79 Easter Recipes Perfect for Any Celebration
Plan your menu with these festive ideas for breakfast, dinner, dessert and more.
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Company-Worthy Dishes
Whether you’re hosting Easter dinner for your friends or planning brunch for your family in the morning before the egg hunt, you’re going to need a few special recipes — dishes that aren’t difficult to make but that are sure to impress. That’s where we come in. We can help you get a showstopping main on the table (think ham, lamb or even pork roast) and plan the perfect festive dessert. And, we’ve got plenty of appetizers and side dishes to help round things out. No matter what type of celebratory meal you’re planning, we’ve got you covered. Wondering where to start? Try this elegant appetizer that comes together easily with simple, time-saving ingredients. Frozen hash browns are pressed into mini muffin tins and baked into crispy nests filled with ham, lemony cream cheese and peas. They make the perfect pre-dinner bite.
Get the Recipe: Potato Nests with Peas, Ham and Cream Cheese
Easter Dinner on Two Sheet Pans
Easter dinner for four comes together easily in a little over an hour when you cook it on a pair of sheet trays. With tender asparagus, sweet glazed carrots, a decadent potato gratin, roasted ham, and even homemade biscuits, there's plenty to eat with little fuss.
Get the Recipe: Easter Dinner on Two Sheet Pans
Bunny Oreo Balls
This no-bake dessert is the perfect way to hop into spring! White melting wafers and mini marshmallows transform these cookies-and-cream bites into impressive bunnies that are sure to be a hit all season long.
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Mini Egg Cupcakes
Package these mini cupcakes in egg cartons as a hostess gift for your Easter celebration.
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Creamy Herbed Easter Ham and Pea Pasta Salad
Dress ham and peas with a creamy parsley, chive and mint dressing for a pasta salad that sings of spring.
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Beety Pickled Eggs
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Asparagus and Cheese Tart
Asparagus and Cheese Tart: Asparagus and Cheese Tart
Italian Easter Cookies
These lemony Italian cookies are traditional treats in the southern part of the country but are also often found at Italian-American bakeries around Easter time. While they have several different Italian names you will most likely see them labeled "lemon drops” in the States. They are light, not too sweet and have a tender, buttery crumb. Dipped in a thin lemony glaze and decorated with holiday-inspired sprinkles, they are the perfect festive addition to any table.
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Baked Ham with Brown Sugar Mustard Glaze
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Hot Cross Buns
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Coconut Bunny Butt Cake
Crushed pineapple in the batter gives this cake a dense pound cake-like texture, which is helpful when anchoring the cupcakes and decorating. The cakes and cupcakes can be made a day ahead and wrapped in plastic wrap. Don't worry if you're frosting job doesn't look perfect -- covering the cake with coconut hides every flaw.
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Ricotta, Ham and Scallion Tart
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Four-Cheese Scalloped Potatoes
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Bunny Buns
With a few twists and pulls, we turned sweet Easter rolls into the cutest holiday side dish.
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Giada's Easter Pie
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Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
We took our best sugar cookie recipe and made these festive versions for Easter. They look like they have been dip-dyed just like a classic Easter egg. By tinting a simple royal icing with your choice of colors, you can create an array of beautifully swirled cookies.
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Classic Glazed Ham
Get Food Network Magazine's tips on choosing the best-quality ham, then choose one of four mix-and-match glazes for a delicious, customized main dish.
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Steamed Asparagus
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Risotto with Yogurt and Peas
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The Cutest Easter Cupcakes
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Alton's Ambrosia Salad
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Honey-Glazed Carrots
Sunny's easy side is foolproof — which is key if you're hosting a big group for your holiday meal. The recipe calls for baby carrots, not the kind of baby carrots you might be thinking of, but rather very young carrots, which are pop up in grocery stores and farmers markets throughout spring.
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Alton's Crown Roast of Lamb
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Greek Easter Bread
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Bunny Butt Marshmallow Pops
These cute bunnies are so easy to put together. They make a fun party favor or Easter-basket treat when wrapped in clear cellophane bags and tied with a pastel ribbon.
Get the Recipe: Bunny Butt Marshmallow Pops
Quick Herb and Cheese Monkey Bread
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Classic Deviled Eggs
Don't fix what ain't broke, right? Deviled eggs are always a hit and this is our most popular recipe (ever!) for the classic appetizer.
