50 Easter Recipes
Although Easter is super-late this year, it seems like it has totally snuck up on me! I love this time of year, as Easter seems to usher in all of the light, bright and fresh flavors of the spring and summer. All that is heavy in the fall and winter gives way to fresh fruit, delicate pastries and airy textures. I’ve put together a recap of recipes that I think would be perfect for entertaining this Easter season – brunch and apps, side dishes, and of course tons of desserts. Enjoy perusing!
Do you have a favorite Easter recipe, traditional or otherwise?
To Quench the Thirst
For Brunch or Apps
Bacon, Cheddar & Green Onion Scones
Baked Doughnuts with Cinnamon-Sugar
Blueberry Buttermilk Scones
Caramelized Onion, Mushroom & Gruyere Puff Pastry Tarts
Cranberry Orange Scones
Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
Croissants
Cucumber-Tomato Bruschetta in Phyllo Cups
Fontina-Stuffed, Bacon-Wrapped Dates
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Monkey Bread
Parmesan & Thyme Crackers
Pigu (an old family recipe!)
Side Dishes
Antipasto Salad
Buttermilk Biscuits
Italian Pasta Salad
Panzanella
Potato Salad with Herbed Balsamic Vinaigrette
The Signature Salad
Cakes
Black and White Chocolate Cake
Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Espresso Cheesecake
Fig and Almond Cheesecake
Hidden Berry Cream Cheese Torte
Honey-Vanilla Sour Cream Pound Cake
Perfect Party Cake
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Russian Pound Cake
Tiramisu
Tres Leches Cake
Cookies and Bars
Blackberry Pie Bars
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
Lemon Bars
Lemon Burst Cookies
Peach Crumb Bars
Pizzelle (because I think they’re great for any holiday!)
Strawberry Pretzel Squares
Cupcakes
Banana Cupcakes with Vanilla Pastry Cream
Lemon-Limoncello Cupcakes
Tiramisu Cupcakes
Pies and Tarts
Blueberry Pie
Dutch Apple Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Orange Cream Tart
Peach Pie
Strawberry Tart
Great pic! Thanks for the idea for decorating easter cookies! Great blog btw…hope you can check my blog out as well :)
I am saving this page! Such awsm variety !
50 recipes! holy cannoli! Literally. haha! Happy Easter to you.
Great recipe roundup!
Such a great collection you have!!
Wonderful round-up, Michelle. I don’t know where to start!
These cookies are beautiful! And such a great list! You are a wonderful baker and i love all your recipes. Thanks for the extensive list. Almost too hard to choose just one!
Those Easter cookies are beautiful! Thanks for the list of brunch ideas. It’s my all time favorite meal!
We make Beet Eggs every Easter. You cook beets ( canned works) and put vinegar in them cooking , put peeled hard boiled eggs in with them and the soak up the juice and turn pink-red and TASTE DELICIOUS!!! I don’t like the BEETS!!! only the beet-eggs.
Your cut-out Easter cookies are adorable! Thank you for sharing all these wonderful Easter recipes as well!
Just reading the names of these makes my mouth water!..and I haven’t even checked them out yet! Off I go..
i’m making butterscotch cream pie for easter dessert this year, and cupcakes for my nieces and nephews. can’t wait to hit wal-mart for cheap easter candy the next week!
I gave up sweets for Lent and your blog has been so tough to read — this is a great post to get me planning for Easter morning!
We had a recipe like the nut roll recipe you posted in Jan. 2011. Mom always made
a chocolate cake with 7 minute frosting usually decorated with green coconut for Easter dessert. Traditions change as the family has changed but welcomed memories prevail.
What an awesome list of food. Thanks so much for the tips!
Thanks for such a brillitant list! We tend to eat lamb at easter, oh, and lots of chocolate!!
After perusing, I now want to make:
Carrot cake-definitely an easter dessert and how can you go wrong with cream cheese icing? Answer: You can’t!
Cranberry Orange Scones- love that combo
Strawberry Pretzel Squares- I’ve had my eye on that recipe for awhile now.
I could go on but I won’t because I’d basically be typing out the whole list!