Easter Recipes For The Perfect Brunch

I love an Easter Brunch. Even when winter is lingering, the spring holiday is the time to start thinking about light, bright colors and flavors. This is a rundown of my favorite Easter recipes that make for the perfect brunch. You’ll also find a few other favorites below, including a video tutorial of my new favorite Easter dessert, and some ideas for using up all those hard boiled eggs and Easter leftovers.

Plus, because it’s a holiday for fun colors and shapes, make sure to check out my super easy sugar cookies, with a video tutorial!

Easter Blondies Video Tutorial

You’ll find the blondies recipe below. It’s a new favorite that I am definitely serving at Easter from now on, and it’s perfect for kids. Check out the video, find the full recipe below, and subscribe to my YouTube channel for all my recipe tutorials.

Easter Leftovers Ideas

If you love decorating eggs with the kids in your life, you may be drowning in hardboiled eggs. I love a hardboiled egg as a simple and healthy breakfast, but you can also use it in these awesome recipes:

Easter Dinner Recipes

Scalloped Potatoes and Ham Casserole

If you are skipping brunch and serving an Easter dinner instead, check out a few of these ideas:

Easter Brunch Recipes

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A square glass baking dish filled with a baked rhubarb dessert, featuring pink and green rhubarb chunks on top. The dish, one of the best recipes of 2022, is placed on a wooden surface with a forest background.
Easy Rhubarb Custard Bars
These tasty rhubarb custard bars have only a few ingredients and are crazy easy to make.
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Round homemade cake with a golden-brown crust and chunks of red fruit on top, displayed on a white pedestal cake stand against a wooden background.
Fruit Buckle
This Cake was initially inspired by a Plum Buckle in the Williams Sonoma Cookbook
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Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls with Lemon Frosting
Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls with Lemon Frosting
These easy cinnamon rolls with a short cut of jam and pre-made dinner rolls are tasty and fun to make
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4
Marshmallow Sprinkle Peep Krispies
Peeps and Marshmallow Krispy treats are a match made on heaven
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5
Strawberry Lemon White Chocolate Blondies
Strawberries combine with lemon and white chocolate chips in this springy Blondie
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A square citrus tart with slices of lemon, orange, and grapefruit on a wooden cutting board, accompanied by additional citrus slices on the side.
Citrus Upside-Down Cake
This is a beautiful, citrusy upside down cake. It's crammed full of citrus flavor, and you can use anything from lemons to grapefruit.
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Dutch Baby Pancake
A puffy dense pancake that has a custardy texture
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Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These cookies have a soft, chewy consistency with a cream cheese frosting
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Orange Marmalade Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting
The Orange marmalade in these rolls gives them a tart Springy flavor that goes over the top when slathered with the orange cream cheese
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Sausages in a cast iron pan on a stove
Apricot Mustard Glazed Sausages
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A round Meyer Lemon Cake dusted with powdered sugar.
Olive Oil Lemon Cake
This cake uses olive oil as the primary fat and is loaded with 3 Meyer lemons with the skin, pith, and citrus all blended together to maximize the citrus flavor.
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Lemon Kale Salad with Parmesan and Crispy Proscuitto
Stephanie Meyer shared her healthy lemon kale salad with parmesan and crispy prosciutto in our January episode of "Taste Buds With Stephanie."
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Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
This Lemon Poppy Seed cake with Cream Cheese Frosting makes any occasion feel extra special
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Brûléed Cinnamon Croissant Bread Pudding
This is a great dish to make with day-old croissants or when company's coming or if you want to experiment with your kitchen torch
