Easter is right around the corner. It’s a good time to start planning your Easter dinner menu, complete with delicious Easter desserts. If you are in search of a new recipe to try out, here are a few of my family’s favorites.
Four Yummy Easter Desserts
June’s Lemon Dessert
This is a light and fluffy dessert that has the perfect amount of lemon flavor.
Ingredients
- 20 graham crackers, crushed
- 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
- Large can evaporated milk, chilled
- 3 oz. package lemon flavored gelatin
- ½ cup margarine
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 T powdered sugar
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- ¾ tsp. cream of tartar
- 1 tsp. plain gelatin (optional)
Directions
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Crust:
- Melt margarine and stir in cracker crumbs.
- Add powdered sugar and stir well.
- Press a little more than half of this mixture into the bottom of 9 x 13 pan, and place in fridge.
Filling:
- Mix cream cheese with ½ cup sugar.
- Pour boiling water over the gelatin and stir until dissolved.
- If you want a firmer dessert, dissolve plain gelatin in 1 T cold water, and add to lemon gelatin mixture. (This step is optional)
- Add vanilla.
- Beat milk until thick.
- Add cream of tartar and continue to beat until like whipped cream, adding the other half of sugar slowly.
- Fold cream cheese and jello mixture into this milk mixture.
- Pour onto crust.
- Sprinkle remaining graham cracker crumbs on top.
Strawberry Angel Food Cake Dessert
This is a quick dessert to throw together, a yummy twist on strawberry shortcake.
Ingredients
- 1 cup cold milk
- 1 tsp. grated orange zest
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 package instant vanilla pudding mix (3.4 oz.)
- 4 cups sliced fresh strawberries
- 8 cups cubed angel food cake
Directions
- In a large bowl, beat the milk, sour cream, pudding mix, and orange zest on low speed until thickened.
- Fold in whipped cream.
- Place half of the cake cubes in a 3 quart glass bowl.
- Arrange 1/3 of the strawberries around sides of bowl and over cake.
- Top with half of the pudding mixture.
- Repeat layers once.
- Top with remaining berries.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours before serving.
Creamy Chocolate Pudding Dessert
If you have a chocolate lover in your life, they will love this dessert recipe for Easter!
Ingredients
- 20 graham crackers, crushed
- ½ cup margarine
- 3 T powdered sugar
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup cool whip
- 3 ½ cups milk
- 2 – four oz. packages of instant chocolate pudding
- Grated chocolate (optional)
Directions
Crust:
- Mix crushed graham crackers with melted margarine and powdered sugar.
- Press into 9 x 13 inch pan and refrigerate.
Filling
- Mix cream cheese, powder sugar, and cool whip.
- Spread this layer on graham cracker crust.
- Mix milk and instant chocolate pudding.
- Spread the chocolate mixer on cream cheese layer.
- Spread cool whip over chocolate mixture.
- Sprinkle with grated chocolate if desired.
Strawberry Banana Cheesecake Salad
Here is a bonus recipe that can be served with the main meal or as a dessert!
Ingredients
- 1 bag of miniature marshmallows
- 16 oz. of vanilla yogurt
- 1 regular size tub of cool whip
- 1 package of no bake cheesecake filling
- 3-4 sliced up bananas
- 1 to 2 containers of sliced up strawberries
Directions
- Stir together the marshmallows, yogurt, cool whip, and cheese cake filling.
- Mix in the strawberries and bananas.
- Best served chilled and on the same day as prepared.
Happy Easter to you and yours! Eat lots of Easter dessert!
