Looking for showstopper Mother's Day dishes to share with your family and loved ones? This round-up of great Mother's Day Recipes is all you need! This is a collection of tried and true, easy to follow and absolutely delicious recipes by four of your favorite food bloggers and real-life blogger besties.
In this post we include everything you need for a Mother's Day Menu that the whole family will enjoy. Whether you're hosting Mother's Day brunch, lunch, or dinner these ideas will provide plenty of inspiration for a delicious and festive Mother's Day.
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Mother's Day Recipes Your Mom Will Love
Happy Mother’s Day weekend to every kind of mother and motherly figure. Strong mothers, mothers-to-be, mothers no longer with us, mothers who are mentors, and every type of mother in between. This weekend we celebrate, remember, and embrace their love, generosity, and sacrifice.
Breakfast and Brunch
If you're starting Mother's Day with breakfast or brunch these recipes are a great way to feed a crowd or start the day.
Breakfast Charcuterie Board
Blueberry Coffee Cake
The cake is tender, moist, loaded with fresh blueberries, and topped with a buttery cinnamon streusel. It's perfect for breakfast and a great way to kick off the day.
Lemon Poppy Seed Scones
These easy lemon poppy seed scones are buttery, flaky, tender, and full of lemon flavor. Serve them with homemade lemon curd or butter for the perfect brunch treat.
Salads and Appetizers
La Salade Lyonnaise
La Salade Lyonnaise is the best brunch salad ever! The salad starts with fresh mixed greens, tossed with crispy bacon and a zingy garlic vinaigrette. The salad is topped with a soft poached egg served on top of a crouton with a rich, savory shallot red wine jam. This salad will have family and friends asking for more.
Avocado Toast with Roasted Tomatoes
Discover the perfect blend of creamy avocado and sweet tomatoes in this irresistible and easy recipe for Avocado Toast with Tomato. Hearty rustic bread is toasted, and then slathered with creamy seasoned with lemon juice, salt, and parsley; and then topped with roasted tomatoes.
Nicoise Salad
Here is an authentic, tasty French Salade Niçoise recipe that you'll love! It's packed with veggies (butter lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, artichokes fava beans, radishes, and basil) and plenty of protein. It's simple to make yet impressive to serve.
French Tartine
A Tartine is an open face sandwich, very popular in France. This tartine starts with rustic bread, then it's topped with fresh figs, fresh greens, and prosciutto. The perfect savory salty sweet treat.
Main Courses
These main dishes are perfect for any size group. Quiche can be made the day before and warmed up right before serving. The Roast chicken from Le Chef's Wife is a classic and if seafood is more your jam try the wonderful crab cakes from Britney at Britney Break's Bread.
Asparagus and Leek Quiche
This Asparagus, Leek, and Gruyere quiche is a delicious combination of flavors. If you love asparagus and cheese and buttery pie crust then you'll love this quiche.
Bacon Mushroom Spinach Quiche
This Easy Spinach Quiche Recipe is loaded with bacon mushrooms and spinach! The savory custard filling has pockets of sharp cheddar cheese and gruyere cheese enclosed in a super flaky homemade pie crust that only calls for 4 ingredients!
Pan-Fried Crab Cakes
These Maryland-style crab cakes are loaded with lumps of crab, and have a deliciously crispy exterior! Learn how to make crab cakes that your family and friends will love!
Oven Baked Branzino with Sauce Vierge
This easy Branzino recipe is served with an amazing Vierge Sauce - a bright vinaigrette of tomatoes, olives, and basil. Give a Provençal twist to this delicious Mediterranean dish.
Scallops and Leeks
Pan seared white wine diver scallops and leeks make for a delicious and elegant French-inspired appetizer. The sweet, buttery taste of the scallops pairs beautifully with the slight tang of leeks. This dish is super simple to make and delicious.
Lemon Thyme French Roast Chicken
This Lemon and Thyme French Roast Chicken Recipe with roasted garlic is a family favorite. The meat is juicy and tender with delicate perfume from the lemons, garlic, and thyme. The skin is crispy and flavorful. Simply exquisite as well as super easy to make!
Dessert
A celebratory dinner isn't complete without dessert. From simple shortbread cookies, to key lime pie, to cherry cheesecake these desserts will impress. And the best part is most of them can be made 1 or 2 days in advance leaving you plenty of time to spend with family and friends.
Cherry Cheesecake
This creamy cherry cheesecake is the perfect dessert! This classic recipe has a silky smooth cream cheese filling inside a buttery graham cracker crust, which is then topped with cherry pie filling. The sweet flavors of the cherries are a delicious complement to the creamy filling and crisp crust.
Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
These buttery Strawberry Shortbread Cookies are absolutely delicious and the best strawberry cookie you will ever taste. They're buttery, soft, and full of all-natural strawberry flavor.
Southern Lemon Pound Cake
This moist and tender Southern Lemon Pound Cake is the ultimate dessert for lemon lovers. It's light, full of fresh lemon flavor, and perfect for Mother's Day.
Key Lime Pie
This easy Key Lime Pie is tart, sweet, and incredibly easy to make. A nutty graham cracker macadamia nut crust is filled with a tart creamy key lime filling made with just four ingredients.
Coconut Layer Cake
This amazing Coconut Layer Cake is a coconut hat trick - it's made with coconut milk, coconut oil, and coconut flour, and the frosting is a melt-in-your-mouth fluffy ermine frosting made with coconut milk. The whole cake is then covered with sweetened shredded coconut. This cake is moist and tender and a coconut lover's dream.
Blackberry Financiers
These Blackberry Financiers are light and buttery cakes with the perfect amount of sweetness. The bold flavor of the blackberries is perfect with almond flour and the nuttiness of the brown butter.
Lemon Sugar Crepes
The zing of the lemon matched with the sweetness of the sugar and the heavenly buttery richness of the crepe is the perfect combination. Here is the best, easiest Lemon Sugar Crêpes recipe so you can have that French Crêperie experience at home, where ever you live.
Strawberry Crumble with Almond Streusel
Made with sweet fresh local strawberries, vanilla extract, and sugar and topped with a buttery brown sugar crumble this Strawberry Crumble is a favorite dessert in my house. It takes minutes to prepare the filling, and the crumble topping, and then your house is filled with the smell of strawberries as it bakes in the oven.
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