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A baked casserole topped with melted cheese, browned bread pieces, and fresh sage leaves in a glass baking dish on a wooden surface with a red cloth looks just as enticing as an Upside Down Cake.
Savory Ham and Cheese Egg Bake
Egg bakes are a great way to celebrate Christmas morning with ease.
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Easy 2 Ingredient Bagels (High Protein)
These bagels are high protein with 11 grams per serving due to the high protein cottage cheese and they are very easy to make at home
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Veggie Cream Cheese
Rough chopping your favorite veggies and mixing them with cream cheese makes a great bagel schmear
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Gravlax
Gravlax or Cured Salmon is the perfect topping for my two-ingredient bagels. Salty, Dilly, and so clean tasting, it's the perfect pairing. This recipe is inspired by the technique we learned in Episode
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Maple Bacon
This guilds the lily on my already favorite food: bacon. If you like it spicy try this candied sweet and spicy bacon too.
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20
Strawberry Lemon Snack Cake
This cake is packed full of strawberries with a sweet, pretty pink glaze
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A cheesecake with a cracked surface placed on a decorative wooden plate featuring floral patterns and names "Dolores" and "Richard." The plate is on a rustic wooden table.
Lemon Cheesecake
Here is a bright, light, lemon cheesecake that uses the beautiful goat milk from The Stickney Hill Dairy. The Lemon Cupcake Humble Goat Cheese is perfect in this recipe to get a bright, fruity but creamy goat cheesecake.
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A stunning coconut cake on a green pedestal stand graces the wooden table, accented by a nearby white tulip arrangement and a hint of raspberry garnish.
Raspberry Coconut Cake
This cake is inspired and adapted from the Barefoot Contessa coconut Cake by Ina Garten.
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A freshly baked loaf of bread in a rectangle pan lined with parchment paper, placed on a stainless steel stovetop.
Lemon Blueberry Loaf
Lemon cake but in loaf form always makes for a welcome gift for a new baby or housewarming
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A round berry-studded cake with a golden crust rests on parchment paper, displayed on a wooden surface.
Lemon Blackberry Cake
This cake is infused with flavor from the lemon juice and the zest. Topped with blackberries, it's a seasonal Spring or Summer dessert.
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A plate with four triangular slices of cheesecake dusted with powdered sugar, accompanied by thin slices of lemon.
Lemon Ricotta Cake
Serve this with fresh berries mashed with a little sugar
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Close-up of a slice of rhubarb cake with visible red and pink stalks, next to a bowl of white cream, all on a white surface.
Rhubarb Honey Cake
This cake adds a little honey to the sugars to enhance the tart rhubarb. You can make it in a Springform pan (as indicated here) for a round shape or a cake pan will also work but it's trickier getting pretty slices out of the pan though it will still taste great
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Three rectangular loaves of strawberry bread drizzled with vanilla-strawberry glaze on a white rectangular plate, garnished with sliced strawberries.
Strawberry Bread with Vanilla Glaze
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Easter Blondies
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Lemon Bread Pudding in a yellow dish with blueberries
Brunchy Blueberry Lemon Bread Pudding
Bread Pudding Takes a Blueberry Twist for a Brunchy Dish
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A rectangular plate holds four scones, each dotted with blueberries, arranged in a line. The plate sits on a floral-patterned tablecloth.
Blueberry Scones
These are a lovely variation from a blueberry muffin and can be prepared in advance, frozen and baked
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A white plate with six glazed scones arranged in a circle is placed on a wooden table. Whole and halved lemons are nearby, along with a potted plant.
Lemon Poppy Seed Scones
These lemon poppyseed scones are sweet and tart
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Savory

