Easy Easter baking ideas

Easter is one of my favourite times of the year because of so many different reasons, but mainly chocolate… get-togethers… egg hunts… chocolate… chocolate… chocolate and given my obvious love of chocolate and baking, here are some really easy Easter baking ideas that you can impress your family with!

Rocky road filled Easter eggs

You must have seen the biggest craze this Easter?! Chocolate Easter egg shells filled with an array of different things; from crispy cake to cheesecake, they look so naughty but very delicious!

I decided to fill an Easter egg with one of my favourite things – rocky road. Technically this isn’t a bake because it just involves a bit of melting chocolate but it is so easy to do.

Ingredients

• Easter egg [I used a small Cadbury’s egg]
• 110g dark chocolate
• 50g butter
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp runny honey
• 50g ginger nut biscuits
• 25g mini marshmallows
• 25g sultanas
• 50g mini eggs
• 50g maltesers
• Mini malteser bunny

Method

1. Melt chocolate, butter and honey in a bowl over a pan of simmering water
2. Add the cocoa powder to the melted chocolate
3. Smash the ginger nut biscuits into large rubble pieces
4. Add the rest of the ingredients [leaving back some mini eggs] into the melted chocolate mixture and stir
5. Divide the mixture into the two halves of the hollow Easter egg
6. Decorate with the remaining mini eggs and a Malteser bunny

Caramel egg brownie

If you love caramel and you love brownies, then this easy Easter baking idea is right up your street. I regularly make the base of this brownie with my kids [I made an amazing Rolo and Oreo brownie a while back] and just add different toppings to it. 

Ingredients

• 175g butter
• 200g dark chocolate
• 150g caster sugar
• 150g brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 130g plain flour
• Bag of Galaxy caramel eggs

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 170C
2. Line a baking tin with parchment paper [I scrunch it up, wet it and then use to mould the tin]
3. Melt the butter and dark chocolate together in a bowl over a pan of simmering water
4. Take off heat and add the sugar
5. Leave to cool slightly and then beat in the eggs, one at a time
6. Fold in the flour
7. Pour batter into the lined tin and then add the caramel eggs [which have been halved] to the top of the mixture
8. Bake for 35 minutes
9. Cool [preferably overnight or in the fridge for a couple of hours] and then slice

Chocolate crispy nest cupcakes

Can it even be Easter without a chocolate crispy nest?! Go one further – a chocolate crispy nest which sits atop of a moist chocolate cupcake that is smothered in Nutella buttercream??? Oh yes!

This recipe is slightly more advanced than basic but only because there are three elements to it. If you break each element down, it’s really easy still.

Crispy nests

Ingredients

• 100g dark chocolate
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 25g butter
• 40g coco pop cereal
• Mini eggs

Method

1. Melt everything together, bar the cereal
2. Once melted, add the cereal and stir
3. Press into a nest shape [I used a chocolate mould] and leave to set
4. Add mini eggs into the nest

Chocolate cupcake

Ingredients [makes 9]

Whenever I make a chocolate cake, I use Frances Quinn’s recipe – haven’t been able to get my own recipe to taste as yummy as hers.

• 100g butter
• 100g brown sugar
• 100g golden syrup
• 100g dark chocolate
• 100ml whole milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 tsp vanilla paste
• 100g self raising flour

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170c and line a muffin tin with cases
2. Melt butter, sugar and golden syrup in a small saucepan until sugar is dissolved
3. Add the chocolate and then leave to cool
4. Once cool, add milk, eggs and vanilla extract to chocolate mix
5. Sift in cocoa powder and flour 
6. Ensure everything is well combined and then spoon the mixture into the cases
7. Bake for 20-25 minutes

Nutella buttercream

Ingredients

• 60g butter
• 180g icing sugar
• 1tsp whole milk
• 1 tbsp Nutella

Method

1. Beat together the butter and icing sugar until pale and fluffy
2. Add the whole milk and beat
3. Add Nutella and continue to beat until incorporated

To assemble…

Scoop buttercream into a piping bag and snip a large hole at the end

Take the cooled cupcake and pipe the buttercream onto the top

Take the set crispy nest and arrange on top of the buttercream

Caramel scotch eggs

This recipe was created by using the leftovers from the recipe above. It is so easy and so effective! There aren’t even any specific measurements either so just experiment!

Ingredients

• Leftover cupcakes
• Leftover buttercream
• Melted chocolate
• Caramel eggs
• Cocoa powder/sprinkles

Method

1. Break up the cupcakes into a stand mixer
2. Add the leftover buttercream to the cake crumbs and mix [you are aiming for a moist brownie-like texture]
3. Take small amounts [golf ball size] and flatten
4. Place a caramel egg in the centre of the flattened mixture and mould it around the egg
5. Chill in the fridge
6. Dip in melted chocolate and then roll in sprinkles [alternatively, you could omit the melted chocolate stage and just roll in cocoa powder]
7. Chill until ready to cut in half and eat!

I really hope that these easy Easter baking ideas that I have created for you, provide some inspiration.

If you liked this recipe post, then check out my blog post on how to create a perfect afternoon tea with the kids.

Let me know if you bake any of them – either in the comments below or tag me on Instagram so that I can share!

Have a happy Easter!

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