The Best Hot Cross Buns & Other Easter Recipes For Easter Sunday & Beyond

Easter isn’t truly complete without the sweetness and warmth of hot cross buns. But the delight doesn’t end there when it comes to Easter’s seasonal treats! Whether you’re planning a pared-down Easter lunch or orchestrating an extravagant dinner spread, dessert’s never a bad idea – especially not on Easter Sunday. 

This year’s festival has us diving into our collection of favourite Easter dessert recipes, featuring indulgent buns studded with cranberries and drizzled with white chocolate, winding scrolls with chocolate seeping into every crease, and trifles carefully layered with jelly crystals, vanilla custard, pear slices and more. 

Hurry, and spring into action now with these stunning Easter-themed recipes that will take you from the celebration to beyond:

1. White Chocolate & Cranberry Buns

Use up your remaining ingredients from baking this Easter’s hot cross buns by turning them into these lovely and glossy white chocolate and cranberry buns instead. The melted white chocolate makes an amazing drizzle and calls for a great opportunity to get creative with the kids!

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2. Chocolate, Pecan & Raisin Scrolls

These scrolls require quite a bit of handiwork but the results will make it worthwhile. Putting a fun twist on the Easter classic, the recipe involves a good deal of melted chocolate, crunch of pecans, and added sweetness of raisins.

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3. Tsoureki (Greek Easter Bread)

Easter might be over, but there’s no reason you can’t enjoy this traditional Greek Easter bread year-round. Tsoureki is a soft fluffy bread that’s enriched with sweet flavours from butter, eggs, milk and sugar, and can be studded with slivered almonds if you prefer.

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4. Easter Trifle

This Easter trifle is a treat made out of a treat, with its main component being chocolate hot cross buns upheld by berry-flavoured jelly crystals, vanilla custard and pear slices. For a simple put-together, it can’t get any more fitting and tasty than that.

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5. Easter Egg Rice Bubble Nests

Delight the kids with these magical egg nests that look like they were plucked out of a fairytale. With how easily constructed they are, these rice bubble treats could even make for a fun Easter family activity.

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6. Greek Almond Crescents

You wouldn’t be reaching for the stars baking these pretty Greek almond crescents, also known as kourambiethes. Traditionally served at Easter, the almond butter biscuits, we feel, should also be enjoyed all year round for their nutty fragrance and delicious shortbread texture.

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7. Italian Easter Biscuits

Usually made over Easter, but perfect for any other occasion, these adorable Italian biscuits will gain the love of adults and kids alike. They’re easy to make, and the fragrance of almond and anise will leave you wanting more.

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8. Spiced Treacle Cookies

The robust flavours of these spiced treacle cookies make them the perfect treat for grownups, from their cinnamon, mixed spice, to treacle and crown of chopped walnuts on top.

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9. Easter Egg Mousse

What better sweet treat to flaunt during Easter than this Easter egg mousse? This festivity showstopper takes only 20 mins from start to finish, and really takes only melting and mixing to be ready for tasting. You might even find some fun out of breaking the tops with the kids!

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10. Easter Egg Cake Pops

Wow the kids this Easter celebration with these magical Easter egg cake pops, adorned lovingly with icing flowers and homemade royal icing.

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