These Easter dinner ideas are as delicious as they are beautiful. From classic appetizers to spring-inspired desserts, you’ll find a wonderful addition to your Easter menu collection.
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Hosting a holiday dinner (or an Easter brunch) can be stressful. But with the right menu, it doesn’t have to be.
To help you out, I put together some of my best Easter recipes, from more traditional favorites like hot cross buns and carrot cake to some out-of-the-box ideas like roast chicken and sourdough ham and cheese rolls. Add a fresh spring salad to your Easter spread with a tangy vinaigrette, and you’ll have the perfect lineup of tasty dishes.
So, whether you are looking for apps, the main course, seasonal side dishes, or a decadent Easter dessert, this list of Easter Sunday recipes has you covered.
Appetizers
This homemade cheese ball recipe couldn’t be more timeless, delicious, or simple. Served with a variety of crackers, fresh veggies, or sliced baguette.
Cheese Ball
Packed with flavor, this easy roasted red pepper hummus recipe is the perfect make-ahead appetizer or snack. Whether you serve it up with flat bread, pita chips, or fresh vegetables, the creamy, smoky flavor of this dip will not disappoint.
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
The best deviled eggs recipe starts with classic ingredients. Perfect for holiday gatherings, everyone will enjoy this simple recipe.
Deviled Eggs
Mains
This homemade chicken pot pie recipe is delicious and incredibly simple to make. It’s an easy recipe the whole family will enjoy.
Chicken Pot Pie
Ham and beans is a nourishing meal packed with flavor from a smoky ham hock, sautéed veggies, and soft, creamy beans.
Ham and Beans
A simple meal with veggies and meat can be as easy to throw together as a frozen pizza. Learn how to roast a chicken in this easy tutorial.
Perfect Roast Chicken
Creamy chicken and wild rice soup is filled with vegetables, bone broth, herbs and wild rice to make a hearty and delicious meal.
Lemony Chicken & Wild Rice Soup
If you are looking for a healthy meal, this chicken kale soup is calling your name. A simple recipe with basic ingredients is packed full of flavor from the onions, garlic, and chicken broth. It’s the ultimate comfort food – without any guilt!
Creamy Chicken & Kale Soup
Chicken marsala soup takes the classic chicken marsala dish and turns it into a thick, creamy, bowl of soup. Seasoned with fresh rosemary, and the rich flavors of mushrooms and white wine, it’s comforting and warm on cold winter days.
Chicken Marsala Soup
Sides
Sourdough Hot Cross Buns are delicious and fluffy spiced buns topped with raisins and a decorative cross, smothered with an apricot glaze for added sweetness. Perfect to grace your Easter table.
Sourdough Hot Cross Buns
Carrot ginger soup is a fresh and aromatic soup perfect for a cozy cool weather meal, and it’s surprisingly simple to make!
Carrot Ginger Soup
These sourdough ham and cheese rolls are as delicious as they are beautiful. Savory ham and melted cheese are rolled inside homemade rolls to make perfect pinwheels with a golden brown crust.
Sourdough Ham and Cheese Rolls
Spinach Pie is our family’s take on a classic, savory Greek pie. Served piping hot, a velvety spinach filling is seasoned with caramelized yellow onion and melted butter, wrapped up in puff pastry. Perfect as your main course or a show-stopping side dish.
Spinach Puff Pastry Pie
This is the best beet salad recipe. It combines fresh, sweet, and savory flavors that make an impressive and appetizing addition to any meal.
The Best Beet Salad
This creamy soup featuring fresh broccoli, hearty potatoes and an irresistible smooth texture is a new family favorite of ours.
Cream of Broccoli Soup
Sourdough dinner rolls are soft, fluffy, and buttery with the signature sourdough tang. They are really easy to make and are the perfect side for any meal.
Sourdough Dinner Rolls
Homemade sourdough garlic knots are tender, pull-apart rolls, slathered with garlic butter before baking, then brushed with garlic butter fresh out of the oven.
Sourdough Garlic Knots
This sourdough focaccia recipe combines delicious and soft sourdough with olive oil, flaky sea salt, and savory herbs.
Sourdough Focaccia
The best roasted garlic mashed potatoes are fluffy, buttery, creamy and bursting with roasted garlic. This recipe makes the most flavorful and satisfying side dish. Not only are they tasty, but they are incredibly simple to prepare.
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
The perfect side dish for summer potlucks and backyard barbecues, this simple coleslaw recipe pairs the refreshing crunch of freshly shredded cabbage with a tangy, creamy dressing.
Homemade Coleslaw
Dessert
This berry tart is a decadent dessert featuring a shortbread tart crust, smooth white chocolate custard and a fresh combination of berries.
Berry Tart
Pineapple upside-down cake is one of those classic cake recipes that delivers both incredible flavor and a show-stopping presentation. This pineapple cake is rich and buttery, with a tropical caramel flavor that everyone will love.
Pineapple Cake
Lemon olive oil cake is a light and refreshing summer cake. It boasts the perfect amount of lemon flavor and has a unique subtle note of richness from the olive oil.
Lemon Olive Oil Cake
A classic cake with a sourdough twist, this moist and tender sourdough Bundt cake boasts a rich, buttery vanilla flavor with the subtle tang.
Sourdough Bundt Cake
Completely made from scratch, this homemade sourdough carrot cake is absolutely delicious. Super moist with the perfect amount of spice.
Sourdough Carrot Cake
This delightful Earl Grey cake features subtle citrus flavors with a tender crumb and whipped cream cheese frosting.
Earl Grey Cake
This sourdough blueberry coffee cake is a family favorite with juicy blueberries, and melt-in-your-mouth, brown sugar, and cinnamon crumb.
Sourdough Blueberry Cake
Sourdough orange cinnamon rolls offer the same soft, gooey bite as classic cinnamon rolls, but with a bright and citrusy burst of fresh orange flavor throughout.
Sourdough Orange Rolls
Sourdough brioche cinnamon rolls are buttery, fluffy rolls filled with cinnamon sugar and topped with a silky sweet layer of homemade cream cheese frosting.
Sourdough Brioche Cinnamon Rolls
Brioche donuts are tossed in sugar and filled with a creamy, rich vanilla custard filling for a delicious treat. Made using an enriched brioche dough, these homemade donuts are perfect for a special occasion and are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Brioche Donuts
You can’t go wrong with an all butter pie crust. Whether you are making double crust pies filled with sweet fruit, a single crust pie filled with custard, or even a savory chicken pot pie for dinner, this is the perfect pie crust recipe to use!
Butter Pie Crust
Light, fluffy and full of lemon flavor, this sourdough lemon cake tastes like summer on a plate. Topped with a sweet and smooth lemon buttercream frosting, this is the perfect cake for a birthday or a regular Tuesday afternoon treat.
Sourdough Lemon Cake
Sourdough thumbprint cookies are a soft and buttery sugar cookie doughrolled in sugar, topped with raspberry jam, and baked to perfection.
Sourdough Thumbprint Cookies
Light, sweet, and buttery, this sourdough vanilla cake is a great way to use up extra sourdough discard. Topped with homemade buttercream frosting.
Sourdough Vanilla Cake
Layers of fresh whipped cream and sweetened strawberries are sandwiched between crisp sourdough shortcake, making this dessert unforgettable.
Sourdough Shortcake
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