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Easter cake recipes

Whether you're looking to bake a traditional Easter simnel cake or make a batch of easy Easter cupcakes, here is the place to go for this year's Easter baking.

Easter simnel cake

by Mary Berry

Simnel cake was traditionally given by servant girls to their mothers when they returned home on Mothering Sunday and it's now become a classic Easter cake.

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Easter egg brownies

by Benjamina Ebuehi

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Easter bunny lemon cupcakes

by Benjamina Ebuehi

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Cardamom and white chocolate sponge

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Easter egg blondies

by Justine Pattison

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Lemon and elderflower cake

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Easy carrot cake

by William Leigh

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Lemon drizzle traybake cake

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Ginger and walnut carrot cake

by Nigella Lawson

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White chocolate and raspberry cake

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Apricot almond cake with rosewater and cardamom

by Nigella Lawson

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Pistachio, lemon and raspberry friands

by Liberty Mendez

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Mini egg cheesecake

by Benjamina Ebuehi

Cherry Bakewell cake

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Chocolate peanut butter cake

by Nigella Lawson

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Chocolate sponge cake

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Easy traybake cake

by The BBC Food team

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Lemon Madeira cake with candied peel

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Easy lemon drizzle cake

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Simnel cake

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Mary Berry's lemon meringue cupcakes

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Easy rhubarb cake

by Justine Pattison

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Lemon cupcakes

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Gluten-free chocolate cake

by Angela Hartnett

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Pistachio, cardamom and lemon drizzle cake

by Benjamina Ebuehi

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Easy chocolate cupcakes

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Vegan chocolate cake

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Mary Berry's orange cake

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Vegan carrot cake

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Chocolate Easter egg nest cakes

by The BBC Food team

Vegan lemon drizzle cake

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Mary Berry's lemon cake

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Orange blossom and rosemary polenta cake

by Nadiya Hussain

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Easy yoghurt cake

by Hattie Ellis

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Vanilla cupcakes

by Benjamina Ebuehi

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Floral tea cake

by Tom Gilliford

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