The countdown to Easter has begun, so I pulled together an Easter Parade of recipes and inspiration from the kitchen to the table!
If you’re of in need of some Easter inspiration, click on the links to hop over. . .
For a peep or a taste :)
Hopping Down the Bunny Trail and Easter Egg Hunt Table
In the Potting Shed with Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail
Original Peter Rabbit Chocolates by Beatrix Potter, green and white bunny plates and cabbage leaf chargers for a bunny egg-stravaganza
Mini Easter Basket Cakes
Festive to serve and easy to decorate, filling with colored coconut for “grass”, candy eggs, and a chocolate bunny or chick, just like an Easter basket!
Lunch with Bunnies
A floral quilt and Pansy Bunny serving pieces provide a centerpiece for dishes offering up sprays of flowers. Help yourself to a mixed baby greens salad with berries, blue cheese crumbles, pecans and Chilled Carrot Soup, garnished with violas, flowering thyme, parsley, and a swirl of sour cream.
and Pansy Shortbread Cookies for a sweet ending.
An Easter Table and Centerpiece with Bunnies, Eggs, Birds and Blooms
A quick and easy Easter centerpiecethat’s edible too!
How to Build a Blooming Easter Basket
Easy tips and tricks for building a blooming Easter basket, perfect for Mother’s Day or May Day too!
Layered Spring Salad!
A make-ahead recipe for your potluck, family gathering or barbecue!
A Bunny Picnic
Easter Baskets are picnic ready with Bunny-Shaped Sandwiches, Carrot Cake Cookies, and Bunny Snack Mix and Lemonade with Peeps Stirrers
Tussie Mussie Napkins
Napkins-Turned-Tussie Mussie, an easy and festive DIY napkin fold! Fill with Easter eggs, candy, flatware, or flowers for your Easter table or any occasion!
Lemon Peep-tinis
& Peeps Centerpiece
Bunny Trail Mix Popcorn
A sweet and salty mix guaranteed to satisfy everybunny! Perfect for a neighborhood or family Easter Egg Hunt!
Easter PEEPS® Hidden Egg Cupcakes
Surprise-inside cupcakes with tinting shredded coconut Easter “grass”
Easter Greetings Table
A Flower-filled Basket Centerpiece, Egg-shaped Plates & Eggs with Easter Messages
Bunny Ears Salad
Petite Palmiers as Bunny Ears hiding in salad greens with a recipe for Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
Easter Blues Table
Inspired by a pair of hydrangea bunnies with basket centerpiece, egg cup vases, and hyacinths
Hippity Hoppity Carrot Cupcakes
Cupcakes that hop straight from a box mix and a can of ginger ale!
Easter Greetings Table
A three-tiered server/cupcake stand provides a quick & easy Easter centerpiece for the table and dessert too!
Seven Layer Carrot Cake Bars
7-Layer Carrot Cake Bars, a twist on the traditional 7-layer bars with carrot cake as a base instead of graham cracker crumbs!
Roses, Bunnies, and Pfaltzgraff Tea Rose Dinnerware
No-Bake Lemon-Coconut “Cottontails”
An easy, make-ahead recipe and sweet ending (pun intended :) or Easter dessert
Easter Peeps Centerpiece
Easy to assemble and edible too!
Peter Rabbit’s Carrot Zucchini Muffins
Sure to please everybunny with the addition of carrot, zucchini, apple and coconut, including naughty and hungry rabbits :)
Easter’s On its Way Table with plaid, bunnies, eggs and tulips
Mini Easter Bunny Cakes
Easter Bunny Bark
An easy, no-bake treat to satisfy everybunny’s sweet tooth!
DIY Spring Blooming Easter Arrangement
A quick & easy method to create a centerpiece for a spring or Easter table. After your flowers fade, plant your bulbs to enjoy in your garden next year!
Blooming Bunny Ear Cupcakes
As fun to make as they are to eat! I used some Russian Piping Tips that I’ve seen pop up all over the Internet recently. They’re larger than regular decorating icing tips and allow you to create a complete flower in just one squeeze.
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Tablescape Thursday
Mary, what a gorgeous Easter round-up loaded with inspiration. I will take a carrot cupcake to go with my coffee this morning. Happy Monday!
Oh my gosh, it’s an Easter idea bonanza! Wonderful and thanks.
