From the best supermarket Easter desserts including M&S, Tesco, and Aldi to independent sellers like LAKRIDS by Bülow, here are the best Easter desserts for 2024 all tried and tasted by our expert Food Team.
If you're planning an Easter gathering or hosting a Sunday roast with family and friends, make sure to include one of these indulgent Easter desserts. Ranging from Aldi’s banoffee-inspired hot cross bun bread and butter pudding to vegan options such as Abel and Cole’s blueberry and lemon tart, or even chocolate gifting with an epic selection box, there's something for everyone.
There's an abundance of creative desserts out there, so to truly impress us, these desserts needed to excel in both taste and appearance. This year, our panel of food experts - GoodtoKnow, Woman & Home, and Woman's Weekly's in-house Food Team, consisting of Food Director Jen Bedloe, Food Editor Jess Meyer, Deputy Food Editor Rose Fooks, Junior Food Writer Georgia Sparks and Food Writer Amanda James, put an array of Easter desserts to the test.
With years of experience and a vast amount of culinary expertise, this team is well-versed in identifying what makes the best Easter dessert whatever you’re after, meaning you can trust their judgment and feel confident that they would only score a product highly if they thought it was worth it. With that in mind, here are this year's favourites.
Where to buy the best Easter desserts online
- Ocado: The best all-rounder and winner of The Best Easter Dessert 2024 available now online
- Tesco: Belgian Chocolate Plant Pots with Daisies and other chocolate delights to serve for an easy dessert
- Aldi: Fruity Easter pudding or a banoffee pie twist to serve as an Easter dessert
Best shop-bought Easter desserts 2024
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How did we test the best Easter desserts?
Using their experience as professional recipe developers and food journalists, Jen, Jess, Rose, and Georgia tasted each Easter dessert. Whilst taste is of course the team's top priority, judges were looking for creativity too.
Tasting almost 20 Easter desserts, the food team used their experience as professional recipe developers and food journalists, to decide what you should be putting in your trolley.
First and foremost, the flavour of the dessert was considered. The judges were looking for an Easter dessert that wasn’t overly sweet and the flavours were balanced. Another consideration was that the flavourings were not synthetic tasting and were true to the product description.
Once the flavour of the dessert had been assessed, judges turned their attention to the appearance of the dessert. Whilst taste is of course the team's top priority, judges were looking for creativity too. Judges enjoyed desserts that had a novelty element as well as tasted great too.
Meet the experts: Tried and tested by...
Rose Fooks is Deputy Food Editor at Future Publishing, creating recipes, reviewing products and writing food features for a range of lifestyle and home titles including GoodTo and Woman&Home. She has a Diplome de Patisserie and Culinary Management at London’s Le Cordon Bleu. Career highlights have included interviewing the wonderful Mary Berry and working on Truth, Love and Clean Cutlery; a guidebook of sustainable restaurants in the UK.
An experienced recipe writer, editor, and food stylist, Jen is Group Food Director at Future plc where she oversees the food content across the women’s lifestyle group, including Woman and Home, Women’s Weekly, Woman, Woman’s Own, Chat, Goodto.com, and womanandhome.com. Jen studied Communications at Goldsmiths, then landed her first job in media working for Delia Smith’s publishing company on Sainsbury’s magazine. Jen honed her practical skills by combining courses at Leith’s cookery school with time spent in the test kitchen testing recipes and assisting food stylists on photoshoots.
Jess is the Group Food Editor at Future PLC, working across brands in the woman’s lifestyle group, including Woman and Home, Woman’s Weekly, Woman, Woman’s Own, Chat, womanandhome.com and Goodto.com. An experienced recipe writer, food stylist and home economist, Jess honed her skills in print and digital food media, working with well known brands such as Great British Bake Off, Tastemade US and UK, and Slimming World to name a few.
Georgia Sparks is Junior Food Writer, working across Woman & Home, Woman’s Weekly, Chat and goodto.com. She's passionate about food and is most content knife and fork in hand around the table with family and friends. Georgia works within the Food Team at Future Plc where she can usually be found in the kitchen developing and testing recipes as well as assisting on shoots and writing food features.
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