Anti-stress planning for Easter brunchEat and drink for hours and enjoy the start of spring: Easter brunch is a holiday favourite. Do you want to organise it at home, pull out all the stops and still stay relaxed? Follow the golden rules of Easter brunch planning: Start early. The earlier the guest list, menu and daily schedule are finalised, the better you can work through your to-do lists. Nobody expects an elaborate menu. Finger food for Easter brunch always works; homemade, ready-made and baked goods all have a place on the Easter brunch buffet. Ask everyone to contribute something. A cake here, a quiche there or a salad - the table will almost fill itself. Also ask if someone can come a little earlier to help you with the final preparations and make sure your kitchen has everything you need for mixing, cooking and baking. This includes not only kitchen gadgets such as a food processor, but also essentials such as a kettle, chopping board, stewing pans, etc.Our tip: space on the hob is limited, but important when preparing the Easter brunch buffet. An extra induction hob is energy-saving, fast and always ready when you're planning a larger menu!

The Easter brunch buffet: DIY instead of a kitchen battleAt brunch, you can put together breakfast classics and lunch treats, savoury and sweet, cold and hot dishes to suit your taste. Simply look for recipes that you can prepare quickly and with just a few ingredients.the best tool for this? The hot air fryer! For example, it conjures up bread and rolls, muffins or hearty finger food in record time. You can even cook eggs or meat in it without any effort. You can find lots of inspiration and recipes for the air fryer in the Lidl recipe world.top tip for the air fryer: You can transfer many recipes for the oven to the air fryer. To do this, reduce the specified temperature by 10 to 20 degrees and shorten the baking time by just over ten per cent. Also, always season the oil so that the spices don't "fly away" during air frying.You'll be even less stressed if you turn your Easter brunch into a DIY event. Instead of elaborately decorating cupcakes, for example, simply place frosting, sprinkles and the like on the buffet. This way, your (younger) guests can let off steam creatively. Or you can dispense with sandwiches and create a bagel station with cream cheese, salmon, etc. You can prepare the cream cheese variations in large portions. You will need herbs and spices, cream cheese and a hand or immersion blender.

Lightning-fast decorations with guaranteed eye-catchersAn atmospherically decorated spring table is simply a must for Easter brunch. But the decorations don't have to be elaborate. With the latest styling trends and decorating hacks, your Easter brunch table will be a real eye-catcher:Tea towels in trendy colours and designs not only make for shiny plates and cups. Clean and ironed, they are a trendy alternative to napkins. If you add the first meadow flowers or blossoming twigs, the spring-fresh feeling is perfect.If you add pastel colours to the table, you don't have to make any effort - the Easter mood comes naturally. All you need is a tablecloth in a pastel colour, spring flowers such as tulips or daffodils and cute Easter bunny figurines. No time for the florist? Artificial tulip bouquets with a real-touch effect are practically indistinguishable from the original from the flower bed! Origami, the art of paper folding, is very popular as decoration. Bunnies, birds and eggs inspire as works of paper art with graphic lines that you can arrange into elegant glasses and crockery. You'll understand the beginner's instructions straight away, so grab yourself a creative set with a spring look for last-minute decorations? Nothing could be easier! Simply arrange a few Easter egg pendants on pretty branches from the garden or place your freshly boiled eggs in a decorative basket with an Easter look - done!