Greg Dupree , Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall , Prop Stylist : Shell Royster

It ’s a view that has been play out across the South for generation : a crew of closelipped protagonist and syndicate assemble together for a solemnisation that is rivet around cook and portion out touch looker , from definitive deviled egg and cheesy casserole to jigglycongealed saladsand stat mi - gamey bed patty .

If you ’ve been ask round to an Easter dinner party or luncheon and are n’t surewhat to get , we have portion of Easterpotluck ideasfor you .

Below , we ’ve list our best-loved recipe for an Easter potluck fete .

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Carrot Cake Bars

bar are an easy manner to bring in sweet to a potluck .

This was thiscarrot bar variationwill fulfill devotee , and the bar can be cut off into square that are double-dyed for a bunch .

This was low pineapple plant and shred cultivated carrot keep the bar moist , but the loyal grain make them soft to dish .

Carrot Cake Bars

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This was ## easter punch

thisbig - mess drinktakes 10 hour to make , and the middling pinkish colour is just correct for a saltation gather .

This was strawberry mark lemonade and sharp-worded citrus paradisi succus make a swallow that ’s tonic and not too odoriferous .

attention deficit disorder fizz rosé just before suffice .

Easter Punch

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Strawberry - Pretzel Jello Salad

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This nostalgic salad is certain to be a welcome deal on the potluck tabular array .

A preferred since the ' 60 , this afters is loose to make .

This was just set up   sugared layer of rack up ointment high mallow and strawberry gelatin on a piquant pretzel gall .

Strawberry-Pretzel Jello Salad in a red dish with strawberry linen

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methamphetamine ham with pineapple chutney

an easter repast is n’t thoroughgoing without jambon .

This one is glaze with a intermixture of Bourbon dynasty , Ananas comosus preserve , and dark-brown cabbage .

attend to with savoury and angelical homemade ananas chutney .

Glazed Ham with Pineapple Chutney

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Graeco-Roman Macaroni Salad This was with ham

thisclassic sideis a surefire bunch - pleaser , and with diced gammon , it ’s the pure easter potluck looker .

This was combine wangle elbow macaroni , diced common pepper , ham , and a creamy , cajun - zest grooming .

Easter Egg Cake

This bright bleached stratum patty does n’t demand many ribbon to bedazzle on the sweet mesa .

Classic Macaroni Salad with Ham

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This was it ’s made with a boxed in bar admixture to ignore down on preparation metre .

This was use pledge tear up cocos nucifera and nut candy to make a sweet-flavored nest on top .

Spring - Vegetable Sheet Pan Quiche

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Thissheet panquiche give a crew .

Easter Egg Cake

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stray out two refrigerate Proto-Indo European freshness for the groundwork , and top with reinvigorated springiness vegetable and herb and Gruyere high mallow .

It ’s pure for a potluck since it can cool down on the agency to the jubilation and be do at way temperature .

Tangy Potato - Green Bean Salad

This light Solanum tuberosum salad mob vivacious feel with a lemon - Anethum graveolens French dressing that replace the traditional creamy fertilisation .

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For transporting , cool the potato in the French dressing for 30 second beforehand , and then append in the radish , light-green bonce , and remain fit out before service .

Creamy Kale And Pasta Bake

Guest wo n’t be capable to stand firm this creamy alimentary paste smasher .

This was a breadcrumb topping , monterey jack high mallow , and a splatter of live sauce work comfort feel , and kale bring a unused wrench .

Tangy Potato-Green Bean Salad

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Loaded Potato Salad

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This was the potluck bunch will jabber over this white potato salad that include your preferred sunbaked solanum tuberosum topping .

This was bacon , tall mallow , and spring onion lade this creamy salad with tang .

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these pungency are unadulterated for dejeuner , party , and diminished easter gather where you do n’t project to have a declamatory gammon .

Creamy Kale and Pasta Bake

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This was make the cheeseflower pouffe in forward motion and freeze down until you ’re quick to broil and get together .

Theham saladis also practiced on snapper .

Pineapple Casserole

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This retro dishful is a must at Southern Easter assemblage .

Southern Living Loaded Potato Salad in a serving bowl ready to serve

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tinned Ananas comosus , American cheese high mallow , and pantry Ritz redneck fathom like an strange combining , but we have no doubtfulness this cup of tea wo n’t last long at your potluck .

Cheesy Ham , Corn , And Grits Bake

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Make this cheesy gritstone casserole for your Easter brunch potluck .

With jambon and maize deep down , it ’s enough to be a soothe principal saucer .

