If you’re planning to celebrate the Easter holiday with a midday meal, here is a basket-full of Easter brunch recipe inspiration. From traditional hot cross buns to make-ahead breakfast casserole, you’ll find a variety of popular Easter brunch recipes below, both sweet and savory.
Easter Brunch Ideas
Easter food typically includes heaps of chocolate (like these peanut butter Easter eggs!), but in between all the sweets and egg hunts, there has to be a nourishing meal. If you’re planning an Easter brunch menu, this collection of easy Easter brunch recipes includes sweet and savory favorites like hot cross buns, cinnamon rolls, breakfast casseroles, quiche, muffins, and coffee cake.
Breakfast casserole is the real Easter brunch M.V.P., but today’s list also includes egg-free options, impressive pastries, simple salads, and kid-friendly favorites. If you’re looking for ham recipes, I’ve made and loved this citrus spice glazed ham. It’s fantastic, and makes excellent leftovers.
My favorite egg-free savory Easter brunch recipe is this ham & potato casserole:
And don’t forget that coconut Easter cake is 100% acceptable on Easter morning. 😉
Sample Easter Brunch Menu
For a balanced brunch spread, I recommend choosing recipes from a few different categories. For example:
- Main Dish: Ham & Swiss Strata
- Sweet Dish: Cinnamon Rolls
- Quick Bread: Lemon Blueberry Muffins
- Fresh Dish: Strawberry Bacon Salad
- Dessert: Greek Yogurt Fruit Tart
Whether you’re hosting the big Sunday meal, or toting along a side dish, you’re sure to find a new favorite Easter brunch recipe here. If you have a copy of my New York Times best-selling cookbook, Sally’s Baking 101, I have an entire chapter dedicated to delicious brunch recipes. Hop to it!
See my general breakfast recipes page, which includes an easy frittata recipe, for all of my published breakfast recipe options.
20 Favorite Easter Brunch Recipes
Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns are a traditional Easter treat and I’m happy to share my family’s favorite version with you! Featuring a deliciously spiced sweet dough, flour cross, and orange glaze, these buns are truly one of my favorite yeasted bread recipes.
Ham & Potato Casserole Recipe
This savory ham and potato casserole is cheesy, flavorful, and satisfying. It’s a delicious way to use leftover ham, and it can do double duty as a brunch recipe or a dinner dish. It’s also completely egg-free.
Easy Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole
This breakfast casserole recipe is an incredibly convenient breakfast choice because it’s make-ahead and infinitely adaptable. Use your favorite seasonings and cheeses, vegetables like peppers and mushrooms, meats like sausage or bacon—or you can make it vegetarian.
Homemade Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
This recipe yields a pan of buttery soft, gooey cinnamon sweet, and extra fluffy homemade cinnamon rolls topped with tangy cream cheese icing. You can make the cinnamon rolls within a few hours or get started the night before.
The Perfect Quiche
This is a perfect base quiche recipe. Use a combination of milk and heavy cream for the richest, creamiest filling, and the flavors/add-ins are up to you!
Blueberry French Toast Casserole
One of my best! Every bite is full of texture and flavor… from the soft custard-soaked bread and juicy blueberries to the crisp brown sugar streusel on top!
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
These light and fluffy lemon blueberry muffins taste just as good—or better!—than any bakery version. Greek yogurt keeps them extra moist, creamed butter creates a wonderfully soft and fluffy texture, and blueberries and lemon add a burst of flavor.
Sour Cream Coffee Cake (With Crumb Topping)
Simple and classic, this buttery cinnamon crumb coffee cake is anything but plain! Sour cream ensures a moist, light (not overly dense) breakfast cake, and there’s double the brown sugar cinnamon crumb streusel.
Ham & Swiss Strata Recipe
This version of the egg-and-bread casserole requires zero pre-cooking on your part. Use crusty day-old bread so each bite is chewy and textured. You can prep the strata the night before.
Glazed Lemon Blueberry Scones
These lemon blueberry scones are bursting with juicy blueberries and a delicious lemon zing. They’re buttery and moist, with crisp-crumbly edges and soft flaky centers.
