Spring is here and that means Easter! And just like Christmas, after the Easter egg hunts and another breakfast of chocolate eggs, it's time to sit down to a special brunch. With this in mind, I have put together my favorite Easter brunch recipes that you can make ahead, so they are conveniently located in one place. These are all the dishes you'd find at my family's Easter Sunday brunch celebration.
Although there are several healthy recipes, there are some Easter brunch ideas that are indulgent desserts and chocolate, of course! Because it's not Easter without CHOCOLATE! But they are all delicious Easter brunch ideas that you can make ahead, like my easy French Toast Casseroles (HELLO Carrot Cake French Toast Casserole and Baileys French Toast Casserole!), Easter brunch drinks, sides, Easter dessert, and Easter finger foods! These recipes are popular at Easter, but great any time of year!
Easter make-ahead brunch recipes
I'm all about preparation, mostly because I'm NOT a last-minute person (it stresses me out). Nor am I the kind of host that can cook and visit at the same time. Yeah, that's just too much for me to handle. And that's why I LOVE Easter brunch make-ahead recipes! Even if I can get most of it made in advance and just pop it in the oven or heat it up the day of, I'm good. So, if you're anything like me, you'll love these recipes, because the best part is... they can be made ahead. As far as I'm concerned, these are the best Easter brunch recipes!
Breakfast Casseroles
📋 Overnight Carrot Cake French Toast Casserole Recipe
This easy Carrot Cake Overnight French Toast Casserole is made with healthy eggs, pineapple, walnuts and pureed carrots (in the form of baby food so it's quick and easy to make) but still tastes like you're eating carrot cake for breakfast! It's the perfect easy Easter brunch recipe. It can be made a couple of days in advance and popped in the oven Easter morning!
Check out this Carrot Cake French Toast Casserole Recipe!
📋 Baileys French Toast Casserole Recipe
This Baileys Irish Cream Overnight Baked French Toast Casserole is the perfect St. Patrick's day breakfast or brunch dish for any holiday or potluck. This Bailey's French Toast can also be made non-alcoholic (substitute included). This French Toast bake can be made the night before and baked in the oven or heated up the next morning.
Check out this Baileys French Toast Casserole Recipe!
📋 Pierogi Breakfast Casserole (with frozen pierogies) Recipe
This Pierogi Breakfast Casserole is the ultimate lazy perogy casserole made with frozen perogies. Make-ahead and chock-full of yummy perogies and breakfast things like cheese, eggs, dill, sauerkraut, bacon bits and onions, it's the perfect breakfast potluck dish because everyone loves perogies! It can be made a couple days in advance and warmed up in the oven or microwave.
Check out this Perogy Breakfast Casserole recipe!
Wife Saver Casserole
Although this recipe is also known as Christmas Morning casserole, it's really the perfect breakfast casserole for any holiday! It's a savory overnight breakfast casserole with layers of bread, ham, cheese, eggs and corn flakes. It's easy to throw together the night before and pop in the oven in the morning.
Check out this Wife Saver Casserole recipe!
Main Courses
📋 Picnic Ham (with Orange Glaze) Recipe
This Picnic Ham with Orange Glaze is the perfect Easter ham or dinner any time of the year. Includes simple directions on how to score, baste and cook a picnic shoulder. I make this recipe in advance and heat it up.
Check out this Picnic Ham with Orange Glaze recipe!
📋 Cornish Hens with Rosemary Wine Sauce Recipe
These Easy Baked Cornish Hens recipe with Rosemary Wine Sauce is the perfect holiday dinner, special occasion or fancy enough for a dinner party. This recipe is also economical, simple, easy to make, Weight Watchers friendly and can be made in advance!
Check out this Cornish Hens recipe!
📋 Balsamic Chicken Breast (with Tomatoes) Recipe
This One-Pan Baked Balsamic Chicken with Roasted Tomatoes is easy enough for a quick weekday meal, but fancy enough for a special meal, date night, holiday dinner and it's totally company worthy. It's also Weight Watchers friendly and can be made in advance.
