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22 Delicious Dessert Recipes You Can Make With Your Leftover Easter Candy

by Kaylin Pound

There's nothing better than waking up on Easter morning and discovering a basket full of sweet surprises along with a sh*t ton of candy-filled eggs stashed around your house.

Everyone knows the best way to reward your morning egg-hunting efforts is by stuffing your face with a pile of pretty pastel confections.

But if you're starting to get sick of plain, old jelly beans and chocolate bunny ears, don't toss your Easter basket away just yet.

It turns out you can actually turn all of those glorious goodies left from the Easter Bunny into a variety of candy-clad treats that are delicious AF.

That's right. From Easter egg brownies and boozy Cadbury confections to pastel cookies and cakes piled high with Peeps -- there's a seemingly endless amount of ways you can get creative and repurpose your sweets into seriously impressive snacks.

So, I rounded up a bunch of mouthwatering recipes to let you put every last piece of pastel candy in your Easter basket to good use.

Take a look at the pictures below to see all the ways you never knew you could turn your leftover Easter candy into epic treats.

Peanut Butter Cookie Pie

Recipe: Crazy For Crust

Peeps Pizza

Recipe: Baking Beauty

Easter Candy Cookies

Recipe: Lemon Sugar

Brown Butter Peeps Marshmallow Treats

Recipe: Grace Elkus

Double Chocolate Easter Candy Doughnuts

Recipe: The Recipe Rebel

Boozy Cadbury Creme Egg Milkshake

Recipe: Food Fanatic

Spring Krispie Cake

Recipe: Delightful E Made

Easter Candy Popcorn

Recipe: Two Sisters Crafting

Easter Brownies

Recipe: Heather Christo

Peeps Bunny Pudding Cups

Recipe: The First Year

Leftover Easter Candy Mug Cake

Recipe: Kirbie's Cravings

Peep S'mores

Recipe: Yammie's Noshery

Easter Oreo Bark

Recipe: Lil' Luna

Malt Ball Mini Cheesecakes

Recipe: Shugary Sweets

Cadbury Egg Chocolate Lava Cake

Recipe: Tasty Trials

Marshmallow Peeps Lemon Drop Martini

Recipe: Sew You Think You Can Cook

Chocolate Pudding Cookies with Mini Robin Eggs

Recipe: Two Peas & Their Pod

Mini Gluten Free Carrot Cakes

Recipe: Food Faith Fitness

Coconut Cupcakes With Toasted Coconut Frosting

Recipe: Brown Eyed Baker

Crème Egg Peanut Butter and Nutella Cake

Recipe: Recipes From A Pantry

Peeps Candy Cake

Recipe: Recipe Diaries

Jelly Bean Cookies

Recipe: Rumbly in my Tumbly