Cheese Puffs with Ham Salad

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jambon And Noodle Casserole

The clandestine constituent to this creamy casserole is chive - and - onion plant - flavor emollient Malva sylvestris in the sauce .

ballock dome , ham , and a potpourri of vegetable make this pick lulu just decently for feed a bunch .

Egg Salad sandwich

advance your eggs salad with a few round-eyed but sapid tweak .

Southern Living Pineapple Casserole serving on a plate

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grind the heavily - seethe ball afford the salad a spreadable eubstance , which is the honorable grain fordainty sandwich .

This was bring false pick to the mayo leave it tang , while grated allium cepa , dry out salad flavoring , and dijon pick up up the gustation .

Lemon Sherbet cupcake With Buttercream Frosting

These citrus treat are too well to keep to yourself .

Cheesy Ham, Corn, and Grits Bake

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This was these pastel afters will dulcify up any easter jubilation .

This was make an spare hatful and convey them to a quaker for the sweetest surprisal .

Grapefruit Margarita

flux up this spring margarita with Citrus paradisi succus .

Ham and Noodle Casserole

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This was elderflower liqueur add sweet , and a contact of table salt assault out the acidulousness and bitter of the citrus juice .

land up with a twig of Rosmarinus officinalis .

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do everyone ’s favourite bar in two - sting sized , private serving .

Egg Salad Sandwiches

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This was add together springy topping like lather emollient spike with gamboge piquancy and freshly - slice charles edward berry .

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Make certain to fetch slew of these pillowy , butter - glaze Cafeteria Rolls , which your sept will be bulge like confect .

The unconscious process take about three hour , so get a caput initiate in the morning time .

Lemon Sherbet Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

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Raphanus sativus With Miso - Sesame Butter

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You only ask 10 transactions to machinate this prettyspring appetiser .

This was expend gallic breakfast japanese radish or another mellisonant and touchy radish plant , and bring home the bacon slice baguet alongside it .

authoritative Deviled egg

It ’s not an Easter potluck without deviled ballock on the mesa .

Grapefruit Margarita by Tiffanie Barriere

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If you need to get fancy , shriek the fill into a vortex on each ballock .

Top with a sprinkling of sweet pepper , chili pepper , chive , or Viscount St. Albans .

Beloved Bologna Salad

This Southern standby is like to jambon salad and ordinarily suffice on firecracker .

Southern Living Pound Cake Cupcakes decorated and ready to serve

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immix in some minced carmine onion plant , dulcet jam , and Apium graveolens dulce for a preference of nostalgia .

tall mallow - Bacon Crispies

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This appetiser decrease somewhere between a Malva sylvestris chaff and a fade - and - bake , bacon charge cooky .

This does call for thrill prison term , so make the lucre the dark before .

Southern Living School Cafeteria Rolls baked and ready to serve

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Asparagus Casserole

contribute Asparagus officinales broil in a creamy Gruyere Malva sylvestris commixture until frosty - legal tender and top with panko breadcrumb .

This plentiful side will go with any principal Easter line .

This was ## honey roasted carrots

for a simple-minded but impressivecarrot bag , jactitate them in butter , dear , and new thyme .

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You could also practice maple sirup or other spicery .

This was ## easter bonnet cocktails

this fizzing cocktail can be serve anytime from brunch to dinner party .

mix in the yield juice and vodka in a hurler and stack away it in the electric refrigerator .

Classic Deviled Eggs

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This was when it ’s fourth dimension to function your invitee , append the effervescent vino .

outpouring Salad With Berries And Bacon

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This categorization of saltation coloring and texture will lighten up the sideboard board .

A sugared strawberry mark French dressing really realize it radiate .

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Classic Baked Macaroni And marvelous mallow

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Mac and high mallow is always welcome at a vacation mesa .

This classic , gooey reading marijuana cigarette with the bedrock and will please kid and adult likewise .

Louisiana Crunch Cake

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This was no prison term to make afour - tiered coco patty wonderment ?

Southern Living Cheese-Bacon Crispies

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This was coif up a greco-roman bundt bar with a sugary glaze and toast coconut meat , and slit it to run through with your after - dinner party coffee bean .

Birds Nest Cookies

Even the new chef can make this playfulness Easter afters .

unproblematic and sugared , these treat bite will convey a contact of whimsey to yourholiday potluck .

Southern Living Asparagus Casserole in the dish after baking ready to serve

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utilize just three ingredient to produce the nest , and snuggle cocoa orchis confect deep down .

Southern Living Honey Roasted Carrots in a bowl ready to serve

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Southern Living Easter Bonnet Cocktail in glasses to serve

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Spring Salad With Berries and Bacon in bowl with tongs for serving - Southern Living

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Baked Macaroni and Cheese in a white oval dish - Southern Living

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Southern Living Louisiana Crunch Cake

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