85+ Mother’s Day Recipes to Celebrate Your Mom (Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner & Desserts)
Celebrate Mother's Day with heartfelt homemade meals. Our 85+ recipes cater to all skill levels, featuring everything from simple breakfasts to elaborate brunches, fulfilling lunches, dinners, and sweet desserts. Perfect for any gathering size, these dishes make the day special and are kid-friendly too.
Our mothers—or mother-figures—are pivotal in our lives from the very moment we are born, their importance echoing through every stage of our lives. It's only fitting that there's a whole holiday dedicated to celebrating them, Mother's Day. What better way to express your love than by preparing a heartfelt, homemade meal that gathers the whole family around the table? After all, food is a love language in itself.
Wondering what to whip up for Mother’s Day? Fear not, we’ve got you covered with some of the best dishes to honor your mother on this special occasion, making her day even more memorable. Whether you're a novice in the kitchen, a seasoned chef, or someone who just knows their way around, our selection of 85+ recipes covers everything from a simple breakfast to a comprehensive brunch complete with drinks and fun treats, to satisfying lunches and dinners, and, of course, delightful desserts to satisfy that sweet tooth. These recipes are perfect for small gatherings or larger crowds and are even kid-friendly if you want to include the little ones in the cooking process. Dive into our suggestions to find the best ideas for Mother's Day recipes that will surely impress (but are also incredibly easy to make!).
Blueberry muffins are soft, tender and moist on the inside, with a crunchy sugar crust. Perfect both with fresh or frozen blueberries, enjoy them for breakfast or as a snack.
This quick and easy breakfast bake has a buttery crust of croissant pastry topped with lots of sausage, eggs, and cheese. You can swap the type of sausages you want to use, and the types of cheeses as well. I used regular pork sausages for this, and it tasted great!
French toast is one of those classic breakfast and brunch dishes no one can resist. If you thought it couldn't get better, it's time for you to try custard French toast.
Apple scones are delicious at breakfast or with a hot mug of tea, and are easy and quick to make. Delightfully moist, with a slightly crispy crust, apple scones are an excellent way to use up your apples during fall season, but they're so tasty, don't be surprised if you find yourself whipping up a batch regardless of the season.
Bagel Breakfast Sliders has a Jewish origin and can make any breakfast or dinner special. The combination of processes during its preparation give it a soft core and a crunchy cover.
Waffles are a breakfast recipe that's crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Cook a sweetened batter between two patterned plates of a hot waffle iron and serve waffles with a topping.
A breakfast pizza is a great idea, and the dough for this one is made with Greek yogurt instead of butter or other fats. If you’re pushed for time in the mornings, you can even make the dough ahead and keep it in the fridge so that all you have to do in the morning is add the toppings and bake.
Eggs Benedict is truly a popular breakfast or brunch item. And what’s not to love? It’s got all the makings of the satisfying meal to get you started for the day: eggs, bacon, bagels, and of course, a rich hollandaise sauce. While it is indeed an impressive dish, it’s actually not that difficult to make.
Flamenco Eggs is a traditional Spanish recipe. It makes a substantial lunch or even breakfast dish to satisfy the hungriest of stomachs! It’s a very quick and simple dish, and all it needs is some good, crusty bread to mop up the sauce.
This recipe for twisted donuts is an easy, fun dessert recipe. Soft on the inside and crisp on the outside, they are made from yeasted dough, which is fried and rolled in sugar.
Everyone should have a quick biscuit recipe in their back pocket and this cheese garlic biscuit recipe is one of these. It's so easy to make, you don't need to fuss with food processors or handheld mixers or wait for your dough to rise. Cheese garlic biscuits have a similar buttery garlicky flavor to garlic knots.
Slices of bread are flattened, topped with ham and cheese, dipped in the egg mixture, and fried until crispy. Breakfast will become your new favorite meal of the day!
Monkey bread is a fluffy, soft pull-apart bread. It has a sticky, finger-licking texture and a fragrant cinnamon aroma and flavor that's perfect for any occasion.
These savory rolls are perfect as an appetizer, snack, or even a light meal. Spinach and ricotta cheese give them a delicate balance of flavors and textures.
