The best Easter baking recipes, from Simnel cake, mini egg cookies to Biscoff and Nutella traybakes

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Easter baking is rarely about restraint, writes Hannah Twiggs . In our collection of the best recipes to make now, a classic Simnel cake sits alongside Creme Egg brownies, overloaded cookies and a hot cross bun turned ice cream sandwich - tradition, just with more chocolate, more fun and a little less sense E aster baking , in theory, is about restraint. A neat Simnel cake , perhaps, its marzipan balls lined up like obedient soldiers. A batch of hot cross buns , lightly spiced, eaten warm with