Favorite Mother’s Day Recipes
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Mom’s special day is just around the corner! If you’re looking for ideas she’ll love, here are over 30 of our and our reader’s favorite Mother’s Day recipes—and a few of my own, too!

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Mother’s Day is a special day to treat Mom with all of her favorite things. While we can buy her special gifts (and that’s a good thing, too), there is something extra special about making a few of her favorite dishes.
Oh, and while you’re at it, you might want to print About My Mom: 20 Mother’s Day Questions to Ask for a fun way to document her story!
Now… let’s get to some delicious recipes!
My Mom

When Mother’s Day comes around, I’m already thinking of ways to let my mom know how special she is. She invests her life in our family, providing a beautiful role model for what a strong, capable, kind, nurturing person looks and acts like.
We are blessed by her life.
Mother’s Day Recipes
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I’m sure you’re already thinking about what you want to make. I’m receiving many requests for recipe ideas, so here are some of my mom’s favorites, my favorites, and most importantly, reader-favorite recipes for brunch, breakfast, spring, and springtime treats.
All of them are delicious and perfect for treating mom. I’d love to hear what you make over the weekend!
Mother’s Day Recipes: Starters
When your favorite people gather, here are some recipe ideas to get the party started.

This Spring Crudités Platter is the easiest party food platter or appetizer you’ll ever create in 10 minutes or less. Perfect for gatherings, like Mother’s Day or showers, or simply when spring vegetables are at their peak. Minutes to make and utterly gorgeous!

This simple Spring Salad recipe is sunny, healthy, and full of fresh seasonal vegetables, including spring greens, bright radishes, cucumbers, peas, and herbs. It is tossed together with an incredible lemon herb vinaigrette.

Treat mom to a European-style Brunch Charcuterie Board that’s incredibly easy to put together. Minutes in the making, filled with delicious brunch sweet and savory options, it’s a 5-minute cheese board everyone will love.
Mother’s Day Recipes: Breakfast Ideas
Pancakes and waffles are always at the top of my mom’s list, but here are some ideas you might want to try. To see even more ideas, view Easy Mother’s Day Breakfast and Brunch Recipes!

This fluffy pancake recipe is one you’ll want to memorize. It’s simple, easy, quick… and utterly delicious! A perfect stack of thick pancakes for Mother’s Day.

This Strawberry Dutch Baby, or spring German pancake, is an oven-baked puffed pancake, deliciously perfect in strawberry season, for Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, or any morning when you’re craving this always popular breakfast treat.

If your mom loves asparagus and breakfast casseroles, this simple dish is perfect for the day!

This Whole Wheat Waffles recipe is a delicious and healthy whole-grain waffle that’s crisp, light, and utterly delicious. Made with 100% whole wheat flour, it has no refined sugar and is perfect for mom!

These egg and bacon cups are easy for anyone to make, and the kids love to help!

Healthy Carrot Muffins are the answer when you crave a spring treat but want it to be wholesome. They’re moist and tender, filled with carrots and warm flavors, and naturally sweetened, too!

Rhubarb Muffins are a delicious springtime and summer treat for breakfast and brunch. Topped with buttery cinnamon streusel, these muffins are soft, tender, and utterly habit-forming!

These biscuits are the easiest in the world to make. Dropped from a scoop, there is no rolling or cutting involved. They’re in regular rotation at my house.
Mother’s Day Recipes: Brunch Ideas
If you want to serve a meal mid-morning, these brunch recipes are some of our favorites.

A deliciously simple meal that’s hardy yet light! Smoked salmon makes this quiche and it’s very easy to make with your own shortbread crust or a ready made, store bought crust. If you prefer canned or fresh salmon, see the Salmon Quiche with Spinach, Dill, and Mozzarella recipe.

This Asparagus Quiche recipe begins with a premade crust and is filled with fresh spring asparagus, green onions, savory bacon, and flavorful shredded Gruyère cheese—a simple but delicious brunch recipe.

Ham and Cheese Strata is the perfect make ahead breakfast casserole for feeding a crowd. It’s packed with delicious but simple ingredients everyone loves for brunch. Make it the evening before and it’s ready and waiting in the morning.

This Broccoli Cheddar Quiche is an easy-to-make, utterly delicious quiche recipe. Perfect for Mother’s Day brunch or even dinner. Serve warm from the oven, chilled, or even make it ahead.

These Ham and Cheese Croissants are an easy-to-make, foolproof, bakery-style breakfast or lunch dish that may remind mom of her favorite coffee shop. Five minutes to prep and 20 minutes to bake!

This quick and healthy Asparagus Frittata is packed with spring vegetables, creamy with two kinds of cheese, and deliciously seasoned with fresh dill and basil. And… it’s ready in under 20 minutes!

This Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Cake is deliciously bright, ultra-soft, and moist. Both sweet and slightly tangy, it’s a delightful anytime cake. Made with yogurt, it’s a bit healthier without sacrificing the lemon poppy seed flavors we love.
Dessert Mother’s Day Recipes
Making sweet treats for mom, grandma, auntie… or the sweet neighbor next door is fun and “sweet” way to tell them how special they are. Here are some dessert recipes they may love.

This incredibly delicious, super easy Baked Strawberry Donut recipe is packed with fresh strawberries, dipped in strawberry glaze, and so tender and moist they almost melt in your mouth.

If mom loves lemon, this soft and tender… delicious mug cake is ready in 2 minutes!

If strawberries are her favorite, this strawberry mug cake is also super easy and ready in 2 minutes!

Sweet, soft, pillowy… and utterly delicious. These cookies are made with fresh lemon juice and zest and then tossed in powdered sugar that “crinkles” as they bake.

An ultimate easy comfort food treat that is utterly delicious and slightly decadent.

I love these mini lemon pudding cakes. They’re easy to make, but I absolutely adore their subtle lemon flavor and light texture!

These easy-to-make scones are perfect for mom, perfect for brunch or a special treat. Made with fresh strawberries, it’s a golden, crunchy-topped treat with a moist, soft, and delicious interior.

Softly flavored with fresh lemon and culinary lavender, these scones are soft, sweet, tender, and moist. When drizzled with lemon glaze, they are a treat mom won’t soon forget.

Sometimes, it’s the old-fashioned recipes Mom loves best! This classic lemon icebox pie is a quintessential spring and summer dessert. Evoking memories of grandma’s kitchen, it reminds me of endless spring and summer days when the warm sun seems captured in every bite of this pie!

It’s rhubarb season! Treat mom to this delicious and beautiful mosaic-patterned upside-down cake filled with warm spices and springy ingredients!

Rich and creamy, filled with silky chocolate, this French Ganache Tart with a chocolate almond shortbread crust is the easiest, fanciest dessert you will ever make. And if you’re a chocolate lover like us, it will send you to the moon.

This foolproof, easy cobbler is a quick and easy recipe made with fresh strawberries and simple pantry ingredients. It’s utterly delicious, and the aroma of summer strawberries baking into a buttery cobbler is divine.