Easter Chocolate Peep Cupcakes

Festive Easter cupcakes made from scratch with chocolate cake batter and fluffy, all festive, decorated with Peeps for Easter.

Moist, chocolately cupcakes will be an adorable addition to your Easter table centerpieces.

Decorated with bunnies, chicks, and coconut-tinted green, making an Easter grass, festive dessert table.

With a few jelly beans, or some speckled candied eggs, you're Easter cupcakes will be loved by everyone.

Of course, you have the option to use store-bought favorite canned frosting and cake mix, but these can be a special holiday treat.

All the recipes on how to make these adorable cupcakes are on our easy printable recipe card all the way down at the bottom of this post.

Italian Easter Desserts and Fun Recipes

Easter Holiday desserts are a yearly tradition and several are must-makes in an Italian family, these are all of our favorite vintage and some new recipes.


Through the years we've adapted some for the kids to carry on these fun traditions to instill those same values but make it fun using peeps are other delicious easy ingredients.


Growing up mom and grandma always made Easter bread, cassata, and many kinds of cookies one especially that were soft wedding-style Italian cookies with colorful frostings.


One thing I learned over the years is variety is the spice of life and everyone is so different so we have learned to cut recipes in half and make almost everything you will see today.


The dessert tray is always a huge assortment at Easter time.


We also start a week ahead of time making some of the fun candies the kids love and help with.


You may also like to visit our Best Easter Italian Food Roundup, those are several meals we prepare at Easter.


Scroll through these recipes with links backs to all the recipes we make and the family can't miss a year making at Easter time in our Italian family household.