Cake Recipes

If you're planning on making a showstopping Easter cake as your centrepiece, here's a great selection of our favourite Easter cakes. From delicious <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/ultimate-easter-chocolate-cake">Easter chocolate cake</a> with chocolate finger biscuits and mini chocolate eggs to traditional <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/simnel-cake">Simnel Cake</a> and <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/easter-lemon-cake">Easter Lemon Cake</a>, we've got something for everyone.&nbsp;
Make teatime a special treat and serve a generous slice with a cup of tea to round off your Easter lunch.&nbsp;

Cake on cooling rack next to bottle of vanilla and bag of sugar 

Get inspired for Easter! If you're planning on making a showstopping Easter cake as your centrepiece, here's a great selection of our favourite Easter cakes.

Easter Cakes Recipes and Easter Cake Ideas

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Bread & Dough

Cookie, Oreo & Brownie Layered Cake with a slice cut out of it. 

Top view of Rainbow Meringues in a bowl, with Rainbow Meringues scattered around next to a bag of silver spoon caster sugar

Confectionery

Side on view of a stack of vegan and gluten free chocolate chip cookies

Cookies & Biscuits

Nutella Cupcakes with glass bottle of milk in the background

Cupcakes & Muffins

2 glass jars of eton mess, raspberries, edible flowers and vanilla extract

Desserts

Bowl of ice cream, apple and slices, brown sugar packet

Ice Cream & Lollies

Icing & Buttercream

Jams & Spreads

Stack of American pancakes drizzled with maple syrup and topped with fresh berries

Pancakes, Crepes & Waffles

Pastries, Pies & Tarts

scone with strawberries and cream on a plate 

Scone and Shortcake Recipes

Sweet Sauces

Salted Caramel Cookie Traybake pieces stacked on top of each other with a hand reaching for the top piece. A bottle of milk in the background and jar of caramel sauce in the foreground

Traybakes

Pop tarts decorated with biscoff, chocolate and pink icing with sprinkles. 

Air Fryer Pop Tarts

Individual Eton Mess

Mini chocolate cupcake with a bite taken out of it and the cupcake case peeled back

Tiramisu Mini Treats

Recipes

Tips & Tricks

Allinson's

A top down view of chocolate brownies next to a packet of Billington's Dark Muscovado Sugar

Billington’s

Nielsen Massey Vanilla Extract being added to Vanilla Extract Cupcakes mixture

Nielsen-Massey

Silver Spoon

Our Brands

There really is no such thing as too much chocolate at Easter and this cake celebrates EVERYTHING we love about the chocolate season. Soft chocolatey sponge, silky white choc ganache filling, velvety milk chocolate ganache topping, a trimming of kitkats and an abundance of mini eggs for decorations. There is a reason why the Easter bunny has face planted this 5* cake. 
 
Plan ahead and bake this cake in advance. The sponge freezes like a dream for up to 3 months un-iced. Once baked consume within 3 days (as if it will still be around after 24 hours) 
 
If you're looking for more Easter recipes, try out our <a data-item-id="e3cdc3af-e45f-560e-893f-bd08d8ca7a9f" href="">hot cross buns</a> or <a data-item-id="e1042adc-b574-5901-9ea5-3394b8b28c5d" href="">carrot cake</a>.

Ultimate Easter Chocolate Cake

This cake will last for 3 - 4 days in an airtight container. Paper liners are a really convenient way to line a tin, and saves time when baking a cake. They are available from the most popular tin sizes.

Lemon Drizzle Cake

Chocoholics meet your match. Topped with your favourite eggs and crushed flakes, this is the ultimate Easter party centrepiece. A deliciously moist, rich sponge, smothered is silky smooth chocolate buttercream and finished with handfuls of Mini Eggs and sprinkles of Cadbury flake - no, you're not dreaming.&nbsp;
This is the perfect recipe to use up any chocolate which hasn't been eaten at Easter, and the beauty of this cake is that you can top it with absolutely anything you love. Whether it's Cadbury Caramel Eggs, or crushed Easter eggs - the possibilities are endless. If you can't get your hand on a flake, then simply grate up some chocolate pieces.&nbsp;