Check out this Balsamic Chicken recipe!
French Toast, Waffles, and Pancakes
📋 French Toast Sandwich recipe (with raspberry cream)
This decadent French Toast Sandwich is filled with a delicious creamy raspberry mascarpone filling and baked to perfection in the oven and garnished with fresh berries. It can be made ahead and it's the ideal fancy French toast for any special occasion or brunch!
Check out this Raspberry French Toast Sandwich Recipe!
📋 Sheet Pan Chocolate Chip Pancakes
These Chocolate Chip Sheet Pan Pancakes are the easy way to make pancakes and they bake up light and fluffy! There is no flipping required - just pour and bake! You can make 12 pancakes at once so they're perfect for feeding a crowd. You can also make them a couple of days in advance or freeze them for up to 3 months.
Check out this Sheet Pan Chocolate Chip Pancakes recipe!
📋 Butter Tart Waffle Recipe (Canadian Waffles)
If you love butter tarts and are looking for unique waffle recipes or waffle topping ideas, you're going to love these Belgian Butter Tart Waffles! Light, buttery and fluffy raisin waffles are smothered in a rich and delicious butter tart sauce, making them the ultimate Canadian holiday breakfast or brunch! The waffles and sauce can be made a few days in advance and the waffles can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Buttertart Waffles recipe!
📋Sheet Pan Rum and Raisin Pancakes Recipe
These Sheet Pan Rum & Raisin Pancakes are like Rum & Raisin ice cream in an easy raisin pancake form! They are fluffy pancakes that are family friendly, quick and simple to make, can be made ahead and/or frozen and are perfect for feeding a crowd and celebrating special occasions.
Check out this Sheet Pan Rum and Raisin Pancakes recipe!
📋 Chocolate Belgian Waffles Recipe
These scrumptious Belgian Chocolate Waffles are a delicious and simple brunch or breakfast idea! The magic is in the addition of the whipped egg whites, which make them extra light and airy. They can be made ahead, frozen and popped into the toaster for a quick breakfast! These chocolate waffles are also Weight Watchers friendly Belgian Waffles!
Check out this Belgian Chocolate Waffles recipe!
📋 Old Fashioned Pancake Recipe
This fluffy and delicious Old Fashioned Pancake Recipe is quick and easy to make with pantry ingredients. Perfect for a weekend brunch or make ahead and freeze for a simple weekday breakfast!
Check out this Old Fashioned Pancakes recipe!
Egg Recipes
📋 Sheet Pan Vegetarian Huevos Rancheros Recipe
These Easy Sheet Pan Vegetarian Huevos Rancheros are made with instant rice, canned refried beans and a quick blender tomato sauce for an easy, spicy delicious vegetarian breakfast in 30 minutes! They are also WW friendly. Prep everything the night before, then in the morning, crack the eggs on top and pop it in the oven!
Check out this Huevos Rancheros Recipe!
📋 Healthy Eggs Benedict Recipe
These Healthy Eggs Benedict are not only delicious, they are quick and easy to make in a muffin tin, light, low carb and Weight Watchers friendly. Prep them the night before and put them in the oven in the morning!
Check out this Healthy Eggs Benedict recipe!
Easter Finger Foods
Finger foods are great to have at an Easter brunch but they are even better for bringing along to a gathering! Kids can grab and go!
📋 Maple Sausage Brunch Bites Recipe
If you are looking for breakfast or brunch potluck ideas, this Potatoes Romanoff inspired award-winning Maple Sausage Brunch Bites breakfast dish, made with hashbrowns, sour cream, cheese, onions and maple sausage, is the perfect solution! It's make-ahead, portable, finger food that's easy to reheat, a real crowd pleaser and a welcome addition to any Easter brunch!
