Easter’s on its way (I’ll spare you the “hippity-hoppity” business), and that means a few things. If you’re a parent, you are also a gigantic anthropomorphic rabbit who breaks into homes to distribute chocolate eggs and jelly beans. You better make with the Easter candy. If you’re any sort of adult, you may be guilted into hosting Easter brunch or Easter dinner. No sweat! We have guides that’ll help make all of it easy, so you can get back to the heathen stuff you do when it isn’t a holiday.
Easter Candy
The Best Easter Candy to Fill You Easter Baskets
From chocolate bunnies to everyone’s favorite malted milk eggs, these are the best Easter candies—and Easter candy is the best candy, after all.
The Best Chocolate Bunny to Stuff in Your Easter Basket
Once a year, we get to bite the adorable ears off of chocolate rabbits. Make sure those chocolate ears are the best chocolate ears by buying one of the best chocolate Easter bunnies.
The Best Vegan Easter Candy (and One Vegetarian Candy, Too)
If you’re packing an Easter basket for a plant-based bunny, there are plenty of vegan and vegetarian Easter candy options look festive and taste good, too.
The Best Candy for Easter Eggs
If you’ve got plastic eggs to stuff for the big ol’ Easter egg hunt, these are the candies that will make everyone doubly happy the eggs weren’t filled with loose change.
Easter Brunch
The Best Pancake Mix
Pancakes are perfect for Easter brunch because you can dye them pastel colors with that food dye that’s been sitting untouched in your pantry for an amount of time it’s best not to disclose.
The Best Frozen Hash Browns
Potatoes really are God’s gift to the world. It’s only right that they are celebrated in their many forms on every religious holiday.
The Best Bacon
It would be crazy to say that everybody loves bacon, but it is true that a lot of people love bacon. Chances are at least half of your guest list will be happy to see it on the table.
The Best Frozen Waffles
The best waffles are no doubt the ones you make yourself at a complementary hotel breakfast buffet by dispensing batter into a small cup and pouring it onto the communal waffle iron. But if you’re reading this article, I’d guess you won’t have access to such luxuries this Easter. Here are the best waffles that you can heat up in your own kitchen, sans waffle iron.
The Best Maple Syrup and Pancake Syrup
Chances are there’s already enough sugar going around on Easter, but you can’t have waffles or pancakes without syrup, and you can’t have Easter brunch without waffles and/or pancakes, so here’s the best syrup.
Easter Drinks
Best Cheap Champagne from the Grocery Store
Easter is a brunch holiday, which obviously calls for Mimosas. Easter is also, in my experience, a holiday that sneaks up on you. If you didn’t plan ahead, here’s the best Champagne (and sparkling wine) you can get at the grocery store.
The Best Orange Juice, No Squeezing Required
This list of the best orange juice is obviously here to help you complete your Mimosas, but OJ will also taste great on its own. I call that a “Virgin Mimosa.”
10 Best Bloody Mary Mixes for Bar-Worthy Bloodies
Some brunchers don’t like Mimosas, but still want a drink—enter the Bloody Mary. Since this is a celebratory occasion, here are the best Bloody Mary garnishes to fancify the glass and complete the flavor profile.
Easter Dinner Sides
The Best Boxed Scalloped Potatoes
As mentioned above, potatoes should be celebrated in all their forms on religious holidays, as they are a divine gift from above. There’s simply no other explanation for how they could be so consistently delicious regardless of preparation. That said, one of the best preparations is scalloped with cheese.
The Best Canned Carrots
It’s always important to consider the very real possibility that the Easter Bunny will abscond with all the fresh carrots from your local grocery store. If that happens (which it very well could) it’s good to have canned carrots on hand to save Easter dinner.
The Best Dinner Rolls
No holiday dinner is complete without a roll, but not every roll deserves to be on your holiday dinner plate. Here are the ones that do.
The Best Salad Kits
Salad always seems like a great addition to the dinner menu until it comes time to actually make the salad and you’re so busy preparing the much more important main dishes that cutting vegetables into bite-size pieces and whisking together a dressing seems all too much to ask. Salad kits solve that dilemma—tear open and toss any of the kits on this list and you’ll have the perfect side in an instant.
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