Easter baking ideas
Fill your home with the scent of cinnamon, marzipan and chocolate with our best Easter baking recipes. These ideas for hot cross buns, Easter cakes and chocolate treats are full of Easter magic.
- Hot cross buns galore: Traditionally eaten on Good Friday, it’s hard to beat a fragrant homemade hot cross bun. Try our twists on the theme, including easy hot cross cookies, hot cross banana bread and savoury cheese and chilli versions.
- Easter cakes: Bake a showstopper to slice and share. You can’t beat our best-ever carrot cake and simnel cake is a classic.
- Chocolate inspiration: It wouldn’t be Easter without chocolate. How about a chocolate mini egg traybake or luxurious chocolate Guinness cheesecake for the grown-ups? Try making your own caramelised white chocolate for these dainty madeleines.
- Bakes to make with kids: Our simple no-bake recipes for Mini Egg rocky road and Rice Krispie treats are great for a bake sale and we’ve got easy Easter cupcakes, too.
Just want cakes? Head over to our gorgeous Easter cakes section for inspiration.
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Brownies
Black bean brownies
Beans aren’t just for savoury recipes, as these joyful black bean brownies prove. They're quick and easy to make, and naturally gluten-free.
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Giant recipes
Giant peanut butter choc-chip cookie
This giant peanut butter cookie is a speedy sweet sensation that bakes in less that 15 minutes. Make it with milk, white or dark chocolate.
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Best Easter cakes
Baklava dome cake
This baklava-inspired dome cake is covered in pistachio icing, concealing walnut sponges sandwiched with pistachio paste and raspberry cream.
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Biscuits
Ottolenghi’s rhubarb and custard yo-yos (sandwich biscuits)
Yo-Yo biscuits are a beloved treat in Australia. Try Yotam Ottolenghi's rhubarb and custard version. Perfect for a spring baking session.
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Mini Egg
Mini eggs, chocolate and tahini Rice Krispie treats
Give rice krispie bars a grown-up makeover with nutty tahini, honey and salty pretzels. If you like halva, you'll love these Mini Eggs treats.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and pistachio millionaires’ shortbread
Swap caramel for rhubarb in this light, colourful take on millionaire's shortbread. Sprinkle the chocolate topping with green pistachios.
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Afternoon tea
‘Banana’ cake
Seriously a-peel-ing, this cartoonish banana illusion cake is bound to make a statement at birthdays, special occasions and bake sales.
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Cookies
Black and gold cookies
Chunks of golden caramelised white chocolate shine through rich dark chocolate dough in these indulgently chewy cookies.
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Afternoon tea
Caramelised white chocolate madeleines
Fluffy madeleines are a treat warm from the oven, especially when these delicate French bakes get a dose of caramelised white chocolate.
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White chocolate
Caramelised white chocolate
Fan of blond chocolate? Learn how to make caramelised white chocolate at home. It sounds cheffy but is simple to make – and so versatile.
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Baking recipes
Chocolate custard brioche
Set aside some time at the weekend to make these gorgeous chocolate brioche loaves from master baker Richard Bertinet.
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Baking recipes
Hot cross banana bread
Banana bread meets hot cross buns in this delicious Easter loaf. The brioche bun dough is filled with a spiced almond and banana paste.
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Carrot cakes
Best of the best carrot cake
Presenting our best ever carrot cake recipe, packed with warming spice and crunchy nuts and topped with mascarpone brown butter frosting.
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Cookies
Chocolate orange pan-bang cookies
Chocolate orange fans will love this zesty take on pan-bang cookies. These wrinkly cult cookies are a guaranteed hit and easy to make.
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Biscuits
Manon Lagrève’s palets bretons
Manon Lagrève shares her recipe for palets bretons. These golden, seriously buttery shortbread biscuits hail from Brittany in France.
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Carrot cakes
Manon Lagrève’s carrot cake
Manon Lagrève puts a French twist on a classic Anglo-American bake in this spiced carrot cake recipe from the Bake Off alumni.
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