Easter chocolate recipes
Get ready for a chocolate-packed Easter weekend! Our best Easter chocolate recipes include homemade Easter eggs, chocolate cakes, slabs, desserts and more.
- Easy chocolate treats: Whip up rocky road, mini egg Rice Krispie treats, cookies and Easter nest cupcakes this year.
- Twists on classics: How about chocolate hot cross buns or simnel cake?
- Chocolate cakes: We’ve got sumptuous showstoppers, including this Easter nest-topped beauty and a mini egg ice cream cake. This mousse cake is a popular choice, too.
- DIY Easter eggs: Fancy making your own? These mini eggs are filled with salted caramel – or get creative making and decorating a classic hollow egg.
- Leftover Easter egg recipes: Use up the ends of eggs in our dreamy chocolate and raspberry custard pots or make a giant choc-chip cookie to share!
- Dark, milk and white chocolate: Whatever your preference, we’ve got a recipe for you, from a white chocolate slab with marshmallows to rich vegan truffles from expert chocolatier Paul A Young.
Browse all our favourite Easter desserts, including caramelised white chocolate cheesecake.
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5-ingredient
Chocolate and raspberry custard pots
These speedy chocolate custard pots are one of the easiest desserts you can throw together. They're a great way to use up Easter chocolate.
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.
Perfect puddings
Malt chocolate self-saucing pudding
The toasty flavour of malt brings an extra layer of comfort to this easy, self-saucing chocolate pudding. Bring it to the table and dig in!
Italian desserts
Chocolate budino
With only five ingredients, this creamy Italian pudding – chocolate budino – is incredibly simple but beautifully smooth and indulgent.
Cheesecakes
Caramelised white chocolate cheesecake
This showstopping cheesecake has a chocolatey biscuit base, a creamy caramelised white chocolate filling and golden ganache topping.
Baking recipes
Chocolate custard brioche
Set aside some time at the weekend to make these gorgeous chocolate brioche loaves from master baker Richard Bertinet.
Retro puddings
Chocolate parkin with marbled custard
Sticky chocolate parkin shares top billing with chocolate and ginger custard rippled with spiced cream in this retro pudding recipe.
Easter
Mini Egg rocky road
A tiny amount of effort and patience rewards you with a Mini Egg rocky road that’s perfect for sharing at Easter time.
Meringue
Double chocolate meringue tower
Build a teetering double-chocolate meringue tower with our easy recipe. The crisp meringues are served with double cream and chocolate sauce.
Christmas chocolate
Paul A Young’s vegan chocolate truffles
These intense dark chocolate truffles (which happen to be vegan) make great food gifts - if you can resist gobbling them up yourself.
Chocolate mousse
Michel Roux Jr’s chocolate mousse
Learn how to make the perfect chocolate mousse, with this masterclass recipe from leading chef Michel Roux Jr.
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