Easter recipes
Find every recipe you need for Easter here, including homemade Easter eggs, cakes, Easter baking, hot cross buns, Sunday roasts and more. Discover lots of easy delicious ideas for the long Easter weekend with our best recipes.
- Easter cakes and baking: Simnel cake and hot cross buns are classics but we’ve got twists too, like these savoury HCBs with cheese and chilli and a showstopping rhubarb and custard layer cake.
- Traditional Easter lamb: However you like your lamb, we’ve got the ultimate recipe for you – from lemon, garlic and rosemary lamb leg to slow-cooked lamb shoulder and stuffed lamb saddle.
- Sunday lunch ideas: Discover alternative roasts, such as Ottolenghi’s chicken or tapenade roast beef, and sensational Easter side dishes too. How about roasted carrots with feta?
- Easter recipes for kids: Have fun making mini-marshmallow lamb cupcakes or mini egg cookies.
- Chocolate inspiration: This indulgent chocolate mousse cake is an annual favourite. Use up leftover Easter eggs in treats like our white chocolate bark with marshmallows.
Need a pudding recipe? See our best Easter desserts.
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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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Easter lamb
Lemon, garlic and rosemary leg of lamb with mint sauce
You just can’t beat the flavours of lamb leg roasted with lemon, garlic and rosemary. Our method rewards you with perfectly tender pink meat.
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Carrots
Steamed carrots with spring onion and chive butter
Toss steamed carrots in a punchy spring onion and chive butter and sprinkle with toasted seeds for an easy side dish bursting with flavour.
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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.
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Four cheese, leek and walnut gratin
This multi-layered leek gratin is the ultimate creamy, cheesy side dish. Prep ahead then bake and serve with Easter lunch or a spring roast.
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Easter lamb
Slow-cooked orange wine lamb shoulder with shallots
Slow cook lamb shoulder in orange wine with anchovies and shallots. This is the easy-but-impressive Easter roast you've been looking for.
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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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Easter lamb
Lamb saddle stuffed with a herby chicken mousseline
Spring lamb saddle is stuffed with a light-as-air chicken mousseline made bright green with fresh herbs. The perfect dish for Easter Sunday
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Carrots
Ottolenghi’s roasted carrots with curry leaf dukkah
These roasted carrots with curry leaf dukkah from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen are the perfect side dish for Easter lunch or a springtime roast.
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Hot cross buns
Orange hot cross bun treacle tart
Treacle tart gets an Easter makeover in this impressive pud recipe. The tart filling is enriched with hot cross bun crumbs, spice and citrus.
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Asparagus
Asparagus caesar salad
Asparagus is a glorious side for any springtime Sunday dinner, and this pretty caesar salad with quails eggs makes the most of its flavour.
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Pear and walnut salad with hot cross bun croutons
Try our pear and walnut salad with hot cross bun croutons and give classic panzanella (Italian bread salad) an Easter makeover.
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15-minute meals
Hot cross bun mackerel sandwiches
Switch things up at Easter with hot cross bun mackerel sandwiches. This unexpectedly delicious duo is inspired by Turkish fish sandwiches.
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Chicken thighs
Ottolenghi’s jerk chicken
Give chicken thighs the Ottolenghi treatment with this easy spiced jerk chicken traybake recipe from Yotam and his test-kitchen team.
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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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Cheesecakes
Caramelised white chocolate cheesecake
This showstopping cheesecake has a chocolatey biscuit base, a creamy caramelised white chocolate filling and golden ganache topping.
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