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Easy Easter Recipes

Published: Mar 31, 2021 by Kit · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

These easy Easter recipes will make entertaining easy. This recipe collection covers brunch, appetizers, main courses, desserts, and cocktail recipes. I chose recipes that are impressive but easy so that you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your family.

You can mix and match these recipes to create your own party menu. I picked recipes that are fitting for spring, have seasonal ingredients, and can be scaled to serve the whole family. 

These easy Easter recipes will make entertaining easy. This recipe collection covers brunch, appetizers, main courses, desserts, and cocktail recipes. I chose recipes that are impressive but easy so that you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your family.

Easy Easter Recipes

If you are hosting brunch, I recommend serving a mix of breakfast pastries, classic egg dishes, and a savory option. I especially love the savory puff pastry tarts.

Easter Brunch Recipes

From elegant pastries to easy egg dishes, these Easter brunch recipes are sure to impress.

Raspberry Cream Cheese Danish

You can make your own breakfast pastries with store bought puff pastry dough, cream cheese, mascarpone, jam, and fresh raspberries. Your home will smell amazing, and no one will believe you only spent 10 minutes prepping this recipe.

Breakfast Calzone

I think that an egg dish is a must at a brunch, and this is a great way to serve eggs to a crowd. You and use any cheese and vegetable combination that you like.

Easy Quiche Recipe with Asparagus, Mushrooms and Cheddar

It doesn't get much easier than this quiche recipe, plus you can make it a day ahead and then reheat it in the oven before serving.

Carrot Cake Muffins

These Carrot Cake Muffins have a swirl of cream cheese and walk the line between breakfast and dessert.

Easy Vanilla Scones

Inspired by my favorite treat at Starbucks, these vanilla scones can be served on their own, or with jam and clotted cream.

Hash Brown Casserole (inspired by The American Club)

Hash browns are an essential part of brunch. These creamy cheesy hash brown casserole will be a crowd favorite.

Bakery Style Raspberry White Chocolate Muffins

The combination of fresh raspberries and white chocolate chips is decadent. I spill the secrets to making bakery style muffins in this blog post.

Breakfast Bread Boat

Breakfast doesn’t get much easier than this simple recipe for a Breakfast Bread Boat. A loaf of bread is hollowed out and filled with eggs, vegetables, and cheese, topped with crispy prosciutto, and baked. It takes just moments of preparation time, and it can feed 3-5 people.

Eggs in Poblano Pepper Boats

Eggs in Poblano Pepper Boats is everything you want in a breakfast – runny eggs with sharp cheddar cheese in a poblano with a slight spice. The best part is that you can whip up this recipe in under 10 minutes.

Berry Stuffed French Toast

This french toast is baked, which makes it easy to make a big batch.

The Best Cupcake Pancakes

While cupcake pancakes have a bit too much sugar to be eaten regularly, they are perfect for a special brunch.

Every great party starts with snacks! Make deviled eggs with any eggs that you decorated, or stick to party staples like hummus and artichoke dip.

Easy Easter Appetizers

These appetizers range from classic Easter recipes like deviled eggs to party staples like hummus. These are appetizers that are crowd pleasing​ and easy to prepare.

Easy Easter Appetizer: Cheese, Veggie, and Prosciutto Pastry Roll Ups

Store bought crescent roll dough is sliced into strips, layered with creamy herbed cheese, shaved zucchini and yellow squash, and prosciutto before being rolled up and baked.

The Best Deviled Egg Recipe

These deviled eggs have the perfect balance of richness from the egg yolk and mayonnaise plus seasoning from mustard, lemon, and sriracha. A crispy prosciutto garnish makes this recipe extra special.

Blistered Shishito Peppers with a Parmesan Lime Sauce

This super trendy appetizer is easy to make. The parmesan lime sauce seems fitting for spring too.

Butter Bean Hummus

Butter Bean Hummus is lighter in flavor than hummus made with garbanzo beans. Making this hummus is as easy as throwing the ingredients into a food processor and pureeing.

Alouette, Prosciutto, and Asparagus Roll Ups

This works as a side dish or an appetizer and I love it so much that I could eat it all myself.

Ricotta Toast Five Ways

Embrace spring ingredients by serving a variety of them on ricotta toast.

Figs with Blue Cheese and Balsamic Reduction

This simple no-cook recipe relies on pairing sophisticated ingredients to make a snack perfect for any party.

Reduced Fat Spinach Artichoke Dip

Greek yogurt gives this spinach dip a lighter flavor, and the fact it is made in a skillet makes the total preparation time faster.

Homemade Pita Chips

I like to serve these garlic parmesan pita chips with the spinach and artichoke dip.

Honey glazed ham and lamb with a mint sauce are traditional Easter dinner options, but roasted pork or chicken marsala are just as delicious.

Easter Dinner Recipes

The easiest way to feed a small crowd is to make a roast. There are some of my favorites.

Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce

Tender herb crusted lamb served with a herbaceous mint sauce.

Honey Maple Glazed Ham

Growing up we would usually have ham on Easter Sunday. This recipe for honey maple glazed ham brings together sweet and salty flavors.

Chicken Piccata

The fresh citrus flavors of Chicken Picatta are fitting for spring. I like to serve it over some fresh pasta.

Chicken Marsala

My Mom's recipe for Chicken Marsala is a family favorite. It's great to serve on holidays because it can be prepared a day in advance!

Roasted Pork Loin

My sister's recipe for Pork Loin with mushrooms, shallots, thyme, and tarragon in a white wine sauce was a hit at a dinner party!

Blue Cheese and Caramelized Onion Stuffed Pork Tenderloin

Caramelized onion and blue cheese stuffed pork tenderloin is a meal bursting with rich flavors that is perfect for a special occasion or holiday meal. If you want to save yourself time you can prepare the caramelized onions a day or two in advance.

Chicken with a Sherry Mushroom Sauce

The fastest and easiest recipe on this list, chicken is cooked in a rich sherry mushroom sauce.

From showstopping a 25 layer crepe cake to no-bake desserts that come together in minutes, I have got you covered! I like to serve mini desserts that are just the right size for an individual serving.

Easter Dessert Recipes

These dessert recipes embrace springtime flavors.

Roasted Strawberry Crepe Cake

This cake is made with 25 layers of crepes with strawberry custard. Making the crepes is easy, yet time consuming, but you can save yourself time by buying already made crepes at the grocery store.

Caramel Cheesecake Bars with a Chocolate Chip Cookie Crust

Store-bought cookie dough gets layered with cheesecake and caramel to make these cheesecake bars.

Mini Strawberry Mascarpone Cheesecakes

Is there anything cuter than individual serving desserts? Mini graham cracker crusts are easy to find at the grocery store, and these mini cheesecakes are quick to make.

Mini Peach Pies

Fresh peaches are sliced and baked in a crust with brown sugar, vanilla, and a touch of bourbon. This is a simple twist on a traditional peach pie.

No Bake Nutella Pie

It would be impossible to over exaggerate how delicious this pie no bake Nutella Pie is. It’s simply magical, both in taste, and the fact that it takes only 15 minutes of active preparation time.

Angel Food Cake with Whipped Chocolate Frosting

This Angel Food Cake with Whipped Chocolate Frosting is a dessert my Mom has been making for decades. The frosting is made with freshly whipped cream and plenty of cocoa for a rich chocolate taste.

Eton Mess

This very British dessert tastes light as a cloud! It is made with crumbled up meringues, whipped cream, and fruit. It will almost melt in your mouth.

Strawberry Vanilla Cupcakes with Lime Icing

Vanilla cupcakes are filled with fresh juicy strawberries and topped with a whipped lime frosting and half of a strawberry. These cupcakes have a light refreshing flavor and are a great alternative to chocolate dessert.

Cocktails complete a party. These are drinks that can be made in batches for easy entertaining. I made a point to include some cocktails that can also be served as a mocktail.

Easy Easter Cocktail Recipes

From light fruit-forward cocktails to inventive gin and tonics, these are my go-to drinks. Some of these cocktails can also be served as a mocktail.

1 Minute Rosé Slushies

This recipe for Rosé Slushies could not be any easier – frozen peaches, frozen cubes of seedless watermelon, frozen strawberries, a dash of vodka, and chilled rosé get tossed into a blender and liquefied.

Watermelon Lemonade Cooler

You can serve this with or without alcohol. It's made with watermelon juice, lemon juice, slices of lemon, cubed watermelon, and slices of cucumber with club soda. It's a little unexpected but very good.

Gin and Tonic Slushy

You can blend up your favorite fruit with some gin and top with tonic water to make this simple cocktail.

Aperol Spritz

Slightly bitter and slightly sweet, this Italian cocktail is a classic.

Negroni Slushy

Negronis can be aggressively boozy, but serving the cocktail as a slushy tones it down.

Rosé Sangria

Strawberry raspberry puree, fresh strawberries and raspberries, vodka, lemon juice, and rosé come together to create a fresh and fruity Rosé Sangria that can be made in just 5 minutes.

Cucumber Lime Gin and Tonics

I like to make a big batch of this cocktail when I am having people over. Marinate gin and cucumbers for an extra refreshing drink.

Sparkling Strawberry Pimm's Cocktail

Pimm's is a traditional British liquor and it's delicious when mixed with prosecco and fruit juice.

Strawberry Mint Lemonade

Fresh strawberry juice and mint make this lemonade extra special. Serve it on its own, or with a splash of vodka.

Raspberry Lemonade Cocktail

I love how this cocktail looks elegant but only takes about 5 minutes to prepare, and it is easy to add a couple of garnishes to dress it up a bit.

Does your family have any Easter traditions? Share them in the comments.

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