28 Easter brunch ideas for a crowd: only the fun recipes for easy entertaining

Mini banana breads are the more fun way to use up ripe bananas

You can never go wrong with banana bread, and these mini loaves are easy to serve to guests. Top them with Easter M&Ms or mini eggs to match the day.

Homemade Popovers might be the most genius dessert ever

Sky high buttery muffin-like pastries with crunchy outsides and custardy insides. Serve them with some fruit salad for an easy brunch idea. These little breads are a showstopper, and best yet, you can make the batter ahead of time and bake them off right at the last minute for all the oohs and ahs that gorgeous tall popovers command.

Lemon Lavender tea loaves

As the daffodils pop up in the garden come Spring, this floral sunny tasting bread seems the perfect way to enjoy the fragrance of fresh flowers.  The two-tone look on these mini loaves and the simple lemon glaze will add a little bit of color the Easter bunny himself would approve.  As this is a one-bowl creation, you can make this in lazy fashion in that time of day before the coffee kicks in.

Easy pistachio lemon bread: all the Spring feels you want

If you love lemon, this bread will be your heart! With bright lemon flavor and the crunchy richness of pistachio, this beautiful two-tone bread absolutely belongs in an Easter spread.

Quick breads for Easter brunch

No yeast here, just one-bowl mix and go breads that everyone loves.

Green Chile Mini Quiches

The goodness of smoky green chiles and melty pepper jack and ham inside shatteringly flaky cream cheese pastry all in a handheld package that’s perfect for lunches, appetizers or snacks. These are great for brunches to serve as a side or an alternative egg dish.

The best Sour Cream Biscuits

It’s not always easy to find good quality buttermilk, but you can ALWAYS get good sour cream!  These are wonderful for Easter brunches as you can make hearty sandwiches using them and slices of ham, or bacon and eggs. Freeze a batch and just reheat them for your brunch.

Bacon Spinach Quiche because eating greens never tasted this good

Briny feta and luxurious bacon go together with delightfully green spinach for an earthy satisfying quiche that your whole family will love. This can easily be a main dish for brunch, and boy howdy is it a good one.

Savory baking recipes for Easter Brunch

Man cannot live on cake alone, that’s why these meal in one quiches and side biscuits exist! Use these to fill out your Easter menu.

Whole wheat strawberry yogurt muffins to fuel your morning right

Rich Greek yogurt filled morning muffins with just the right amount of sweetness, studded with bright strawberries. Everything about these muffins screams Spring, and the vivid beautiful color of the berries is striking on a Brunch buffet spread.

Easy Lemon Monkey Bread muffins for a sunny handheld treat

Kids will love to help with this messy fun recipe. Laced with lemon and candied orange and topped with lemon cream cheese icing, these are refreshing and light. If you want the idea of a sweet roll but don’t want the commitment of eating a full cinnamon roll, you can make these in any size muffin tin for bite sized sweet roll treats.

Pear Streusel Muffins

Moist muffins loaded with pear chunks and double topped with crunchy oat streusel and a fig glaze perfumed with apple pie spice. These muffins are so so good to eat and a nice contrast with other brunch offerings.

Apple Butter Muffins with walnuts: your new favorite

Warm spiced apple butter adds delicate flavor to these sweet easy muffins.  With walnuts and whole wheat flour, these are a toothy quick bread that’s as tasty at Brunch on their own or with a spread of cream cheese and ham.

Muffins recipes for Easter brunch

Handheld breads in a variety of flavors are always welcome at brunch. All these moist, fruity muffins will keep your Easter brunch festive and interesting.

Lemon Blueberry Snacking Cake

This little cake is stuffed with juicy berries and tender from buttermilk without being too sweet. Since it’s just barely more complicated than making muffins, It’s an easy cake to make when you need to bring a meal to a friend, a baby shower, or pretty much anytime.

The less sugar Moravian Sugar Cake that’ll make the world brighter

Fluffy yeasted cake with a craggy cinnamon sugar butter top. This recipe takes this cake closer to its roots in European yeasted cakes like Butterkuchen with less sugar and a secret ingredient that gives it its buttery pillowy inside structure. As a sheet pan cake, it will feed at least a whole football team.

