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The Ultimate List of Easter Cupcake Ideas

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What is it about cupcakes?  Is it the fact that slicing and dicing isn’t necessary?  Maybe it is the fact that little hands can easily hold their own?

Could it possibly be the fact that they are like full-sized cakes but in a mini size?  Mini is awesome… have you seen the mini donkeys? Anyway!

This Easter, go mini!  With this Ultimate List of Easter Cupcake Ideas, you should be able to bring dessert to every Easter function with no overlap! Great cupcake recipes for all!

Plus, if your kids are anything like mine, they will find these adorable Easter Cupcakes FUN as well as yummy.  You will get that Mom of the Year Award yet!

Easter Cupcake Ideas - perfect dessert recipes

With three super active boys, I am all about finger foods and plate free food choices.  Cupcakes are the perfect dessert for kids that just want to hunt eggs, and hide them, and hunt them again, and hide them again…. AHHHH!

Check out these Easy Easter Recipes you’ll love!

Over 30 Easter Cupcake Ideas:

Nothing is cuter at Easter time than these adorable bunny cupcakes from us at 3 Boys and a Dog. Kids and adults will be delighted and charmed when you bring this treat to your next gathering. Includes FREE PRINTABLE cupcake toppers!

These Peeps Cupcakes at Cincy Shopper are super bright and colorful, plus they are adorable and fairly easy to pull off. Score! My kind of recipe. 🙂

Loving these easy Easter Basket Cupcakes with coconut grass and jelly bean eggs from Rock-A-Bye Parents. Whip up a batch and let the kids decorate them for an even easier dessert.

This Mama Loves has a new take on the Hiding Bunny Cupcakes. All the ones I have seen are bottom up, these are adorable with the ears poking out!

Sometimes, we need adorable that takes virtually no effort. These Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes from Slap Dash Mom fit that bill! I LOVE how adorable (and EASY) these Easter Cupcakes are!

The eggs on this Delicious Easter Cupcake really make this simple cupcake from Food N Service super cute! I am a huge icing fan, so this big glob of it is right up my alley!

These Easter Bunny Cupcakes from Raking in the Savings are a super fun way to make a simple yet tasty and adorable treat for Easter. Psst… they start with a boxed cake mix!

These Easter Chick Cupcakes from Val Event Gal are one of the most brilliant Easter Cupcake Ideas for our entire list. How cute and different than the average bunny. LOVE!

Over 30 Easter Cupcakes - Dessert Recipe Ideas

Like Rice Krispie Treats? You will love these super cute Easter Chick Rice Krispie Treat Cupcake Toppers from Crystal and Company!

Or Maybe you want Cadbury Creme Egg-Filled Easter Cupcakes instead? This recipe from The Mommyhood Life look delicious and the kids will love finding a treat inside their cupcakes!

Maybe Cadbury Eggs & Chocolate Buttercream are more your thing? I mean really, Cadbury Eggs are all the rage at Easter, at least according to Saving You Dinero, so make sure to choose your favorite Cadbury Egg Cupcake recipe from the list!

These Pink-Eared Bunny Cupcakes from This Mama Loves are just too adorable! I bet my kids would enjoy them and my Parents would be proud of me for making them. LOL!

You know what’s better than just eating the Cadbury mini eggs themselves? According to The Best Ideas for Kids, eating them on a mini Cadbury Egg Cupcake with coconut and icing!

I just love the bunny behind cupcakes around the web, but these Bunny Butt Cupcakes from Spend with Pennies are the cutest I have seen!

OOOH! I am in love with these adorable Sheep Cupcakes from This Mama Loves! How super cute?

“Yummy chocolate cupcakes covered in ganache and crushed Oreos and topped with a white chocolate covered strawberry.” What a super fancy way for Something Swanky to say Carrots in Dirt Cupcakes – but her description sounds amazing, right?

Over 30 Easter Cupcake Recipes

These beautiful Pastel Snowball Cupcakes from Baking Moment are exactly that… BEAUTIFUL! They make me think of a big mound of easter grass or a snowcone.

