Easter Baking Ideas

Bake your favourite Carrot Cake, iced with cream cheese icing
then decorate it with the tiny carrots and flowers available in the baking aisle of most supermarkets.

Bake your favourite Chocolate Cake, iced with chocolate icing
and decorate by making a little garden on top with edible flowers and carrots etc , and if you have coloured fondant icing or colour some marzipan, the whole family could have fun moulding fruit and veg. You could mix a drop of green food colouring into desiccated coconut for some grass and add a few of the fluffy little chickens widely available at this time of year (in places like Hobbycraft, The Works, and probably supermarkets as well).

Lemon Drizzle Cake
is popular at all times of the year but really lends itself to Spring (and it can be jazzed up with a splash of gin in the drizzle if desired!)

The most traditional and symbolic Easter cake is a Simnel Cake
If you like fruit and marzipan, this is definitely for you. I don’t have a special recipe myself, but there is a very good one on Sainsbury’s magazine website.