It wouldn’t be a proper holiday without one (or more!) of these conversation-stopping Easter cakes, cupcakes, pies, tarts, and other celebrations of spring.
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: Sarah Kieffer
1/18
This towering traditional Easter bread bedecked with icing and sprinkles is easily recognizable. A hint of cardamom and saffron along with a dreamily delicate texture are what leave a lasting impression.
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Victoria Sponge Cake
: Cristian Barnett
2/18
This cake, a nod not just to Queen Victoria but British sensibility, defines the very notion of simple yet sophisticated.
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Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie
: Debbie Carlos
3/18
Strange how such a sweetly stunning sensation can be just sugar, cream, flour, and vanilla. Couldn't be easier—or more enticing.
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Ina Garten's Lemon Cake
: mpessaris
4/18
Know when you taste something and can't help but pause and sigh with content? This subtly sweet lemon cake does that to us each and every darn time.
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Crystallized Flowers
: Sue Stubbs
5/18
Because mom loves flowers, sweets, and beautifiul things. Can you just imagine these delicate little lovelies strewn across her fave cake?!
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Coconut Cupcakes
: Alexander Grablewski
6/18
Kids can't resist these sweet little somethings. That includes the kid in all of us.
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Hummingbird Cake
: Peter Frank Edwards
7/18
This Southern classic is an oh so sweet and charming stack of pineapple, coconut, bananas, and pecans slathered with cream cheese frosting.
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Coconut Panna Cotta
: Armando Rafael Moutela
8/18
"The easiest panna cotta I have made." "Absolutely delicious." "Very dangerous." That's what folks are saying about this dessert.
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Lemon Meringue Tart
: Rita Klimenko
9/18
Let loose with some fanciful flourishes in fashioning this lovely lemon meringue pie-inspired tart with a nutty crust, a creamy lemon curd, and billows of meringue.
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Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake
: Alison Conklin
10/18
Dubbed Company's Comin' Coconut Cake, this beauty of a pound cake will have you dreaming up excuses to bake dessert. Even if for no other reason than you want it.
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Chess Pie
: Hélène Dujardin
11/18
If in the beginning there was pie, it was probably chess pie seeing as it comes together soooooo simply from pantry staples.
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Classic Shortbread Cookies
: Lara Holmes
12/18
Tender and delicate and buttery and spectacularly simple, just as classic shortbread cookies ought to be.
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Coconut Cream Pie
: Leigh Beisch
13/18
A retro classic with a velvety coconut custard buried beneath billows of sweet, luscious, airy meringue and cushioned by a tender, flaky, buttery lard crust. You're welcome.
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Cream-Filled Meringue Cookies
: Tessa Traeger
14/18
These perfect little meringue cookies sandwich a dreamy whipped cream filling and are so airy they literally dissipate into nothing but loveliness.
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Coconut Angel Food Cake
: Sara Remington
15/18
Not just the stuff of sweet memories, angel food cake is still in fashion—and still fashionably simple to whip up. Truly heaven sent.
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Coconut Crème Brûlée Tart
: Lucy Schaeffer
16/18
This luscious, silken, subtly flavored coconut tart is topped with a delicate burnt-sugar crust borrowed from crème brûlée, that shatters when sliced.
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Hot Cross Buns
: Aimee Herring
17/18
Traditionally sold in bakeries on Good Friday, hot cross buns are little currant-filled rolls that are slightly sweet and richly tender and oh so hard to resist. And even better when made at home.
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Lemon Meringue Pie
: Staci Valentine
18/18
An almost-but-not-quite-classic rendition of lemon meringue pie that's a lot less effort than you’d expect. And more payback than you can imagine in terms of its perfectly balanced sweetly tart lemon custard.
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