95 Favorite Spring Recipes
Happy first day of spring!
Wow, time has been flying! I feel like it was just yesterday that I was helping my mom put together the Thanksgiving menu, and here we are on spring’s doorstep, and Pittsburgh seemed to skip right over the winter season. Even though we didn’t have much snow or bitter temperatures, I took full advantage of the hibernation season, cooking up a lot of chili and baking up a lot of chocolate-heavy sweets. With the turn of the season comes a greater variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, spring holidays, and warmer temperatures. All perfect excuses for changing things up in the kitchen, using fresh produce, and breaking out the grill. Below is a list of some of my favorite recipes for this wonderful time of year – the bridge between harsh winters and sweltering summers, when turning on the oven still isn’t so bad. Enjoy browsing the recipes below!
Drinks
Classic Lemonade
Ginger-Tea Lemonade
Malted Vanilla Milkshake
White Sangria
Breakfast/Brunch
Bacon, Cheddar & Green Onion Scones
Baked Doughnuts with Cinnamon-Sugar
Best Buttermilk Pancakes
Blueberry Buttermilk Scones
Blueberry Crumb Cake
Blueberry Muffins
Buttermilk Biscuits
Caramelized Onion, Mushroom & Gruyere Puff Pastry Tarts
Coffeecake Muffins
Cranberry Orange Scones
Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
Croissants
Danish Braid
Fruit and Almond Granola
Hot Cross Buns
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Monkey Bread
New York-Style Crumb Cake
Orange Berry Muffins
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Appetizers
Artichoke Spinach Dip
Baked Asiago and Caramelized Onion Hummus
Cheddar Ale Spread
Chicken Spread
Cucumber-Tomato Bruschetta in Phyllo Cups
Fontina-Stuffed, Bacon-Wrapped Dates
Fruit Dip
Parmesan & Thyme Crackers
Pigu (an old family recipe!)
Main Dishes
California Rolls
Chicken Salad
Cobb Salad
Grilled Fish Tacos
Italian Chicken Salad Sandwich
Roasted Shrimp and Orzo
Waldorf Salad
Side Dishes
Antipasto Salad
Best Ever Potato Salad
Broccoli Salad
Creamy Cucumber Salad
Creamy, Lighter Macaroni Salad
Deviled Eggs
Egg Salad
Italian Pasta Salad
Panzanella
Potato Salad with Herbed Balsamic Vinaigrette
The Signature Salad
Cakes
Angel Food Cake
Black and White Chocolate Cake
Blueberry Boy Bait
Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Espresso Cheesecake
Fig and Almond Cheesecake
Hidden Berry Cream Cheese Torte
Honey Cake
Honey-Vanilla Sour Cream Pound Cake
Pavlova
Perfect Party Cake
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Rainbow Cake
Strawberry Mirror Cake
Tres Leches Cake
Cookies and Bars
Blackberry Pie Bars
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
Coconut Chocolate Chunk Blondies
Congo Bars
Date Bars
Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
Granola Cookies
Lemon Bars
Lemon Burst Cookies
Peach Crumb Bars
Pizzelle
Raspberry Streusel Bars
Strawberry Pretzel Squares
Cupcakes
Ambrosia Cupcakes
Banana Cupcakes with Vanilla Pastry Cream
Cherry Coke Float Cupcakes
Lemon-Limoncello Cupcakes
Margarita Cupcakes
Tiramisu Cupcakes
Pies and Tarts
Banana Cream Pie
Blueberry Pie
Chocolate Bourbon Walnut Pie
Fresh Strawberry Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Orange Cream Tart
Rhubarb-Pie Tartlets
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
Strawberry Tart
What are some of your favorite spring-inspired dishes or recipes?
Any requests for the upcoming season?
I just wanted to say thank you for the perfect party cake. I made it for my mother in law’s birthday yesterday and she loved it! It was so good. Thank you!!
Love this roundup! I’ve bookmarked it for baking inspiration for the very near future!
Wow! What a list!!!
I love your recipe collections! I love all your recipes! I basically just love you.
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Great list, thanks for posting! I’m eyeballing those Pigu and the Ginger Tea Lemonade.
YUM! Happy 1st day of spring Michelle :)
i LOVE it when you post recipe roundups. I could spend hours browsing through each of them. Some of my favorites: white sangria, strawberry tart, & pineapple upside down cake. I can’t wait for it to get warmer and the fruits to ripen. :)
PS-If you need a recipe suggestion, e-mail me, I’ve got a few.
Cherry Clafoutis, definitely a Spring favourite, easy, colourful, creamy and full of taste, I love it. Happy Spring!
Will you please please make churro cupcakes.
Great selection! Thanks for sharing :)
I love your round-ups!! So many amazing recipes I NEED to make!! Thanks!
I’ve just shared this on FB and scheduled a RT – because everyone needs to see this! Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
This is great! Thanks so much. I’ve got this saved for inspiration. We’re like you here in the midwest – NO spring, right to summer and it’s going to have lasted two-plus weeks by the time it cools down to a high in the 50s at the end of next week. Wow!
Oh my! so much goodness for spring. Love it!
Wow! I love all the recipes and I have my eye on those blueberry muffins. Looks like I got a lot of reading to do!!
Oh good – this will save me a lot of searching when trying to put together my “recipes to try” list for the coming week!
Happy Spring to you!
OMG – So many wonderful things to try! It has felt like spring for so long already, I’m excited to get crackin’ on this list!
Is it spring already? Wow, time has just been flying by. And now that we’re in spring, I get to try all these recipes here. I think I’ll start with that pineapple upside down cake. Yum! :)
What a line up! Thanks for compiling this list!