Easter baking recipes made easy. YOU’s Eleanor Maidment brings you all the classics – and more.
Easter chocolate fridge cake recipe
The beauty of a fridge cake is that it is easily adaptable: add whatever nuts and dried fruit that you please.
Cappuccino cake recipe
A very simple loaf cake with a heady hit of coffee and a light-as-anything whipped mascarpone topping.
Cinnamon apple hot cross buns recipe
Lightly spiced and with a wonderfully soft crumb, these buns are best served while still slightly warm, split open and spread with cold, salted butter.
Passionfruit tart recipe
A glorious spring tart with a silky-smooth passionfruit filling. To save time, you can use shop-bought ready-rolled shortcrust pastry.
Berry and cream shortbreads recipe
You can use any berry jam in the filling of these pretty sandwiched shortbreads.
Carrot and coconut layer cake recipe
This makes a fabulous centrepiece and the flavours of carrot and coconut go fantastically well together.
Recipes: Eleanor Maidment. Photographs: Ellis Parrinder. Food styling: Lou Kenney. Styling: Charlie Phillips
