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Easy Easter Recipes

A simple Easter celebration is right at your fingertips. If you're hosting a family gathering with young kids, you want to start with our favorite 30 kid-friendly Easter recipes.

Plan the perfect menu for an Easter brunch at home. Better yet, ask for help by hosting an Easter potluck with your family and friends.

Then fill out the buffet table with homemade Easter breads and stunning traditional Easter desserts.

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A big blue bowl is filled with a creamy grape salad with cream cheese, covered in brown sugar and pecans.

Chicken Salad Chick Grape Salad {Copycat Recipe}

A serving of pineapple ambrosia has a spoon for serving.

Pineapple Marshmallow Salad {No-Mayo Ambrosia}

The funeral potatoes recipe has been baked and a spoon has scooped out a serving from the baker.

Cheesy Cornflake Potatoes {Oven or Crock Pot}

A filet of macadamia encrusted halibut is covered with a drizzle of lemon butter cream sauce. Fresh green asparagus and a serving of wild rice sit next to it on the plate.

Prep-Ahead Macadamia Crusted Halibut

Slices of pineapple glazed ham sits on a platter next to the roasted pineapple slices. A tray of colorful Easter eggs sits in the background.

Mustard Glazed Ham with Pineapple

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Easter Potluck Recipes

The photo collage shows four easy salads for Easter.

20 Easter Salad Recipes

A serving of chocolate topped no bake vanilla pudding torte with graham crackers on a blue plate.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Eclair Cake

The no bake strawberry pie has a graham cracker crust and fresh strawberries on top. It is in a clear pie plate so you can see the crust.

Strawberry Cream Pie

An easter bunny in a photo collage next to several potluck recipes.

Easter Potluck Ideas: 30 Recipes that Travel Well

A platter of deviled eggs has a yellow salt and pepper shaker in the center.

Classic Deviled Eggs {Without Mayo!}

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EASTER POTLUCK RECIPES

Easter Brunch Ideas

A family table is set with china and has fresh flowers and a two-layer carrot cake at the center. There are several photos of brunch recipes at the bottom.

50+ Easter Brunch Ideas for Celebrating at Home

A baking dish is filled with an egg casserole that has sausage gravy over the top. Golden brown biscuits peek out from the corners.

Sausage Biscuits and Gravy Casserole

A cream cheese and chocolate chip cheese ball coated in pecans sits next to fresh fruit and a bagel.

Sweet Cheese Ball for Breakfast Spreads

The photo collage show four easy breakfast ideas for Easter including bunny pancakes, hot cross biscuits, and eggs.

30 Easter Breakfast Ideas

The photo collage shows easily scalable recipes for an Easter brunch for two.

Easy Plan for an Easter Brunch for Two

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EASTER BRUNCH RECIPES

Easter Recipes for Kids

Easter bunny butt cupcakes in pink polka dot wrappers have white frosting and little decorative candies that look like bunny feet, a tail, and ears.

7 Super-Simple Easter Treat Ideas To Bake With Kids

A photo collage shows some of the delicious Easter recipes kids love.

30 Easy Easter Recipes Kids Will Actually Eat

A large serving bowl of pistachio fluff has chopped pecans sprinkled over the top and a blue napkin on the side.

Pistachio Fluff Fruit Salad

An aqua cake plate has 5 soft frosted sugar cookies decorated with pink icing and sprinkles. One cookie has a bite taken out of it.

Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

A bite has been taken out of the roll to show how it is an empty tomb/cave inside.

Resurrection Rolls

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The eggs and ham slab pie has been sliced and served on a plate next to a small green salad.

Cheesy Egg and Ham Slab Pie

A baking pan filled with ham pot pie filling and topped with fresh homemade biscuits instead of pie crust.

Ham Pot Pie with Biscuit Topping

A white bowl filled with farfalle pasta, cubed ham, and peas to show the ham and peas alfredo recipe.

Creamy Alfredo with Ham and Peas

A small plate has a pile of coconut-rolled Swedish chocolate balls.

Swedish Chocolate Balls {Chokladbollar}

A blue bowl is filled with a 2-ingredient fruit dip on a platter of fresh strawberries.

Easy Fruit Dip

The photo collage shows a big bunch of daffodils next to 3 lemon desserts.

12 Lemon Desserts for Easter

The photo collage shows a stack of plates with daffodils on the table next to 3 images of casseroles to serve at Easter.

