32 Memorial Day Recipes

Find inspiration for your holiday weekend menu with these 32 Memorial Day recipes. If you're searching for classic side dishes, grilling favorites, or sweet treats, this list has everything you need to make your Memorial Day gathering a delicious one!

Memorial Day Weekend Plans

If you're hosting family and friends or going to a BBQ or potluck and need to bring dessert, everyone appreciates something homemade. This Memorial Day menu list has a recipe for everyone!

30 Memorial Day Recipes

1
american flag cake in a baking pan topped with vanilla frosting, strawberries, and blueberries.

American Flag Cake

This beautiful cake isn't just for the 4th! It works great for Memorial Day, too, when we remember all those that have fallen protecting the freedoms we hold so dear.
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2
A landscape photo of Greek chicken pasta salad in a bowl, surrounded by lemon slices and parsley

Greek Pasta Salad

This Greek pasta salad is so full of fresh flavor! All the traditional Greek salad components, plus pasta. A flavorful, full meal in a bowl.
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3
Spinach salad with warm bacon dressing, served in a white ceramic bowl with copper salad serving utensils.

Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

A true classic, this spinach salad features hard-boiled eggs, red onion, mushrooms, and a mouthwatering bacon and red wine vinaigrette.
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4
Red velvet chocolate chip cookies with white and dark chocolate chips.

Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies

Red velvet chocolate chip cookies that bake up so incredibly soft & tender, and stay that way! With a hint of tangy cream cheese & cocoa.
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5
Scooping corn dip from a hot skillet with a corn chip.

Corn Dip

Hot & Cheesy Mexican Corn Dip! Loaded with meat, veggies, & ooey-gooey, creamy, melted cheese. An epic game-day recipe!
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6
Butterfinger Fluff Pie

Butterfinger Fluff Pie

This easy no-bake pie recipe features Butterfinger bits, marshmallows, and a whipped cream cheese filling. Try our Butterfinger Fluff Pie!
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7
Scooping crab dip from a bowl with a cracker.

Chilled Crab Dip

This chilled crab dip recipe is perfect for your next party! So easy to make, & it's served cold. So refreshing! You'll love it with a glass of champagne!
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8
7-Layer dip in a square glass dish, with a green napkin.

7-Layer Dip Recipe

This 7-layer dip recipe is perfect for your next party. Made with beans, sour cream, guacamole, salsa, and cheese, it's got tons of yummy Mexican flavor!
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9
Blackstone Bacon Cheeseburger

Blackstone Bacon Cheeseburger

This Blackstone Bacon Cheeseburger is made with ground American Wagyu Beef, Kurobuta bacon, and sharp melted cheddar cheese. Extra bacon please, hold the vegetables!
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10
Baked beans served in a casserole dish and topped with bacon.

Baked Beans

Real-deal Boston baked beans in a fraction of the time! Made with just a handful of simple ingredients & such rich, traditional flavor.
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11
Traeger Pork Tenderloin Sliders

Traeger Pork Tenderloin Sliders

This delicious recipe for Traeger Pork Tenderloin Sliders is perfect to serve at your next barbecue or party! Try it today!
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12
Overhead image of cobb salad in a bowl, with a red checked napkin.

Cobb Salad

This Cobb salad recipe is such a delicious classic! All of the components compliment one another in the most incredible way. Make it for dinner tonight!
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13
Dipping a corn chip into a bowl of simple guacamole.

Best Guacamole Recipe

How to make guacamole! This is the best homemade guacamole recipe you'll ever try. Simple and easy to make, with the most incredible fresh flavor!
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14
Cherry pie with a few slices cut, on a wire cooling rack with fresh cherries in the background.

Cherry Pie

Old-fashioned cherry pie! Loaded with fruit swimming in a jammy glaze, baked in a buttery, flaky crust. Use fresh or frozen fruit, sour or sweet cherries!
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15
Square image of a bowl of blueberry cobbler topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Blueberry Cobbler

This recipe is everything you could ever want in a blueberry cobbler! Sweet, jammy fruit on the bottom, & a fluffy, cake-y topping!
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16
Korean Grilled Chicken Wings

Korean Grilled Chicken Wings

These easy Korean Grilled Chicken Wings are perfectly spicy, cooked on the pellet grill, and get tossed in our wing sauce after!
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17
Peach pie recipe prepared and served with a slice cut out, displaying the juicy filling.

