Just like the Easter Bunny delivers chocolate eggs to treat us over Easter weekend, I’m here to deliver delicious recipes to you instead with bunnies and mini eggs galore!
Your Easter celebration deserves a cake worthy of it and this beautiful Easter egg nest cake from Chew Town is a showstopper. It’s filled with meringue and cream and casually covered with ganache, but it’s the nest that gives it the wow AND fun factor.
If you’d prefer your nest to be on a cheesecake instead, then I have the perfect option, and this one is filled with eggs too. Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe gives the option to omit the nest for less work, but to still have crushed chocolate eggs mixed throughout the cheesecake itself.
I love linzer cookies as you get a double layer of biscuit with something in the middle. These ones from Little Blog of Vegan are shaped like rabbits, with a two-tone contrast decoration, and filled with strawberry jam.
These beautiful pastel macarons by Pies and Tacos come shaped like mini chocolate eggs, complete with speckles, and are even filled with chocolate in the form of ganache.
I know you need a special tin for madeleines, but I think it’s worth it for these adorable bunny rabbits. I love the way the tops are dipped to create a space for their faces and then their details are added. The Squeaky Mixer uses candy melts for this, but I think white chocolate would be a lot yummier!
I think this Easter cake from Sally’s Baking Addiction is quite inventive, using the dip in the middle of the bundt cake to create the form of the nest and then coconut for the texture of the twigs. It’s different to the normal chocolate covered ones and the lemon coconut flavour is a refreshing take for spring.
Gluten Free Cuppa Tea uses chocolate bunnies as the main decor on these cookie bars. You’d think they’d lose their form, but they’re actually pressed into the warm cookie after it comes out of the oven, but before it firms up. Apparently KitKat Bunnies are gluten-free, unlike regular KitKats, because the wafers in them are made without wheat!
Did you ever make chocolate cornflake nests when you were a child? Well, The Little Blog of Vegan has updated them to be vegan friendly and filled them with vegan ‘mini eggs’ too. Plus, they’re sat on top of chocolate chip cookies that use crushed up vegan ‘mini eggs’ as a replacement for the normal chocolate chips.
Cherry blossom season combines with Easter to make this sakura bunny fizz. The cocktail itself is gin based with sakura syrup and the glass is decorated with bunny ears made from marshmallows and strawberry powder. This is such a fun drink for an Easter party, or for a hanami picnic, but maybe in plastic glasses…
If you want to see more Easter recipes, have a browse of our Easter Crafts, Activities & Recipes section.
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