insert oven-safe cookie sticks, bake and cool. Now, the decorating fun! Tint royal icing different colors, outline and flood each cookie, and dry overnight. Outline again with a contrasting color and add dots to the flowers with a #5 tip. Display as a bouquet with shred in a basket as shown, or stand them upright in a vase. A lovely gift!

Be inspired by the bold colors of Easter eggs when you design your table centerpiece. Place a bowl of jelly beans in a clear container and lining the outside with wide-eyed pink bunny Peeps. Kids will love the playful garden in the center that grows sweet flower lollies – enough to want to pluck them! Now that’s worth a pic on Instagram! (Find the round fruit lollies and wind-up bunny at your Party City store.)

Help the Easter Bunny make a special delivery! Bake up cupcakes in golden wrappers, then add sprinkles around the edge for grass, and green licorice (available at Party City stores) on top for a handle. Nestle a few jelly bean Easter eggs on top – and everyone can nibble on this eggstra adorable Easter dessert that's perfect for an egg hunt party!

Impress with a unique sweets idea they’ve never seen before! Marshmallows dipped in lemon yellow icing, with sugar bunny decorations and a salty pretzel handle. It's a scrumptious flavor combination – and a must-try dessert for this year's Easter brunch. See the how-to to make these super-fun treats that’ll be gobbled up before you can say “Peter Cottontail!” Mini baking cups available at your Party City store.

These have to be the cutest Easter cupcake toppers ever. Place them on "fields" of icing in different pastel shades and use fun Easter-themed cupcake baking cups. Display on a tray of pink mini gumballs and hippity, hoppity, you’re on your way. Check out the how-to for decorating details. Sweet!

A super-sweet Easter cupcake idea! To create the bunny ears, make thumb indentations on slices of large marshmallows and decorate with pink sugar sprinkles. For "teeth" use mini marshmallows, for "noses" use bits of pink rock candy, and for "fur" use white frosting with coconut flakes! Blue Sixlets are just the right size for eyes (visit your Party City store for the best candy selection). Have your little bunnies help decorate these as a fun activity for egg hunt day.

Fill a bright pink bucket with shred and standing up your pops to create a fun bouquet. Be sure to put something heavy like gumballs in the bottom of your bucket so it won't tip over. Making these eggstra-adorable cookies is half the fun – all it takes is a batch of cookie cutters, an icing decorating kit with tips, icing hues in spring colors and your favorite Easter-themed sprinkles. Tie on pretty polka-dot ribbon for a sweet finishing touch!

Let your party guests get the pick of the patch with these eye-catching treats that double as favors. Fill carrot treat bags with orange mini gumballs or sixlets and tie closed at the tops with green ribbon. Little bunnies can take one home as they hop on down the bunny trail!

With these cheery petit fours on their appetizer plates, grown-ups can enjoy Easter as much as the kids do! It’s easy to make these beauties: simply dip square-cut brownies in blue candy melt (available at your local Party City store) and decorate with pearl sprinkles and icing flowers. Serve in a perfectly sized tray for an impressive effect.

An adorable centerpiece and a super-fun DIY project! To create this colorful arrangement, start with an Easter basket and fill it with Styrofoam or floral foam. Wrap skewers with green curling ribbon, using polka-dot ribbon for leaves. Insert the skewers into the bottoms of plastic Easter eggs and stand them up in the foam base (shop below for plastic eggs with air holes that are perfect for this idea). Add green gumballs for "grass" and tie on fluffy pink ribbons. Eggstra pretty!