Looking to add something fun to your Easter celebration this year? Whether you’re hosting an Easter brunch, planning an egg hunt, celebrating a spring birthday, or just want to bake something adorable and delicious during the season, we’ve rounded up the 40 Best Easter Cupcake Ideas. These are as cute as they are delicious!

My household celebrates four birthdays in April and every few years, one of our birthdays falls on Easter. It’s a great excuse for me to make something extra cute and delicious for dessert, and these Easter cupcakes are just so fun to make and share. Keep reading for ideas and inspiration!

1. Bunny Cupcakes from Inquiring Chef

Spring is the season for colorful meals and fun desserts. Bunny Cupcakes are a favorite for Easter or other spring celebrations. While you can use any vanilla cupcake and frosting recipe, it’s always a great idea to just use a store-bought mix and spend your time on the fun part – decorating!

2. Easter Bunny and Chick Cupcakes from Tara Teaspoon

A mix of sprinkles and candies give these bunnies and chickes the sweetest little faces!

3. Carrot Patch Cupcakes from Inquiring Chef

If you love Oreos, you’ll love crushing them as a topping in these carrot patch cupcakes where the carrots are made from another spring favorite – strawberries!

4. Coconut Chocolate Easter Cupcakes from Sally’s Baking Addiction

These coconut chocolate Easter cupcakes feature a most moist and deeply chocolate cupcake with smooth tangy coconut cream cheese frosting. Plus, there’s a surprise inside: a rich ganache filling that tastes like a chocolate truffle!

5. Speckled Easter Cupcakes from Urban Bakes

These adorable cupcakes look like speckled eggs. Elegant and classically Easter.

6. Easter Chick Cupcakes from Preppy Kitchen

Chicks in a nest – how sweet are these? The Easter cupcakes themselves are moist vanilla with a hit of lemon and the chicks are made from chocolate eggs.

7. Easter Chocolate Mousse Cupcakes from Bigger Bolder Baking

With a mousse base, crushed cookie “dirt” topping and sweet carrots made from strawberries, these are a sweet addition to an Easter spread.

8. Confetti Cupcakes from Sally’s Baking Addiction

Confetti cupcakes are a great option for Easter with less elaborate topping needs. Creamy vanilla buttercream and extra sprinkles give them beautiful spring color.

9. Carrot Cake Cupcakes from Recipe Tin Eats

Everybody’s favorite Carrot Cake, in cupcake form! Topped with fluffy cream cheese frosting, these are a classic that everyone loves to see at Easter.

10. Spring Cupcakes with Brandy Buttercream from Lexis Rose

These light and velvety white cupcakes are filled with a delicious peach jam and topped with the most flavorful Brandy buttercream! These are great for accomplished cupcake / cookie decorators. You’ll want a mix of piping tips.

11. Sour Cream Easter Cupcakes from Noshing with the Nolans

These Easter cupcakes are super moist and will last in the fridge, thanks to sour cream in the batter. The topping takes just a few minutes to create.

12. Coconut Easter Cupcakes from Handle the Heat

Crowd-pleasing Easter Cupcakes with a moist, rich chocolate cupcake, topped with coconut buttercream frosting, and garnished with toasted coconut and Easter egg candies. These have soft pastel, classic Easter colors.

13. Easter Chick Lemon Cupcakes from Jane’s Patisserie

Lemon cupcakes topped with lemon buttercream frosting and decorated lik Easter chicks. These are so fun and don’t require elaborate piping skills.

14. Bunny Ear Cupcakes from Preppy Kitchen

Coconut gives these bunnies a fun and delicious “fur”! A few other candy additions make these a sweet option.

15. Carrot Cake Cupcakes from Bigger Bolder Baking

Another carrot option, but this time coconut forms green grass around the little carrot tops and frosting forms the carrot tops!

16. Strawberry Cupcakes from Cupcake Project

Strawberries are everywhere in Spring, and these naturally-flavored strawberry cupcakes are a perfect way to highlight them.

17. Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Mascarpone Frosting from Urban Bakes

Delicately Sweet Lemon Cupcakes are capped with a Unique Fresh and Creamy Lemon Mascarpone Frosting. A bright and fresh flavor to complement all of that Easter chocolate!

18. Spring Cupcakes from Tara Teaspoon

Spring sunshine in cupcake form! The little flowers and eggs are made with delicious candy on top of fluffy vanilla frosting.