The Sweetest Occasion has blown me away with these Cotton Candy Bird Nest Cupcakes for Easter! I can’t even with these, or real. I might sound all Valley, but you will too when you see them! Just WOW!

In my neck of the woods, it just wouldn’t be Easter without Carrot Cake – that is why I simply have to include this gorgeous Carrot Cake Cupcake Recipe from Lil’ Luna.

Oh My! The Cupcake Project is so creative. I would have NEVER thought to make Cupcakes inside of an Easter Egg. This is a fun and brilliant idea for Easter.

These simple Butterfly Cupcakes from This Mama Loves just scream spring and Easter to me. How about you?

Prefer some chocolate on your pretzels? These Spring Butterfly Cupcakes from Thrifty Jinxy will be more up your alley, then!

Need something a bit lighter? Skinny Taste hooks us up with these Skinny Coconut Cupcakes that are the perfect way to have some sweet this Easter without all the sugar.

I love my AirFryer, but have never once considered making dessert in it – well until I ran across this Airfryer Lemon Tie Dye Cupcakes recipe at Recipe This!

30+ Easter Cupcakes - The Ultimate List of Easter Cupcake Ideas

Dancing Through the Rain might be the best blog name ever and the writer didn’t stop her creativity with the blog name! These Spring Flower Cupcakes are awesome! I would have NEVER thought of these Easter Cupcake Ideas, but I love them.

These gorgeous Spring Flower Cupcakes from Its a Keeper are sure to make the girls in your life happy this Easter! You could use different color frostings to make an entire garden of flowers, too!

I thought these Easter Chick Cupcakes at Amanda’s Cookin’ were made using peeps. I was so wrong! Adorable! I bet I could make these, too!

Dress up your cupcakes for a sweet little Easter treat following this Simple Easter Egg Cupcakes Recipe from Ann’s Entitled Life.

I am completely in love with these Funfetti Surprise Cupcakes from Flour on my Face. This year, Easter and April Fool’s Day fall on the same day… this is a fun little fool to pull on your kids! PLus, no harm, no foul if you do this one.

According to the Thrifty DIY Diva, these super cute Chocolate Chick Cupcakes are just what the Easter Bunny ordered! These are very easy to make – don’t let the chocolate chicks on top intimidate you!

I love to stumble upon easy Easter Cupcake Ideas that my “all thumbs” boys can make. These Flower Cupcake Design (Easy Easter Cupcake Decorations) from Cleverly Simple are, well… cleverly simple! 🙂

These Easy Carrot Patch Cupcakes from One Little Project are too cute. More than that, oh my they are yummy! Who doesn’t love chocolate covered strawberries? Oh! I’ve said too much! 🙂

delicious list of Easter Cupcake Ideas - perfect dessert recipes

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More Easter Dessert Recipe Ideas:

If the above 30+ Easter Cupcake Ideas are not enough, or you just can’t find what you want to make, check out the following Easter Dessert Ideas.

Any of the desserts from this list of Hundreds of Different Dessert Recipes to Make can be made for your Easter gathering.

Spaceships and Laser Beams is my one stop shop for party ideas!  She has created a list of Over 20 Desserts Using Peeps for this Easter.

Katie, at Premeditated Leftovers, has gathered a list of 20 Gluten Free Easter Desserts for you!

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jennifer

Thursday 17th of May 2018

In images, cupcakes are looking so yummy, and thanks for sharing this post.

Miz Helen

Monday 2nd of April 2018

Hope you had a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for sharing your special post with us at Full Plate Thursday! Have a great week and come back soon! Miz Helen

Sheri

Monday 2nd of April 2018

Love these! Pinned! Thanks for sharing at the To Grandma's House We Go DIY, Crafts, Recipes and More Link Party. Hope to see you again this week!

Kimberly Baxter

Monday 2nd of April 2018

Great ideas! I’ve pinned this post!

Anna

Monday 2nd of April 2018

Thanks for sharing your recipes of Easter cupcakes, aside from it's colorful appearance, it is surely delicious...