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    Best Easter Cakes

    8 new and traditional recipes for Easter cakes and biscuits, from an Easter Nest Cake to Simnel Cake. Includes some cookies and an indulgent Easter Rocky Road.

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    Easter Teatime Treats

    Easter is associated with indulgence. Traditionally people fasted for 40 days of Lent and didn't eat any rich food such as eggs, sugar or milk (hence using them up in pancakes on Shrove Tuesday). So Easter was the time to feast and eat cake again (among other things).

    Nowadays we have a tradition of eating chocolate for Easter, in eggs or cakes - especially welcome if you've given up chocolate for Lent.

    Here's a selection of chocolate Easter cakes and traditional Simnel cakes, with a couple of biscuit recipes too. Happy Easter!

    Chocolate Easter cakes

    Pieces of Easter Rocky Road on a plate

    Easter Rocky Road

    No-bake Easter Rocky Road is a seasonal twist on a modern favourite. Full of all your favourite Easter sweets and chocolates and easy to make.
    8 Easter Nest Cupcakes full of mini eggs on a grey plate

    Easter Nest Cupcakes

    Easter Nest Cupcakes are a teatime treat for the Easter holidays using your favourite chocolate mini eggs. Easy for kids to make or help decorate,
    Chocolate Easter Nest Cake topped with chocolate cream and mini eggs

    Easter Nest Cake

    Easter Nest Cake is made with ground almonds instead of flour, so it's gluten-free. It has a cream and chocolate topping and a nest of chocolate flake and mini eggs.

    Modern and traditional Easter biscuits

    Iced Easter Bunny Biscuits and chicks in a variety of colours on a wire rack

    Easter Bunny Biscuits

    Easter Bunny Biscuits are fun to make and can be iced and decorated any way you or your children want.
    16 Easter Biscuits on a wire tray , some sprinkled with sugar.

    Traditional Easter Biscuits

    Traditional Easter biscuits are lightly spiced, with currants and a sugar topping. Every recipe has its own twist - these have lemon juice and zest for a light zing.

    Simnel cakes - large and small

    Simnel Cupcakes on a glass dish decorated with icing and chocolate eggs

    Simnel Cupcakes

    Simnel Cupcakes are crammed with fruit and marzipan, flavoured with orange, and topped with icing and chocolate eggs.
    Orange Simnel Cake with a slice removed showing the layer of marzipan inside

    Orange Simnel Cake

    Orange Simnel Cake is a plain orange cake with marzipan filling and topping in the tradition of a Simnel Cake. Great for Mothering Sunday or Easter.
    Light Simnel Cake on a patterned plate on a pinkcloth

    Simnel Cake

    Light Simnel Cake is a lighter version of the traditional rich fruit cake with marzipan filling and top, made for Mothering Sunday or Easter.

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    Selection of cakes and cookies for Easter.
    Easter Teatime Treats

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