Quiche Lorraine is a typical preparation of the French cuisine, ideal to be enjoyed as an appetizer. It is a rustic cake made up of a crunchy shell of shortcrust pastry, in perfect contrast with the soft filling made of eggs, fresh cream, Gruyere cheese and bacon.
Pizza Croutons are a delightful way to breathe new life into stale bread and embody the no-waste ethos in your kitchen. With this quick and easy recipe, you can transform those forgotten slices into something utterly delicious in just a few minutes.
If you've been looking for an effortless, super quick appetizer you can throw together in less than 5 minutes, you'll be thrilled with this easy Knorr spinach dip recipe. It's as simple as mixing the ingredients in a bowl and letting the dip chill for a couple of hours before serving.
Strawberry spinach salad is a colorful, refreshing recipe. It's made of sweet juicy strawberries, savory Greek feta cheese, baby spinach, cashews. Serve it with a dressing.
Walnut raspberry baked brie is an easy appetizer to serve during holidays. Sweet yet savory, round brie is topped with raspberry jam, walnuts and brown sugar, then baked until melty.
Usually, slushies are something enjoyed by kids on a hot summer’s afternoon. But what about the adults? Well, this strawberry peach wine slushie recipe is just for you. It’s a quick and refreshing cocktail recipe perfect for summer.
Pink lemonade is the ultimate summer drink. Refreshing and delicious, it's made with fresh watermelon (which makes the drink pink), lemon juice, water, and sugar.
Lemon Iced Tea is an easy, refreshing drink recipe, perfect for summer. Made of water, lemons, sugar, lemon juice and black tea, it's sweet and fruity.
Margarita is an easy, popular drink recipe perfect to enjoy in summer. Served with a salty glass rim, it's made of tangy lime, sweet orange liqueur and citrusy blanco tequila.
The Cosmopolitan is a strong classic American cocktail based on vodka but it is a drink that immediately makes you think of New York. In fact, served in a cone glass, the Cosmopolitan cocktail was drunk for the first time by the singer Madonna at the Rainbow Room in New York City but became famous for the Sex and the City tv series.
Strawberry Spritz is a simple and refreshing cocktail, ideal for a spring or summer aperitif with friends. The drink is inspired by the Classic Italian Aperol Spritz, but with the addition of strawberries.
Watermelon is packed with nutrients. It’s high in vitamins A, C, and, B, and also contributes healthy fiber. So naturally, we know watermelon juice is good for you. But this one has a secret—we added a few adult-only ingredients.
Club sandwich is a classic American sandwich. It has three layers of turkey, ham, bacon, crisp lettuce and juicy tomato slices between toasted bread slices flavored with mayonnaise.
Salmon club sandwich is the fish variant of the famous anglosaxon sandwich. Quicker and easier to make, you can use smoked salmon, sliced avocado, tomatoes and crunchy letture, to obtain a perfect and fresh sandwich for your summer.
This recipe is so tasty with surprisingly few ingredients. This one recipe also makes a complete meal- no side dishes needed here! The delicious cream sauce begins with a simple can of creamy chicken soup.
BLT pasta salad is a tasty main dish recipe. It's packed with savory bacon, crunchy shredded lettuce, ripe tomatoes and pasta tossed in creamy ranch dressing.
Caprese Chicken incorporates all the wonderful ingredients of a Caprese salad, into a quick and easy dinner. Basically, Italian Caprese ingredients are stuffed into pockets into the chicken breast, covered with an egg and sour cream mixture, and baked to perfection.
Caesar pasta salad is an easy main recipe inspired by classic Caesar salad. It's packed with juicy, tender chicken, crisp romaine lettuce, crunchy croutons and creamy Caesar dressing.
Heads up salmon lovers, here's a recipe you're sure to love! Tuscan salmon is a phenomenal tasting dish featuring crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside salmon in a thick creamy sauce.
Baked pasta with broccoli, bacon and scamorza cheese is a rich and sumptuous dish, perfect for a Sunday lunch with the family or for special occasions. This is the white version of the classic baked pasta with tomato sauce, béchamel and mozzarella cheese, one of those classic childhood memories.
This recipe makes a great, flavorful dinner or can also be used as a perfect side dish. The vibrant colors in this yellow curry are eye catching as well as loaded with delicious curry flavors.
Chicken piccata meatballs are a tasty main recipe you can also serve as appetizer. Quick and easy to make, juicy, tender meatballs are cooked in a creamy, tangy sauce.
