Best Easter cake recipes
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Easter baking ideas
Chocolate and marshmallow mini egg traybake
Chetna Makan's easy Easter cake decorated with mini eggs is a chocolatey traybake treat to enjoy over the Easter weekend.
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Carrot cake recipes
Eric Lanlard’s carrot and pumpkin celebration cake
Eric Lanlard's carrot cake with ginger mascarpone frosting is the perfect birthday cake, Easter treat or celebration centrepiece.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Easy flourless chocolate cake
A crisp outside and fudgy centre make this flourless chocolate cake the best of gluten-free desserts. Make-ahead, then serve with ice cream.
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Best Easter cake recipes
Chocolate nest Easter cake
Martha Collison's chocolate nest Easter cake goes all out with white chocolate sponge, dark chocolate buttercream and Mini Egg-filled nests.
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Celebration cake recipes
The world’s best cake (Norwegian meringue and custard layer cake)
This Norwegian recipe for the 'world's best cake' layers crisp meringue, sponge cake and clouds of custard for a show-stopping treat.
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Simnel cake recipes
Whisky and pistachio simnel cake
Debbie Major's take on an Easter simnel cake is wonderfully light, laced with whisky and topped with a pistachio marzipan.
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Mini egg ice cream chocolate layer cake
It's the perfect Easter combination: Cadbury's mini eggs, chocolate cake and ice cream layered together to create one decadent dessert.
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Naked cake recipes
Passion cake
Pineapple, coconut and vanilla provide dreamy tropical flavours in this naked carrot cake recipe – it will be the hero of any afternoon tea.
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White chocolate recipes
Chetna Makan’s pistachio, cardamom and white chocolate cake
Chetna Makan combines the flavours of pistachio and cardamom to make the lightest of white chocolate cakes. Perfect for afternoon tea.
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Simnel cake recipes
Sour cherry and chocolate simnel cake with hazelnut marzipan
For a modern twist on a classic Easter cake, try John Whaite's chocolate simnel cake with sour cherries, choc ganache and hazelnut marzipan.
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Bundt cake recipes
Carrot bundt cake with honey and cream cheese icing
This gorgeous bundt cake adds a new dimension to the classic carrot cake: it's perfect for afternoon tea, birthdays, and Easter baking.
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Simnel cake recipes
Simnel cake
Edd Kimber's traditional simnel cake is decorated with 11 marzipan balls to represent Jesus's disciples – minus Judas who betrayed him.
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Carrot cake recipes
Carrot and walnut cake
Ciara Davis's luscious carrot and walnut cake is packed with sultanas and desiccated coconut and covered with zesty lemon cream cheese icing.
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Celebration cake recipes
Chocolate and Malteser cake
This decadent chocolate and Malteser cake would be perfect for a special occasion, birthday or afternoon tea - a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
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Simnel cake recipes
Pear and apricot simnel cake
This fruity version of the traditional Easter simnel cake is made with apricots, pears and sultanas, and topped with nutty homemade marzipan.
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Carrot cake recipes
Paul Hollywood’s ultimate carrot cake
Paul Hollywood's ultimate (but easy!) carrot cake recipe is made with pecan nuts, cinnamon, ginger then topped with a cream cheese frosting.
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