15 Easy Spring Desserts for Parties, Brunch & Gatherings

These easy spring desserts are perfect for seasonal gatherings, brunches, and celebrations. From fresh fruit desserts and nostalgic favorites to simple cakes and no-bake treats, this collection features crowd-pleasing sweets that are easy to make and perfect for spring entertaining.

A collage of four spring desserts including strawberry pie, carrot cake and lemon cheesecake.

Spring is the perfect excuse to bring out the fresh fruit desserts, nostalgic treats, and easy sweets that everyone loves.

A lemon cheesecake topped with lemon curd on a white cake plate.

Creamy Lemon Cheesecake with Lemon Curd

This lemon cheesecake with lemon curd is smooth, creamy, and perfectly balanced with bright citrus flavor. Includes tested tips for water baths, cooling, and easy release, plus make-ahead instructions.

Lemon Cheesecake

A carrot cake on a cake stand with a slice cut out that is on a plate.

Best Ever Carrot Cake and Easy Cream Cheese Icing

Easy homemade moist carrot cake with pineapple is chock full of healthy carrots, raisins, and pecans. The recipe also includes a simple, decadent, luscious, and velvety smooth cream cheese frosting.

Carrot Cake

Blueberry delight on a white plate with a fork.

Blueberry Delight – A Quick and Easy Blueberry Dessert

Enjoy the deliciousness of a decadent blueberry dessert with none of the work with my delightful Blueberry Delight recipe made with fresh blueberries. It's the perfect dessert for big and little kids.

Blueberry Delight

A stack of three homemade copycat kit kat bars and a glass of milk

Homemade Copycat Kit Kat Bars Recipe

This recipe for Homemade Copycat Kit Kat Bars is probably one of the easiest and most fun recipes on my blog. These morsels are a candy bar miracle! Waverly wafers (club crackers) are combined with graham cracker crumbs, peanut butter, butterscotch, and chocolate chips to make a delicious and whimsical bar cookie which tastes almost like a Kit Kat candy bar.

Kit Kat Bars

Confectioner's sugar being sifted on Luscious Southern Meyer Lemon Bars

Meyer Lemon Bars Recipe

Luscious Southern Meyer Lemon Bars are fresh as sunshine and full of Vitamin C! This easy family-friendly lemon bar dessert recipe is made with Meyer lemons!

Meyer Lemon Bars

A slice of old-fashioned sour cream pound cake topped with whipped cream and sliced strawberries.

Minnie Lee Croley’s Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe

Minnie Lee Croley’s Southern Sour Cream Pound Cake is an easy to make from scratch, delicious, old-fashioned moist pound cake with a thick, crunchy crust.

Sour Cream Pound Cake

A whole Chocolate Raspberry Tart cut into slices, ready to serve.

Easy Chocolate Raspberry Tart Recipe (No-Bake)

My easy, no-bake Chocolate Raspberry Tart is the ultimate dessert for the chocolate lovers in your life. The decadently rich chocolate ganache filling, made with semi-sweet chocolate, is truffle-like in its consistency and delivers intense chocolate flavor with each bite.

Chocolate Raspberry Tart

A clear glass trifle dish with layers of angel food cake, strawberries and whipped cream.

Strawberry Trifle with Angel Food Cake Recipe

Strawberry Trifle with Angel Food Cake with fresh luscious strawberries, billowy whipped cream, and heavenly angel food cake is easy, elegant, and delicious!

Strawberry Trifle

Scoops of mixed berry sherbet in glass dessert dishes.

Easy Homemade Mixed Berry Sherbet

Easy Homemade Mixed Berry Sherbet is a sweet, tangy, and delicious ending to any meal. This simple fruit sherbet, made with a combination of frozen berries including strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries, is light and refreshing and just the thing to help you cool off on a hot summer evening.

Mixed Berry Sherbet

Vanilla Panna Cotta with sliced strawberries in dessert dishes.

Vanilla Panna Cotta with Strawberry Sauce Recipe

Easy to make, silky smooth, creamy Vanilla Panna Cotta topped with sliced fresh strawberries is the ultimate decadent dessert. A classic Italian dish, this recipe is made with sweetened heavy cream, a bit of sour cream, and thickened with unflavored gelatin.

Vanilla Panna Cotta

A Meyer Lemon Tart on a white serving dish.

Lemon Tart with Gingersnap Crust Recipe

With its crisp, crunchy gingersnap crust, one bite of this easy-to-make, luscious, tangy Lemon Tart will have your taste buds singing the Hallelujah chorus and wanting more.

Lemon Tart

Frozen lemonade pie topped with macerated strawberries and blueberries.

Frozen Lemonade Pie Recipe

Easy Frozen Lemonade Pie is the perfect combination of sweet and tart flavors, all wrapped up in a crunchy graham cracker crust. Light and refreshing with a sublime lemony flavor, it's a perfect no-fuss dessert that will quickly become a family favorite.

Frozen Lemonade Pie

Strawberry shortcake on a plate topped with whipped cream.

Old-Fashioned Southern Strawberry Shortcakes Recipe

With fresh red, juicy strawberries, billowy clouds of whipped cream, and crunchy old-fashioned cornmeal shortcake biscuits, this quick, and easy dessert is as beautiful as it is delicious!

Strawberry Shortcakes

Four Key Lime Mousses on a glass serving plate.

Easy Key Lime Mousse Recipe

This no-bake light-as-a-cloud mousse combines cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, frozen whipped topping, and key lime juice into a dreamy delectable light dessert that you and your family will love!

Key Lime Mousse

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Rice Krispie Bars

Indulge in the ultimate sweet treat: Peanut Butter and Chocolate Rice Krispie Bars. This no-bake dessert is a game-changer.

Rice Krispie Bars

Sweet Fruit Salads That Double as Dessert

Bonus: Check out my other spring recipe collections: 12 Easy Spring Party Food Ideas & Recipes for Casual Entertaining, 12 Easy Spring Recipes for Casual Entertaining (Fresh, Simple & Crowd-Friendly), and Spring Fling: 23 Fresh Spring Salads.

Planning a spring gathering or brunch soon? Save this collection of easy spring desserts and let me know in the comments which sweet treat you're excited to try first!

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