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.

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

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.

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,

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

Easter Bunny Biscuits

Easter Bunny Biscuits are fun to make and can be iced and decorated any way you or your children want.

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

Simnel Cupcakes are crammed with fruit and marzipan, flavoured with orange, and topped with icing and chocolate eggs.

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.

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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