10 easy Easter biscuit recipes (2024)

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Easter biscuits are so much fun to make with the kids and here, we've got lots of recipes from Easter cookies to iced biscuits. Which will you bake first?

This Easter, why not turn biscuit baking into a fun and festive family tradition?

We’ve got you covered with all the yummiest recipes, including super simple Easter chick cookies, spring-inspired pistachio and orange biscotti, and delicious Easter Bunny biscuits with currants and mixed spice.

Kids will love getting messy in the kitchen and they’ll have lots of fun decorating their seasonal bakes. Plus, baking makes great entertainment for the Easter holidays, too!

Easter chick and bunny cookies

These simple biscuits are great fun to make with little helpers.

Let them spoon icing over the tops and decorate them with chocolate chips, mini marshmallows and strawberry laces for the whiskers.

Don't forget to get Easter-themed cutters! This set of four comes with an egg, two rabbit and one chick shape and you can get it at Amazon for £5.04.

Find our recipe here for Easter chick and bunny cookies.

Easter bunny biscuits with currants and mixed spice

Easter cupcake recipes

These old-fashioned biscuits are packed with currants, cinnamon and mixed spice for lots of flavour.

Pistachio and orange biscotti

A biscuit recipe for the grown-ups.

Make classic Italian biscotti with some fresh spring flavours, like pistachio and orange zest.

Great to make over the Easter weekend and enjoy with a pot of coffee.

See our recipe for Pistachio and orange biscotti.

Easter egg biscuits

These pretty biscuits are iced with different pastel colours.

Use an egg-shaped cutter and get the kids to help decorate them with patterns and stripes.

Make a batch of these egg biscuits for a money-saving way of bulking up the Easter egg hunt.

Follow our recipe to try these Easter egg biscuits at home.

Orange, sesame and chocolate biscuits

These beautiful biscuits make a great addition to an Easter spread.

Why not serve them for dessert on Easter Sunday, along with chocolate pots or mousse?

Happy Easter biscuits

Sometimes less is more when it comes to biscuit decoration.

These golden biscuits look pretty with pastel icing highlights on the bird wings and eggs.

Sticking to a colour scheme gives a sophisticated effect.

Follow our step-by-step recipe for these tasty Easter biscuits.

Easy Easter biscuits

If you're new to baking, these simple biscuits are the ones for you.

All you need is an egg-shaped or round cutter and some icing writing pens. Then you and the kids can let your imaginations run wild with the decorations.

Use these piping decorating bags from Wilton, which are easy to hold and use and come as a convenient pack of 12. Find it at Amazon for £9.60.

Check out our recipe for these super simple Easter biscuits – they're delicious!

Cream cheese Easter biscuits

It’s not very often you find a cream cheese Easter biscuit, so this unique (and tasty) recipe is certainly one to try!

What we love about these biscuits is that the cream cheese makes them tender and chewy. They also taste delicious whether iced or un-iced.

The dough really benefits from a long chill in the fridge before baking, so we’d recommend making the dough the day before decorating.

Check out the recipe for our cream cheese Easter biscuits here.

Mini egg cookies

This yummy Easter bake makes a fantastic family activity for during the holidays.

Kids of all ages will enjoy mixing the ingredients together and rolling the dough balls. Little ones will also have lots of fun decorating the cookies, too.

Bear in mind, however, that if you’re making this with Cadbury Mini Eggs, these can be a choking hazard, so they’re not suitable for children under 4.

Follow this easy recipe to make Mini Egg cookies at home.

Plain Easter biscuits

These super simple Easter biscuits take only 10 minutes to bake and they’re totally delicious.

Let your kids lead the way with the decorating. They’ll love using different colours of icing to make things more fun.

They could even add multicoloured or chocolate sprinkles, edible flowers, a sprinkle of caster sugar or a handful of Mini Eggs (but remember Mini Eggs are a choking hazard so they’re not suitable for children under 4).

Find the recipe for our plain Easter biscuits here.

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FAQs

Why put an egg in biscuits? ›

Biscuit recipes tend to be egg-free, this makes them drier and the lack of protein to bind the mix helps achieve that crumbly texture. For super light, crumbly biscuits try grating or pushing the yolks of hard-boiled eggs through a sieve into the biscuit dough.

What are Easter biscuits made of? ›

Ingredients

100g organic golden caster sugar.
1 organic egg.
½ tsp baking powder.
80g currants.
100g soft butter.
250g plain flour.
2 tbsp milk.
tiny drop of oil of cassia or 1 tsp mixed spice.

