easter food....

spaghetti_monster

Hi all!

I'm invited out for dinner on Easter Sunday - luckily someone else is doing most of the cooking!:T But I did ask if I could bring anything along and was then trying to think of typical British Easter food..... (I'm in Holland and a Norwegian friend is cooking (roast lamb)).

The only thing that was typical when I was growing up was a roast dinner and of course chocolate (in egg or bunny form).

Does anyone have any more specific things which are typical/remind you of Easter???

rachbc

simnel cake
hot cross buns
chocolate nest cakes!

spaghetti_monster

Mmmmmmm!!! Chocolate nest cake....I'll have to look that up!

I'd totally forgotten about hot-cross buns! Only problem is that here they eat them by the truck-load all year round...

angelavdavis

I have just made 12 mini chocolate nest cakes, to top with mini chocolate eggs in lieu of giving Easter eggs.

A nice treat for after dinner with a coffee.

They are really easy to make Alex - just melt 2 bars of chocolate in the microwave (careful not to burn the chocolate). If using dark chocolate, add some honey to sweeten. Crumble up some shredded wheat into the melted chocolate and stir well until thoroughly coated.

Put into cake papers and mould into nests. Pop in fridge to set and then add the mini eggs on top to serve.

spaghetti_monster

Thanks Angela!
That's actually a really good idea - my friend loves to cook (I'm sure she'll want to cook everything) and has already planned the menu - so something like the little choc-nest-cakes is really good. For coffee, like you say, or while we wait for the lamb to cook!

pollys

I've just made some but used rice krispies. I made some with the children at school but used cornflakes, both work well. Don't try what my friend did and use bite-sized shreddies!

Butterfly_Brain

I always make an easter trifle and decorate it with chocolate mini eggs and I make a Tunis cake instead of simnel cake because my lot don't like marzipan

spaghetti_monster

Thanks for the replies!
I will be in the dutch supermarket today and will see what they've got... there's not usually so much of a selection as in the UK.
I don't eat shredded wheat anyway, but I don't know if they have it. They probably have rice krispies and definitely cornflakes (but I guess shredded wheat looks more nest-like!)

As for mini-eggs - I haven't seen any coloured ones and mostly they are wrapped in foil.... but I'll have a proper look today!