From cupcakes and centrepiece cakes to small chocolate-y treats, you’re going to have a ball with these Easter baking and sweet treat recipes.
Like our never-fail moist chocolate cake, pictured above. You can use this recipe year-round for special occasions, and change up the decorations to suit.
Easter baking ideas
From funfetti blondies decorated with cute white chocolate rabbits, to our super fun Easter egg hunt smash cake, plus recipes for classic and gluten free hot cross buns, there’s a recipe for everyone in this colourful collection. Including a savoury bake – a recipe for the Cypriot Easter cheese pies known as Flaounes.
These Cypriot-style pastries are an Easter tradition. They are best eaten fresh.
If you’re more in the market for something a little more savoury, find inspiration in this Greek-inspired Easter menu.
Recipes for Easter baking
Easy hot cross buns
There’s nothing better than eating fruit-studded, delicately spiced hot cross buns straight from the oven.
Hot cross bun tiramisu loaf
An epic Easter dessert for the grown-ups.
Hot cross bun waffles
A fun idea for Easter breakfast or dessert
Chocolate marshmallow Easter eggs
Delicious, easy and cute to boot! These chocolate eggs are made even better with a fluffy marshmallow filling and can be decorated with your favourite Easter-themed treats. The kids will love ’em!
How to make Easter chocolate freckles
How can you improve on the humble chocolate freckle? By making them Easter-themed!
Chocolate & strawberry Easter pavlova
We have a pavlova recipe for every occasion! With chocolate dipped strawberries, this beautiful chocolate pavlova is an elegant way to celebrate Easter.
Easter egg rice bubble nests
These adorable little Easter egg nests are a fun way to jazz up the usual assorted of chocolate treats. They’re made with an oozy Mars Bar mixture for maximum sweetness.
Easter egg rocky road
This easy rocky road recipe will help keep the kids occupied over the Easter long weekend. With marshmallows, Turkish delight and biscuits this treat makes good use of any leftover eggs the Easter Bunny left lying around.
Easter bread with dyed eggs
Bake this sweet and zesty Easter bread then gather the kids and decorate your Easter eggs with bright colours.
Hot cross bun & Biscoff hand pies
All you need is 5 ingredients, 20 minutes and a pie maker.
Easter cheese pies (Flaounes)
These Cypriot-style pastries are an Easter tradition. They are best eaten fresh.
Chocolate-chip cookie pie
When a cookie becomes a pie it’s time to top it with ice-cream, bust out the spoons and dig in! Did we mention it’s studded with Easter eggs? You’re welcome!
Simnel cake
Packed with fruit, spices and marzipan, Simnel Cake is an Easter tradition. We’ve made ours with chunks of marzipan and decorated it with pretty flowers.
Easter smash cake
As featured on the Easter with The Australian Women’s Weekly TV special.
Mini meringue nests
Put an Easter spin on this popular dessert, whipping up these sweet and cream-filled moulds ready to house sugar-coated eggs.
Noughts and crosses chocolate chip easter buns
Inject an extra dose of fun for the kids at Easter, with these white chocolate-chip buns glazed with pink icing.
Italian Easter biscuits
Scented with almond and anise, these Italian cookies are delicious and great fun to make.
Chocolate surprise Easter buns
This sweet and fun twist on the classic hot cross buns will delight kids and adults alike. The addition of decadent pink icing and chocolatey Easter eggs will have people reaching for more!
Hot cross bun cookies
Store in an airtight container for up to a week. Note
Chocolate Easter egg cake
How can you improve on chocolate cake?
Chocolate ginger Easter egg biscuits
Calling all ginger fans.
Overnight hot cross buns
Enjoy our Test Kitchen Collection buns straight from the oven or lightly toasted.
Easter trifle
This recipe is a great way to use the abundance of hot cross buns available around Easter time.
Easter egg sundaes
An egg-cellent way to use up those choccie eggs, and serve up a festive dessert this Easter.
Easter carrot cake with buttercream & caramel sauce
Layered with spiced buttercream and drizzled with caramel sauce.
Chocolate freckle Easter eggs
Treat yourself this Easter.
Quick-mix chocolate cupcakes
Suitable to freeze. Ganache suitable to microwave. makes 24 Note
Triple-chocolate crackle crunch cake
As featured on the Easter with The Australian Women’s Weekly TV special.
Greek almond crescents
Serve with a hot espresso.
Chocolate Easter freckles
Get the kids involved with your Easter treats.
Chocolate hot cross buns
Traditionalists may scorn at the inclusion of chocolate in this best ever hot cross bun recipe, but we think there is a place for the humble choc-chip.
Gluten free hot cross buns
Eat them warm from the oven, slathered with butter.
Test Kitchen hot cross buns
We’ve been using this same recipe for decades. It works and the results are delicious.
Easter egg hunt smash cake
‘Smash’ the top and reveal the chocolatey Easter eggs inside.
Easter chocolate bunny bottoms
Get the kids involved in the kitchen this Easter with these festive chocolate bunny bottom cupcakes. As fun to make as they are to eat, a fudgey cupcake base combines with a velvety chocolate icing to create a heavenly bite.
White chocolate Easter bunny cupcakes
With fluffy butter cream and white chocolate ears, these tasty cakes will go down a treat
Easter bunny funfetti blondie
Bunny hop into the kitchen this Easter to make this cute and colourful treat.
Never-fail moist chocolate cake
The perfect celebration cake. Change up the decorations for birthdays, Easter and more.
Easter bunny cake
This Easter bunny cake is an easy and adorable way to celebrate the holidays – and the little ones can help decorate!
Tsoureki
How to make the traditional Greek Easter bread.
White chocolate and cranberry buns
These beautifully glossy buns are studded with sweet white chocolate bits and tart cranberries to create a lovely morning or afternoon treat. They use the same basic mix for hot cross buns, making a great alternative for Easter treats.
Chocolate, pecan and raisin scrolls
Put a fun twist on an Easter classic.
Easter egg cake pops
Brighten up the family Easter celebration and engage the kids with these zesty, creative lollipop-style cakes.
Hot cross bun bread and butter pudding
Save some hot cross buns just for this!
How to dye eggs for Easter (video)
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