It doesn't get better than these mini egg recipes around Easter time 🐇 🍳🍫
From no-bake cakes to cupcakes, our favourite Easter baking recipes (with mini eggs!)
Easter cake baking is one of the great pleasures of the Easter holidays and whether you bake in the lead up to Easter, or if you're finding ways to use up leftover chocolates, then our mini egg recipes are our go-to's for guaranteed delicious treats every time.
There's something about the pretty pastel colours that instantly transforms an easy chocolate cake into a dessert fit for the Easter table and bring an instant spring-like feel with it.
Mini eggs also make perfect additions to no-bake Easter treats including double decker rocky road - which is simply marshmallow and Rice Krispies melted together and topped with an Easter chocolate studded rocky road mix. It makes a really thoughtful Easter gift too, if you fancy gifting something more personal this year.
They can also be the crowning glory of a simple cornflake cake (the easiest of all Easter recipes) and decorate the top of this simple refrigerator wreath cake.
One of our absolute favourite recipes to make at Easter is our speckled Easter egg cupcakes. Not only are they topped with mini eggs but the pastel green icing is flecked with a mixture of cocoa powder and water to look like the delicate shell of an egg. It's much easier than you might thing and looks spectacular if you're looking to impress your guests, or want a baking challenge for yourself.
Having an easy cookie recipe is always a good idea if you're having friends or family coming around and we particularly love these mini egg cookies. Think of them as a deconstructed cornflake cake with an extra crunch from the cereal and they have that perfect thin, crispy and chewy texture we love.
A real showstopper is our pastel coloured Easter cake, topped with mini eggs, and with icing in pinks, greens and yellows - artfully smudged to create a stunning impression. Trust us. It's much easier than it looks and we've also filmed a video to show you how to get started.
Dubai Chocolate Nests
These adorable Easter nests are the perfect baking activity for the long weekend and ideal for pistachio lovers.
Recipe: Dubai Chocolate Nests
Mini Egg Blondies
How could anyone resist these squares of Easter joy?! Fudgy, decadent and utterly delicious. Kids will love helping with these.
Recipe: Mini Egg Blondies
Easter Egg Tiffin
A guaranteed hit with little ones, tiffins are good way of using up leftover dried fruit, nuts and biscuits so try experimenting with different combinations. We've transformed this into a mini egg recipe with a generous topping, of course.
Recipe: Easter Egg Tiffin
Simnel Cupcakes
Easter cupcakes are an easy treat to make. Our simnel cupcakes are made with fruitcake batter, topped with almond flavour icing and mini eggs.
Recipe: Simnel Cupcakes with mini eggs
Double Decker Rocky Road
Kids and adults will love this fun twist on classic rocky road. Swap the biscuit balls and mini eggs for any Easter treats you have left over.
Recipe: Double Decker Rocky Road
Mini Egg Cheesecake Squares
These layered cheesecake squares are topped with mini eggs, are a perfect Easter treat. If making for children you may like to swap the orange zest for 1tsp vanilla extract.
Recipe: Mini Egg Cheesecake Squares
Speckled Easter egg cupcakes
These Easter cupcakes, topped with mini eggs, are decorated so the icing looks like finely speckled eggs.
Recipe: Speckled Easter egg cupcakes
Easter Bark
A very simple, Easter themed take on a chocolate bark, with both milk and white chocolate and decorated with mini eggs and sprinkles.
Recipe: Easter Bark
Easter Rainbow Cake
This stunning Easter cake is made with Simnel-inspired flavours. The icing is easier than it looks. Follow our video tutorial on how to achieve the look.
Recipe: Easter Rainbow Cake
Giant Easter Cornflake Cake with Mini Eggs
What's better than mini cornflake nests? A giant one filled with with this mini egg recipe! Milk and dark chocolate covered cornflakes, set in a giant nest cake, it's perfect for any Easter celebration.
Easy mini egg chocolate cake
This chocolate cake is foolproof even for the most unconfident of bakers. A simple chocolate sponge that's covered in a chocolate ganache and mini chocolate eggs, it's the perfect Easter celebration cake.
Recipe: Easy mini egg chocolate cake
Mini egg no-bake-chocolate-cake
You'll be shocked at how delicious this 10-minute no-bake cake is! A great mini egg recipe with minimal fuss.
Recipe: Mini egg no-bake-chocolate-cake
Easy mini egg chocolate cake
If you need a delicious cake in a hurry, then this is the recipe for you. We have used Nutella in this cheats sponge and then topped it with a Nutella, cream cheese frosting.
Recipe: Easy mini egg chocolate cake
Mini egg cookies
We love Easter cookies and these mini egg cookies are a twist on classic cornflake cakes recipe. Adding the breakfast cereal gives a nice crunch to these cookies, and they're super fun to make with the kids.
Recipe: Cornflake and mini egg cookies
Mix and match chocolate lollipops
Pick your chocolate, flavouring and topping and let your imagination run wild.
Mini egg Easter Basket Cake
A carrot cake for the Easter Bunny! This showstopper cake is a must for your Easter celebrations.
Recipe: Easter Basket Cake
Lavender and Lemon Easter Meringue Nests
These little lavender meringues, are a lovely light pudding and delightful mini egg recipe with a difference.
Hidden Bunny Chocolate Loaf Cake
When you cut into this chocolate loaf cake, you'll be met with a surprise of a madeira cake bunny! This cake is topped with Nutella buttercream and all of your favourite Easter confectionary.
Recipe: Hidden Bunny Chocolate Loaf Cake
Rocky Road with creme eggs and mini eggs
This rocky road is a little bit different! With a rice crispy and marshmallow base, it's topped with mini eggs, marshmallows and creme eggs, giving the traditional rocky road, an Easter twist! Kids will love making this recipe, and you'll love them making it because it's so simple but produces delicious results.
Recipe: Easter Rocky Road
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