Easter baking ideas
Fill your home with the scents of simnel cake and homemade hot cross buns. Our Easter baking ideas for buns, cakes and tarts will have everyone asking for the recipe.
Just want cakes? Head over to our gorgeous Easter cakes section.
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Biscuit recipes
Manon Lagrève’s palets bretons
Manon Lagrève shares her recipe for palets bretons. These golden, buttery shortbreads hail from Brittany and are perfect the perfect...
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Carrot cake recipes
Manon Lagrève’s carrot cake
Manon Lagrève puts a French twist on a classic Anglo-American bake in this beautiful spiced carrot cake recipe. You can...
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Peanut butter recipes
Peanut butter and jam thumbprint cookies
Our peanut butter and jam cookies are where it’s at if you need a sweet treat fast! Peanut butter gives...
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Biscuit recipes
Lemon and pistachio shortbread biscuits
Crumbly, buttery shortbread is lightened with lemon and given a nutty richness thanks to plenty of pistachios. The perfect teatime...
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Celebration cake recipes
Pistachio layer cake with cream cheese frosting
Pistachio lovers, this one’s for you! This magnificent pistachio layer cake combines a light and nutty sponge with a decadently...
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Easter recipes
Mini Egg rocky road
A tiny amount of effort and a little patience rewards you with a rocky-road-style chocolate bar that’s perfect for sharing....
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Easter baking ideas
Lemon meringue shortbread
“My mum used to make the most incredible lemon meringue pies when I was growing up, and this is my...
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Meringue recipes
Double chocolate meringue tower
Our teetering double-chocolate meringue tower shows how something as simple as French meringue can be turned into a showstopper. We’ve...
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Cookie recipes
Triple chocolate rye cookies
Incredibly rich and seriously dense (in the best possible way), these discs of deliciousness are somewhere between a brownie and...
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Easter baking ideas
Easter brioche loaf (mouna)
A special sweet brioche-like loaf of Sephardi Jewish origin which was eaten to break the fast on special holidays such...
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Christmas baking recipes
Cozonac (Romanian Christmas and Easter bread)
Cozonac is a traditional Romanian sweet bread, served at both Easter and Christmas. Irina Georgescu shares her recipe for buttery...
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Filo pastry recipes
Armenian pakhlava with pomegranate syrup
“A pakhlava lies at the heart of Armenian baking, from a dish to bring a little joy on Lent days...
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Afternoon tea recipes
Ginger toffee dodgers
The classic biscuit we all know and love gets a welcome update with the warming flavours of ginger and caramel...
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Rhubarb recipes
Rhubarb and pistachio syrup cake
This fragrant rhubarb cake has a golden sponge with rhubarb folded in. Douse with sticky rhubarb syrup and sprinkle generously...
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Baked cheesecake recipes
Chocolate Guinness cheesecake
The greatest chocolate cheesecake ever? Very possibly. Our chocolate Guinness cheesecake has an Oreo base, thick cheesecake layer and malted...
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Best Easter cake recipes
Mazurek (Polish sheet cake)
This irresistible sheet cake is traditionally baked in Poland to celebrate Easter. The flavourings vary from baker to baker but...
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