30 Inspiring Easter Recipes
Make your Easter menu memorable with our recipes for breakfast, brunch or dinner.
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Hot Cross Buns
Soaking the currants in balsamic vinegar gives them a slightly tangy flavor that contrasts well with the rich dough of this classic Easter bread.
Scrambled Eggs in Potato Nests
Make this appealing egg dish in just 20 minutes. Packaged hash browns form the nest, and the filling is a simple scramble of eggs and chives topped with cheese.
Roast Rack of Lamb with Cider Glaze
Roast whole apples to go with your rack of lamb, served with a simple apple cider glaze. The recipe comes from L'Etoile in Madison, Wisconsin, known for its menu that highlights locally grown ingredients.
Easter Egg Potatoes
Turn small baked potatoes into Easter egg shapes by mashing the pulp with sour cream and seasonings, and then standing the potatoes on end. It's an easy side you can prepare the day before Easter.
Zippy Cinnamon Rolls
Create these easy, gooey-good rolls by combining frozen bread dough and pudding mix. They'll taste like you spent all morning baking!
Glazed Easter Ham
Choose from four glazes--lemon, stout, apricot-cherry and peach-pineapple--for your Easter ham this year.
Spinach Quiche a la Goldmoor
An easy-to-use frozen spinach souffle makes this quiche's eggy-sausage filling easy to prepare. The recipe is from the Goldmoor Inn near Galena, Illinois.
Easter Egg Cookies
Get creative with your cookie-making for Easter! Try piping your designs with our Easter Egg Cookies recipe, or use a cookie cutter with the recipe for Easter Sugar Cookie Cutouts.
Wheat grass makes a cozy resting spot for spring cookies. Look for it in the produce section of major supermarkets, or check at large health food stores.
Blueberry Surprise French Toast Casserole
Cream cheese is the secret ingredient in this casserole, which gets a generous topping of blueberry or maple syrup. You can assemble the casserole the night before your Easter brunch.
Deviled Eggs
Put together a traditional version of this classic Easter dish or try our variations for Italian-Style, Greek-Style, Curry and Crab or Chipotle Deviled Eggs.
Healthy Green Bean Casserole
Bread crumbs combine with tender, sweet onion to top this casserole, while low-sodium soup mixes with yogurt for the green bean sauce.
Best Carrot-Pineapple Cake
Cream cheese frosting crowns a rich, moist and nutty carrot cake. Cinnamon and allspice add just the right spiciness.
Sugared Bacon Wrapped Smokies
Bacon, smoked links and brown sugar combine for a sweet-and-salty brunch sausage.
Fingerling Potato Salad with Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette
This potato salad from Chicago chef Myk Banas will bring fresh-from-the-garden taste to your Easter table.
Fresh veggie sensation
Play up fresh this Easter with an easy side dish from Chicago-area chef Joe Morelli. Marinate fresh asparagus, red pepper, yellow zucchini, shaved carrots and cremini mushrooms in extra virgin olive oil with some kosher salt and black pepper. Drain off the marinade and pan-roast the mix in a sizzling-hot saute pan with 1/4 cup canola oil for 2 minutes. Add shaved garlic and minced shallots for the last 30 seconds.
Hash Brown Casserole
Here's a somewhat lightened version of a popular potato casserole recipe that's great for Easter brunch or dinner. To lower sodium, use reduced-sodium soup.
Easy Banana Nut Bread
Make a couple of these easy nut-filled banana bread loaves--they'll keep up to a month in your freezer. Overwrap loaf in plastic wrap and place in a freezerproof bag. Thaw at room temp.
Lazy Morning Sausage Pie
Lyndy Ireland cooks breakfast favorites for her guests at Triangle Ranch in western South Dakota. She tops this Sausage Pie with refreshing salsa and serves it on replicas of her grandmother's china.
Creamy Scalloped Potatoes
This rich side dish earns compliments at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dearborn, Michigan - just as it will from your Easter guests. Because potatoes can darken once sliced, prepare this dish right before you plan to bake it.
Lemon Bars
Anyone who loves lemon chess pie will enjoy these sweet and tart bars, perfect for Easter dinner. The recipe comes from Palmer's Deli and Market in Urbandale, Iowa. Top the moist bars with powdered sugar.
Asparagus Scramble Biscuits
This recipe starts with square bacon-flecked cornmeal biscuits you can make ahead. On Easter morning, scramble the egg-veggie mixture, fill the biscuits, and bake to heat and melt the cheese.
Herbed Egg-Potato Breakfast
You can assemble the cheesy Herbed Egg-Potato Bake up to two days ahead and refrigerate it.
Very Cherry-Stuffed French Toast
Take French toast to another level for Easter. Tuck cherry pie filling and cream cheese between cinnamon-flavored bread slices for this breakfast sensation from a Dale, Wisconsin, restaurant.
Patsy's Egg Casserole
Midwest Living® Creative Director Geri Boesen credits her mother-in-law, Patsy, for creating this easy sausage-and-cheese brunch recipe, a popular food at family holiday gatherings. "It's nice because you can make it the day ahead and put it in the fridge overnight," Geri says.
Fresh Fruit with Orange-Honey Yogurt Sauce
Add a dash of color to your Easter table by borrowing from the spa menu at Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, where guests are pampered with a rainbow of fruit with yogurt sauce on the side.
Maple Butter Twists
These breakfast rolls are a family tradition with Jean Haviland of Carroll, Iowa. "My mom made these rolls with a maple-cream filling -- and still does!" she says. "Mom always makes extra and freezes them for later. They're great for breakfast or any time of day!"
Chocolate Pavlova
Pavlova, a meringue dessert named for Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, gets a chocolate makeover in this recipe from Chicago pastry chef Gale Gand. Top the pavlova with whipped cream and sliced fresh fruit.
Tinted Angel Cake
The many colors of Kool-Aid, a Nebraska invention, provide an array of choices for this angel food cake that starts with a mix. Pink lemonade Kool-Aid adds a spring pastel prettiness and a delicate flavor to Tinted Angel Cake. The Tropical Punch version gives the cake flavor that's as intense as its color.
Breakfast Monkey-Bread Rolls
Frozen or refrigerated cinnamon roll dough simplifies our recipe for Breakfast Monkey-Bread Rolls. Get family members to help shape the rolls. Baking them in muffin cups cleverly corrals the syrupy topping.
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I would not really call these Easter recipes!
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