50 Cheap Easter Recipes
Easter is right around the corner, and I’m excited to celebrate the holiday with my family and cook a traditional meal.
Typically, I wait until the last minute to plan my Easter menu, scrambling the night before to find recipes and grocery shop. But this year, I’m ahead of the game.
I’ve spent some time combing the web and browsing some of my favorite blogs for cheap Easter recipes. Here are some ideas – 50, in fact – to help you cook a fabulous Easter meal without spending a lot of money:
Breakfast and Brunch
- Apple-cinnamon overnight baked french toast
- Breakfast crisp
- Bacon-corn pancakes
- Glazed donut muffins
- Easter bunny English muffin sandwiches
- Bunny butt pancakes
- Mini lemon monkey bread cupcakes
- Crescent roll breakfast pizza
- Breakfast empanadas
- Vegan Russian deviled potatoes
- Extra crispy baked breakfast potatoes
- Perfect scrambled eggs (below)
Easter Main Dishes
- Ham and potato casserole
- Honey baked ham
- Slow cooker ham
- Grandma’s holiday ham
- Simple meatloaf (with oatmeal and veggies)
- Pineapple roasted chicken
- Extra creamy scalloped potatoes and ham (below)
Vegetarian Easter Recipes
Side Dishes
- Best-ever crock pot mashed potatoes
- Mashed carrot potatoes with bacon
- Honey-mustard roasted vegetables
- Buttery baked carrots
- Easy twice-baked potato bake
- Roasted Brussels sprouts with Applewood smoked bacon
- Fully loaded Brussels sprouts
- Kristi’s cornbake
- Deviled eggs
- Zucchini-cheddar hush puppies
- Sweet corn spoon bread
- Raisin glaze for ham (below)
Salads
- Spring salad with shredded root vegetables, chickpeas, goat cheese, and almonds
- Strawberry pretzel salad
- Roasted vegetable salad
- Roasted carrot and Feta salad
- Layered Jello salad
- Lentil, feta, grape, and walnut salad (below)
Bread
- Dinner rolls shaped like little birds
- Cheddar drop biscuits
- Classic popovers
- Parmesan popovers
- Baking powder biscuits made with olive oil
- Buttermilk baking powder drop biscuits
- Hot cross buns
- Rainbow bread
- Gorgonzola cheese straws
- Perfect dinner rolls (below)
Desserts and Easter Treats
- Peeps cake
- Cadbury Creme Egg brownies
- Easter bunny nests
- Easter muddy buddies
- Easter snack mix
- No-bake carrot cake balls
- Salted caramel Easter popcorn
- Strawberry pie
- Lemon-blueberry Bundt cake
- Homemade peanut butter Easter eggs
- Carrot spice cake made with Greek yogurt
- Fondant carrots (to decorate carrot cake)
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10 Comments on “50 Cheap Easter Recipes”
Thanks for the mention! Pinned these 🙂 Great roundup! Happy Easter!
Thanks for including my French Toast Haley!
Thanks for the link love! This looks like a fantastic resource for affordable holiday dinners. 🙂
Thank you so much for including me in this wonderful list. I would love to eat my way through it. I am pinning! Happy Easter Heather!!!
Way to list it up! This is a fantastic collection (thanks for including Carpe Season!) Happy Easter!
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Thanks for including my Easter Candy Nests! You found so many wonderful ideas for your round-up. I can’t wait until next spring to try some of them!
Great Easter roundup! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing some great recipes. Am definitely going to try some of these. I love Easter!
Thanks for including my no bake carrot cake balls. What a great roundup for Easter. 🙂