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These 25 pretty Easter recipes include elegant entrees, delightful sides, colorful appetizers, floral co*cktails, and charming desserts too! You’ll find easy-to-make recipes in bright colors of spring, full of fresh flavors and Easter fun!
I love colorful Spring recipes, and Easter is a time to really let them shine! It’s time to dust off my prosciutto roses, dry pansy garnishes, culinary lavender, freshest herbs, and brightest ideas! I want to turn my table into a fragrant garden full of color!
Below, you’ll find beautiful recipes for every course, every skill level, and every diet! Whether you want to serve a traditional, vegetarian, or gluten-free brunch or dinner – or host an afternoon of elegantly paired appetizers with enchanting, florally garnished co*cktails, you’ll find everything you need.
And if you need even MORE inspiration, help yourself to my 10 Delightful Easter co*cktails, 10 Fancy Easter Appetizers, 10 Lovely Easter Side Dishes, or a curated Easter Lamb Dinner menu!
1. Lavender Lemon Easter Tart
Lavender Lemon Easter Tart
This rustically elegant lavender lemon Easter tart recipe is dairy-free, bright, floral and such an original Easter dessert! It’s sweet and tart, can be made a full day ahead, and will make your entire kitchen smell like a field of lavender!
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2. Easter Salad with Deviled Quail Eggs
Easter Salad with Deviled Quail Eggs
This beautiful Easter salad includes gently seared asparagus, green apple, radish and delightful, easy-to-make deviled quail eggs. Everyone loves deviled eggs for Easter, and your guests will be simply enchanted with these lovely, little salad-toppers!
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3. Boursin Deviled Eggs
Boursin Deviled Eggs
These beautiful deviled eggs are absolutely perfect for any elegant party! This recipe is made with dreamy Boursin cheese and the eggs are topped with both mustard caviar and edible pansies, making them the prettiest, most delicious appetizers at the bridal shower, baby shower, wedding or colorful affair!
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4. Colorful Easter Crostini – 3 Ways!
Colorful Easter Crostini
These pretty Easter crostini will make everyone smile! They’re spring pea with mint and goat cheese, mushroom pâté with carrot roses and white balsamic honey peach and ricotta!
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5. The Pink Cherry Blossom Maraschino Liqueur co*cktail
The Pink Cherry Blossom Maraschino Liqueur co*cktail
Lightly sweet, citrusy and with a hint of cherry, it's a perfect co*cktail for Easter, Mother's Day, a feminine bridal shower or celebration of April's cherry blossom season!
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6. Prosciutto and Melon Skewers
Prosciutto and Melon Skewers
With only 5 ingredients, they’re the easiest, prettiest appetizers or side dish for a colorful brunch, baby shower or mother’s day breakfast.
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7. Pan-Seared Rosemary Lamb Chops
Perfectly Pan-Seared Rosemary Lamb Chops
These pan seared lamb chops are marinated in rosemary and garlic, have perfectly crispy edges and take just 6-10 minutes to make (once they’ve been marinated, of course). These tender chops make such an elegant spring or Easter dinner and impress every guest! This recipe also includes a mint-pistachio pesto to serve on the side!
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8. Burrata Salad with Balsamic Glaze
Burrata Salad with Balsamic Glaze
This burrata salad with balsamic glaze includes pretty prosciutto roses, shaved asparagus, cherry tomatoes, ripe blackberries and arugula. A perfect side dish for Mother’s day or any pretty, Spring party!
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9. Lemon Orzo
Lemon Orzo
This lemon orzo recipe includes bright, summer corn to turn up the sunshine.
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10. Spinach and Goat Cheese Quiche with Zucchini Crust
Spinach and Goat Cheese Quiche with Zucchini Crust
This gorgeous goat cheese quiche with spinach and balsamic caramelized onion is not only the prettiest quiche your guests will ever see, it’s also made with a low-carb, nutritious (and delicious) zucchini crust!