Everything you do is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you so much for all the inspiration. We are set for a rainy week in the midwest – Perfect for experimenting with some of your recipes!
All are absolutely beautiful and look delicious!! I have almost all my supplies in for my Easter recipes..hope I get them all finished!!! 🐇🌸🌹💐🦋🌺🐇
I can almost smell the hyacinth from here!
Such fabulous Easter ideas and gorgeous table settings. You do everything so beautifully.
I love all of your great Easter ideas, Mary – so beautiful and creative!! Thanks for sharing……
You are the most fun of all the bloggers I subscribe to. You brighten my day every day by your imaginative ides. Wish I could be a bee on a flower and watch you design. Thank you from my heart to yours.
OK, seriously, I admit it, I love Peep-tinis. (Don’t tell anyone)
Oh Mary, you could have a book for every holiday and season, but instead you so generously share your ideas and recipes with us. Thank you for all your magic and inspiration for us to use and enjoy!
A wealth of inspiration here, Mary. I echo Kitty above. You should be publishing books for each season. I marvel at your talent, but also your energy to do all of this. You far out pace Martha Stewart who has a huge staff helping her. ;-)
I want to capture everyone of these settings and enter into the magic of each one. Couldn’t begin to single out a favorite. Each one is stellar!
Oh Mary….Golly Neds!! So many WONDERFUL ideas!! I wish I could incorporate every one of them.
I think we’ll go out to an Easter buffet for the first time in over 25 yrs. With Ern gone, I’ve lost my mojo for entertaining. I live vicariously through you displays!!
Oh HOPPY Day!!! hehe, What fun. Of course I’ve pinned many and am proud to say I’ve made an Easter basket and the vase within the vase with flowers and peeps and jelly beans and received TONS of compliments on both ~ thanks to you Miss Mary!! Now I think it’s time to bake some Peter Rabbit Carrot Zucchini muffins. Thank you!
OMG! So much eye candy! Love your blog. So much inspiration. I am not cooking for Easter but I will make a dessert!🐇
I agree with Kitty and Sarah, You surpass the paid professionals.
Mary everything looks beautiful and tempting.
Joan
As usual everything is just beautiful. The foods look delicious.
Marion
Where to start first with the foods. Everything is so tempting. You want to to it all. The decorations are cute. Thank You for sharing.
Marilyn
You have the most perfect seasonal decorations! I love your posts :)
You are SO amazing. I agree with the post about publishing books and the reference to Martha! This is a wonderful round up and I am pinning away! You are SO inspirational!
I am new here and am in overload! You are amazing! what fun your blog is and now my goal is to see all of it.
Nonie
I still can’t get over those Russian tips Mary, they make gorgeous cupcakes! You’re so right… Easter will be here before we know it, gotta get hopping:@)
Thank you Mary, it’s always special to revisit your fabulous posts of inspiration! One of my favorites has always been the tussle mussy napkin, so cute! I am up to my bunny ears in coconut this week, and this is a great round up to refer to!
Jenna
Mary……..NOBODY DOES IT BETTER………your are an amazing talent!
I hate spell check :)
Wow there is a wealth of great ideas here! I just want to sit down and sample all of the different foodie items! Those blooming ear cupcakes are decorated so pretty!
Everything is perfectly charming! I have not had one of those layers salads for years. Thanks for reminding me about it. Wishing you a blessed Easter.
Big Texas Hugs,
Susan and Bentley
What a breathtaking and inspiring post!Just adorable!
Mary you are so very clever and creative. I almost wore out my “Pin It” button. Thank you so very much for linking to the Spring and Easter Joys party. Have a very Happy Easter!
Mary, thank you for linking this post to the Spring & Easter Joys party. If people don’t make any other stop than yours, this one does it all!
Your photography and your blog is absolutely beautiful! Can’t believe I haven’t been here before! You will be one of my features tomorrow for the Spring and Easter Joys link party! Thanks so much for linking up! And that post-retail thing you talked about…I can totally relate;)
Oh my gosh, absolutely gorgeous! I could look at your tablescapes and food all day, they’re incredible!! I don’t know how you come up with all these ideas, let alone make all that food and goodies, you’re amazing!!
Hi Mary, You are amazing! Thank You for your wonderful idea & talent & time you are wonderful!, Sandy Ferreira April 10, 2019