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Easter baking recipes: Hot cross buns, cupcakes, cookies and more

The long weekend is the perfect excuse to get your bake on, from kid-friendly cupcakes to grown-up tarts.

18 recipes
Andrew McConnell loves this ricotta cheesecake.

Andrew McConnell's rum and raisin baked ricotta cheesecake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Andrew McConnell
Easter bunny cupcakes.

Easter baking recipe: How to make and decorate bunny cupcakes

  • Petal Met Sugar
Isn't it time that bunny got a treat?

Easter recipe: Edible chocolate carrot garden

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Petal Met Sugar
Dan Lepard's chocolate carrot brownie bar.

Chocolate carrot brownie bar recipe

  • Dan Lepard
Chocolate and almond Easter cake.

Chocolate and almond Easter cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Gooey, chewy chocolate hazelnut cookies. For crunchier biscuits, adjust the baking time.

Spiced chocolate, spelt and hazelnut crackle cookies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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Hot cross choux creams.

Hot cross choux creams

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's carrot cupcakes with dill.

Carrot cupcakes with candied carrot and dill

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Magic: Adam Liaw's bitter caramel and cocoa custard layer cake.

Adam Liaw's magical caramel and chocolate custard cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Dark chocolate and orange tart.

Decorate this dark chocolate and orange tart with Easter egg shards

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Dan Lepard's stonefruit simnel cake.

Dan Lepard's seasonal spin on an English classic: Stonefruit simnel cake

  • Dan Lepard
Easter egg bikkies.

Easter egg bikkies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
Danielle Alvarez's brown butter and cardamom pear tart.

Danielle Alvarez's autumnal brown butter and cardamom pear tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Hot cross bun ice-cream sandwiches.

Hot cross buns with a twist: Choc-cranberry loaf, bun and apple 'brown betty' and ice-cream sandwiches

  • Phillippa Grogan
Carrot cakes for the Easter Bunny.

Easter carrot cakes

  • 1-2 hrs
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Plaited Easter bread.

Tsoureki (a traditional Greek Easter bread)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Lynne Mullins
Easter nests.

Cupcake nests

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Lynne Mullins
Semolina cake.

Semolina cake

  • < 30 mins
  • Lynne Mullins

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/easter-baking-recipes-hot-cross-buns-cupcakes-cookies-and-more-20180306-h0x36h.html