Easter recipes
Find everything you need for the long Easter weekend, including homemade Easter eggs, cakes, Easter baking, hot cross bun recipes, Sunday roasts and more.
If it’s all feeling a bit too much and you’re catering for a crowd, get some inspiration from the three Easter menus we’ve put together – as close to stress-free as you can get, and covering a classic Easter menu, an alternative and a vegetarian Easter menu.
Just need a pudding idea for Easter? See our desserts.
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Cheesecake recipes
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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Baking recipes
Chocolate custard brioche
Set aside some time at the weekend to make these gorgeous chocolate brioche loaves from master baker Richard Bertinet.
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Roast beef recipes
Rib of beef with onions, goat’s cheese and broccoli
Richard Corrigan's rib of beef dinner with goat's cheese onions and broccoli makes a spectacular spring Sunday roast or Easter lunch.
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Gratin recipes
Baked chicory with ham
Chicory wrapped in ham and baked under a cosy blanket of cream, gruyère and parmesan makes a great side for roasts or a veg-led dinner.
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Ragù recipes
Lamb ragù
Our lamb ragù recipe uses slow-cooked lamb shoulder to make the perfect rich sauce for pasta. Make a few days ahead to let the flavours meld.
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Pork recipes from around the world
Pork stifado
Stifado is a classic Greek stew. Our pork version is packed with warming spices and makes a great alternative Sunday lunch or Easter main.
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Apricot recipes
Roast pork loin with lavender honey-glazed apricots
In this lovely roast pork recipe, lavender honey-glazed apricots soak up the meat juices and are served with pork, potatoes and a salad.
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Easter recipes
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.
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Easter baking ideas
Lemon meringue shortbread
Marcus Wareing shares a taste of his childhood with this zingy lemon meringue shortbread recipe. Serve with napkins - it can get messy!
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30-minute meal recipes
Sea bream with spring onion and brown butter rice
For a quick but impressive Sunday lunch, steam sea bream and serve with nutty, lemony brown-butter and spring onion rice with chilli.
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April seasonal recipes
Crab, feta and chard quiche
This elegant crab quiche combines earthy chard, salty feta and sweet crab meat with crisp fennel-seed pastry. Perfect for Easter lunch.
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Make-ahead Easter recipes
Milk chocolate bark with pretzels, candied bacon and jelly beans
This seriously-extra milk chocolate bark is full of sweet-meets-salty flavours: crunchy pretzels, chewy jelly beans and candied bacon.
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Alpine recipes
White chocolate bark with waffles and marshmallows
Our alpine white chocolate bark is topped with chestnuts and meringue alongside hot-choc-inspired marshmallows and stroopwafel crunch.
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Easter dessert recipes
Dark chocolate bark with sea salt, rosemary, pistachios and candied citrus
Take a bite out of dark chocolate bark studded with pistachios, rosemary-flavoured salt and little bursts of candied peel.
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30-minute meal recipes
Fried artichokes with chickpeas, roasted tomatoes and mascarpone
Roasted tomatoes piled high with crispy fried artichokes, chickpeas and mascarpone makes for a celebratory vegetarian centerpiece.
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Easter lamb recipes
Roast mutton shoulder with roast potatoes
Mutton is a flavoursome, affordable alternative to lamb. Gently-spiced pot-roast mutton is cooked with the potatoes for bags of flavour.
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