Easter Baking/Cooking?

[circa1978]

We're going out to brunch but I'm going to cook anyway because Easter meals are my favorite to make. Leeks! Salads! Coconut! Ham! Cheese! Eggs! Sugar cookies! What could be bad?

What are you planning to make?

[sugarbear1]

I am hosting 13 people. It's also DS2's birthday.
I am making:
mushroom / spinach / goat cheese egg bake
sausage / cheddar / hashbrown egg bake
a pile of bacon
red velvet cupcakes

Family members are bringing fruit and hot cross buns.

I feel like I need something else, but I don't know what.

[lavenderblue]

My SIL hosts, and pretty much every holiday I'm asked to bring a Charcuterie because I guess mine are cute LOL Like last year my Easter charcuterie was in the shape of a bunny and this year I'm doing it to look like a bouquet of flowers.

[trissie18]

It is just our family of four so we are keeping it simple.

Ham
Mashed potatoes
Broccoli and Cheese
Honey Glazed Carrots
Rolls
Deviled Eggs
Mayonnaise Cake for dessert

[shauni27]

casual brunch for us, deviled eggs, quiche, muffins, fruit salad.

dinner will be ham, mashed potatoes and our friends are bringing a green veg and dessert.

[pierogigirl]

I have not yet thought about the food, except to get white eggs. However, it seems Paas is no more? We'll be using food coloring, instead. I'm guessing DH will do a ham.

[cereal K]

Just the four of us which is totally fine, since we just had my family in town this past weekend, and hosted H's family earlier in the month. I'm planning on:

Ham
Au Gratin Potatoes (from a box lol)
Green Beans
Apple Salad
Deviled Eggs
Angel Food Cake with Peanut Butter Icing

[sweetchix]

I am hosting 10 people. I am making traditional Easter dinner: ham, ham gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, brussel sprouts, and rolls. I also make a bunny cake every Easter. One set of aunt/uncle is bringing sweet potato casserole (with nuts, not marshmallows) and the other set is bringing a bday dessert as it’s also their son’s 19th birthday.

I used to hate ham but now I look forward to having it. The gravy really perfects it!

ETA: DDs are currently home dyeing the eggs I hard boiled last night.

[lust2hart]

Mar 28, 2024 13:22:49 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

I am hosting 13 people. It's also DS2's birthday.
I am making:
mushroom / spinach / goat cheese egg bake
sausage / cheddar / hashbrown egg bake
a pile of bacon
red velvet cupcakes

Family members are bringing fruit and hot cross buns.

I feel like I need something else, but I don't know what.

Maybe another sweet thing? Monkey bread, or lemon bars? 

[sugarbear1]

Mar 28, 2024 15:22:25 GMT -5 lust2hart said:

Mar 28, 2024 13:22:49 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

I am hosting 13 people. It's also DS2's birthday.
I am making:
mushroom / spinach / goat cheese egg bake
sausage / cheddar / hashbrown egg bake
a pile of bacon
red velvet cupcakes

Family members are bringing fruit and hot cross buns.

I feel like I need something else, but I don't know what.

Maybe another sweet thing? Monkey bread, or lemon bars? 

oooh monkey bread would be delish and easy. I have some frozen pizza dough...

[tacokick]

We’re making crab cakes, potato salad, asparagus (?), deviled eggs and I ordered a lamb coconut cake from the old school bakery.

I think we might make some chocolate/coconut Easter eggs. Neither of us have before but I thought it might be fun? I think I already have all the ingredients needed.

[lust2hart]

Mar 28, 2024 15:37:10 GMT -5 tacokick said:

We’re making crab cakes, potato salad, asparagus (?), deviled eggs and I ordered a lamb coconut cake from the old school bakery.

I think we might make some chocolate/coconut Easter eggs. Neither of us have before but I thought it might be fun? I think I already have all the ingredients needed.

Wut.

[tacokick]

Mar 28, 2024 15:45:31 GMT -5 lust2hart said:

Mar 28, 2024 15:37:10 GMT -5 tacokick said:

We’re making crab cakes, potato salad, asparagus (?), deviled eggs and I ordered a lamb coconut cake from the old school bakery.

I think we might make some chocolate/coconut Easter eggs. Neither of us have before but I thought it might be fun? I think I already have all the ingredients needed.

Wut.

A cake shaped like a lamb? It’s a very common Easter dessert.

[lust2hart]

Mar 28, 2024 15:48:01 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Mar 28, 2024 15:45:31 GMT -5 lust2hart said:

Wut.

A cake shaped like a lamb? It’s a very common Easter dessert.

Ohhhhh, haha! Definitely thought lamb was going IN the cake.

