What are you making and baking for Easter??

SunnyGirl

I'm making a chocolate cake with mini eggs on it for tomorrow. We're having it then as its a roast gammon joint on Sunday followed by fresh fruit salad. I've also made some easter nests with the children yesterday - none left now though

JonTurner

thriftlady wrote: »

Welcome to the OS board Jon. I see you are just down the road from me;) If you're into preserving this thread might be of use.

Thanks thriftlady! Yep, I'm a big preserving fan (I've also been a lurker around the OS board for a while so many great ideas on these boards)- will check that thread out. Have a great Easter everyone!

AMG2B

I'm having my MAD (Mum & Dad) over on Monday for Easter Monday tea, and I'm doing potato salad, roast gammon (seems to be a popular choice!), salad and some roast chicken thighs. Then (drumroll please) I'm making a Nigella Lemon Meringue cake - and I've mad homemade lemon curd to go inside it. I can't believe how good it tastes and how easy it was - homemade curds for me all the way now!:j

Jammygal

Fab ideas everyone.......I would also love to see the pic of the naughty gingerbread people

rev229

It my MIL and her sisters birthday this week so we have offered to do a family lunch, there will be 11 of us. I am making a lemon drizzle cake for the birthday cake. Main course will be chicken thighs and drumsticks that we got from waitrose very very cheap just after xmas with salad and new pots. Pudding will be sticky toffee pudding on over in costco. All that will be served on my lovely new plates form ikea that cost 19p each:j:j. We wnet to ikea to buy some new white ones and found some nice cream ones for 19p also pasta and rice bowls for 19p each bought loads also bought some small glasses 60p for 6 instead of using my nice crystal ones and panicking incase the kids break them. We don't do posh matching dinner set here. Would love some denby but just not very money saving!

narabanekeater

Im going to be making the smaller cakes for the PTA Easter fair and have a couple of Qs if I may
Im going to be making rice krispie cakes and plan on adding a couple of mini eggs onto the tops of the cakes. Will these set into the choc without icing?
Alsi im planning on simple fairy cakes but would like something Easter ish thats not mini eggs to pop on the top of them. Can anyone please offer any suggestions or for other Easter related baking?
Thanks so much in advance

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I used to use roll out icing and cut out an Easter rabbit with a cutter (these cost about £1). this can then just be put on the top of the fairy cake. Alternatively you can use marzipan which will make a yellow bunny. Of course butterfly cakes always look pretty and are very popular.

foxgloves

I got a tray of about 50 of those little fluffy yellow easter chicks from the 99p shop the other year & they look really cute on top of fairy cakes.

Gingernutmeg

For the rice krispie cakes, yes the eggs will normally stick without icing as long as you put them on before the chocolate is set. If any look a bit loose you can use a little bit more chocolate as glue.

For cake decorations, I'd be wary of using anything like marzipan because of the nuts, or anything non-edible as not all children would realise. You can buy some really pretty sprinkles or edible glitter in easter-ish colours (like yellow and green) and cakes always look really nice with those on. I've got some lovely flower shaped sugar confetti in pastel colours which also looks really pretty - I got mine from a cake shop in ebay and it really wasn't dear, even with postage. You can also get edible rice paper toppers with easter pictures on them, and again they're not dear and it's a lot easier than modelling lots of little things for the cakes!

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gingernutmeg
Hi you are right about the marzipan but it is traditional for Easter Simnel Cakes. Because my family are vegetarian when I cooked for PTA etc I always supplied a list of ingredients so that other families with dietary or religious/moral requirements could possibly buy something from the cake stall. Actually it was usually a vegetarian teacher! When my children were small they always felt left out as they had to come home with one of my cakes.