Check out this Maple Sausage Brunch Bite recipe!
📋 Breakfast Pigs in a Blanket Recipe
This Breakfast Pigs in a Blanket are Piggies in a blanket and French Toast Roll ups hybrid. It is fun, fast and easy! Made with Pillsbury wiener wraps, it's a breakfast finger food you can make ahead and leave out for the kids to munch on. Perfect for your next family or work breakfast or brunch potluck!
Check out this Breakfast Pigs in a Blanket recipe!
📋 Dill Deviled Eggs Recipe
These Dill Deviled Eggs are our family's favorite! They are a simple, yet different devilled egg recipe made with dill, mayonnaise and a secret ingredient. They are both gluten-free, Weight Watchers friendly and the perfect appetizer or snack for your next potluck, family gathering, picnic, BBQ, movie night, finger food buffet, games night or game day celebration! They can be made a day in advance.
Check out this Devilled Eggs recipe!
Easter Side Dishes
📋 Watermelon Granola Trifle Recipe
This show-stopping Watermelon Granola Trifle boasts layers of watermelon, chopped strawberries and mango, toasted coconut, vanilla yogurt and crunchy granola, topped with candied citrus and more toasted coconut ! It's the ideal healthy alternative to your typical dessert trifle, made with cake and pudding and the perfect breakfast or dessert or breakfast dessert for any season and every type of gathering. This recipe can be made the night before.
Check out this Watermelon Granola Trifle recipe!
📋 Ukrainian Breakfast Hash Recipe
Easy Ukrainian-style breakfast hash using leftover (or microwaved) potatoes with sauerkraut, kubassa/kielbasa, dill and dry cottage cheese. Eggs are optional. Perfect for your next brunch or breakfast potluck. This recipe can be made a day or two in advance.
Check out this Ukrainian Breakfast Hash recipe!
📋 Air Fryer Turkey Sausage Recipe
Air Fryer Turkey Sausages are a quicker, easier and healthier way to cook turkey sausage. They are also Weight Watchers friendly. You can also cook a lot at once with little clean up. They can be made a couple days in advance and can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Air Fryer Turkey Sausage recipe!
📋Old Fashioned Fruit Salad Recipe (with honey lime dressing)
This Old Fashioned Fruit Salad is easy to make and the crushed pineapple makes it unique, while the honey lime dressing elevates it to a whole other level of deliciousness! This classic fruit salad is made with fresh fruit like strawberries, pears, grapes, kiwi, oranges, cantaloupe, with fresh or canned peached and makes a great side brunch or breakfast fruit salad! You can make it the night before or up to a day in advance, but don't add the dressing until just before serving.
Check out this Fruit Salad recipe!
📋 Carrot Casserole Recipe
This delicious Carrot Casserole is really 2 dishes in one! It combines carrots and Stove top stuffing for an easy, quick and unique side dish. It's the perfect side for Easter dinner or any holiday dinner and can be made in advance.
Check out this Carrot Casserole Recipe!
Healthy Roasted Carrots with Brown Sugar- Food Meanderings
These Healthy Roasted Carrots with Brown Sugar are lightened up glazed carrots with brown sugar and butter, roasted to perfection! This carrot dish can be made a day or two in advance.
Check out this Roasted Carrot Recipe!
📋 Lazy Slow Cooker Cabbage Rolls Recipe
These Lazy Slow Cooker Cabbage Rolls taste exactly like regular meat and rice cabbage rolls, but in cabbage roll casserole form and without all the work. They are also Weight Watchers friendly and can be made a day or two in advance!
Check out this Lazy Cabbage Roll recipe!
📋 Spring Salad with Fiddleheads Recipe
This Spring Salad with fiddleheads and blackberry vinaigrette is a great side or make it a meal with grilled chicken. It can also be vegan with pine nuts. And it's an easy fiddlehead recipe to prepare in under 30 minutes. This salad can be made a day in advance.