Carbonara is an iconic main course of the Roman cuisine, like other regional cornerstones such as gricia and amatriciana, made with a quick, creamy and tasty sauce made with egg yolks, guanciale and pecorino romano cheese.
Spicy Chicken Skewers are a quick, tasty main dish recipe. Make your own paprika seasoning with red bell peppers, then season the skewered chicken breast and grill it.
The Best Chicken Pot Pie recipe is here: tender chicken breasts, carrots, celery and a creamy broth inside flaky pie crusts. This easy chicken pot pie recipe is thick and studded with bright and flavorful vegetables, seasoned with classic dried herbs like thyme, and packed with bites of juicy chicken.
Greek salmon is an easy, nutritious recipe for any occasion. It's tangy, and zesty thanks to ingredients like lemon, feta, kalamata olives, cucumbers, and tomatoes.
These Fried Stuffed Chicken Drumsticks offer a delightful twist on the classic chicken drumstick, transforming it into a dish that can be savored on special occasions or served as a standout meal during family dinners.
Creamy alfredo sauce coats the sautéed peppers and shrimp in this delicious diner recipe. While you can feel free to make your own alfredo sauce, using a jar of sauce makes this recipe quick to make and guaranteed to be scrumptious.
Ground beef tacos are a tasty main recipe. These tacos are filled with juicy ground beef seasoned with a savory, spicy taco seasoning and served in warmed tortillas.
Easy Pepper Steak is a quick and simple dinner recipe for any night of the week. Turn round top steak into a healthy and flavorful weeknight meal with paprika, garlic, bell peppers, onions and a Chinese-inspired sauce. This steak dinner gets a Chinese spin thanks to a soy sauce-based flavoring sauce.
Baked Ziti with Sausage is a classic Italian dish that brings comfort to your dinner table with plenty of cheese, savory Italian sausage, tomato sauce, and tender pasta. It has the perfect flavor and textural combination of creamy and soft, with a crisp topping and savory, umami-rich flavors from sausage, tomato, and cheese.
If you love salmon, you’ll love this easy all-in-one dish. This recipe for One Sheet Salmon and Baked Potatoes is not only delicious, but it’s also easy to make. Simply slice potatoes and layer it on a baking sheet.
Pasta alla gricia is a creamy Italian main dish. Made with pasta, pecorino cheese and guanciale, it's a classic Lazio recipe together with carbonara, amatriciana, cacio e pepe.
Speck and taleggio cheese risotto is a tasty and energizing main course, perfect for a winter Sunday. The pleasantly bitter taste of red radicchio, a typical vegetable of this season, perfectly matches the sweetness of taleggio cheese and the sapidity of speck strips, for a creamy and refined dish.
Lobster ravioli is a perfect dish to impress someone. Easy to make, ravioli are filled with lobster meat, lemon zest and ricotta, and served in a sage-garlic butter sauce.
Cauliflower schnitzels are a tasty and appetizing recipe, a vegetarian twist to classic meat schnitzels. A really easy preparation, they're quick to make and they'll change the minds of those who are not really fond of this vegetables, especially the littlest ones. It's meant as a main course, together with a salad or also as a really rich side dish, even alongside other fried vegetables.
Tuscan shrimp is a quick main recipe you can serve on busy nights with pasta, rice, or potatoes. It's made of sun-dried tomatoes, shrimp spinach, garlic, and herbs.
Moroccan couscous is a healthy, versatile side dish, perfect for summer. We seasoned couscous with sautéed crunchy vegetables, raisins, onion, broth and spices.
Chicken enchiladas are an easy, crowd-pleaser Mexican main dish recipe. Stuff tortillas with a chicken filling, roll them up tightly, cover with enchilada sauce, cheese and bake.
Vegetarian stuffed peppers are a low-carb, tasty main dish perfect for a meatless dinner. Easy to make, peppers are baked and stuffed with garlic-zucchini and ricotta cheese.
If you're looking for an elegant dish for a special occasion or to impress guests, the steak Oscar is the way to go. Featuring tender steamed asparagus, beautiful cuts of melt-in-your-mouth steak, and delicate crabmeat, steak Oscar is a sensational surf and turf dish that anyone can make. It sounds so good!
