15 Easy, Elegant Desserts to Celebrate Spring!

By Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine | Updated on April 8, 2023

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15 easy and delicious dessert recipes for spring. From tarts to cakes, these sweet treats are perfect for celebrating the season!

There are lots of reasons to celebrate this time of year. From baby and wedding showers to graduations, holidays and more, spring can be a busy time. These are our favorite spring desserts, perfect for any occasion!


lovely white frosted cake on a white cake stand and adorned with small white and yellow daises


These recipes have been tested again and again to ensure success and make you look like a kitchen rockstar. With everything from cakes to tarts, there's something for everyone. We hope you enjoy these easy and delicious recipes as much as we do!

Vanilla Malt Cake with Robins Egg Buttercream on a white cake stand garnished with jelly beans.

Vanilla Malt Cake with Robin's Egg Buttercream

A lovely cake to welcome Spring, this moist, tender Vanilla Malt Cake and the speckled Robin's Egg Buttercream come together with just one bowl, no mixer is needed! 

Ridiculously Easy Crustless Lemon Tart

What if you could make a gourmet dessert that's so ridiculously easy that it's... simply ridiculous? That's the story of this Crustless Lemon Tart! Of course, it doesn't hurt a bit that it's also ridiculously delicious, right?

Ridiculously Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

Everyone needs a super easy, super delicious carrot cake recipe in their repertoire! This recipe makes two cakes, one to enjoy and one to give away!

Vertical picture of Lemon Blueberry Shortbread BItes on a blue and white plate

Ridiculously Easy Lemon Blueberry Shortbread Bites

These melt-in-your-mouth Lemon Blueberry Shortbread Bites are crisp, buttery and super delicious. Baked in a mini muffin pan, they always come out perfectly round and are excellent for gifting with the free printable labels.

Vertical picture of strawberry jam shortbread tart on a white cake stand

Strawberry Jam Shortbread Tart

Need an impressive, delicious, easy dessert? This Strawberry Jam Shortbread Tart, with a ribbon of sweet jam and fresh berries nestled between layers of buttery crust and crisp, lemon glazed crumble, is IT!

Sugar Glazed Ricotta Bundt Cake on a white cake stand with purple flowers.

Ridiculously Easy Sugar-Glazed Ricotta Bundt Cake

A cross between the BEST cheesecake and your favorite buttery vanilla cake (with an added crisp, crunchy sugar exterior), this Sugar-Glazed Ricotta Bundt Cake is FABULOUSLY DELICIOUS! Add the fact that it's ridiculously easy to make, with just one bowl and no mixer and you've got a tried and true winner!

One-Bowl Buttermilk Cake with Raspberry Buttercream

This easy, One-Bowl Buttermilk Cake is always a huge hit with it's moist, tender crumb and incredibly delicious fresh raspberry buttercream!

Copycat Crumbl Sugar Cookies on a jade colored marble pedestal presentation plate.

Copycat Crumbl Sugar Cookies (aka Pink Cloud Cookies)

These one-bowl, no-mixer, Copycat Crumbl Sugar Cookies taste like a soft, sweet, melt-in-your-mouth, pink cloud!. The recipe comes together with just one bowl and no mixer and we're including an adorable free printable label, as these cookies are wonderful for gifting.

Vertical picture of a slice of of Lemon Curd Poppy Seed Cake garnished with small flowers on a blue and white plate

Lemon Curd Poppy Seed Cake

This easy Lemon Curd Poppy Seed Cake recipe includes a tender-crumbed, super moist white cake with a delicious lemon curd filling and icing. Make the ridiculously easy lemon curd in minutes!

Crinkly Crackly Lemon Sugar Cookies

These one-bowl, no-mixer, lemon sugar cookies have a melt-in-your-mouth texture, lots of crinkly cracks, super-crisp, sugar-coated exteriors and moist, chewy insides! There's also a burst of sunshiny lemon flavor with every bite!

Fresh Strawberry Cake with powdered sugar on a wooden cake stand

Ridiculously Easy Fresh Strawberry Cake

This one-bowl, no-mixer Fresh Strawberry Cake comes together quickly, has a tender, moist crumb and lots of fabulous fresh strawberries!

Ridiculously Easy French Almond Cookies (Gluten Free)

These one-bowl, no-mixer, gluten-free French Almond Cookies (aka Almond Cloud Cookies) are light as a feather, with a crisp meringue exterior and chewy, moist almond-y interior!

Vertical picture of Ridiculously Easy French Butter Cake on a white cake stand with flowers

Ridiculously Easy French Butter Cake

Although this French Butter Cake may have a fancy name, it's simply a delicious amalgamation of a super beloved cake made by French grandmothers and a popular American dessert called Kentucky Butter Cake. It's ridiculously easy to make as well as being moist, tender and ridiculously delicious!

French Lemon Tart (Tarte au Citron)

With a crisp, buttery coconut crust and a silky-smooth lemon filling that both come together in the microwave, this French Lemon Tart will be requested again and again!

Ridiculously Easy Scandinavian Raspberry Jam Tarts

These adorable Scandinavian Raspberry Jam Tarts are mixed up with just one bowl and no mixer needed. No one will know how easy they are as they taste as though they came from a fine, fancy European bake shop!

Thought for the day:

 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him:
"Aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!" 
But the other criminal rebuked him.
"Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence?

We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve.
But this man has done nothing wrong.
"
Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
 
Jesus answered him, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise."
Luke 23:39-43

What we're listening to for inspiration:

The Man on the Middle Cross

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