Check out this Spring Salad with Fiddleheads recipe!
📋 Potatoes Romanoff Recipe
This Potatoes Romanoff Recipe is not only classic comfort food, it's the ultimate potluck dish. Made with frozen hash browns, low-fat sour cream, cheddar cheese and mushroom soup, it's a little lighter than the usual, but delivers on taste! It can also be made in a slow cooker and made in advance!
Check out this Potatoes Romanoff recipe!
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Honey Lime Cilantro Dressing
This Strawberry, Spinach and Pecan salad with Honey Lime Cilantro Dressing is an ideal light spring or summer meal, a side salad or potluck salad! This salad can be prepped a day in advance.
Check out this Strawberry Spinach Salad recipe!
🥣 Creamy Carrot Tomato Soup Recipe (Award-winning)
This Award-winning Creamy Carrot Soup with beef is a one pot meal that is healthy, hearty, and delicious! Substitute ground turkey or chicken for the ground beef or eliminate the meat all together and make it vegetarian. This soup can be made a couple of days in advance.
Check out this Carrot Soup recipe!
Easter Breads and Baked Goods
📋 Granny Buns Recipe (Dinner Buns)
These homemade Granny buns (aka dinner buns) are light, fluffy and soft. They are the perfect side to your Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter holiday meal or any meal! These buns can be made a couple of days in advance.
Check out this Granny Buns recipe!
📋 Ukrainian Babka Recipe (Bread Machine)
This tender, cakelike babka, a sweet bread that's a traditional Ukrainian Easter bread, is made in your bread machine! This recipe can be made a few days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Babka recipe!
📋 Paska Bread Recipe (Bread Machine)
This easy Bread Machine Paska bread, a traditional Ukrainian Easter Bread, is made in your bread machine, then decorated with simple decorations and baked for a short time. This bread can be made a few days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Paska recipe!
🕊️Ukrainian Easter Bread Doves Recipe (Holuby)
Learn how to make Ukrainian Easter Bread Doves (Holuby) with this easy to follow tutorial (with recipe) ! These cute edible ornamental doves are used to decorate Ukrainian Easter Baskets, Ukrainian Easter bread, Korovai (wedding bread) and symbolize spring. They can be made several days in advance and frozen for up to 3 months
Check out this Ukrainian Easter Doves recipe!
🥕Healthy Carrot Bread Recipe
This easy and healthy carrot bread is a quick bread that's simple to make and chock full of real wholesome ingredients, like whole wheat flour and yogurt! It makes a great lunchbox snack or dessert. It's also ideal for an Easter brunch! It can be made several days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Healthy Carrot Bread recipe!
📋 Carrot Cake Donut Muffins Recipe
A gourmet glazed doughnut muffin with jam Mascarpone filling, orange mocha glaze and candied carrots. Fancier than your typical muffin or doughnut, but easy to make and tastes like carrot cake. This donut muffin recipe is perfect for Easter, Mother's day or your next brunch or breakfast potluck! It can be made a couple of days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Carrot Cake Doughnut Muffin recipe!
📋 Bread Machine Gruyère Apple Pie Cinnamon Bun Recipe
These award-winning Gruyère Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls are sweet rolls made in your bread machine, then baked to perfection in your oven and smothered in vanilla mocha glaze. Apple pie and cinnamon buns are just meant for each other! These can be made ahead and frozen and are an excellent brunch potluck idea or bake sale item. *See NO bread maker/bread machine option as well.
Check out this Bread Machine Cinnamon Bun recipe!
📋 Raspberry Lemon Scones Recipe
These tender and flaky raspberry lemon scones are made without buttermilk. With a hint of licorice and the perfect balance of sweet and tart, they make a great breakfast or brunch dish and are wonderful for taking along to a potluck! These scones can be made a couple of days in advance.
Check out this Raspberry Scones recipe!