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How did they make biscuits in the old days? ›

With no leavening agents except the bitter-tasting pearlash available, beaten biscuits were laboriously beaten and folded to incorporate air into the dough which expanded when heated in the oven causing the biscuit to rise.

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What not to do when making biscuits? ›

5 Mistakes You're Making With Your Biscuits

Mistake #1: Your butter is too warm.
Mistake #2: You're using an inferior flour.
Mistake #3: You use an appliance to mix your batter.
Mistake #4: You don't fold the dough enough.
Mistake #5: You twist your biscuit cutter.

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What is the secret to fluffy biscuits? ›

For soft and fluffy biscuits, blend the liquid and dry ingredients just until the dough "resembles cottage cheese," Sonoskus says. This stops you from activating too much gluten in the flour and ending up with a tougher biscuit that doesn't rise as high.

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What is in a Mcdonald's biscuit? ›

Ingredients: Enriched Flour (bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Cultured Nonfat Buttermilk (cultured Skim Milk, Nonfat Dry Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Mono And Diglycerides, Locust Bean Gum, Carrageenan), Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Water, Leavening (sodium ...

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Why do you fold the dough when making biscuits? ›

When you fold the dough, these pieces of butter stack on top of each other, creating rough layers of butter and dough that translate to flakiness once baked. Buttermilk Biscuits get maximum flakiness from a folding step built into the recipe.

What happens if you add too much egg to biscuits? ›

If there isn't enough egg, your batter or dough may not be able to hold its structure or could end up overly dry or dense. On the other hand, if there is too much egg, your baked goods could lose their shape due to excess liquid, or have a rubbery (or even overly cakey) texture depending on the recipe.

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What are mourning biscuits? ›

Dr Gadoud said: “Funeral biscuits were biscuits served at or associated with funerals. They were generally two biscuits wrapped up and presented to each person attending the funeral or sent out with the invite to the funeral or afterwards.

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What are church biscuits made of? ›

Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and cream of tartar in a medium bowl. Work the shortening into the flour mixture by crumbling with your hands until the mixture feels like cornmeal. Pour milk into flour mixture and mix well. On a slightly floured surface, knead the dough about 12-15 times.

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What are the holes in biscuits called? ›

These tiny vents in these crackers are also known as "dockers" that allow steam to escape during the baking process, which prevents the crackers from rising like other biscuits or breads and minimise air bubbles. Those holes serve a very real purpose. Read below to know more about them.

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What is the oldest biscuit? ›

THE ABERFFRAW BISCUIT (or cake) goes by a number of names, but whatever you call it, with a tradition dating back to the 13th century, it's often held up as the oldest recognised biscuit in Britain.

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Why are Southern biscuits so good? ›

Southern cooks have several tricks when it comes to making tender and delicious biscuits, from the cutters they use, to the type and amount of liquid incorporated, to the number of kneads required to turn out a perfect dough. The not-so-secret ingredient they rely upon is soft wheat flour.

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What happens if you use baking soda instead of baking powder in biscuits? ›

If you accidentally add baking soda instead of baking powder to baked goods, they won't rise because there is not enough acid. To fix this, add about one tablespoon of white or apple cider vinegar for every half teaspoon of baking soda to the liquids before mixing with the dry ingredients.

What makes a high quality biscuit? ›

Use flour with low protein content

To make extra tender biscuits, you don't want to develop a lot of gluten. Flours with a higher protein content develop gluten more readily. To get the soft biscuits you're after, Catherine recommends using for an all-purpose flour with a small amount of protein.

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What makes biscuits taste better? ›

There are several secrets to good biscuits:

Use a good recipe.
Measure carefully (flour is compressible). ...
Used chilled ingredients. ...
Use a flour made from soft wheat if you can. ...
Cut the fat (butter, shortening or both) into the flour with a pastry cutter until the pieces of fat are pea sized.

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What are 2 important steps when making biscuits? ›

The two keys to success in making the best biscuits are handling the dough as little as possible as well as using very cold solid fat (butter, shortening, or lard) and cold liquid. When the biscuits hit the oven, the cold liquid will start to evaporate creating steam which will help our biscuits get very tall.

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What is the most important step in biscuit making? ›

Mixing. The multi-stage mixing method is preferred for its ability to produce consistent doughs which are not fully developed. Blending all dry ingredients to rub or cut the shortening into the flour until fat is fully distributed and pea-sized lumps are visible.

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10 easy Easter biscuit recipes (2024)

Easter chick and bunny cookies

Easter bunny biscuits with currants and mixed spice

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Why put an egg in biscuits? ›

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