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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}

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 serving of pineapple ambrosia has a spoon for serving.

Pineapple Marshmallow Salad {No-Mayo Ambrosia}

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

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

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Easter Potluck Recipes

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

Easter Potluck Ideas: 30 Recipes that Travel Well

The photo collage shows four easy salads for Easter.

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

Classic Deviled Eggs {Without Mayo!}

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

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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.

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

30 Easy Easter Recipes Kids Will Actually Eat

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 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

A plate filled with salad greens, fresh strawberries, and pickled red onions.

Strawberry Feta Salad

A platter of hot cross biscuits has a ceramic carrot accessory. Each biscuit has a cream cheese frosting cross on the top and currants inside.

Make-Ahead Hot Cross Biscuits

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

Easy Plan for an Easter Brunch for Two

A photo collage shows a carrot cake on an Easter table next to photos of other traditional desserts.

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

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The photo collage showcases 4 easter breads on serving platters.

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A slice of ham slab pot pie sits on a plate with a serving spatula. Big chunks of fresh veggies peek out from under a flaky pie crust.

Buttery Crusted Ham Pot Pie

A homemade Easter Egg tree features pastel eggs wrapped in washi tape hanging from green branches.

How to Make an Easter Egg Tree

The photo collage shows several classic Southern Easter Side dishes including macaroni salad, pineapple cheese casserole, deviled eggs, and grape salad.

30 Southern Easter Side Dishes

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

Resurrection Rolls

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 four easy salads for Easter.

20 Easter Salad Recipes

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

30 Easy Easter Recipes Kids Will Actually Eat

A small white dish has a serving of pineapple cheese casserole with cracker crumb topping.

Make Ahead Pineapple Cheese Casserole

The buttery rice pilaf is in a white bowl with a spoon.

Instant Pot Rice Pilaf

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

Classic Deviled Eggs {Without Mayo!}

A photo collage shows some of the meatless recipes that are ok to eat for Lent.

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A plate of scrambled eggs with vegetables.

Scrambled Eggs and Vegetables

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

Old Fashioned Chocolate Eclair Cake

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

A blue plate has a pile of homemade blueberry scones on top.

Easy Blueberry Scones

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

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 white bowl is filled with the lemon orzo pasta salad. Tomatoes and dill are sprinkled throughout.

Lemon Orzo Salad with Tomatoes & Dill

A loaf of lemon poppy seed bread is on a platter, a few pieces have been sliced. Sliced lemons are added as garnish.

Lemon Poppy Seed Bread

A white bowl is filled with creamy lemon garlic pasta with fresh dill and lemon slices for garnish.

Creamy Lemon Garlic Pasta

A white platter filled with Bisquick sausage balls made with just three ingredients

Bisquick Sausage Balls {3 Ingredients!}

A white plate has a pile of freshly roasted green beans hot from the air fryer basket.

Air Fryer Green Beans

A blue container is filled with a coconut Chex Mix with toasted almonds.

Coconut Chex Mix with Almonds

A slice of cinnamon swirl bread sits on a cutting board next to the bread pan it came from.

Homemade Cinnamon Swirl Bread

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

Easy Rosemary Pull Apart Rolls

The white ruffled bowl has creamed corn made in the Crock Pot. Fresh chives are sprinkled over the top.

Crock Pot Creamed Corn

The roasted pork loin is served on a platter with a drizzle of green peppercorn sauce.

Make Ahead Oven Roasted Pork Loin

A spoon has just drizzled the peppercorn sauce over sliced pork loin.

Green Peppercorn Sauce

Creme anglaise, a rich custard sauce has been drizzled over a slice of chocolate flourless torte. A fork is scooping a bite.

Creme Anglaise Vanilla Sauce

A white bowl is filled with glazed baby carrots, a blue napkin is tucked underneath.

Glazed Baby Carrots