📋 Best Butter Tart Recipe
This Canadian Butter Tart is the best butter tart recipe you'll ever find because it's simple, delicious and can be made in under 20 minutes with store-bought tart shells (or homemade no fail pastry). And if you like butter tarts without raisins then there is a pecan butter tart option too! They can be made a couple of days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Butter Tarts recipe!
🥕Healthy Carrot Muffins with Pineapple recipe
These Healthy Carrot Muffins with Pineapple are made with healthy ingredients like grated carrots, Greek yogurt and walnuts. It tastes like carrot cake, but it's Weight Watchers friendly! They are make-ahead and great for an on-the-go breakfast, snack and throwing in the lunch bag.
Check out this Healthy Carrot Muffin recipe!
Easter Desserts
What Easter brunch is complete without sweet treats?
📋 Easter Creme Egg Chocolate Swiss Roll Recipe
This Easter Creme Egg Swiss Roll has a delicious whipped creamy Cadbury Easter Creme egg filling wrapped up in a light and airy sponge cake, then covered in chocolate frosting and adorned with Easter creme eggs and mini eggs. It's a fun and whimsical cake to make and the perfect Easter cake centerpiece! It can be made a couple of days in advance.
Check out this Easter Swiss Roll recipe!
📋 Healthy and Light Carrot Cake Recipe
This Healthy & Light Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting is low-fat and full of wholesome ingredients like shredded carrots, prunes, pineapple. walnuts and applesauce. It's Weight Watchers friendly and the low-fat cream cheese makes for a lighter icing. But it's so delicious you'll never know healthy, light or WW friendly! It can be made a couple of days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Healthy and Light Carrot Cake recipe!
📋 Mini Egg Cupcakes recipe
These easy Mini Egg Cupcakes are a fun and festive Easter sweet treat that looks just like an Easter egg hunt in cupcake form! They can be made a few days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Mini Egg Cupcake recipe!
📋 Strawberry Jello Angel Food Cake Dessert Recipe
This easy, no bake retro Strawberry Angel food cake is made with store bought angel food cake, frozen strawberries, whipped cream and jello. It's very light and refreshing, so it's the perfect dessert for Easter or to accompany any big holiday spring or summer meal. This recipe can be made a couple of days in advance.
Check out this Strawberry Jello Angel Food Cake Dessert!
📋Daffodil Cake Recipe
This easy, no bake retro Strawberry Angel food cake is made with store bought angel food cake, frozen strawberries, whipped cream and jello. It's very light and refreshing, so it's the perfect dessert for Easter or to accompany any big holiday spring or summer meal. This cake can be made a couple of days in advance or frozen for up to 3 months.
Check out this Daffodil Cake recipe!
📋 No Bake Easter Creme Egg IceBox Cake Recipe
This magical no bake easy Easter Creme Egg Icebox Cake is a glorious, yet simple combination of whipped cream, graham crackers and Easter creme eggs! The Easter cake can be made a couple of days in advance.
Check out this Easter Creme Egg Cake!
📋 Carrot Cake Dessert Pizza Recipe (Easter pizza)
With a cookie crust, carrot cake flavors like cinnamon, toasted walnuts, crushed pineapple and whipped cream, chocolate cream cheese, candied carrots and an orange glaze, this Carrot Cake Dessert Pizza is not only fun to eat and make, it's a unique Easter dessert! This dessert can be made a day in advance.
Check out this Carrot Cake Dessert Pizza recipe!
📋Lemon Poppy seed Torte (with Raspberry Curd filling) Recipe
This Lemon Poppy Seed torte is a traditional Ukrainian cake filled with a tangy raspberry curd and a creamy white chocolate whipped cream frosting. It's easy to decorate, but looks elegant and is perfect for any special occasion! This cake can be made a day or tow in advance or frozen (unfrosted and unfilled) up to 3 months in advance.
Check out this Lemon Poppy Seed Torte recipe!
