Easter recipes

We've chosen our favourite Easter recipes so you can get back to eating chocolate. There's the ultimate hot cross bun recipe, lemon drizzle cake, indulgent yet easy chocolate cake and get the kids involved with chocolate cornflakes cakes by Nigel Slater. If you're more interested in Easter eggs, James Martin shows you how to decorate with your own chocolate motifs.

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Rabbit spring rolls Simon Rimmer puts the spring into these spring rolls with rabbit meat, served with a refreshing cabbage and apple salad
Decorated Easter Eggs James Martin shows you how to decorate an Easter egg with your own chocolate motifs

Easter pancakes Stuart Gillies shares the perfect recipe to get your Easter morning started
Hot Cross Buns Full of fruit and lightly spiced, Paul Hollywood's hot cross buns make Easter tea a little more special

Orangines Sophie Grigson's elegant orange biscuits are perfect with coffee
Chocolate Cornflake Cakes Too good to leave to the kids, Nigel Slater's cornflake cakes are a real treat

Lemon Drizzle Bundt Cake A zippy lemon sponge glazed with a delicate sugar crust from Eleanor Smallwood
Simnel Cake Matt Tebbutt’s chocolate simnel cake is made with two types of marzipan sandwiched between sponge and topped with chocolate truffles and glazed almonds e

Easter Orange Cake with Lemon Icing Instead of an overload of chocolate or crème eggs, try Tana Ramsay’s light cake for afternoon tea this Easter, complete with adorable shredded wheat birds’ nests
The Ultimate Chocolate Cake Dark and indulgent, this chocolate cake from Good Food magazine's Angela Nilsen is deliciously addictive