Gluten-Free Desserts for Easter and Spring

Whether you celebrate Easter, Passover or Ramaden, enjoying dessert on special occasions is likely part of your celebration. And when that dessert is gluten-free, it means that everyone can enjoy it!

I've rounded up my favourite gluten-free dessert recipes for Easter and Spring to share with you here.

Carrot cake, lemon, strawberries and chocolate are the flavours I most associate with Springtime desserts. I've picked recipes that feature these, hoping that you can pick one or two to make for your family when you're planning your Easter menu. And yes, they're all gluten-free!

If there are just two of you, or you and your kids, a smaller dessert might be better than making a full-sized cheesecake, for example. Many of the following dessert recipes can easily be halved.

If you're looking for more mini desserts, you'll find more ideas in this post: 12 Gluten-Free Mini Desserts in Jars.

Scroll through and pick your possibilities!

Grain-free Carrot Cake with Pineapple

Grain-Free Carrot Cake with Pineapple

This carrot cake is made without grains or refined sugar. Baked with almond flour and coconut flour, it's naturally sweetened with pineapple and maple syrup. Frost with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting, if desired.

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Mini Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Mini Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

These one-bite gluten-free carrot cake cupcakes are made without grains or refined sugar. Baked with almond flour and coconut flour, they're naturally sweetened with pineapple and maple syrup. Great for kids' lunches.

Mini Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Coconut Butter Frosting

Paleo Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Coconut Butter Frosting

These super moist carrot cake cupcakes are free of grains, dairy, and refined sugar but they're just as tender and delicious as a traditional carrot cake.

Paleo Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Coconut Butter Frosting

Gluten-free Lemon Desserts for Spring

Fresh lemon desserts scream "Spring!" I love to make lemon curd, because I can use it in so many different ways: in a Lemon Curd Tart, in a parfait, as a filling for pavlova, or mixed with yogurt for a simple fruit dip.

5-Minute Microwave Honey Lemon Curd

5-Minute Microwave Honey Lemon Curd

This quick Microwave Honey Lemon Curd is life-changing! Made with fresh lemons and sweetened with honey, it's the easiest no-stir lemon curd recipe you could imagine. Use as a filling for tarts, layer it in a parfait, spread it on pancakes, or swirl it into yogurt.

5-Minute Microwave Honey Lemon Curd

Lemon Curd Tart with Berries

Gluten-Free Lemon Curd Tart with Berries

This luscious gluten-free lemon curd tart is also dairy-free and refined sugar-free! It's made with a tender almond flour crust and garnished with fresh mixed berries or thinly sliced fruit.

Gluten-Free Lemon Curd Tart with Berries

Lemon Curd Fruit Dip

Creamy Lemon Curd Fruit Dip

A creamy Lemon Curd Fruit Dip made with cream cheese, Greek yogurt and luscious lemon curd, this popular dip recipe has sugar-free options. 

Creamy Lemon Curd Fruit Dip

Flourless Lemon Almond Cake

One-Bowl Flourless Lemon Almond Cake

This easy almond cake is light and lemony. Made with almond flour, it's all made in one bowl!

One-Bowl Flourless Lemon Almond Cake

Flourless Raspberry Lemon Ricotta Cake

Flourless Raspberry Lemon Ricotta Cake

This Keto Flourless Raspberry Lemon Ricotta Cake is a tender gluten-free dessert or breakfast cake made with almond flour and flavoured with fresh or frozen raspberries and lemon.

Flourless Raspberry Lemon Ricotta Cake

Gluten-free Strawberry Desserts

Desserts made with fresh strawberries often steal the show at Easter celebrations! Scroll through these gluten-free strawberry desserts--they're all delicious!

Low-Carb Strawberry Shortcake

Low-Carb Strawberry Shortcake

Grain-free, sugar-free almond strawberry shortcake is a popular dessert year-round. You'd never guess it's gluten-free!

Low-Carb Strawberry Shortcake

Macerated Balsamic Strawberries with Cashew Cream

Macerated Strawberries with Cashew Cream

Macerated strawberries with cashew cream make a beautiful no-bake vegan, gluten-free dessert. These sweetened sliced strawberries are also delicious with whipped cream or lightly sweetened yogurt.