30 Best Easter Casseroles

The funeral potatoes recipe has been baked and a spoon has scooped out a serving from the baker.

Cheesy Cornflake Potatoes {Oven or Crock Pot}

The spiral ham is on a roasting rack so it can be broiled to make the brown sugar glaze crispy.

Crockpot Spiral Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze

A big blue bowl is filled with a creamy grape salad with cream cheese, covered in brown sugar and pecans.

Chicken Salad Chick Grape Salad {Copycat Recipe}

A white bowl with vanilla yogurt has been topped with carrot cake granola.

Carrot Cake Granola

The serving bowl is filled with a creamy dill potato salad made from red potatoes with green onions sprinkled over the top.

Make Ahead Dill Potato Salad

A salmon filet rests on a bowl of pasta. It has been coated in lemon cream sauce with fresh lemon slices on the side.

Easy Lemon Cream Sauce

A loaf of Irish soda bread is being sliced on a bread board.

Irish Soda Bread with Raisins {Oven or Bread Machine}

A batch of blueberry muffins with a sparkly sugar topping are cooling on a baker's rack next to a blue and white striped towel.

Sourdough Discard Blueberry Muffins

A plate of lemon bars has one square in front that has a bite taken out of it.

Meyer Lemon Bars

A plate is filled with rice pilaf and Meyer lemon roasted chicken thighs that have sliced lemons on top.

Roasted Meyer Lemon Chicken

A platter of puffy lemon doodle cookies has sliced fresh lemons on the side.

Lemon Doodles

A bowl of gnocchi soup has chunks of diced carrot and a clear broth. Slices of lemon are on the plate next to the bowl.

Gnocchi Soup with Lemon and Dill

The bowl of bright yellow lemon curd has a spoon for serving. It rests on a plate of waffled butter cookies with slices of fresh lemon off to the side.

Make-Ahead Lemon Curd

The waffles are served on a white plate resting on a blue and white striped napkin.

Sourdough Discard Waffles

The lemon cookies are cooling on a baker's rack, they have a lemon icing drizzle over the top and fresh lemon slices on the side.

Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies

A mixing bowl filled with lemon glaze sits next to a rack of cookies. There's a fork on the side used to drizzle the glaze over the top.

Fresh Lemon Glaze

A plate of lemon scones with sugared topping has sliced lemons on the side.

Lemon Scones

A white platter has a pile of fluffy whole wheat breadsticks dusted with grated parmesan cheese over the top.

Whole Wheat Breadsticks

A blue baking dish filled with mac and cheese with bread crumb topping. A serving spoon has removed a portion to show the creamy elbow noodles.

Make Ahead Mac and Cheese

A spatula is lifting a rosemary pull apart roll from the 9x13-inch baking pan it was baked in.

Easy Rosemary Pull Apart Rolls

An iced loaf of carrot cake bread sits in a white bread basket with a blue napkin.

Carrot Cake Bread

A baking pan filled with finished orange rolls sits on a blue towel.

Bread Machine Orange Rolls

A bread basket is lined with a napkin and filled with golden crescent dinner rolls from the bread machine.

Bread Machine Crescent Dinner Rolls

A white dish is filled with golden brown buttery dinner rolls. One roll has been broken open and rests on a blue napkin.

Brown and Serve Dinner Rolls

The golden brown roasted potatoes are on a serving platter.

Ranch Roasted Potatoes

A pile of muffins with cinnamon streusel topping sit on a serving platter with a napkin draped on the side.

Cinnamon Streusel Muffins

Creamy coleslaw made with angel hair sliced cabbage is in a mixing bowl.

Angel Hair Coleslaw

A white platter is filled with chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips scattered about.

Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

A blue baking dish is filled with a cinnamon roll casserole that has an icing drizzle over the top.

Cinnamon Roll Casserole

The white platter is filled with cubed zucchini roasted with parmesan over the top.

Parmesan Roasted Zucchini {Air Fryer or Oven}

A slice of cherry almond coffee cake shows the layer of big fresh cherries on the bottom and the crumbly streusel topping on top.

Cherry Almond Coffee Cake

A blue baking dish filled with blueberry rolls.

Bread Machine Blueberry Rolls

The finished ranch potato salad is in a white bowl. Parsley has ben sprinkled over the top.

Ranch Potato Salad