Baking | Breads | Easter
ByStephanie Wilson
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Easter Bread has long been a tradition around the world. It celebrates the advent of a new season, rebirth, and resurrection. While these bread recipes are certainly celebratory and delicious, they also have historic meaning, often with symbolism so perfect for Easter.
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These Easter recipes are festive and laden with yummy goodness. Yeast-risen Easter loaves often feature fragrant spices of cinnamon, cardamom, and saffron and are filled with nuts, dried, and even candied fruits.
Here you’ll find everything from babka, Ukrainian Paska and kulich. You’ll also find recipes for Italian bread and recipes from Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Great Britain and more.
Food Network notes that “Eastern Europe has one of the richest repertoires of Easter breads. Most of these breads are mildly sweet and enriched with generous amounts of eggs and dairy, which are prohibited during Lent, a period of abstinence prior to Easter.”
Celebrating the delicious cultural recipes of Easter with bread from around the world.
20 Easter Bread Recipes from Around the World
Easter Breads have long been a tradition around the world. They celebrate the advent of a new season, rebirth, and resurrection. These recipes are not only celebratory but are also easy and delicious!
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Almond Cinnamon Babka Star Bread
Almond Cinnamon Babka Star Bread is an elegant, pull-apart sweet bread, intensely flavored with cinnamon, almonds, and raisins. Soft and tender, and addictive. A perfect holiday bread, like Christmas or Easter, or delicious with morning coffee!
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Paska: Ukrainian Easter Bread Recipe
This Paska Ukrainian Easter Bread recipe is a traditional Eastern European bread made especially for the holiday. A delicious, lightly sweetened yeast bread, much like sweet dough, with beautiful Easter symbols and a sweet, tender crumb.
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Greek Tsoureki
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"This traditional Greek Easter bread is terrific for Easter brunch, slathered with butter; and any leftovers make the world's most outrageous French toast!"
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Italian Easter Bread
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"What makes the bread special are the colored eggs that poke out of it to give a festive feel, and while it may look store-bought, the bread can be re-created right in your kitchen. In just five easy steps, you can turn an everyday appetizer into one that'll make your Easter dinners more memorable."
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Bulgarian Easter Bread (Kozunak)
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"Bulgarian bread, a.k.a. kozunak, is a traditional, sweet yeast bread – cotton-soft, sugar-crusted, studded with rum-soaked raisins, and perfumed with vanilla and lemon zest – incredibly delicious on its own, it’s the ultimate Easter treat."
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Croatian Easter Bread: Pinca bread
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"Often called Croatian Easter Bread this traditional Easter delight, Pinca, is basically a sweet bread that is served sometimes with butter and a cup of coffee. It is relatively straightforward to make although it is important to follow some golden rules."
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Babka
“With its rich ingredients of eggs, butter, and raisins, our Babka rises high and golden above the daily bread. In its native Ukraine and Poland, a traditional blessing readies the loaf for the Easter table.Babka, Polish for “grandmother,” is named for its shape, which resembles a woman’s skirt. This Eastern European Easter version of babka is often blessed at church before being eaten.”
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An Easier, Healthier Polish Babka for Easter
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"Babka is a sweet Polish yeast bread, similar to Italian panettone, that can be made with rum-soaked raisins and iced, or left plain. It's an Easter favorite that often takes pride of place in a swięcone basket that is taken to church to be blessed on Easter Saturday. In fact, every Eastern European country has its own traditional Easter bread."
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Russian Kulich Easter Bread
“A Russian and Ukrainian Easter bread, Kulich is traditional within the Orthodox Christian faith, eaten between Easter and Pentecost, which always occurs seven weeks after Easter day. Kulichis very similar to another regional bread called ‘Baska’.”
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Yeasted Easter Kugelhopf (Central Europe)
This Easter Kugelhopf is a German Austrian yeast cake that's much like a golden coffee cake with a rich buttery flavor. Baked in a Kugelhopf pan, or a Bundt pan, it's a special holiday or anytime cake you'll love.
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Pane di Pasqua - Italian Easter bread recipe
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“Pane di Pasqua (Italian Easter breads) fluffy, slightly sweet, rich and soft, like a brioche, flavored with generous amount of lemon zest and a touch of ground aniseed.”
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Tsoureki recipe (Traditional Greek Easter bread)
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Soft, fluffy, with a beautiful brown semi-soft crust and an amazing stringy texture.. This is the most flavourful tsoureki recipe you will ever try!
Greek Easter bread owes its full and rich flavour to the two aromatic spices used in this traditional tsoureki recipe, mastic and mahlab, which give it a really characteristic flavour and smell.
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Folar de pascoa (Portuguese easter bread)
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In Portugal, this slightly sweet, traditional and festive bread is best eaten as soon as it's baked.
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Traditional German Easter Bread (Osterbrot/ Osterkranz)
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"Wake up on Easter Sunday to this delicious German Easter bread with a delicious marzipan and almond filling. This easy bread is full of the sweet richness that you may have been missing during Lent. If not an Easter treat this wreath cake will be a welcome at any occasion."
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Spanish Easter bread (hornazo)
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"Hornazo is a sausage and egg-stuffed bread – a clever, very moreish, all in one sandwich! Some variations of this bread contain morcilla (traditional Spanish blood sausage) and if you feel inclined, you can substitute half the chorizo with morcilla."
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Swedish Braided Cardamom Bread
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"Swedish Braided Cardamom Bread is a traditional holiday loaf that's a delicious enriched dough that's topped with pearl sugar."
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Tsoureki
“Scarlet eggs tucked into its braided crown are hallmarks of Tsoureki, classic Greek Easter bread.”
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Easter Morning Biscuits
“Our Easter Morning Biscuits are a new take on a Greek favorite, koulourakia. These crisp, honey-sweetened biscuits are a frequent feature at an Easter feast. Made from a simple nonrising dough — similar to cookie dough — they’ll be ready for the Easter breakfast table with little effort and time.”
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