[tacokick]

Mar 28, 2024 15:49:03 GMT -5 lust2hart said:

Mar 28, 2024 15:48:01 GMT -5 tacokick said:

A cake shaped like a lamb? It’s a very common Easter dessert.

Ohhhhh, haha! Definitely thought lamb was going IN the cake.

That would be a very bold flavor profile!

[sonrisa]

Same as every year:
Pavlova shaped like an easter egg
ham
this salad www.loveandlemons.com/nicoise-salad/
rolls

[rubytue]

Oh a want a coconut cake so bad. My dads birthday was always right around Easter, and my grandma always made a coconut cake. I might have to dig out that recipe.

[CurlyQ284]

Ham, sweet potato casserole, cheesy potatoes, green beans and almonds, Hawaiian rolls, and carrot cake cups (they're like mini trifles in small mason jars).

I think that's it, I feel like there should be more but that's dumb, it's 7 people that should be fine.

ETA oh yeah, deviled eggs! And I've been thinking about a salad. I'm a Midwest transplant, and nobody in this family appreciates salad. They just want lettuce, croutons and Caesar dressing. Whenever I make a seasonal salad no one eats it but I want it so we'll see

[momin2013]

I am hosting 0 people.

We will have dinner on Saturday at my brother’s, for which food will be catered from a local place.

We will have Easter morning breakfast at my parents’ (we’ll be there for the weekend), for which they will make a big, lovely breakfast, I’m sure.

Sunday night we’ll be home and just the 3 of us, and I’m planning on grilling lamb kabobs.

[Patsy Baloney]

We’re not hosting, but I am helping my mom. I’ve been tasked with rolls, deviled eggs, and a sweet potato casserole I made at Thanksgiving that wasn’t so much a recipe as what my heart told me was right (more butter, more brown sugar, more cream, more pecans).

No dessert was requested, but my MIL always brings the *worst* Rice Krispie treats, so I think I might make something like an angel food cake with fruit or a lemon Bundt.

[mcppalmbeach]

I don’t really care for ham so every year our menu is bbq…pulled pork, coleslaw, baked beans. It is so good. My parents host, but I will make dessert (banana pudding and maybe brownies or a cake).I love carrot cake and every year I say I’m going to make one and o never do.

[mcppalmbeach]

Mar 28, 2024 13:22:49 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

I am hosting 13 people. It's also DS2's birthday.
I am making:
mushroom / spinach / goat cheese egg bake
sausage / cheddar / hashbrown egg bake
a pile of bacon
red velvet cupcakes

Family members are bringing fruit and hot cross buns.

I feel like I need something else, but I don't know what.

Recipes for those egg bakes pretty please!

[sugarbear1]

Mar 28, 2024 17:07:06 GMT -5 mcppalmbeach said:

Mar 28, 2024 13:22:49 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

I am hosting 13 people. It's also DS2's birthday.
I am making:
mushroom / spinach / goat cheese egg bake -- I am going to add chunks of sourdough, I think, and I have to make it with oat milk as my sister is allergic to cow milk
sausage / cheddar / hashbrown egg bake
a pile of bacon
red velvet cupcakes

Family members are bringing fruit and hot cross buns.

I feel like I need something else, but I don't know what.

Recipes for those egg bakes pretty please!

I linked in my original message!

[laterz]

Turkey
sweet potatoes
corn casserole
roasted carrots
chocolate sheet cake

[sproctopus]

Smoked ham
Cinnamon babka french toast bake
Carrot cake

[snipsnsnails]

Just finalized the menu with DH
Yeast Rolls
Deviled Eggs
Charcuterie
Roasted Artichoke Salad
Spring Strawberry Salad
Lamb Lollipops w/Garlic & Rosemary
Maple Glazed Ham
Pizzagaina
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Cheese Herb Potato Gratin
Roasted Vegetable Platter
Mini Braised Potatoes
Carrot Cake
Butterscotch Brownies

[circa1978]

I definitely am craving coconut cake, I think with lemon curd. I've never attempted a lamb mold, shaped cakes are always 50/50 on if they stick for me.

I just bought ingredients for most things in this thread, so thank you, 😂.

[Susie]

I made a few loaves of babka, which is sentimental at easter for my dad.  Otherwise we're pretty low key.

[sadie]

Mar 28, 2024 15:52:12 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

Same as every year:
Pavlova shaped like an easter egg
ham
this salad www.loveandlemons.com/nicoise-salad/
rolls

That salad looks delicious! I love the variety of flavor/textures!

[sadie]

I'm doing crepes/fruit/nutella/bacon for brunch. No idea for dinner, probably nothing fancy.