Over 50 high altitude tested desserts for spring baking, the Easter holiday and Mother’s Day! In today’s roundup, you’ll find spring dessert recipes for breads and scones, cookies and bars, pies, tarts, and also ice cream.
And you might also love this collection of my best high altitude cakes for spring baking!
1
High Altitude Orange Cardamom Easter Bread
This homemade Easter bread is soft, fluffy, buttery and sweet, flavored with cardamom, anise and fresh orange zest. Drizzled with orange icing and decorated with sprinkles, it makes a beautiful dessert bread to serve in the springtime.
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2
Easter Bunny Coconut Sugar Cookies
Soft vanilla sugar cookies cut in bunny shapes, frosted with vanilla buttercream and covered in coconut flakes.
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3
High Altitude Carrot Cake Cookies
Soft and chewy carrot cookies, full of warm spices, frosted with cream cheese buttercream.
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4
High Altitude Carrot Cake Walnut Scones
These flavorful carrot cake scones are made with grated carrots, nutty walnuts and lots of spices. For a beautiful finish, top them with vanilla icing and sugared edible flowers.
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5
High Altitude Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies
Soft and fluffy carrot cake whoopie pies or sandwich cookies, flavored with brown butter and warm spices, and filled with cream cheese frosting.
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6
High Altitude Coconut Lemon Bars
These coconut lemon bars have a buttery, coconut shortbread base, with a sweet and tart lemon filling, sprinkled with coconut flakes.
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7
Coconut Cream Pie
This classic recipe for coconut cream pie has a buttery, flaky pastry crust, filled with a rich coconut milk pastry cream, topped with fluffy whipped cream and shaved coconut.
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8
Bavarian Cream Pie
This Bavarian cream pie starts with a buttery, salted graham cracker crust, filled with homemade vanilla bean pastry cream that's lightened with fluffy whipped cream, all topped off with toasted coconut.
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9
Bavarian Cream Doughnuts with Apricot Preserves
Classic, fluffy yeast doughnuts coated in sugar and filled with vanilla bean Bavarian cream and apricot preserves.
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10
Easter Egg Frosted Sugar Cookies
These Easter egg sugar cookies have a soft, buttery cutout vanilla sugar cookie that holds its shape perfectly, frosted with speckled robins egg blue buttercream, and decorated with crushed Cadbury mini eggs.
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11
Strawberry Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (Frozen Custard)
Rich and creamy frozen custard, flecked with vanilla bean, and full of fresh strawberries.
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12
No Churn Strawberry Swirl Vanilla Malt Ice Cream
Smooth, rich and creamy vanilla malted milk ice cream, swirled with fresh strawberry compote.
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13
No Churn Chocolate Malt Ice Cream
This easy no churn chocolate malt ice cream is made with rich dark cocoa powder, malted milk powder and crunchy malted milk balls.
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14
No Churn Malted Vanilla Ice Cream with Cadbury Mini Eggs
The most delicious robin's egg ice cream for Easter, made with an easy recipe for creamy, no churn malted vanilla ice cream, loaded with chopped chocolate and crushed Cadbury mini eggs.
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15
High Altitude Cadbury Mini Egg Brownies
Dark and fudgy chocolate brownies, topped with Cadbury mini eggs.
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16
High Altitude Blueberry Ginger Scones
Soft and tender blueberry scones, lightly spiced with ginger and cardamom, and drizzled with vanilla icing.
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17
High Altitude Pop Tart Cookie Bars
Soft, moist and chewy sugar cookie bars, sandwiched around a layer of raspberry jam, and finished with vanilla icing and sprinkles.
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18
Homemade Strawberry Pop Tarts with Sprinkles
Homemade strawberry pop tarts with vanilla icing and sprinkles, that taste just like store bought pop tarts but better!
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19
High Altitude Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Soft, moist and chewy frosted sugar cookie bars, with the most decadent buttercream made with brown butter and cream cheese.
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20
Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars
Moist and chewy oatmeal bars, filled with tart rhubarb and sweet strawberry jam.
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21
Raspberry Oatmeal Crumble Bars
Moist and chewy raspberry oatmeal crumble bars, with a crumbly oatmeal and brown sugar crust and topping, filled with tart raspberries and sweet raspberry jam.
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22
High Altitude M&M Cookies
An easy recipe for six big M&M cookies that are soft and chewy in the middle with crisp edges. Make these with seasonal M&Ms for any occasion or holiday, or use chocolate chips instead.
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23
High Altitude Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
An easy recipe for soft peanut butter cookies swirled with strawberry preserves.
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24
Iced Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies
These lemon lavender shortbread cookies have a buttery, crumbly texture and delicious lemon flavor with a subtle hint of lavender.
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25
Flower Shaped Strawberry Lemon Sandwich Cookies
Buttery strawberry shortbread cutout cookies, shaped like flowers and leaves, filled with fluffy lemon buttercream.
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26
Soft and Chewy High Altitude Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
A high altitude recipe for lemon poppy seed cookies. These cookies are coated in lemon sugar and have crisp edges with soft chewy centers.
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27
Big Chocolate Chip Cookie Birthday Cake
Instead of a traditional cake, this big chocolate chip cookie birthday "cake" is soft, chewy, loaded with chocolate chips and sure to please everyone.
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28
High Altitude Soft White Chocolate Chip Sprinkle Cookies
Soft, thick and chewy cookies, full of colorful rainbow sprinkles and sweet white chocolate chips.
