Easter Baking

While I’m sharing Easter things and how I decorated the house, I thought I’d show you how I went all out and baked some Eastery treats this year too! I used recipes I found on the internet and let my creativity guide me on how to decorate them, so I’ll make sure to include the links to the recipes in each one.

Easter Egg Biscuits

The recipe I used for these was from the BBC website, I just thought they’d be good to ice and give a delicate vanilla flavour (so I could decorate them with lots of different patterns). They were egg shaped (for obvious reasons) and I just used some tubes of coloured icing from Sainsbury’s, over the top of normal icing (from icing sugar and water). These were really fun to decorate and they tasted like shortbread... we ended up eating them all quite quickly!

To decorate them, I spread normal white icing on first, then experimented with different patterns of the coloured icing and dragged a little cocktail stick through them to make swirly effects.

Creme Egg Brownies

I thought I'd combined two of my Easter favourites: Cadbury's creme eggs and brownies! This recipe was also from BBC and gave a great result! The brownies were crisp on the outside and slightly gooey in the middle - here are photos of the different steps throughout making them...

The mixture was ready to go in the oven!

I took the brownie mixture out of the oven after it had cooked a bit to press (mini) creme egg halves into them.

And the finished piece!

Chocolate Easter Cake

My parents and I have baked cakes together since I was tiny, so an Easter cake was a must! We usually make cakes and just decorate them with a bit of icing, so I decided to do something a bit different this year. The recipe I used was Nigella's Devil's Food Cake and I would definitely recommend it!

After baking the cake, I decided to make the icing a kind of choppy texture.

I wanted the cake to look like a Spring garden so I used Lindt bunnies, Cadbury's mini eggs, edible flower and carrot decorations from Sainsbury's, and surrounded it with chocolate fingers to look like a fence.

I really enjoyed decorating this cake and it tasted great too!