Macerated Strawberries with Cashew Cream

Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Pie

Gluten-Free Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Pie

Slightly sweet, slightly tart, this Gluten-Free Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Pie is baked in a tender flaky crust and topped with an oatmeal crumb crust. Sugar-free option!

Gluten-Free Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Pie

Strawberry Tartlets with Vanilla Pastry Cream

Strawberry Tartlets with Vanilla Pastry Cream

These gluten-free strawberry tarts are made with an easy press-in graham cracker crust. They're filled with vanilla pastry cream and topped with fresh strawberries.

Strawberry Tartlets with Vanilla Pastry Cream

Mini Pavlova with Fresh Berries

Mini Pavlova with Berries

Mini pavlova with fresh berries is a spectacular dessert that's easy to make! Crisp and crunchy on the outside, the center of these individual pavlova desserts has the texture of marshmallows. Fill these meringue nests with fluffy whipped cream and top with berries or sliced fruit for a dessert to remember!

Mini Pavlova with Berries

Strawberry Shortcake with Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes

Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Cupcakes

A gluten-free strawberry shortcake recipe made with gluten-free vanilla cupcakes instead of biscuits. Quick and easy to make with a gluten-free flour blend! Top with fluffy whipped cream for a luscious strawberry dessert.

Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Cupcakes

Gran Marnier Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Gluten-free Gran Marnier Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Showcase summer fruit with this always popular Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp. Warm bubbly fruit with a crunchy oat topping makes an easy gluten-free dessert. 

Gluten-free Gran Marnier Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Strawberry Rhubarb Galette

Gluten-Free Strawberry Rhubarb Galette

This gluten-free Strawberry Rhubarb Galette is a delicious rustic fruit pie! A crisp free-form crust filled with sliced strawberries and chopped rhubarb is just as tasty as a pie, without the fuss!

Gluten-Free Strawberry Rhubarb Galette

Espresso Chocolate Ganache Tart with Hazelnut Crust

Gluten-free Espresso Chocolate Ganache Tart with Hazelnut Crust

This easy but elegant espresso chocolate ganache tart with a press-in hazelnut crust makes a spectacular dessert! With a rich, silky smooth mocha filling, this gluten-free chocolate tart recipe is quick to make!

Gluten-free Espresso Chocolate Ganache Tart with Hazelnut Crust

Dairy-Free Chocolate Mousse

Dairy-Free Avocado Chocolate Mousse

Naturally sweetened and silky smooth dairy-free chocolate mousse made with cacao or cocoa, non-dairy milk, bananas and avocado. 

Dairy-Free Avocado Chocolate Mousse

Vegan Double Chocolate Mousse Torte

Double Chocolate Mousse Torte

An easy but simply fabulous no-bake vegan Chocolate Mousse Torte made with avocados and sweetened with maple syrup.

Double Chocolate Mousse Torte

Chocolate Quinoa Cupcakes

Gluten-free Quinoa Chocolate Cupcakes

These Chocolate Quinoa Cupcakes are rich, uber-chocolately and gluten-free.

Gluten-free Quinoa Chocolate Cupcakes

Make-ahead gluten-free desserts for Easter and Spring

Planning a meal for family or friends can be a lot of work! If you can have a dessert made a day or two before, it frees up time to make the rest of the meal. Many of these desserts can be made in advance.

• For example, you can make Microwave Lemon Curd several days ahead of time, then use it to make Gluten-Free Lemon Curd Tart, Easy Lemon Curd Fruit Dip or Meyer Lemon Mini Parfaits. Or use it as the filling for Mini Pavlova.
• Bake a carrot cake or cupcakes, refrigerate or freeze, then add frosting a day or two before you're planning to serve it.
• Freeze this Gluten-Free Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Pie days or even weeks in advance, then thaw and reheat it in the oven. Delicious with a scoop of ice cream!
• Make and freeze the cake portion of Sugar-Free Strawberry Shortcake and make the strawberry sauce in advance. Then all you'll have to do is thaw the cake, and assemble it with the strawberries and topping.

Which of these gluten-free desserts for Easter and Spring will you be making?

However you choose to celebrate this year, make it delicious!