19. Bunny Butt Cupcakes from Preppy Kitchen

These adorable and delicious bunny butt cupcakes are the perfect treat for Easter. Kids will love these!

20. Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting from Inspired Taste

A completely classic, moist carrot cake cupcake with equally classic cream cheese frosting. Everyone will love these at the Easter table!

21. Baby Chick Vanilla Cupcakes from Bigger Bolder Baking

This is a small batch recipe! With sweet Baby Chicks on top of Vanilla Cupcakes. Designed to be made in a toaster oven or a regular oven – your choice.

22. Carrot Cupcakes with Buttermilk Cream Cheese Frosting from Urban Bakes

Spiced, tender Carrot Cupcakes capped with a luscious whipped Buttermilk Cream Cheese Frosting that are edged with toasted nuts, and piped mini carrots with stems. Make them with or without the nuts on top!

23. Easy Easter Cupcakes from Erren’s Kitchen

Break out a few Easter candy favorites to top these sweet treats. These are a simple option and great for making with kids.

24. Homemade Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting from Preppy Kitchen

Perfectly spiced and bursting with sweet carrot flavor, homemade mini carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting piped on top.

25. Bunny and Birds Nest Cupcakes from Crazy for Crust

With lots of bright colors and fun toppings, there are two different options for decorating the cupcakes featuring sweet bunny faces and egg nests.

26. Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes from Bigger Bolder Baking

These Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes taste like a Brownie but they look like cupcakes; it’s the best of both worlds! Because they are flourless they would also make a fantastic Passover Dessert as well as an Easter dessert.

27. Homemade Carrot Cake Cupcakes from Natasha’s Kitchen

Homemade Carrot Cake Cupcakes have amazing texture and fresh carrot flavor. These cupcakes have a soft and moist crumb studded with pecans, raisins, and plenty of tender carrots. 

28. Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting from Sally’s Baking Addiction

Soft and fluffy strawberry cupcakes with creamy strawberry buttercream frosting. This post gives tips for making them in a mini size which would be great for serving alongside other desserts at Easter.

29. Easter Basket Cupcakes from Preppy Kitchen

Darling and sweet chocolate cupcakes shaped like easter baskets filled with pastel  buttercream flowers and chocolate eggs nestled in coconut grass.

30. Easter Coconut Cupcakes from Favorite Family Recipes

A fun collection of vanilla cupcakes with mixed Easter toppings. This an easy cupcake recipe with a a few options for toppings.

31. Lemon Easter Cupcakes from Taste and Tell

For this Easter Cupcake option, a light lemon cupcake is topped with a grass nest with Easter eggs.

32. White Chocolate Cupcakes with Cranberry Frosting from Urban Bakes

Pretyy in pink and with a floral shape that’s perfect for spring, these rich velvety white chocolate cupcakes frosted with a natural rose pink buttercream made with fresh cranberries. 

33. Easy Vanilla Cupcakes from Recipe Tin Eats

For a completely classic option, serve these vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting topped with a raspberry or strawberry.

34. Easter Bunny Surprise Cupcakes from Cupcake Project

These adorable cupcakes have an Easter bunny surprise hidden inside of them! They look like basic vanilla cupcakes until you cut them open!

35. Easter Bunny Cupcakes from Beyond Frosting

This post has a great easy step-by-step tutorial. Learn how to make chocolate ears and then decorate these Easter cupcakes using frosting and coconut. Sweet and fun!

36. Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream Frosting from Preppy Kitchen

These easy lemon cupcakes are moist, fluffy, zingy and topped with an incredible lemon buttercream. Fresh lemon flavors are great for any spring gathering.

37. Chocolate Bunny Cupcakes from Ruffles and Rain Boots

Grab a few candy accents, some frosting, and make these delicious, festive cupcakes!

38. Key Lime Coconut Cupcakes from Live, Love and Sugar

There are plenty of lemon options, but key lime is another great citrus to feature at an Easter gathering! These cupcakes are light and fluffy with just the right tart flavor.

39. Carrot Cake Cupcakes from Sugar Spun Run

Soft, fluffy, and moist carrot cake cupcakes! Just a simple frosting and some fun pastel sprinkles make these a great option for an Easter celebration.

40. Peeps Cupcakes from Eating on a Dime

Nothing says Easter quite like Peeps! And these fun cupcakes mimic the sweet, sparkly texture and flavor of the original dessert.

More Fun Easter Recipes

Sweet and Salty Easter Bark

Bunny Bread

Soft Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

Light and Fluffy Hot Cross Buns