Easter Cake Recipes Guaranteed to Steal the Show

Pineapple and coconut, key ingredients in any standard Southern hummingbird cake recipe, make their way into the batter for this spin on carrot cake. It's sure to become a new Easter dessert tradition.

Jaws will drop when you present this stunning dessert! Decadent chocolate cake is frosted with ganache and covered with another layer of chocolate before being decorated with a "nest" made out of chocolate shavings and truffle "eggs" tinted blue and dusted with metallic luster.

A couple tablespoons of muscat wine add depth of flavor to the sweet-tart rhubarb filling for this spectacular spring cake. Tie it all together with a generous dollop of freshly made whipped cream, which comes together with just two ingredients.

Citrus is a triple threat in this recipe—lemons and oranges go into the cake's batter and into the syrup that's brushed onto the cake, as well as the finishing glaze.

Take the concept of layer cake to the next level with this delectable dessert composed of 20 crepes sandwiched with lemon curd cream, and thickly topped with mascarpone cream.

Ordinary pound cake becomes special occasion-worthy when laced with fresh rosemary and brushed with homemade rosemary honey. Serve warm, if possible, with even more honey drizzled on top.

We like to think of Easter as the unofficial holiday for showing off your fresh rhubarb. Here, it's roasted until tender and used to crown a moist yogurt cake.

Each component of this heavenly dessert can be made days in advance of your Easter celebration: the light-as-air layers of meringue, the vanilla-buttermilk pastry cream, and the shards of caramel. Assemble it just before serving and finish with a generous topping of whipped cream.

Spread layers of this cardamom-spiced honey cake with creamy lemon curd and honey, then finish with a drizzle of honey, or even better, a chunk of honeycomb on top.

Why not pull out this Southern classic for Easter? It can be baked and frosted up to two days in advance and stored in the fridge. All you have to do on the day of is garnish it with DIY dried pineapple flowers.

Seeking something cool to serve your Easter guests? Try this lighter take on ice-cream sandwiches, which is especially refreshing for outdoor parties. Coconut sorbet is layered between crisp-chewy blush-pink meringues.

The kids will go gaga for this rabbit-shaped cake! It's got a cotton candy tail and ears, a jelly bean nose, espresso bean eyes, and licorice whiskers. It's one of many of our amazing animal cakes that your kids will love.

Move over pineapple—we're having some upside-down fun with rhubarb on Easter. Orange zest and juice add intrigue to the batter, and a crumb "topping" that actually ends up on the bottom of the cake gives it a satisfying crunch.

Low-fat Greek yogurt does double duty in this dessert—along with olive oil, it keeps the cake moist, and it accuentuates the thick white glaze with extra flavor. Finish with slices of Meyer lemon cooked in a little simple syrup.

Fresh ginger not only adds sweet heat to the batter of this cinnamon-spiced carrot cake, but also to the citrusy cream-cheese frosting. Multicolored candied carrot ribbons make an eye-catching final touch.

Looking for a gluten-free Easter dessert? This almond meal-based cake embellished with sugared Meyer lemons is for you.

Take crowd-pleasing chocolate cake to new heights with super festive garnishes, including a nest made out of kataifi (shredded phyllo dough), candy-coated chocolate eggs, chocolate curls, powdered sugar, and DIY crepe-paper flowers.

Using an egg-shaped pan gives this cake an extra-special presentation, but it's just as delicious if you use regular round pans. Finish with piped flowers and serve on a bed of shredded coconut.

Grated carrots give cheesecake a lovely light-orange hue and a wonderful earthy flavor. Tiny carrots crafted from marzipan make the perfect festive garnish.

You can save your fresh raspberries for a different recipe. The frozen kind works perfectly here—they're gussied up with raspberry preserves for the filling of this simple white cake.