Easter biscuits

You couldn’t have Easter without egg-shaped biscuits. Made with golden caster sugar, delicious spices and sweet vanilla, these simple biscuits are the best way we know to celebrate Easter. Have fun with the kids (or even by yourself) coming up with colourful and creative patterns to decorate your biscuit eggs with.

Get the recipe: Easter egg biscuits

Looking for a fun and indulgent treat to make with the kids while they’re off school? We think these will go down a treat. This recipe is by Choccywoccydoodah who know a thing or two about making the most of chocolate – what could be more perfect for Easter? You could serve these gooey marshmallow sandwiches up for a film-night treat.

Get the recipe: Marshmallow sandwich

Get the kids involved in making these delicious vanilla Easter biscuits. Learn how to make your own Easter chicks, bunnies and lambs.

Get the recipe: Vanilla Easter biscuits

These colourful biscuits by our mummy blogger, Anneliese, have been designed especially to make with little ones, including all the steps they can do themselves. With all the pretty pastel colours of spring, these will look great on your Easter tea table. Made from buttery shortbread, white chocolate and sprinkles, they are real crowd pleasers.

Get the recipe: Jazzy shortbread biscuits

A touch more chocolate won’t hurt, will it? These classic biscuits are delicious at any time of the year but are especially good for using up any leftover Easter eggs you might have hanging around. From start to finish, these little beauties take just 25 minutes so can be whipped up with hardly any trouble at all, beware though – they won’t last long either!

Get the recipe: Chocolate-dipped Viennese finger biscuits

We know at Easter sometimes there can be a whole lot of chocolate in the house so you might fancy something with a little less sugar while still treating yourself. These chocolate chip cookies are rich and delicious, made with almond milk, natural sweetener instead of sugar and fragrant vanilla extract.

Get the recipe: Low-sugar chocolate chip cookies

These biscuits are melt-in-the-mouth with a subtle hint of vanilla to make them a really delicious homemade snack. They hold their shape perfectly; making them ideal to make into whatever you fancy – think bunnies, carrots and Easter eggs. Once you’ve mastered the cookies you can decorate them with pretty colours to make them look as good as they taste.

Get the recipe: Vanilla cookies

With all the pretty flowers around at Easter time we can’t resist making our baking look as gorgeous as them. This recipe shows how to get perfect results in just a few easy steps so even if you’re not a baking pro you’ll have an impressive batch of biscuits in a jiffy. These make lovely gifts when wrapped in pastel tissue paper and ribbon.

Get the recipe: Spring meadow biscuits

Have fun in the holidays with the kids making these simple biscuits from crafty Kirstie Allsopp. With mixed spice, zesty lemon and a buttery crunch, these little biscuits have all the classic Easter flavours. Kids will love decorating whatever shape you come up with, from bunnies and flowers to Easter eggs and carrots – let your imagination run wild.

Get the recipe: Kirstie Allsopp’s Easter biscuits

Make little nests to rest on top of your Easter biscuits with these creative cookies. The biscuit recipe only has four ingredients and can be in the oven in under 10 minutes, perfect for when time is tight on busy holiday days. You could change the icing colour using food colouring or gel, we like pastel shades for Easter.

Get the recipe: Easter biscuits

These buttery bunny biscuits have a similar flavour to hot cross buns so will make sure you’re in the Easter spirit while you have your afternoon treat. Make these as a welcome change to all that chocolate you’ll have in the house at Easter. You could change the shapes of these biscuits too as the mixture holds its shape really well.

Get the recipe: Spiced Easter cookies

A great family project, these simple chocolate cookies only need 7 minutes in the oven and are super simple for little hands to master. Decorated as little nests with a generous drizzle of melted chocolate and a few marzipan eggs, these will go down a treat with the kids.

Get the recipe: Chocolate Easter biscuits

Why not wrap these cute biscuits up as presents for friends and family instead of giving out Easter eggs? Flavoured with cinnamon mixed spice and lemon, these biscuits are bursting with flavour making them the perfect afternoon treat with your cup of tea. We love the crunchy sugar finish which is baked in the oven to make it golden and crumbly.

Get the recipe: Easter bunny currant biscuits

Sharp lemon zest gives these biscuits a fresh edge, the ideal thing for spring time when everything is starting to become brighter. You could make a batch of these for the kids and then let them go wild with the decoration, just put out little bowls of Smarties, icing and sprinkles and see what they come up with.

Get the recipe: Lemon shortbread rabbits