Peach Pie

This peach pie recipe is absolute perfection! Juicy summer peaches slicked in a sweet glaze and cradled in a buttery, flaky crust. You'll swoon!
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18
Baked oven fries sprinkled with salt and served on a tray with ketchup.

Incredibly Crispy Oven Fries

These oven fries bake up so incredibly crispy! I've combined the best tricks from all over the web to create this quick & easy recipe.
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19
Brownie recipe, baked, cut into bars, and arranged in a tall stack with a blue kitchen towel in the background.

Simply Perfect Brownies from Scratch

Gooey, fudgy brownies, with the deepest, darkest, most intense chocolate flavor EVER! Easy, one-bowl recipe, from scratch, pantry staples, no mixer needed.
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20
Best S'mores Pie Recipe

S'mores Pie

Indulge in this easy s'mores pie! With a buttery, crunchy graham cracker crust, a fluffy milk chocolate mousse filling, & toasty marshmallows on top.
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21

Red, White, and Blue Velvet Zebra Bundt Cake

Surprise your July 4th guests with this jaw-dropping patriotic cake! Ribbons of red, white, and blue velvet cake swirl beautifully in this zebra bundt recipe, drizzled with a tangy Greek yogurt glaze and crowned with fresh summer berries.
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22
Cherry Vanilla Sheet Cake with Red, White, & Blue Swirl Frosting- perfect for Memorial Day or July 4th! Don't forget the edible star glitter! food desserts patriotic

Cherry Vanilla Cake with Red, White, & Blue Swirl Frosting

Celebrate July 4th or Memorial Day with this easy cherry vanilla sheet cake! The patriotic red white and blue swirl frosting is so festive!
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23
Blueberry crisp served in a shallow dish with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Blueberry Crisp

This easy blueberry crisp recipe bakes up jammy & thick with tons of summery fruit, blanketed under a thick layer of buttery, crunchy streusel.
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24
Grilled Chicken Thighs

Grilled Chicken Thighs

Our Grilled Chicken Thighs are a delicious and easy-to-make dinner perfect for any occasion. We are featuring our OWYD Roasted Chicken Rub to bring out the rich, savory flavors of the chicken.
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25
Strawberry cheesecake on a wooden cake pedestal.

Strawberry Cheesecake

Creamy Strawberry Cheesecake: New York-style cream cheese filling, crunchy graham cracker crust, and the most gorgeous strawberry topping!
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26
Traeger Smoked Hot Crab Dip

Traeger Smoked Hot Crab Dip

Smoked Hot Crab Dip can be thrown together in 5 minutes, and then you let your pellet grill do the work! Wood + crab is excellent!
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27
Easy key lime recipe from scratch

Easy Key Lime Pie Recipe

Celebrate summer with this authentic Key Lime Pie recipe! It's so easy to make, and the combination of tangy citrus, fluffy whipped cream, and buttery graham cracker crust is the best!
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28
No-Drip Homemade Fudge Pops/Fudgesicles! My kids love these and I don't worry about giving them to them because they're so much less messy to eat than the regular kind.

No-Drip Fudge Pops

These homemade fudge pops are such a fun frozen treat! And they're mess-free because they don't drip and leave stains like the regular kind. Your kids will love 'em and so will you!

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29
Tropical Pudding Pops

Tropical Pudding Pops

These Tropical Pudding Pops are creamy, fruity, and packed with sunshine in every bite. Think pineapple, strawberry, kiwi, and coconut blended with smooth vanilla pudding, then frozen into a treat that's perfect for hot days.
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  • Christina is a contributor to Baking A Moment. She is a recipe creator, food photographer and author of Simple Everyday Recipes sharing easy, approachable recipes for the everyday family.

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