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Easter Baking

By Food & Wine
Updated March 23, 2017
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From a classic lime-coconut cupcake to an exciting plum upside-down cake, here are the dishes we'll be baking come Easter.
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Lime-Coconut Cupcakes

Lime-Coconut Cupcakes
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Agave syrup adds a mellow sweetness to the batter of these delicious gluten-free cupcakes, which are slathered with a tart lime buttercream.

  • Lemon-Ricotta Cupcakes with Fluffy Lemon Frosting

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Cinnamon Cake with Chile-Chocolate Buttercream

Cinnamon Cake with Chile-Chocolate Buttercream
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In the sixth grade, Lisa Ritter prepared Mexican hot chocolate as part of a social studies project. Years later, she wanted to re-create that sweet-spicy sensation in a layer cake, so she developed a cinnamon-flavored sponge cake and subtly spicy buttercream frosting made with ancho chile powder and cayenne pepper. "This recipe makes great cupcakes, too," Ritter says.

  • Cinnamon Butter Cake

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Red Velvet Beet Cake with Crème Fraîche Icing

Red Velvet Beet Cake with Crème Fraîche Icing
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Instead of red food coloring, this excellent cake features a beet puree, which keeps the layers nicely moist. The cake is topped with a wonderfully sweet-tangy creme fraiche frosting.

  • Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Ice Cream

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Strawberry-Thyme Tarts

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For those who may be a little scared to try gluten-free pastries, these little tarts are the perfect place to start. "Whenever I make pastries, I'll often blend unrefined cane sugar in an upright blender to achieve a finer texture–something closer to powdered sugar than super-fine cane sugar," blogger Emma Galloway says. "This helps to evenly distribute it throughout the dough, and you are left with a much nicer texture and look in the end product."

  • Strawberry and Lemon Tarts with Pistachios

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Classic Carrot Cake with Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting

Classic Carrot Cake with Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting
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Carrot cake, that 1970s favorite, has a new audience at luxe restaurants like Manhattan's Le Bernardin. At the Urban Farmer in Portland, