Things for Easter

Also pudding cake

I get excited about Easter.

Nest, Eggs.

Easter is like Christmas, but without all the expectation.

Easter breakfast

It is absolutely my favourite time of year for plants and flowers, and it’s a wonderful opportunity to be totally extra with your table decorations, both inside and out.

Clematis armandii and fritillaries

It’s not happening for another month, but if you, like me, are already thinking about Easter Sunday with family and friends, (in the garden perhaps?) I’ve updated my shop with lots of gorgeous things for your garden and your Easter table - here’s a taster, and there’s a button below.

Easter Joy in my Lovely Shop!

Jam jar flowers for an Easter lunch

A spanish Easter with lemons and nasturtiums

And Cake…. I like making this one, which requires no cooking and is a cheesecake really, rather than a cake, but that’s the point, because it doubles as a pudding (who needs cake for tea when you have chocolate eggs?)

Pudding cheesecake

You need to get those delicious little pastel coloured speckled cadbury mini eggs for this, and a 7” cake tin, lined at the bottom with parchment.

Here’s the recipe:

280g digestive biscuits

140g butter

8 little bags of mini eggs

600ml double cream

140g icing sugar

2 large tubs philadelphia cream cheese

juice of half a lemon

Crush biscuits with melted butter and press into tin and chop most of the mini eggs in half

Whip cream to soft peaks, fold in cream cheese, chopped mini eggs, icing sugar and lemon juice

Smooth mixture on top of biscuit base and refrigerate overnight.

Add a blob of whipped cream and a pile of mini eggs to the top before you serve it.

Of course there are far chicer versions of this pudding that you can make by ditching the mini eggs and using ginger nuts instead of digestives. Then just pile on the most beauteous summer fruits you can find. Stupendous, indulgent, celebratory.

Enough.

I went to see Arcadia at the Old Vic the weekend and I want to write about it but I need some time to process it…next time.

I hope you are all enjoying the emergence of Spring! Isn’t it just the most wondrous thing, just when we thought the sun would never appear?The frogs are singing and there is so much spawn…and exciting news…we have a NEWT!

Tell me things you do for Easter please?

x Laetitia