Fun Easter Dinner Recipes & Ideas

Don’t let the price of eggs get you down! Make celebrating the holiday a breeze with our easy-to-follow dinner plan and classic Easter dinner recipes specially-selected by our Cribsi team. Not only will your guests leave dinner feeling satiated and relaxed, we guarantee this menu also allows for the ultimate enjoyment of the host or hostess, too. Our easy-to-plan and easy cleanup Easter recipe ideas are sure to please any crowd.

The Ultimate Appetizer

Creating the perfect platter of deviled eggs is not difficult to master. The bulk of the work can be done ahead of time in a few simple steps. Our favorite recipe is adapted from the U.S.A. Cookbook written by Sheila Lukins. Adults and children alike agree that this is one of those go-to Easter dinner recipes that no holiday should ever be without.

Classic Deviled Eggs

• Boil the eggs for ten minutes and peel them. Cool them fully in the fridge and slice lengthwise with a sharpened knife (we love this knife set for its precision).
• Remove the yolks and place in a bowl. Mash them with mustard, Tabasco, salt, pepper, and chives to taste. Add mayonnaise for a bit of texture.
• Some guests love horseradish sauce or diced pickles thrown into the mix for a bit of zing!

Use a piping bag to fill the egg halves with the mixture and top with a dash of paprika. Voilà! You have perfected one of the most classic Easter dinner recipes. Set the deviled eggs in the fridge for later, or make them the day beforehand. Serve on a unique platter for the final wow-factor.

The Main

To minimize cleaning and maximize your own enjoyment, the next of our Easter recipe ideas is a plain and simple slow-cooker ham with a glaze option to serve as your main dish. You’ll need some essential cookware to help create the glaze, and a crockpot to cook the ham. It’s sure to be a hit at Easter. Dinner recipes for the holidays don’t need to be too complex.

Glazed Ham in a Crock Pot

• Begin by adding about ¾ cup of water to your slow cooker. Place the ham on its side and brush lightly with a glaze of your choice. Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours.
• When the ham is cooked to temperature, transfer it to your favorite baking dish to keep warm in your oven as you work on the other parts of the meal. Brush with your favorite glaze when ready to serve.

Ham is one of those go-to Easter dinner recipes that is sure to please. The clean up is easy and leftovers can easily be sent home or used later on to make soup or sandwiches. For the glaze, we suggest mustard paired with maple or apricot flavors, but the options are endless. You could even serve this dish with a selection of 3-4 glazes and allow your guests to choose.

Dessert

Our compilation of Easter recipe ideas wouldn’t be complete without a dessert! Since Easter is mostly for the kids anyway, we love cute desserts that keep us young at heart. You can keep it cool with this cute bird nest recipe.

No-Bake Bird Nests

Some Easter dinner recipes are more complex, but this one only has four ingredients and it can be whipped up in a flash. You’ll just need rice cereal, peanut butter, milk chocolate chips and some chocolate eggs.

• Melt an entire bag of warm melted milk chocolate chips with an equal amount of peanut butter until the entire mixture is melted.
• Add the rice cereal until they are coated with the chocolate mixture and stir.
• Scoop the mixture into a muffin tin and hollow the middle of the mixture.
• Add chocolate eggs and let the nests set for at least 30 minutes in the fridge before serving for Easter dinner.

Recipes don’t need to be complicated to be crowd-pleasers! If you have an older child in the house, take advantage of the extra help this year and assign them the task of creating the dessert.

Spring Drinks

Top off your Easter dinner with some cocktail recipe ideas. Of course the kids need some fruit juice or fizzy punch but don’t forget the grown-ups! Think spring with pastel colored martinis or a DIY mimosa bar. Here’s one of our favorite go-to drinks that guests are sure to love — the French 75. It complements most Easter dinner recipes perfectly.

French 75

Lemony and a little bit sweet, the French 75 is the perfect Easter beverage. It’s a combination of refreshing and spritzy. You’ll need champagne, gin, lemon juice and simple syrup. Here’s how to make it:

• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
• Add an ounce of gin, 1 tbsp of lemon juice and 1 tbsp of simple syrup and shake.
• Pour into your favorite champagne flute and top it off with a splash of your favorite bubbly.
• Garnish with a lemon twist or a slice of cucumber.

Sip this refreshing beverage alongside your dinner for ultimate enjoyment.

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