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Easter baking recipes
Get baking this Easter with fun Easter baking ideas using mini eggs and seasonal flavours such as rhubarb and custard. You will also find classic Easter cake recipes including simnel cake, mini egg nests and Easter biscuits that children will love helping to make. Waitrose expert cooks such as Martha Collison share clever ways to use up leftover chocolate too, like her simple rocky road and impressive Mini Egg cake. Short on time? Shop our range of ready-made Easter cakes instead.
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The best baklava
Boozy chocolate cream
Blueberry & lemon custard brioche
Cherry & almond semlor buns
Honey & tahini cinnamon buns
Lemon & mint financiers
Vanilla crescent cookies (Vanillekipferl)
Classic simnel cake
The best macarons
Semlor (Scandi-style Lent buns)
Easter egg shortbread biscuits
Tiramichoux
Chocolate crémeux cornflake tart
Rhubarb & custard tart
Super easy chocolate Easter nests
Easter mini egg traybake
Pane di Pasqua
Millionaire’s Easter egg cheesecake
Quick chocolate cheesecake pots
Simnel-spiced fridge cake
The best Easter chocolate cake
The best tear & share hot cross buns
Banana loaf with fruit, nuts, chocolate & espresso butter
Rose & pistachio cake
The best upside-down cake
Mimosa cake
Mint chocolate cheesecake
White chocolate Easter cake
Mango & coconut chick biscuits
White chocolate and orange hot cross buns
Bunny bottom cupcakes
Chocolate almond simnel cake
Easter bunny biscuits
Spiced Easter biscuits
Simnel cake
Chocolate fudge traybake
Martha Collison's brioche buns
Martha's English muffins
Triple chocolate hot cross buns
Rhubarb and cardamom custard cake
Mediterranean tear & share bread
Apple, ginger & honey cake
Raspberry iced buns
Mini Egg chocolate thins
The best Easter nest cakes
Hot cross brownies
Chocolate mini egg cake
Alaskattone
Honey & pistachio filo cheesecake
Easter carrot patch traybake
Speckled springtime lemon & white chocolate cake
Vanilla & passion fruit cheesecake
Easter nest chocolate cupcakes
Bourbon salted caramel cheesecake with toffee apples