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11. The Fanciest Cheese Board
The Fanciest Cheese Board
This fancy cheese board is so easy to prepare and assemble with no complicated ingredient arranging!
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12. Prosciutto and Melon Appetizers
Prosciutto and Melon Appetizers
These prosciutto and melon appetizers make a refreshing Italian classic extra pretty and feminine!
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13. Roasted Rainbow Carrots
Roasted Rainbow Carrots
This 4-ingredient roasted rainbow carrot recipe is the most effortlessly elegant side dish you’ll ever make!
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14. Tomato Crostini with Pesto and Ricotta
Tomato Crostini with Pesto and Ricotta
This recipe includes fresh, homemade pesto and pretty prosciutto roses! It’s a gorgeous and delicious appetizer for Mother’s Day or a perfect addition to any spring or summer brunch buffet!
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15. Chickpea Salad with Dill
Creamy Chickpea Salad with Dill
This chickpea salad with dill is one of my favorite side dish recipes for spring entertaining! It’s garden fresh, delicate yet flavorful, both easy and elegant!
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16. Mini Quiches with Ham and Swiss
Mini Quiches with Ham and Swiss
This bite-sized recipe works wonderfully as either an appetizer or main course for a brunch party, and looks so beautiful, topped with colorful cherry tomatoes!
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17. Sparkling Easter Sake Sangria
Sparkling Sake Easter Sangria
This sparkling sake sangria recipe is full of bright fruit and uses sparkling sake, instead of wine. With raspberry lemonade and fruit soaked in white rum, it makes a lovely Easter or sun-shiny Spring co*cktail that packs a bit of a punch, so sip those sparkles slowly, no mater how delicious they are!
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18. Spring Fennel Salad
Spring Fennel Salad
This salad requires very little prep, and comes together so beautifully. Such a delicious and healthy recipe to celebrate the fresh flavors of the season!
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19. Greek Yogurt with Cherry Spoon Sweets
Greek Yogurt with Cherry Spoon Sweets
This traditional Greek breakfast, yogurt with “spoon sweet” cherries is a delightful breakfast for special company.
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20. Pretty Prosciutto Rose Appetizers
Pretty Prosciutto Rose Appetizers
These pretty prosciutto rose appetizers are perfect for any elegant occasion! They complement any baby shower, bridal shower, wedding and even Christmas and New Year’s Eve party menus! With just 4 ingredients, they’re simple, elegant, tasty hors-d’oeuvres that your guests will adore!
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21. Lemon Turmeric Pearl Couscous
Lemon Turmeric Pearl Couscous
This pearl couscous recipe is made bright with lemon, fresh with dill and cucumber, and exciting with feta crumbles! It’s a perfect side dish for any spring meal, and takes just 20 minutes to make, with just a little cooling time for the couscous!
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22. Avocado Toast with Whipped Goat Cheese
Avocado Toast with Whipped Goat Cheese
These pretty avocado toasts with whipped goat cheese also include real, edible flowers that are easier to find than you may think! They also make gorgeous additions to any brunch party!
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23. Mini Croque Monsieur
Mini Croque Monsieur
This delightful mini croque monsieur recipe is a perfectly easy, perfectly elegant and exquisitely delicious breakfast idea that will impress any guest!
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24. Sparkling Pink Grapefruit co*cktail with Cucumber
Sparkling Pink Grapefruit co*cktail with Cucumber
This exquisite sake and pink grapefruit co*cktail is shaken with muddled cucumber and mint, splashed with soda and pairs perfectly with summer sunsets and stolen kisses.
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25. Tomato and Pearl Onion Pesto Crostini
Tomato and Pearl Onion Pesto Crostini
These beautiful crostini are layered with pesto ricotta, olive tapenade and topped with tiny balsamic pearl onion roses and cherry tomatoes. What appetizers could possibly be prettier for a summer party!?
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