Easter at My Farm 2025
I've gotten such a nice response to the Easter photos on my Instagram page @MarthaStewart48 - thanks for all the click throughs and comments.
Holidays are so much fun. I love celebrating them with my daughter, Alexis, her beautiful children, Jude and Truman, and our close friends and family. This year, more than 40-guests joined me for Easter lunch at my Bedford, New York farm. I hosted my traditional egg hunt outdoors and then we all gathered for a delicious feast prepared by me, my friend Chef Pierre Schaedelin of PS Tailored Events, my granddaughter Jude, and her friend, Jade. It included salmon, ham, lamb chops, stuffed artichokes, asparagus, scalloped potatoes, fresh fruit salads, homemade biscuits, mini bunny cakes, lemon bundt cakes made by my daughter Alexis, chocolates from Jacques Torres, and so much more. I also decorated every room of my Winter House with charming bunnies, chicks, and more eggs than one could count. It was a delightful springtime affair.
Here are more photos from my Easter celebration, enjoy.
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- Easter at my home always includes lots of festive decorations. Every year I take out all the beautifully decorated eggs from years past – hundreds and hundreds, and display them wherever I can.
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- Antique bunnies greet all my visitors from the steps of my Winter House kitchen. I found these cast iron rabbit doorstops years ago in East Hampton at an antiques show.
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- I love pulling out all my decorations finding new ways to use them. Decorations don’t have to be elaborate – use platters you already have and place eggs in them – decorated in faux bois or leave them as is, like these natural quail eggs.
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- In my Green Parlor, these look like old fashioned chocolate bunnies wrapped in foil, but they are really ceramic bunnies covered in foil. They may not be edible, but they will certainly last much longer.
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- Here’s another foil bunny on the other side of the table.
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- This is an antique velvet bunny I love to take out every year. One can never have too many whimsical animals sitting around a room on Easter.
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- This is Magnolia’s first Easter at Cantitoe Corners. She’s my four year old silver shaded Persian.
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- And this is my one year old calico Persian named Dahlia. She is so outgoing, friendly, and curious about everything.
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- In my enclosed porch, an “egg in a nest” – a bird’s nest fern that is. These plants make excellent low light houseplants. They are also epiphytic ferns, which means in the wild they typically grow on other plants or objects.
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- My dear friend, Kevin Sharkey, gifts me with a beautiful Easter basket every year. And I save every single one. This is a real rabbit taxidermy, which Kevin gave me several years ago. He appears very content displayed in this Japanese basket surrounded by eggs.
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- A delicate bird nest filled with eggs is displayed on a table in my sitting room.
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- And here is Dahlia, admiring the décor on this coffee table. She loves to inspect everything. (Photo by Anduin Havens)
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- There are bunnies and eggs on nearly every table and surface. This pair is hiding under a maidenhair fern.
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- This year, I set tables inside and out to accommodate the many friends and family members who came for lunch. This large table in my Brown Room seats 16.
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- The linen napkins are rolled simply and placed at each setting – like long bunny ears.
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- And doesn’t this make your mouth water? It’s a chocolate lover’s delight – a big bowl of chocolate eggs from French pastry chef and chocolatier, Jacques Torres.
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- From small to giant! Here’s another chocolate egg. I had eggs of all sizes along the center of the table.
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- And outside, brighter shades of green and white are used to decorate this table on my terrace. The “children’s table” was set with these larger than life-sized 36-inch faux chocolate bunny figurines holding pretty daffodils from the garden.
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- Go to my Instagram page @marthastewart48 to see the dishes I served for lunch. I also made dozens of decorated sugar cookies – all made using my method of the four “Ds” – dipping, dripping, decorating, and drying.
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- Easter lunch was served buffet style in my Winter House kitchen and servery. Here are some of the desserts.
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- My daughter Alexis is an excellent cook and baker and always makes something different for our holiday gatherings. She made the two delicious lemon bundt cakes.
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- And I made these mini bunny cakes. All they needed was a dusting of powdered sugar.
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- And my 14-year-old granddaughter, Jude, made this cake – three generations of avid bakers. I hope you all enjoyed a festive and memorable holiday with friends and family. Happy spring!
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