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Easter treats

 

Top chefs' sweets to break the Lent fast. Master baker Paul Hollywood offers his definitive simnel cake and hot cross bun recipes, while Sophie Grigson’s delicate orange biscuits provide a lighter touch. If chocolate is what you are craving, we've got dark and fudgy brownies and Nigel Slater’s dangerously moreish chocolate cornflake cakes. Enjoy!

 
Easter Orange Cake with Lemon Icing
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

 
Chocolate Cornflake Cakes
Chocolate Cornflake Cakes

Too good to leave to the kids, Nigel Slater's cornflake cakes are a real treat

 
The Ultimate Chocolate Cake
The Ultimate Chocolate Cake

Dark and indulgent, this chocolate cake from Good Food magazine's Angela Nilsen is deliciously addictive

 
Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns

Full of fruit and lightly spiced, Paul Hollywood's hot cross buns make Easter tea a little more special

 
Decorated Easter Eggs
Decorated Easter Eggs

James Martin shows you how to decorate an Easter egg with your own chocolate motifs

 
Simnel Cake
Simnel Cake

Celebrate Easter in traditional fashion with Paul Hollywood's recipe for a classic marzipan-topped simnel cake

 
Orangines
Orangines

Sophie Grigson's elegant orange biscuits are perfect with coffee

 
Chocolate Brownies
Chocolate Brownies

Fudgy and sticky, Tamasin Day Lewis's chocolate brownies are irresistible

 
Fudge
Fudge

Winner of the Taste Awards 2007, Helen Eastwood shares the recipe for her award-winning fudge

 
Lemon Drizzle Bundt Cake
Lemon Drizzle Bundt Cake

A zippy lemon sponge glazed with a delicate sugar crust from Eleanor Smallwood

 
 
 
 
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