Strawberry Crumb Cake with marzipan filling to feed a crowd

A simple yeasted sheet cake is filled with a sophisticated marzipan filling spiked with Frangelico and topped with cardamom streusel. Like the German crumb cake, this will feed at least 20 with a not-to-sweet but beautiful cake that’s easy to make.

Easy gift: Mini Gingerbread Banana Bread Bundt Cakes

Adorable mini bundt cakes of classic banana bread with a ribbon of gingerbread brown sugar walnut filling running through the center of each mini cake.  Dust them with powdered sugar or top them with cream cheese frosting. Cut them in half or quarters to feed more people for brunch, or better still bake it in a full-size bundt pan for easy serving.

Raspberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake for a cozy afternoon

A moist afternoon sour cream coffee cake topped with cardamom streusel and raspberries with a ribbon of jam on the inside. Cut this into cute little squares to add to the edge of your Easter brunch plate in that reserved “cake spot” every plate has.

The most tender German crumb cake for better coffee

A light fluffy yeast dough cake covered with crunchy streusel and your favorite fruit. This cake feeds at least 20 if not more, so it’s perfect for a crowd at Easter.

Cake recipes for Easter Brunch

Yes, cake is for breakfast, and I’ll happily fight anyone who thinks otherwise! All of these cakes are lower-sugar recipes, making them even more appropriate for brunch. I’d still eat a slice of chocolate cake for breakfast, though!

Lemon blueberry rolls that will make your Spring sunny

Take a cinnamon roll and fill it instead with bright lemon sugar, blueberry jam, and whole blueberries, and you get these sunny fruity rolls perfect for Easter or Mother’s Day brunch.

My family’s famous yeast dough strudel is surprisingly easy

I never ate my great-grandma’s celebrated apple strudel while she was still alive because she always made us this version, made with a buttery soft yeast dough instead.  It’s like a cinnamon roll log with nutty buttery cinnamon sugar filling, and it feeds a crowd and plenty to freeze afterwards. Keep one in your freezer at all times like my Grandma, and you can serve a sweet roll people will remember with less sweat on your part.

Poppy seed babka is full of hidden flavor and is so so pretty

This is one of the most striking breads you’ll ever make.  With bold stripes of twisted poppy seed filling alternating with airy sweet yeast dough, this is the kind of bread that will draw you in and make friends with you forever.

Lemon Raspberry Rolls: big beautiful brunch rolls

Filled with raspberry jam and whole berries with zingy lemon cream cheese frosting, these raspberry rolls are perfect for Spring and Summer or any time you want to have something bright and sunny for brunch.

Cinnamon Apple Pie Rolls: the ultimate apple lover’s treat

Loaded with perfectly tender sautéed apples rolled up in soft applesauce overnight roll dough these rolls are an apple lover’s dream.

Raspberry Almond Blueberry Wreath Bread is celebration on a plate

Soft sweet roll dough painted with stripes of red white and blue, then rolled up and cut before braiding into a glorious wreath. The shape is called Hefekranz in German. This is a bread worthy of a celebration.

Grandma Marie’s traditional Czech kolache

These pretty hand sized pastries will greet your morning with their cheerful fruity fillings and ultra soft bread. These authentic Czech kolache

are easy and better than most sweet rolls. If you love fruit or poppy seeds, a kolac will literally be your jam.

Lime blackberry sweet rolls are our new morning favorite

Zingy cousins of cinnamon rolls filled with blackberry jam and fresh blackberries with the tang of fresh lime to make the blackberries come alive!

Sweet poppy seed rolls are my new favorite cinnamon roll alternative

You’ll love these lemon-glazed flavor packed buns with the striking black spiral of poppy seeds.

Easy overnight cinnamon rolls so soft your Grandma would approve

These are the lightest cinnamon rolls you’ll ever eat. The overnight rest of the dough in the fridge makes the dough a cinch to roll out and makes for a tastier roll. You’ll never make cinnamon rolls the same again.

Overnight Strawberry Jam Rolls are the morning hack you need

Cinnamon rolls never get old, but sometimes they do get boring. When that happens, it’s time to make these jam rolls instead. Filled with fresh strawberry jam, these are bright vanilla flecked buns to greet the day.

Cinnamon rolls recipes for Easter brunch

While everyone loves a classic cinnamon roll for brunch, the truth is that you can fill cinnamon roll dough with pretty near just about anything. Here are the best sweet roll flavors and sweet roll twists tailor-made for Easter brunch.