Easter Desserts/Baking Recipes
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Hot Cross Buns |
Easter
Sugar Cookies |
Easter Carrot Cupcakes |
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This round, rich, sweet,
yeast bun is traditionally served on Good Friday. Made of milk,
yeast, sugar, flour, spices (such as cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and
cloves), eggs, butter, currants, raisins and/or candied fruit.
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These sweet and buttery
Easter Sugar Cookies are always a favorite especially when frosted
with Royal Icing. more |
These Easter Cupcakes
are moist and flavorful with grated carrots and they are frosted
with a delicious cream cheese frosting, coconut, and Easter candy.
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Easter Nests |
Easter Cookies |
Easter Coconut Macaroons |
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Melted semi sweet or
milk chocolate and crunchy chow mein noodles are the only two
ingredients that you need to make these cute chocolate Easter nests.
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Easter Cookies
(Biscuits) are an English favorite that contain ground cinnamon,
currants, and mixed candied peel.
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Easter Coconut Macaroons
have wonderfully crispy edges and soft and chewy centers. They are
decorated for the holiday with a bright colored jelly bean.
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Chocolate Easter Cake |
Chocolate Cupcakes |
New York Style Cheesecake |
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This Chocolate Easter
Cake starts with a delicious Chocolate Torte coverd with a smooth
and shiny chocolate ganache. Garnish with rosettes of whipped
ganache and chocolate Easter eggs.
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These beautiful chocolate
cupcakes have a wonderful chocolate flavor and are frosted with a
chocolate fudge frosting. more |
New
York Style Cheesecakes are creamy, and smooth, and rich, and dense, and
absolutely delicious. more |
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Celebrations
always need a special dessert and Easter is no exception. Easter
has two sides; the religious and the commercial. While the
religious side of Easter celebrates the resurrection of
Jesus on the third day (Easter Sunday) after his crucifixion
(Good Friday), the commercial side involves feasting,
decorating and hunting for Easter eggs, and lots of
chocolate and candy.
Easter has certain foods attached to it, but they differ
from country to country and from family to family. One tradition my family enjoys
is to have Hot
Cross Buns on Good Friday. These sweet yeast buns are
flavored with spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves) and loaded
with currants (or raisins) and candied fruit. What makes them so
distinctive looking is that the tops of the buns are marked with a cross
which symbolically represents the Cross of Christ and the
Crucifixion. If you are superstitious you will like the tale that
Hot Cross Buns baked on Good Friday never become moldy and they say that
you should save one bun as a good luck charm until the next year's buns
are made.
Since the commercial side of Easter is
primarily for children, I always liked to do something special with my
kids. When they were small I often held a neighborhood cookie decorating
party. First I would make a large batch of sugar cookies, made in the
shapes of bunnies, chicks, and eggs. Then I would have small bowls
of different colored royal icing and lots of colored sprinkles. Each
child would get a paper plate and a small spatula and how they loved
creating their own masterpieces. Since this is a messy process, I found
it best to cover the table with a plastic disposable tablecloth and
aprons are definitely a good idea.
Lastly, there are so many choices for Easter
desserts. Carrot Cake is one of my personal favorites, whether in cake
form or as individual Easter Baskets. The chocolate lover may be
inclined to make the Chocolate Butter Cake or the
Easter Chocolate Cake. Other ideas are the Red
Velvet Cake, Coconut Cake, or the Hummingbird Cake. If strawberries
are available you may want to make the Meringue Cake with Strawberries and
Cream. Another great idea is the Shortbread Tarts filled with cream and topped with fresh
berries. So enjoy this time with family and friends
and have a Happy Easter.
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Fruit Tart |
Chocolate
Butter Cake |
Red Velvet Cake |
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Everyone loves the
elegance of a fruit tart with its topping of beautiful fresh fruit.