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Ina's Orange Baked Ham
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Pavlova Eggs with Lemon Curd
This fun and beautiful Easter treat is deceptively easy to make. Simply fill sweet meringues with a tart homemade lemon curd (or buy the jarred kind). To get the most volume when making your meringues, make sure the beaters and bowl are super clean.
Get the Recipe: Pavlova Easter Eggs with Lemon Curd
Baked Mac and Cheese
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Creamy Spring Peas
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Stuffed Hasselback Ham
Here's a showstopping holiday centerpiece combining three different sides with a hearty main. What more do you need?
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Easter Bread
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Natural Dyes for Easter Eggs
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Leftover Easter Candy Crispy Treats
Leftover Easter candy transforms crispy rice treats into a colorful snack that's super fun to eat. With loads of different textures and flavors at play, every bite is a surprise.
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Chocolate Pastel Easter Cake with a Chocolate Vermicelli Nest
Moist chocolate cake is frosted with an easy, fluffy buttercream and topped with a chocolate nest for this festive Easter dessert. The nest is made from fried rice vermicelli, lightly salted and coated in chocolate for a crispy treat.
Get the Recipe: Chocolate Pastel Easter Cake with a Chocolate Vermicelli Nest
Giada's Pancetta-Wrapped Pork Roast
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Roasted Rainbow Carrots
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Bunny Butt Doughnut
Here's an easy and adorable way to dress up plain cake doughnuts for Easter that requires no special tools or techniques. It's best to start with non-sugared plain doughnuts so all of the bunny parts stick.
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Sandra's Easter Bunny Centerpiece
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Banana Crunch Muffins
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Melissa's Easter Ham
Get the Recipe: Baked Ham with Spiced Cherry Glaze
Lemon Curd
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Chocolate Malt Nest Cake
This decadent cake is an edible display for your Easter candy too. Candy eggs fill the "nest" made of entirely of chocolate-flavored cake, frosting and cereal coating. Your guests will be dying to dig in.
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Tyler's Tangerine-Glazed Easter Ham
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Simple Scalloped Potatoes
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Roasted Asparagus
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Alton's Carrot Cake
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Michael Symon's Lamb Chops With Eggplant Caponata
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Marmalade-Glazed Carrots
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Michael Symon's Baklava
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Bunny Butt Sundae Cone
These fun and easy treats will have everybody smiling. The cones can be assembled earlier in the day and frozen until party time.
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Herbed Leg of Lamb
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Peas and Pancetta
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Whipped Parsnips
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Easter Egg Cake
All it takes is two layers of chocolate cake, buttercream frosting and a couple handfuls of pretty colored candies for this festive Easter dessert.
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Ginger-Peach Glazed Ham
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Hot Cross Buns
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Citrus Macarons
French macarons take some TLC, but these pastel cookies are worth the effort.
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Southern Banana Pudding
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Fresh Ham with Tuscan Bread Stuffing
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Chunky Egg Salad
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Popovers
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Stewed Turnip Greens
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Raspberry-Lemon Easter Cake
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Peach Ginger Glazed Ham
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Golden Pickled Eggs with Carrots
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Bunny Butt Carrot Cake Pancakes
These pancakes incorporate all of the familiar flavors of carrot cake, including cream cheese frosting, into one adorable breakfast. We like them best with honey, but you may also serve them with maple syrup.
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Cherry Limeade
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Double Mustard and Herb Crusted Ham
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Sandra's Blueberry Lattice Cake
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Creamed Vidalia Onions
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Baked Ham With Spiced Cherry Glaze
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Fresh Broccoli Salad
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Sage Potatoes Au Gratin
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Little Lemon Meringue Pies
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Ham Salad
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Marshmallow Chicks and Bunnies
Marshmallow is a springy, sticky treat worthy of being eaten all year. But when that marshmallow is molded in the cheery shapes of pink bunnies and yellow chicks, it screams springtime and Easter baskets. These are softer marshmallow creatures than classic Peeps, but that's their charm: They give and squish, and their colored-sugar coating is crunchy in all the best ways.
Get the Recipe: Marshmallow Chicks and Bunnies