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29
Rhubarb Crumble and Custard
Sweet and tart rhubarb crumble with cinnamon brown sugar oat streusel, served with creamy vanilla bean custard.
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30
From Scratch Lemon Lush Dessert
Lemon lush dessert, with each layer of pecan shortbread crust, lemon cream cheese filling, lemon pudding and whipped cream made from scratch.
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31
Cardamom Mango Ice Cream
This smooth and creamy cardamom mango ice cream is egg free, made with cream and milk flavored with cardamom seeds, and sweet mango puree.
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32
Baileys Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (Frozen Custard)
Homemade Baileys chocolate chip ice cream, made from a rich custard of egg yolks, milk, cream, and brown sugar, with a hint of Irish cream liqueur and chunks of chopped dark chocolate.
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33
Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream (Frozen Custard)
Creamy coconut ice cream, made from a rich custard of egg yolks, milk, cream and vanilla bean, with toasted coconut flakes and chopped dark chocolate.
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34
No Churn Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream
An easy no churn recipe for creamy peanut butter ice cream, with homemade strawberry jam swirl and crumbled nutter butter cookies.
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35
Double Dutch Dark Chocolate Ice Cream
The richest, creamiest, darkest chocolate ice cream made with double Dutch dark cocoa powder and dark chocolate.
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36
No Churn Black Cherry Vanilla Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
A no churn recipe for the creamiest black cherry vanilla ice cream, rippled with homemade cherry compote and chunks of dark chocolate.
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37
Best Homemade Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (Frozen Custard)
The best homemade vanilla bean ice cream, made from a rich custard of egg yolks, milk and cream, then slowly churned.
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38
No Churn Cookie Monster Ice Cream
A fun and easy recipe for cookie monster ice cream, made with no churn malted milk vanilla ice cream colored a vivid blue, and loaded with chopped Oreos and chocolate chip cookies.
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39
Raspberry Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
An easy, eggless recipe for sweet and tart raspberry ice cream, full of chopped bittersweet chocolate.
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40
Peanut Butter Vanilla Fudge Ripple Ice Cream (No Churn)
An easy, no churn recipe for the most delicious vanilla fudge ripple ice cream, with swirls of creamy peanut butter and rich dark chocolate ganache.
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41
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream (Frozen Custard)
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with a creamy, brown sugar vanilla custard base, flecked with chocolate chips and homemade edible cookie dough.
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42
Grapefruit Champagne Granita
For adults only, an easy, 3-ingredient recipe for grapefruit champagne granita, that you can serve as a refreshing frozen dessert or cocktail.
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43
Blueberry Ice Cream
Blueberry ice cream with a hint of vanilla, churned until smooth, rich and creamy.
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44
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (No Churn)
An easy, no churn recipe for mint chocolate chip ice cream that's so refreshing and creamy.
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45
Birthday Cake Ice Cream
An easy recipe for creamy, no churn birthday cake ice cream, full of rainbow sprinkles and vanilla birthday cake.
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46
Lavender Lemonade Honey Popsicles
These tart and refreshing lemonade popsicles have a subtle hint of lavender and are sweetened with honey.
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47
Strawberry Orange Creamsicles
Easy and refreshing creamsicles, made with sweetened cream, orange juice and fresh strawberries.
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48
Lavender Honey Ice Cream
Rich and creamy homemade lavender honey ice cream, with flecks of chopped dark chocolate.
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49
High Altitude Baked Funfetti Donuts
Fluffy baked Funfetti cake donuts with sweet vanilla glaze and confetti rainbow sprinkles.
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50
Blueberry Turnovers with Vanilla Icing
Blueberry turnovers made with flaky homemade all butter pie dough, juicy blueberry pie filling and sweet vanilla icing.
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51
Plum Galette
A plum galette made with fresh, juicy plums and crisp, buttery, homemade pastry crust.
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52
Mixed Berry Galette
An easy mixed berry galette with a buttery, flaky homemade pie crust, filled with fresh blueberries, blackberries and raspberries.
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53
Citrus Sour Cream Pie
This tart and creamy pie has a graham cracker crust, smooth citrus filling made with fresh lemons, limes and oranges, and topped with fresh whipped cream.
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54
Apricot Frangipane Tart
Thin, crisp and buttery pastry crust filled with layers of almond frangipane and sweet apricot preserves, finished with a lattice crust on top.
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55
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pretzel Pie
The most delicious salty, sweet, crunchy and creamy dessert, with a buttery pretzel crust, no bake cream cheese filling, strawberry compote, whipped cream and fresh strawberries.
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56
Key Lime Pie
This easy key lime pie is rich and creamy, tart and sweet, and full of fresh lime flavor. The salted graham cracker crust perfectly complements the creamy filling, and it's topped with fluffy clouds of whipped cream.
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57
Banana Cream Pie
Flaky, all-butter pie crust, filled with banana pastry cream and topped with fluffy whipped cream.
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58
Blueberry Pie
A classic and delicious recipe for blueberry pie, made with a flaky all-butter pie crust, sweet blueberry filling, and a pretty lattice top crust.
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59
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
A classic summer pie made with tart rhubarb and sweet strawberries, baked in a flaky, all-butter pie crust.
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Can I use your recipes at sea level?
I use your cake recipes every year for my kids’ birthday but this year we’re going to be in Texas for one of their birthdays.
Cakes will probably require some adjustments. Please see my FAQs for information on adjusting for various altitudes: https://curlygirlkitchen.com/baking-faqs/