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Easter brunch
Recipes and ideas for Easter breakfast
An extensive Easter breakfast is as much a part of Easter as the traditional egg hunt. Find out what makes Easter brunch so popular and how you can make your Easter brunch buffet appealing for your guests.
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At a glance
Easter brunch is an important part of your Easter celebrations.
An Easter brunch buffet includes hot and cold dishes
There are many recipe ideas for Easter breakfast
Matching Easter table decorations add the finishing touch to your culinary celebration
Easter brunch: tradition and modernity
Easter is a traditional celebration with a variety of customs. These include painting eggs, the Easter egg hunt, the Easter candle, the Easter lamb, the Easter bonfire, and, of course, Easter brunch.
Many people associate Easter with long walks in early springtime, a cosy, long weekend with the family and delicious food. The lavish Easter brunch after Lent is a tradition in many families. From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday evening, believers abstain from meat, eggs and desserts according to Christian custom. The end of Lent is the beginning of culinary delights.
For Easter breakfast on Easter Sunday, a large table is set for family and close friends. Egg dishes and brightly coloured Easter eggs, home-baked braided Easter bread, a fresh salad and a colourful soup with spring vegetables are all part of a perfect Easter brunch. Let our Easter buffet ideas inspire you.
What should not be missing at an Easter brunch
When you invite your loved ones to a brunch on Easter, you should serve a variety of breakfast specialities as well as hot dishes. You’ll also need a beautiful table setting and some springtime decorations to prepare the festive table.
Biscuits and Easter eggs
Whether you’re having a large or small Easter brunch – these classic breakfast items should not be missing from an Easter breakfast. For example, prepare croissants or brioches, fresh-braided Easter bread, and rolls for your guests. Cream cheese, butter, and margarine as well as fresh jams and honey are ideal spreads. If you’re celebrating your Easter brunch with children, you can also serve a chocolate cream.
There are many wonderful Easter brunch recipe ideas for preparing decorative desserts. For example, create little Easter chicks by colouring cake batter with food colouring or saffron and baking them into cupcakes. Then add little red beaks and eyes made from carrots. Then place the cakes on a decorative plate or cake platter, for example from our colourful Villeroy & Boch Spring Awakening collection.
You can also offer your guests yoghurt and muesli in small or large porcelain bowls, such as the matching bowls in our Spring Fantasy and Spring Awakening tableware collections, for example. Both collections feature spring-like designs and detailed motifs and are an excellent choice for your Easter brunch buffet.
The stars of the Easter brunch are, of course, eggs – whether served, fried, scrambled, or placed on the festive table as boiled, colourful eggs in egg cups.
Cold cuts, fruit, coffee, and juice
For guests who enjoy savoury foods, there is a variety of sausages and cheeses available. There should be something for everyone. It's best to arrange different types of sausage and cheese specialities on large serving plates. Many of our collections include beautifully-shaped serving plates that are perfect for Easter brunch.
Fresh fruit provides a fruity variety. Fruits can be served in any form at Easter breakfast: as fruit on skewers, fruit muesli, fruit salad, or baked fruit. You can also arrange different types of fruit such as kiwi, oranges, apples, raspberries, currants, and grapes in style on a 3-Tier Tray Stand and place them on the table. You can find elegant 3-Tier Tray Stands for your festive Easter breakfast in our MetroChic, Quinsai Garden , and Artesano Original tableware collections, among others.
An Easter breakfast includes flavoured tea and freshly brewed coffee for the adults, milk and cocoa for the children, and juices and mineral water for everyone. A glass of Prosecco or sparkling wine is the perfect prelude to a big feast. You’ll find matching cups, mugs, and glasses for every beverage in the Villeroy & Boch online shop.
Finally, decorate your festive table with small Easter details. These could be an Easter wreath, a floral arrangement of spring flowers and home-made eggs, and paper bunnies. Small, hand-painted porcelain figurines also add a nice touch. The Bunny Tales Collection from Villeroy & Boch has a range of cute bunny figurines for your table.
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Ask your guests to bring something to your Easter brunch. Then you don't have to spend so much time preparing the food the day before and can concentrate on arranging your festive table.
Elegant table decorations for a special Easter brunch
No matter how good the food tastes at your Easter breakfast, your table setting should also be a feast for the eyes. That's why it's important to decorate the room and the table where you sit with your loved ones in an Easter style. However, when it comes to decorations, everyone has their own taste, and table decorations for Easter can vary accordingly.
Nature blossoms with the first warm rays of spring sunshine. This spring-like atmosphere is also important for your Easter brunch. The easiest way to create this is with spring flowers such as daffodils, tulips, broom, forsythia, or palm catkins. Arrange the flowers and branches in a beautiful vase, like the ones from our Colourful Spring collection. Delicately crafted ornaments from our Mini Flower Bells collection, such as flower bells, add the final touches to your elegant decoration.
Child-friendly Easter brunch ideas
Would you like to have a child-friendly Easter brunch, and are you looking for good Easter buffet suggestions? Firstly, you should get the little ones involved in preparing the brunch. Children love crafts. With a roll of white table cover paper and coloured pencils, for example, the kids can create a pretty Easter tablecloth.
Children also love chocolate! Decorate your brunch table with chocolate Easter bunnies in different sizes. Another wonderful decoration idea for your family celebration with children is having Easter baskets filled with treats for the festive table.
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Bunny-shaped cookie cutters are perfect for baking biscuits, and they’re also ideal for cutting out sausage and bread.
Easter bunny pancakes and fluffy, braided Easter bread!
If you want to make your children especially happy at Easter, make them pancakes in the shape of cute Easter bunnies. Click here for a recipe for Easter bunny pancakes. A fluffy braided yeast bun or a braided nut bun with nut butter can also be baked quickly and is perfect for any Easter breakfast for children.
One thing is a must on this day: an Easter egg hunt! On Easter Sunday, according to an old tradition, the Easter bunny comes and hides little sweets and colourful eggs everywhere. Thus, before or after Easter breakfast, the children eagerly set off in search of these Easter treats.
Delight your guests with your table setting
Amaze your guests with your Easter table setting. The tableware collections from Villeroy & Boch offer you a wide range of design options. You’ll find everything you need for a successful Easter brunch – from cups, mugs, and glasses to bowls, plates, cutlery, and decorations.
Matching glasses
Colourful variety for unforgettable Easter brunches
FAQs
Do you have questions about the traditional Easter brunch? We have the answers for you!