Easter recipes
Easter may not require the same intensive effort and pre-planning as Christmas, but there are still plenty of crowd-pleasing recipe ideas you can work on for the Easter weekend if you've got family and friends to feed.
And if you happen to have a special Easter recipe that you make every year that we don't have listed, please add your recipe so we can all have a go.
Mumsnet Easter recipes
- Simnel cake
- Traditional spicy Easter biscuits
- Easter chocolate nests
- Easter bunny biscuits
- Easter cupcakes
- Easter biscuits
- Hot cross buns
- Gluten-free hot cross loaf
- Passover lamb stew
- Mango-glazed leg of lamb
- Lemon drizzle cake
Easter baking
We invited master baker Dan Lepard into MNHQ for a webchat and bake day to make hot cross buns and answer questions about yeast, breads and baking.
Hot cross buns recipe by Dan Lepard (with step-by-step photos).