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A rectangular casserole dish filled with a savory ham and cheese egg bake, topped with green herbs, sits on a countertop with a serving utensil on the side.
Ham and Cheese Egg Bake
Everybody loves a good egg bake. I make the veggies and the filling the night before and pour the custard on. in the morning and bake it for 55 minutes to perfection. No bread is required for the Gluten-free folks
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Three small ramekins containing baked eggs topped with chopped chives are on a tray alongside two spoons, a cup of coffee, and a strawberry. A doily is partially visible in the background.
Shirred Eggs
This is a great Easter dish if you have company. They look fancy, and I use a 4oz ramekin with one egg. If you have a 6 oz ramekin, double the recipe per cup and use two eggs. Serve alongside English muffin or brioche toast for dipping.
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A white ceramic dish filled with a baked casserole containing bread cubes, leafy greens, mushrooms, and melted cheese, placed on a beige cloth.
Savory Bread Pudding with Sausage, Sage and Spinach
Strata is an eggier bread pudding perfect for a savory brunch item
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35
Homemade vegetable tart with a rustic crust, topped with thin slices of zucchini, resting on a parchment-covered baking tray.
Zucchini Tart
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36
Baked asparagus tart with gruyere cheese.
Easy Spring Asparagus Tart Recipe
Make this asparagus puff pastry tart with gruyere and parmesan in about 30 minutes for a savory breakfast, brunch, appetizer, or lunch!
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Marinated Asparagus Salad with Spring Vinaigrette.
Marinated Asparagus Salad with Spring Vinaigrette
This salad is spring on a plate! Piles of spring greens are topped with marinated asparagus and garnished with parmesan cheese and chopped nuts.
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Asparagus spears wrapped in prosciutto, arranged on a rectangular white plate.
Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus Recipe
Make this prosciutto wrapped asparagus with five ingredients in less than 20 minutes, and pair it with a homemade mustard dipping sauce!
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A frittata with asparagus, spinach, and cheese is served on a white plate with a green plaid napkin and cutlery next to it on a wooden surface.
Asparagus Goat Cheese Frittata Recipe
This asparagus goat cheese frittata is full of fresh veggies and tangy, savory cheese. Easy to make, it’s perfect for breakfast, brunch, or dinner! 
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Brunch Drinks

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A glass bottle filled with pink liquid sits next to a glass of pink beverage with ice and lemon slices, against a backdrop of a window showing a forest and a lake beyond.
Rhubarb Vodka Lemonade
Rhubarb shrub and lemonade make a refreshing adult cocktail for spring. This can easily be made into a mocktail by omitting the vodka.
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A filled champagne flute with a lemon twist garnishment, set against a blurred world map background. A sliced lemon is visible near the base.
Champagne Cocktail
Nothing says "party" like a little bubbly. But you can kick your champagne toast up a notch with this tasty cocktail. It includes a mix of gin and lemon that can be made ahead of time, so all you have to do is add the champagne when it's time to serve.
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A mason jar containing yellowish liquid and five marshmallow chicks with black eyes submerged inside, placed on a windowsill.
Lemon Peep-Tini’s
This Peep infused Vodka makes the perfect Easter Peep-Tini
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Two glasses of iced tea are garnished with lemon, lime slices, and mint leaves. A whole lime and lemon are in the background on a rustic wooden surface.
White Sangria
White Sangria welcomes everyone to the party in festive fashion!
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A table with drink fixings: skewered meats and cheeses, sliced limes, lemons, various peppers, pickles, Tapatio sauce, and a jug of Bloody Mary mix next to an ice bucket of drinks and cups.
Perfect Bloody Mary
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Two glasses of pink cocktails, one garnished with a lemon slice and blueberries, and the other with a lemon slice, cherry, and herbal sprig, placed on a wooden table.
Strawberry Rose Lemonade Mocktail
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Several champagne flutes filled with a light yellow liquid are garnished with lemon twists. A halved lemon and a lemon zester are in the background.
French 75
This is my favorite cocktail when I am traveling or in a bar that I know can make these well. My vacation most often starts with a French 75.
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Two cocktails garnished with lime on a marble surface, beside a halved lime, a small dish with seasoning, and a blue pitcher; perfect for any Paloma party.
Paloma Party Mimosas
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A tall glass of iced drink garnished with a lime wedge on a wooden coaster. A bottle of ginger-lavender botanical syrup and lemongrass slices are on the table in the background.
Ginger Lemongrass + Lavender Mocktail
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