Chickpea burgers are an easy-to-make and really tasty second curse, perfect for any family lunch or informal dinner with friends. It's the vegan alternative of the classic meat hamburger, and it's perfect for anyone!
Macaroni and cheese is a creamy comfort food perfect as a main dinner or holiday side. Simply coat elbow macaroni with a rich cheese sauce and bake it until golden brown.
Eggplants parmesan is a typical recipe of Southern Italy, and is made of eggplants, mozzarella cheese or provola cheese, basil, tomato, and Parmesan cheese. There are several versions of eggplants parmesan, somebody fries the eggplants, somebody grills them, and somebody coats them into flour or egg before frying them.
Try out this super amazing and warm sour cream coffee cake preparation, which is a winter must have in your kitchen. This is not just any other coffee cake preparation but it is THE coffee cake you should prepare this holiday season for your loved ones!
This is such a perfect recipe that I highly recommend you all to try out! It is so easy to make, needs few kitchen essentials, gets ready in no time and looks like bakery prepared!
Tree stump cake is a delicious dessert like a vertical layered yule log. Perfect for the winter holidays, when you cut into it, you reveal a soft, moist cake with beautiful layers.
With their fresh berry flavor and lighter-than-air texture, there's nothing quite like whipping up a batch of homemade strawberry shortcakes. These delicious treats are simpler and quicker to make than your classic strawberry cake and feature delicious layers of biscuits, sweetened strawberries, and homemade whipped cream.
Rich, chocolatey, and perfect for the holidays, chocolate snowball cookies are an easy-to-bake treat that everyone will love. Chocolate snowballs cookies are part fudgy, part buttery, and totally delicious. They're rolled in powdered sugar, which gives them their classic snowball look.
These Mother's Day cupcakes are an elegant dessert perfect ton celebrate your mom. These fluffy, cupcakes are topped with pink buttercream decorated in the shape of a rose.
Easy peach cobbler is a simple-to-bake dessert that's bursting with the flavors of beautifully ripened summer peaches. Cobblers are a delightful traditional recipe that can be made with any number of fresh fruits, depending on what's in season, that's topped with biscuits, batter, or dumplings.
These Frozen Yogurt Clusters are a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth without completely overindulging in calories. Made popular by TikTok foodies, fruit clusters are the latest rage in kitchens.
Cookie dough ice cream sandwich is an easy, no-bake dessert. It's safe to eat as it's made with no-bake egg-free chocolate chip cookie dough and creamy vanilla ice cream.
If you like crumb cakes, then listen up! We have a delicious raspberry crumb cake that will blow you away. The flavor is fruity and buttery, with a crunchy and moist texture. A crumb cake is a cake-like dessert where a dough is made to resemble crumbs.
Strawberry Ricotta Cake is an moist, dense, gluten-free Italian-inspired dessert recipe made without flour. Made of juicy strawberries, it's fruity, mildly sweet and a bit tang.
These No-Bake Chocolate Ferrero Parfait Cups are delicious single-portions desserts that are very easy to prepare. A variation of the classic chocolate parfait made with whipping cream, hazelnut cream, milk chocolate and a base of crumbled chocolate biscuits.
Strawberry pretzel salad is an old-fashioned dessert recipe. With a salty-sweet flavor, it's a layered dessert made of a buttery, crunchy pretzel crust and a creamy filling.
The lemon tart is a typical Anglo-Saxon pastry dessert, a must at tea time if you are in Great Britain. It is characterized by the contrast of flavors and textures between the sweetness of the shortcrust pastry and the acidity of the lemon curd.
Looking for a fall-themed dessert that’s delicious AND beautiful? Then this Upside Down Apple Cake is just for you. Made with fresh apple wedges, homemade caramel, and a buttery cake batter, each bite is light, fluffy, and packed with apple flavor!
Fruit tart is a delicious dessert recipe to make this summer. It's made with fresh, ripe seasonal fruit set in creamy, pastry custard in a buttery, flaky crust.
The lemon delights (delizie al limone) are typical Italian spoon desserts from Campania. They're made of soft, light sponge cakes soaked in limoncello syrup, then filled and topped with a creamy lemon custard.
Lemon meringue pie is as classic a dessert as they come. It's made from tangy, sweet, zesty lemon filling in a buttery, flaky pie crust and topped with cloud-like sweetened meringue.
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