If your little ones are fans of all things yellow and sweet these Spring Chick Cupcakes are sure to make them smile. The recipe comes courtesy of Julie Rogers from The Chirping Moms and turns a classic white cake recipe into the cutest little Easter chick cupcakes youve ever seen. The cupcakes are made with our own Organic Unbleached White All-Purpose Flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and milk with a simple buttercream frosting. To decorate and make these cupcakes come to life, youll need candy eyeballs, candied oranges, food coloring and yellow sprinkles. Chances are, youll have as much fun making these silly treats as the kids will!
Its no surprise that carrot cake is a springtime and a favorite when it comes to Easter desserts. But how about getting creative with carrot cake cookies?! This recipe for Carrot Cake Cookie Sandwiches comes to Bobs Red Mill courtesy of Julie Andrews from The Gourmet RD. The cookies are made with Paleo Baking Flour, brown sugar, softened butter, grated carrots and egg, and a delicious spice mixture of ground cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. The golden raisins add an extra touch of nutrition and the loads of sweet carrots make for a moist and tender great. The cream cheese frosting is rich and wonderful and made with just mascarpone cheese, Powdered Sugar and vanilla extract. Unsweetened Coconut Flakes are optional, but we think they definitely add to the treats texture and flavor.
This Spring Flower Cookie Garden Puzzle is the perfect family-friendly baking activity and its one of the Easter dessert ideas we just cant get enough of. Little ones get to create their edible garden then eat their artistic work! The brilliant recipes comes to Bobs Red Mill courtesy of Ally Billhorn from Ally's Sweet and Savory Eats and we love that all she uses to create her treats is our Organic Unbleached White All-Purpose Flour along with butter, sugar, egg, almond extract, salt and baking soda. The colored frosting and the sprinkles, of course, are what help to make this puzzle whimsical and bursting with the pastel colors of the season. This is an easy Easter dessert for bakers of all ages, especially if the older bakers are helping the younger ones with the cutting and frosting.
These Easy Gluten Free Vanilla Cupcakes are simple and scrumptious. If your kids find themselves in a baking mood during the Easter season, these are a good go-to, as they can be made with pantry staples you likely already have on hand. Courtesy of Becky Winkler from A Calculated Whisk, the cupcakes are made with our Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour. We love that the frosting is flavored with blood orange juice for an added bit of color and flavor. In the image, the cupcakes are topped with Easter egg-shaped candies, though you can choose to leave that out and use this recipe as a base for all sorts of holiday treats throughout the year.
This wonderful springtime recipe for Peach Lemon Mini Bundt Cakes comes courtesy of Amy Williams from My Name is Snickerdoodle. If you dont have a mini Bundt pan on hand, these Bundts can be made in a large muffin or standard cupcake tin (just make sure to adjust your baking time accordingly). Kids will enjoy getting to each decorate their own cake with a glaze of powdered sugar, lemon zest and peach nectar. You can even encourage the group to get creative and use zest from other citrus fruits, too, like grapefruit and lime. To make the cakes gluten free, use our Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour!
Theres nothing quite like baking classic chip cookies with kids except for these M&M Party Cookies from Adell Goff of Baked in Arizona! Replace your chocolate chips with pastel-colored M&Ms and colorful Easter sprinkles for a twist on the traditional. If you can find sprinkles with bunnies or carrots, those are fun to add, too. If your kids have fun baking and eating these during Easter time (which we think they just may) you can mix up this recipe and use it as a base for holiday cookies of all sorts. Just use different colored M&Ms and sprinkles like red and green for Christmas, black and orange for Halloween and white and blue for Hanukkah.
This Speckled Chocolate Easter Egg Cake with Custard Filling from Revathi Palani of Revi's Foodography is moist, soft and spongy. Its also eggless! Its made with a custard filling of water, vanilla custard powder, sugar, milk and butter to resemble an egg yolk, though you can also opt out of that and ice the middle layer instead with frosting. If you cant find vanilla custard powder, use cornstarch and vanilla extract instead. You can also forego the egg shaped baking pan and use a rectangular one, instead, just keep in mind youll have to cut the cake to size. In the last step, let the kids spray the specks with a pastry brush! The specks are a mix of cocoa powder and warm water, and add so much to the end result. When this cake is finished, place it front and center on the table for all the Easter guests to admire.
Sometimes theres nothing like the classics to complete a festive holiday gathering. These Chocolate Easter Cupcakes are packed with flavor and are perfectly simple yet decadent. The recipe comes to Bobs Red Mill courtesy of Jennifer Farley from Savory Simple and uses our Unbleached White All-Purpose Flour mixed with cocoa powder as a base for the cake and cocoa powder mixed with ingredients like powdered sugar, cocoa powder and chocolate syrup for the frosting. If you have any chocolate loving kids in the family (especially chocolate lovers who love cupcakes, too), this is definitely the recipe to make! Dont forget the pastel colored chocolate eggs for the final touch.
This Easter Bunny Cake is almost too cute to eat (and dont worry, you dont need a bunny-shaped pan to make it)! If youre in need of a centerpiece for your upcoming Easter gathering, this cake is sure to make a statement. Its made with butter, sugar milk, egg whites, vanilla, baking powder, salt and our Super-Fine Cake Flour. The frosting is created with Shredded Coconut, whole milk, vanilla, softened butter and powdered sugar. But are equally as tasty, but the best part comes when the cake is assembled! Youll divide the cake and bring it back together with frosting kids will get a kick out of the fact that you even get to create a tail and add paper ears and a tiny pink nose. Part art project, part cake, this dessert is the type that will become a family tradition for years to come.
This basic Gluten Free Sugar Cookie recipe is made with our Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour and can be used for all sorts of holidays and celebrations. For springtime and Easter, make sure you have your pastel colored sprinkles on hand and your bunny and egg-shaped cookie cutters. Its also fun to use our Sparkling Sugar with a variety of food coloring and create your own colorful Easter sprinkles!
For the little ones who love the flavor of lemon, these Gluten Free Lemon Crinkle Cookies from J Trogstad from Bless Her Heart Yall are bright, light and fresh. The cookies are soft and sprinkled with powdered sugar just before being baked so you bite into a sweet pillow of warm dessert once they come out of the oven. These are a great choice if youre running low on time but still want to make a special homemade Easter treat with your kids. They only take five minutes to prep and 10 minutes to bake, so you can even make them the day-of your Easter gathering if youd like the house to smell fresh and lemony like springtime!
When it comes to Easter desserts recipes, the ones that will stick with you for years to come all have one thing in common its the magic baking together with those you love.
From all of us at Bobs Red Mill, wishing you a sweet day ahead with your littlest bakers. We know whatever you create, it will be beautiful.
Happy Easter!
