There's nothing nicer for a long weekend than family, friends, and plenty of the kind of food you all like to prepare and eat together. Whether you are building family meals, planning a gourmet game night, hosting brunch, or hunkering down after long walks with bowls of something warming, we've got the recipes for that.
For the long Easter weekend, fire up the oven, grab the spices and the mixing bowls, and try your hand at a new bake. This collection includes a sweetly spiced Easter Tea Ring, a beautifully layered Italian Easter pie, La Pastiera, a Neopolitan Easter Cake and traditional Ukrainian paska.
Curated collections from ckbk's editors
Easter—this year celebrated across the long weekend of April 3 to 6—is the Christian festival commemorating Christ rising from the tomb. A festival that has come to be symbolic of the beginning of Spring, with all its new life and green shoots—hence the abundance of eggs, lambs, bunny rabbits and chicks, including all those chocolate ones.
For Scottish chef Clare Coghill, spring is when the landscape around her on the Isle of Skye bursts with new life, and is the perfect time for foraging. As she puts it:
‘We call Spring ‘an t-earrach’ which literally means for plants to spring forth from the ground. And the ground is exactly where I look when I start foraging for the year.’
Chef Clare Coghill runs Café Cùil on the Isle of Skye. She is a native, born and bred on the Scottish island, where her family have run a hotel for more than 100 years. Skye is blessed with ane exceptional range of seasonal local produce, and at Café Cùil, Clare and here team make the most of this, including foraging for wild ingredients which grow locally. If you have never tried a wild gorse flapjack (or latte) you don’t know what you are missing.
‘The first thing to understand is that baking requires technique, attention to detail, and respect for processes. Talking about confectionery, small details make a huge difference in the final result.’ Luciana Corrêa
Pastry chef Luciana Corrêa has scoured ckbk’s collection of baking titles for top tips from experienced bakers to help you reliably achieve the best results with your cakes. Read below for her 15 key tips for cake making, and watch out for more culinary tips in future articles in this series.
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