Whether you use a single fruit (like strawberries) or a medley of
berries, sliced kiwi, plums, bananas, pineapple, and/or melon no one
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This beautiful
Chocolate Butter Cake has two layers of moist and tender chocolate
butter cake sandwiched together and frosted with a delicious chocolate
frosting. more |
Red Velvet Cake is very
dramatic looking with its bright red color sharply contrasted by a white
frosting. more |
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Chocolate Cheesecake |
Ricotta Cheesecake with Cran-Raspberry Sauce |
Coconut Cake |
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A Chocolate Cheesecake is a real showstopper that combines three
delicious layers of chocolate. The cheesecake layer is smooth and creamy
that will remind you of a thick chocolate mousse.
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Ricotta and cream
cheese are used in this cheesecake which makes it both light and fluffy
and smooth and creamy.
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This cake consists of layers
of moist coconut-flavored butter cake that are filled with a tangy lemon
curd and then the entire cake is frosted with a smooth and shiny
7-Minute Frosting and sweetened coconut. more |
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Hummingbird Cake |
Lemon Tart |
Carrot Cake |
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This Hummingbird Cake is
moist and flavorful with chopped pecans, crushed pineapple, and mashed
bananas. It is frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting.
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This Lemon Tart has a
buttery shortbread crust, a creamy lemon filling, and lovely swirls
of whipped cream on top. Absolutely Delicious.
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This Carrot Cake is moist and
flavorful with grated carrots and is frosted with a delicious cream cheese
frosting. more |
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White Butter Cake |
Raspberry Truffle Tart |
Pavlova |
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There are many ways to
serve this cake, from the formal where it is lavishly filled and
frosted, to other times when you may want to serve it plain with just a
dusting of powdered sugar. more |
What could be more
enticing than a giant raspberry-flavored truffle set in a biscotti
crust.This beautiful raspberry-flavored truffle tart is set in a
delicious biscotti crust. more |
This meringue cake, with its
unusual soft sweet marshmallow center and crisp crust is produced by
folding a little vinegar and cornstarch into the stiffly beaten egg whites
and sugar. more |
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Individual Cheesecakes |
Chocolate Truffles |
Cream Puffs |
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Individual Cheesecakes have
a lovely creamy smooth texture and are wonderfully rich.
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These rich and elegant,
bite-sized round petit fours are made from a mixture of dark or white
chocolate and cream to which various flavorings can be added: butter,
liqueurs, extracts, nuts, coffee, purees, spices, candied or dried
fruits. more |
A favorite is the cream puff
which is a hollow round of crisp choux pastry that is split in half,
filled with a cream or custard, and dusted with powdered sugar.
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Cinnamon Rolls (Buns) |
Ham & Egg Pie |
Sponge Cake filled with Raspberry Cream |
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Although you may be able
to buy these gorgeous buns, nothing compares to the smiles you are
rewarded with when your family wakes up to the smell of these baking
in the oven. more |
A good breakfast or
brunch dish with its puff pastry crust layered with ham and eggs.
Using frozen store bought puff pastry makes this dish easy to put
together. more |
Sponge Cakes presented in
this way have a beautiful pinwheel design and they are often filled with
toppings like lemon curd, jam or preserves, fruit sauces, chopped nuts,
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Strawberry Ice Cream |
Strawberry Shortcake |
Chocolate Ice Cream |
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Strawberry Ice Cream is made with strawberry puree which gives it a lovely
strawberry flavor. more |
Strawberry Shortcake is
composed of a scone or biscuit that is cut in half and filled with
whipped cream and lightly sweetened strawberries.
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If
you are a chocolate lover, then you definitely need to have a recipe for
chocolate ice cream. more |
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Profiteroles |
Angel Food Cake |
Chocolate Brownies |
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Sweet Profiteroles are
delicious. This dessert takes small, crisp, hollow rounds of choux
pastry and fills them with ice cream and drizzles a warm chocolate sauce
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Angel Food Cake has a sweet
golden brown crust and a soft and spongy, snowy white interior.
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Chocolate Brownies have
a lovely deep chocolate flavor and dense fudge-like texture that are
topped with a smooth and glossy Ganache frosting. more |
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