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Easter is nearly here, and you know what that means. It’s time for Easter egg hunts, family time, and baskets filled with pretty pastel treats. We’ve curated a list of the best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts, and chocolates this year, including the top 2024 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

what are the best gourmet easter desserts, chocolates, candy, and eggs of 2024?

Easter is nearly here, and you know what that means. It’s time for Easter baskets, egg hunts, mommy and me dressing, Sunday dinner and a little crime solving for some.

Like Halloween, Easter is a lot about sweets – albeit pretty pastel ones instead of ghoulish goodies.  So we went in search of luxury Easter confections, and we found lots of wonderful surprises.

best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts and chocolates this year, including the top 2023 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

The best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts, and chocolates this year, including the top 2024 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

From dreamy robin egg blue cakes to biscuits made to look like newborn chicks, the gourmet treats we found will satisfy practically any sweet tooth.

Here’s our round-up of 15 of the best luxury Easter desserts this year: cakes, Easter eggs, chocolates, cookies and candies. Hey – are you getting all of this down, Easter Bunny?

best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts and chocolates this year, including the top 2023 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

Our picks for the best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts, and chocolates this year, including the top 2024 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

the 15 best gourmet desserts of every kind for easter 2024

easter cakes

1. Easter Egg Three-Layer Vanilla Cake with Fresh Strawberries

How gorgeous is this dreamy Easter Egg Three-Layer Vanilla Cake with Fresh Strawberries ($89.95) from We Take the Cake? Four tiers of rich chocolate cake are layered with vanilla buttercream frosting tinted pastel pink, purple and blue, then crowned with a nest of shaved chocolate and speckled Jordan almonds.

Alt image 1 for Easter Egg Three-Layer Vanilla Cake with Fresh Strawberries, Serves 8-10

BUY NOW – $89.95.

2. Easter Basket Cake 

This Classy Easter Basket Cake is a decadent treat that doubles as a sophisticated centerpiece for your holiday dessert table. Part of the fun is decorating this Easter egg basket cake as you like, and the other part is indulging in the sweet confection. Featuring moist, yellow cake and rich buttercream icing from a generations-old recipe.

best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts and chocolates this year, including the top 2023 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

BUY NOW – $54.95.

3. Easter Bunny Carrot Cake 

Looking for a great dessert this Easter. Nothing beats this Easter Bunny Carrot Cake ($89.95)  from Duff Goldman. It is a four-layer carrot cake filled with vanilla cream cheese frosting and is decorated with white buttercream, fondant ears, and buttercream roses.  Plus, the children will love how it looks!

 

BUY NOW – $89.95.

easter cheesecakes

4. cheesecake royale spumoni cheesecake

For springtime and Easter this year, we’re loving this perfect pastel Spumoni Cheesecake ($120) from Dallas based Cheesecake Royale with layers of chocolate, cherry and pistachio atop a chocolate cookie crust, complete with maraschino cherries and pistachios.

best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts and chocolates this year, including the top 2023 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

BUY NOW – $120.00.

5. Lemon Strawberry Cheesecake 

For springtime and Easter this year, we’re loving this strawberry cheesecake filling made with premium strawberries, along with a zesty lemon cheesecake filling that’s crafted in-house with real lemon bits. Topped with a lemony white ganache and finished with a decorative strawberry-flavored coating, it is, in a word, dreamy.

best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts and chocolates this year, including the top 2023 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

BUY NOW – $54.99.

easter cupcakes and cakepops

6. georgetown cupcake hoppy easter cupcake dozen

There are lots of ways to share a smaller series of Easter cake treats. One of our favorites is the classic vanilla and chocolate cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake. Their Hoppy Easter Dozen ($64.95) includes 6 Vanilla Confetti Bunny Face cupcakes and 6 Easter Egg Hunt Chocolate cupcakes.

best luxury gourmet Easter sweets, treats, desserts and chocolates this year, including the top 2023 Easter eggs, candy, and cakes.

BUY NOW – $75.95.

7. Easter Cake Pops

These Easter Cake Pops by MIni Melanie come individually wrapped with your choice of vanilla sprinkled or chocolate.

Easter Cake Pops by Mini Melanie - Alternate image 5

BUY NOW – $74.95.

easter cookies

8. Easter Giant Personalized Assorted Sugar Cookies

Make a big splash in Easter baskets with giant vanilla sugar cookies, custom-made for someone special. The treats are prepared from scratch and hand cut into whimsical chick, bunny, and Easter egg shapes.

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9. honeywell bakery easter biscuits in an egg carton

How sweet are these Easter Biscuits in An Egg Carton ($23.89) from Honeywell Bakery in London?

BUY NOW – $23.89.

gourmet chocolate easter eggs

10. fortnum & mason hand-painted bunny easter egg

This Hand-Painted Bunny Easter Egg ($127.21) from Fortnum & Mason is almost too adorable to eat – almost.

BUY NOW – $127.21.

11. hotel chocolat extra thick easter egg

Hotel Chocolat’s Extra-Thick Easter Egg – Rocky Road to Caramel ($63.61) features some of everyone’s favorite desserts reimagined in chocolate. Once cracked open, you will find that the egg has even more delights hidden inside.

 

BUY NOW – $63.61.

12. Easter Breakables

Take turns cracking into these chocolate breakables Easter eggs, ($49.99) then celebrate as the chocolate candies and chips spill out. Smacking these treats will be tons of fun for the whole family or a gathering of friends.

BUY NOW – $49.99.

easter novelty chocolates

13. L.a. burdick spring crate

A joyful ode to spring, this gift crate ($120.00) is brimming with our seasonal delights aplenty, including the Signature Bunny Box, Milk Chocolate Surprise Egg, Crispy Chocolate Eggs, and miniature Chocolate Eggs as well as our Signature Chocolate Mice. Each piece is an individually handcrafted work of chocolate art.

BUY NOW – $120.00.

14. jacques torres large smiling bunny

Who wouldn’t enjoy a sitting bunny dark chocolate gift box ($25.00) from Mr. Chocolate, Jacques Torres?

BUY NOW – $25.00.

easter novelty candies

15. economy candy x goldbelly easter candycare pack

Send the Easter Bunny to your loved ones (or to yourself even) with this 5lb Economy Candy x Goldbelly Easter CandyCare Pack ($89.95) full of assorted treats. We know a few college students who would love this.

 

BUY NOW – $89.95.

the best gourmet desserts and candy for easter 2024

There you have it, our 15 picks for luxurious gourmet Easter treats, including chocolates, candy and eggs. Better hop to it, Easter is coming up. We think ordering something sweet is the best thing to check off of that Easter to-do list.

Pamela Thomas-Graham

Pamela Thomas-Graham is the Founder & CEO of Dandelion Chandelier. She serves on the boards of several tech companies, and was previously a senior executive in finance, media and fashion, and a partner at McKinsey & Co.