Chocolate Nest Cake

If you’re a fan of sweet and zesty lemon-flavoured bakes, you can’t go wrong with our Lemon Curd Cake. Our soft, citrusy sponge really is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy to whip up - it's filled with <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/lemon-curd">fresh lemon curd</a> and a light, fluffy lemon buttercream, and will soon become a family favourite. For some extra indulgence, double up your buttercream ingredients to coat the entire cake with lemon buttercream.
If lemon curd is your jam, you are also going to love our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/lemon-curd-rolls">Lemon Curd Rolls</a>. Think cinnamon rolls, but oozing with fresh lemon flavour. Adding citrus fruit to your bake is one of the best ways of adding natural flavouring, to elevate your biscuits, cakes or even cookies.
Speaking of biscuits, cakes and cookies - get your lemon squeezers at the ready, as we have a whole host of citrus bakes just for you. Try our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/lemon-drizzle-swiss-roll">Lemon Drizzle Swiss Roll</a>, keep it sweet with some <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/citrus-gingerbread-cookies">Citrus Gingerbread Cookies</a>, or stack 'em high with some <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/turmeric-and-lemon-pancakes">Lemon &amp; Turmeric Pancakes</a>.

Lemon Curd Cake

There's no such thing as too much chocolate, but&nbsp;when you've eaten one too many eggs this Easter these are the perfect sweet treat to whisk up, with only a handful of ingredients you're bound to have in your cupboards.&nbsp;

Mini Easter Pavlova Nests

This muffin version of the classic English light fruit cake were traditionally baked for Mother's Day, but are now associated more with Easter. They're a big hit with lovers of marzipan. To make Easter Simnel Muffins you will need around an hour of your afternoon, 15 ingredients and some eager taste testers!

Simnel Muffins

This carrot cake recipe is delicious, moist and ready in under an hour. It’s at the top of our ‘favourites’ list and the perfect go-to for a sweet teatime treat.
The carrots and light muscovado sugar help make it a moist, flavourful bake and add sweetness - all the qualities we look for when creating our classic cake recipes.&nbsp;It's topped with a rich, moreish cream cheese icing, and is best enjoyed with your friends and a cuppa. 
 
Fancy your next carrot cake challenge? Have a go at our <a data-item-id="2f602747-4688-5710-af8c-9aa09f24168e" href="">carrot cake traybake recipe</a>.

Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

These adorable&nbsp;chick cake pops are perfect for Easter or a new baby shower. Cake pops are a great way of using up any leftover cake you may have kicking around.&nbsp; Why not experiment by creating different flavoured sponge by adding a few drops of flavoured extract. &nbsp; &nbsp;

Easter Cake Pops

If you prefer a lighter fruit cake, this Simnel cake could be your perfect match. Combining an irresistible mix of fruit and spices, it contains dried apricots and is topped with a layer of marzipan. Simply delicious.
<h3>What's the story behind Simnel cake?&nbsp;</h3>
Simnel cake is a traditional Easter bake which has been made since the medieval ages. The marzipan ball decorations around the edge are a symbol of Jesus and his disciples, and this bake is often enjoyed on Easter Sunday.

Simnel Cake

Maybe this is the first time you've heard of a Chocolate Biscuit Cake, or maybe you're here because you're looking to recreate what is said to be the Queens favourite bake - well, it is the Jubilee after all and Juliet Sear has got the perfect recipe for you to bring this bake to life.&nbsp;
In this royal recipe, expect no less than an indulgent cake made up of crumbled rich tea biscuits mixed with luxury dark chocolate and coated with a silky chocolate ganache, now that is a crunch at first bite. This cake is set by refrigerating, which means no hot oven (phew) and it's super easy to slice into servings ready for your summer street party fit for Her Majesty herself.&nbsp;

Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Top these delicious cereal-based cupcakes with chocolate frosting, crispy cereal and mini chocolate eggs for a fun Easter treat.

Easter Chocolate Rice Crispy Cakes

A chocolate variation of the traditional Easter treat, Simnel cake. The balls used to decorate a simnel cake represent the 11 true&nbsp;disciples (excluding Judas).

Chocolate simnel cake

A wonderful fruit cake that would surely be a welcome treat in any household this Easter.

Easter Simnel Loaf Cake

Easter is a great occassion to get all of the family together for special meal and what better way to finish than with a Easter lemon sponge cake filled with a zesty lemon buttercream. If you are only catering for a smaller group you can reduce the serving amount by only baking either the 6" or 8" cakes. This two tier celebration cake would also make a wonderful birthday cake or the perfect spring time wedding cake.&nbsp;

Easter cakes

Easter cake recipes for all the family

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