Blueberry Cream Cheese Pastry Braid
With layers of buttery flaky dough and a sweet cheese filling, this blueberry cream cheese pastry braid is undoubtedly irresistible. The recipe yields 2 braids, which is enough for a large gathering of hungry guests.
Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
A Sunday classic! Soft and fluffy with just the right amount of sweetness, they’re an ideal base for your favorite pancake toppings. This is my staple, go-to pancake recipe.
Blackberry Cream Cheese Crumb Cake
This blackberry crumb cake features a blackberry-studded buttery breakfast cake, smooth cream cheese layer, and cinnamon brown sugar crumble topping.
Favorite Strawberry Bacon Salad
My favorite strawberry bacon salad is always a crowd-pleaser, any time of day! If you already have cooked bacon, it only takes about 15 minutes to throw together.
Greek Yogurt Fruit Tart (GF)
If you’re looking for a healthful side or ending to your Easter brunch meal, I always love this nutritious and gluten-free tart.
Orange Sweet Rolls
These bright and fresh homemade orange sweet rolls start with a soft and buttery homemade dough, and are rolled up with a zesty citrus-cinnamon-sugar filling!
Easter Cake Recipe
For a perfectly festive Easter dessert, top this lightly sweet coconut Bundt cake with creamy lemon cream cheese frosting, feathery sweetened coconut, and, of course, candy-coated chocolate eggs.
Homemade Monkey Bread (aka Cinnamon Roll Bites)
Monkey bread is equally fun to make, serve, and eat. It’s always a crowd favorite!
Baked Cream Cheese French Toast Casserole
One of my favorite all-in-one, always crowd-pleasing, home run breakfast recipes! The pockets of cream cheese under the buttery streusel are the best part.
Homemade Cheddar Biscuits (Like Red Lobster)
These deliciously simple homemade cheddar biscuits easily rival Red Lobster’s cheddar bay biscuits. They’re quick and easy to put together, and baked in only about 20 minutes.
If you’re in the mood for rolls, I love serving these honey butter rolls with Easter brunch or supper. They make a wonderful base for leftover Easter ham sandwiches, too!
And if you need more inspiration in the desserts category, I have you covered. Here is a collection of spring dessert recipes including homemade lemon meringue pie and fluffy angel food cake. Each would make a perfectly sweet addition to your holiday meal.
More Recipe Resources
- Here is my full collection of Easter recipes, and more specifically, a collection of 20 favorite Easter desserts.
- I have a growing selection of gluten-free recipes, too.
- Here are all of my passover-friendly recipes.
- If you’re looking for deviled eggs, I love these sour cream and bacon deviled eggs!
Q: What are your favorite Easter brunch recipes?
Reader Comments and Reviews
love it, thanks. Hey guys, you’ve GOT to try out the Homemade Monkey Bread… NEVER fails. the. best. ever.
Love your recipes! Thanks for sharing
For some reason this year I have it in my mind that I want to make a carrot dessert but NOT carrot cake. And I have been so surprised to find a lack of carrot creativity when it comes to desserts! It seems like every recipe is just carrot cake in disguise Have you ever tried making something like carrot pie or carrot pudding?
Hi Kyle, we haven’t tested any other carrot type desserts, but let us know if you find something you enjoy!
I am so excited about finding your website!!! My friend baked your white vanilla cake and yes it was the best I’m ever had. However, she said she put an extra stick of butter in the batter. It was sooo good … do you recommend doing that? That’s a lot of butter.
Hi Tricia, we recommend sticking with the recipe as written for best results!
We’ve made your hot cross buns for the last few years. It’s a family tradition. So yummy! Thank you so much! 🙂
My daughter and I just made your Hummingbird Cake for her birthday. What a treat. Delicious, Thank You
Absolutely one of my favorites, too. So glad you enjoyed it.
Do you have any Low Carb Recipes?
Hi Beverly! We aren’t experts in low carb baking, but you may find some recipes to enjoy in the healthy baking section of our website.
This is not my first rodeo. But I must admit that I have been very impressed with your recipes. You always have a recipe for every occasion, also. Bravo, Sally!
do you have gluteen free receipes
I sure do! Here are all of the gluten free recipes I have published.
Thank you so much!