All the Recipes You Need to Plan Your Easter Menu
Whether you are having Easter brunch or Easter dinner, these recipes will make the planning easy and doable! This list includes everything from salads to rolls to main dish to potatoes (and more!).
Easter dinner is one of my favorite meals to plan. I love the bright, fresh, springy flavors that often accompany food served on this day.
I change up our Easter dinner menu a little bit each year, but there are a few non-negotiables. Carrot cake being one of them – it’s one of my favorite desserts! Also, my family would revolt if these cheesy potatoes didn’t magically appear.
I hope the recipes below help take the stress out of planning your Easter menus! Click here for even more Easter recipes!
What are YOU planning to make this year for Easter brunch or dinner?
1
Super Easy Brown Sugar Baked Ham
I almost didn’t post this recipe. But considering it is some of the yummiest ham ever, I figured I’d be doing you a disservice if I didn’t tell you about it.
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3
Slow Cooker Maple Brown Sugar Ham
Hundreds of five star reviews on this ham because it is so simple and so very tasty.
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4
Maple Glazed Ham
If you want a super classic ham dish for easter, look no further than this maple glazed ham! Oven-baked and so easy to make.
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5
Unstuffed Chicken Cordon Bleu with Roasted Broccoli
This easy sheet pan recipe is delicious and special enough for Easter!
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6
Easy Chicken Cordon Bleu
All the flavors of traditional cordon bleu, just a whole lot simpler!
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7
Easy Air Fryer Pork Tenderloin
This is the only air fryer recipe I have ever posted…and it may be the last. But it is so good that it, alone, is worth keeping an air fryer around for!
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8
Sweet Balsamic Glazed Pork Loin
This incredible pork (slow cooker or Instant pot!) has been a favorite of ours for almost 20 years. It is INCREDIBLE.
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9
Roasted Maple-Glazed Pork Tenderloin
This elegant roasted pork tenderloin is easy to make and fantastic with potatoes and biscuits or rolls.
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10
Cheesy Funeral Potatoes {Au Gratin Potatoes}
Classic, cheesy, and delicious. These can be made with frozen, shredded hash browns or fresh potatoes.
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11
Cheesy Au Gratin Potatoes
Think of these like a cross between au gratin and scalloped potatoes – no need to cook the potatoes first!
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12
Cheesy Garlic Smashed Potatoes
These easy sheet pan cheesy smashed potatoes are a perfect side dish for ham or pork!
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13
Creamy Baked Mashed Potatoes with Buttery Parmesan Crumbs
Baked mashed potatoes? Ooooh yes. These are incredibly delicious and a great make-ahead potato option.
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14
Roasted Sweet Potato Lentil Salad
This recipe is a salad-y side dish with substance. The sweet potatoes with the other flavors are crazy delicious.
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15
Roasted Potato Salad
Another deliciously unique potato side dish that is wonderful with other Easter dinner favorites.
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16
Chantilly Potatoes
Creamy, cheesy, and a delicious potato favorite for many years! You can't go wrong with these Chantilly potatoes.
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17
Lemon Garlic Skillet Green Beans
Simple green veggie side dish? These lemon garlic green beans have flavor AND they take just a few minutes to make.
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18
Easy Green Beans Almondine
Elevate green beans with this flavorful recipe – it is one of my favorites!
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19
Fresh Green Bean Salad with Balsamic Dressing
Make green beans pop with this balsamic flavored green bean salad. You can make it ahead of time!
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20
The Best Broccoli Salad
Just between you and me, I think this delectable salad is pretty much perfect for ANY holiday. I love it so much.
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21
Harvest Apple Salad
This salad isn't just for the fall season. It is a showstopper salad for any event or holiday meal.
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22
Amazing Spinach Salad with Sweet-Spicy Nuts, Apples, Feta and Bacon
Another fantastic green salad to elevate any holiday meal. Those sweet-spicy pecans are everything.
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23
Amazing Romaine Salad with Light Poppy Seed Vinaigrette
I have served this next-level salad at more dinners (especially nice dinners) than I can count. The dressing is incredibly delicious, and all of the ingredients work together so well.
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24
Honey Lime Fruit Salad
This is truly the most delicious fruit salad ever. It's basic fruit taken up a level with fresh lime juice and honey, and it is always a hit!
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25
Mini Ham and Cheese Quiches
A delicious side dish or offering for Easter brunch, these mini quiches are easy and so customizable!
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26
Perfect Soft and Fluffy Dinner Rolls
One of the best fluffy roll recipes you'll ever make. Promise.
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27
Easy Fluffy Blender Rolls
These no-knead rolls are incredibly easy to make and have ultra-fluff factor.
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28
Buttery Cornmeal Crescent Rolls
Have you made these cornmeal crescent rolls yet?? The dough is so tender and soft and the flavor is incredible. Make them!
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Homemade Orange Sweet Rolls
These orange rolls are one of my favorite sweet rolls, because the orange + cream cheese + buttery sweet flavors are absolutely divine.
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31
Amazing Lemon Blueberry Scones
Best.Scones.Ever! These have all the spring flavors perfect for Easter.
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32
Carrot Cake Coffee Cake
Although this is titled “coffee cake,” it is a tremendously delicious carrot cake perfect for Easter dessert. SO GOOD.
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33
The Best Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
If you haven't made this carrot cake before, you are missing out on how next-level delicious it is. The cream cheese frosting is to-die for.
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34
Carrot Sheet Cake with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
This carrot cake in sheet cake form is perfect for feeding a crowd!
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35
Carrot Cake Cheesecake
Carrot cake + cheesecake! An incredible combination that is delicious (and pretty!).
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36
Carrot Cake Cream Cheese Swirl Bundt Cake
Another carrot cake situation that is totally worthy of Easter dinner. Cream cheese swirls in bundt cake with cream cheese frosting – YUM!
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37
Lemon Blueberry Cake with Whipped Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
If you're looking to change-up the carrot cake routine, this lemon blueberry cake is a fantastic option!
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38
No-Bake Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake
No-bake cheesecake is an excellent holiday dessert option because it can be made ahead of time!
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39
Perfect Fruit Pizza
Whyyyy is fruit pizza so endearlingly delicious?? Customizable to fruits you love, this is such a yummy dessert.
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40
Grandma’s Famous Sheet Cake
Use whatever fruit you like for the top of this cake! It's a sheet cake that can feed a lot of people (and the leftovers are delicious enjoyed chilled).
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