📋 Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie Recipe
This old fashioned chocolate pie is a classic dessert that is perfect for holidays and special occasions. Featuring a rich and creamy chocolate pudding filling, it pairs perfectly a flaky pie crust and a generous whipped cream topping, which adds a light and fluffy texture to balance out the richness of the chocolate. Made with simple pantry ingredients and minimal effort, it's a quick and easy dessert to whip up. It can be made a few days in advance, then assembled before serving.
Check out this Chocolate Pie recipe!
📋 White Chocolate Pistachio Cake Recipe
This White Chocolate Pistachio Cake is a light, yet rich white chocolate cake that's loaded with pistachios, a pistachio pudding filling and a white chocolate stabilized whipped cream frosting. It's the ultimate pistachio lover's cake and ideal for any celebration! This cake can be made a couple of days in advance or frozen (unfilled and unfrosted) up to 3 months in advance.
Check out this White Chocolate Pistachio Cake recipe!
📋Old Fashioned Lemon Pie Recipe
Old Fashioned Lemon Pie is a classic dessert, with freshly squeezed lemon juice, sugar, eggs, and butter. And this lemon pie from scratch has the perfect balance of sweet and tart. It's ideal any time of the year and for any occasion, whether you're hosting a summer barbecue or a holiday dinner. This pie can be made up to 2 days in advance.
Check out this Lemon Meringue Pie recipe!
📋 Chocolate Marble Biscotti Recipe
This Chocolate Marble Biscotti has both chocolate and vanilla flavors mixed together (marbled) in one delicious cookie. It makes the perfect 'breakfast dessert' and is great for taking along to a breakfast potluck! They are also Weight Watchers friendly. This biscotti can be made a day or two in advance or stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Check out this Chocolate Marble Biscotti recipe!
Easter Drinks
📋 Easter Punch Recipe
This non-alcoholic Easter Egg Punch is easy to make with pina colada mix, lemonade, gingerale, sparkling water and grenadine. It's topped with mini marshmallows and colored marshmallow Easter eggs for a fun and easy garnish. This recipe can be made up to 5 days in advance. Add the marshmallows, marshmallow eggs and ice prior to serving.
Check out this Easter Punch recipe!
📋 Strawberry Italian Soda Recipe
This Strawberry Italian soda, is a refreshing non-alcoholic drink. It's very easy to make, with only a few ingredients, like strawberry sundae syrup, sparkling water and whipped cream. It's the perfect mocktail for celebrations, summer BBQ's or movie night. This recipe can be made up to 5 days in advance, but add the whipped cream and the whipped cream garnish, as well as strawberries and sprinkles just prior to serving.
Check out this Strawberry Italian Soda recipe!
📋 Raspberry Mimosa Mocktail Recipe
This easy Raspberry Mimosa Mocktail is a delicious drink for any celebratory breakfast or brunch and perfect for Mother's Day! It's also great non-alcoholic drink for kids! This drink can be made up to 5 days in advance.
Check out this Raspberry Mimosa Mocktail recipe!
📋Sparkling Strawberry Party Punch Recipe
This simple and refreshing non- alcoholic punch, with Gingerale and frozen strawberries is easy, quick, only 4 ingredients. It's kid friendly and perfect for family BBQ's, baby showers and birthday parties and loved by children and adults alike! It's also WW friendly ! This recipe can be made up to 5 days in advance, but add the frozen strawberries just prior to serving.
Check out this Sparkling Strawberry Punch recipe!
🦺 FOOD SAFETY
- Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
- Wash hands after touching raw meat
- Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
- Never leave cooking food unattended
- Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds
- Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove
Whether you are looking for good food for an Easter brunch for your large or smaller family gatherings or for a potluck, I hope you enjoy this holiday menu and collection of healthy Easter brunch recipes, as well as indulgent recipes and easy Easter brunch ideas!
Happy Easter!
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