Easter letterbox cakes, bakes and buns with nationwide UK delivery

If you’ve already overdone it on the chocolate Easter eggs (we’re not judging) you’ll be pleased to know there are plenty of alternative desserts to tuck into this Easter period.

While some restaurants are offering full-blown meal kits for Easter, smaller bakeries and brands are offering all sorts of Easter letterbox cakes, cakes and buns with nationwide UK delivery.

From Hot Cross doughnuts to egg-cellent Easter cupcakes, we’ve found the very best and most indulgent Easter letterbox cakes, bakes and buns for a delicious Bank Holiday weekend.

Easter letterbox cakes, bakes and buns with nationwide UK delivery:

Lola’s Cupcakes

Lola’s x Tony’s postal Easter cupcakes, £28.99, Lola’s Cupcakes

This year, Lola’s has teamed up with Tony’s Chocolonely to create a range of delicious Easter treats, including a postal cupcake box. It includes chocolate and vanilla cupcakes filled with dark and milk chocolate ganache, salted caramel, and white chocolate and raspberry ganache made from Tony’s chocolate bars. Then, they’re decorated with homemade ganache, buttercream, colourful Easter sprinkles, and Tony’s milk chocolate and salted caramel eggs.

Not a fan of cupcakes? No worries. They’ve also got letterbox bunny brownies available to order here.

Cutter & Squidge

Mini Easter Chocolate Hamper, £34.99, Cutter & Squidge

This Mini Easter Chocolate Hamper is anything but mini. Containing one Billionaire Filled Easter Egg, one pack of Easter Chocolate Bark, one box of Buttons and one Chocolate Shortbread Box, this is pure indulgence delivered to your door.

Mon Dessert

Easter Bunny Cream Tart, £30, Mon Dessert

Mon Dessert has launched a fun and whimsical Easter Bunny Cream Tart showstopper that is, they promise, surprisingly easy to make. The cake mix is entirely plant-based and the kit comes with lots of different toppings including meringue kisses, Mini Eggs and decorative springtime silk flowers. Adorable!

Crosstown

Hot Cross Bun Doughnut, £25.95 for a box of 6, Crosstown Doughnuts

This Easter, Crosstown has brought back its delicious Spiced Hot Cross Bun doughnut. Made with spiced dough, filled with deliciously creamy cinnamon custard and topped with a Seville orange glaze and spiced cross and candied orange peel, this would be perfect with a cup of tea.

Doughnut Time

Spring break 6-pack, £26, Doughnut Time

Doughnut Time has gone all out this Easter and launched seven delicious boxes of doughnuts. The Spring Break 6-pack includes a variety of mouthwatering flavours, including a ring doughnut topped with half a Cadbury’s Creme Egg and another topped with a Malteser Bunny. 

Or if you’d prefer to make the doughnuts yourself, the Hoppy Easter DIY kit contains four Original Ring Doughnuts, coloured glaze, buttercream, Cadbury Mini Eggs, White Chocolate Curls, Foam Fried Egg Sweets, Fruit Flower Sweets, Bunny Sweets and Easter Sprinkles. Phwoar!

Cake or Death

Easter Brownies, £18, Cake or Death

Brownie lovers, this one’s for you. These Easter brownies are topped with indulgent white and milk chocolate hazelnut wafer pieces and ‘Smarties’, then drizzled with dark chocolate. A seriously chocolatey alternative to the classic Easter egg. Cake or Death are also selling Cookie Dough Easter Eggs here.

Pierre Marcolini

Easter box of 12 Macarons, £25.50, Pierre Marcolini

Why not send some macarons this Easter? Or have them yourself! This box is filled with a selection of flavours, including orange carrot ganache for Easter.

Dukeshill

Simnel Loaf Cake, £11.25, Dukeshill

Simnel cake is a staple Easter food, and Dukeshill have a delicious loaf version on offer this season. The light fruit cake has a layer of almond paste baked into the middle. On the top, the 11 apostles have been replaced by three bunnies.

Shuk

Easter Hot Cross Babka Kit, £26, Shuk London

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of tasting Shuk’s babka before (either from their Borough market location or through their DIY at home kits), then you’ll know you’re in for a special Easter treat with their Hot Cross Babka Kit. Super easy to make, it combines Shuk’s classic secret babka dough recipe with earl grey-infused dried fruit, a little citrus, mixed spices and crème patissiere.

Honeywell Biscuit Co.

Hot Cross Bunny Baking Kit, £15, Honeywell Biscuit Co

This Hot Cross Bunny Baking Kit from Honeywell transforms a classic Easter treat into a fun, family-friendly activity. The kit includes pre-weighed dry ingredients, just add butter, milk and an egg.

Crêpeaffaire

DIY Easter Egg Hunt Pancake Kit, £14.95, Crêpeaffaire

Crêpeaffaire has launched a DIY Easter Egg Hunt Pancake Kit. Simply follow the clues provided to be rewarded with (DIY) pancakes. The box contains 250g luxury crêpe & pancake mix, Mini Eggs, Nutella, Smarties, Golden Syrup, white chocolate, sugar sprinkles and a Cadbury Creme Egg.

Gail’s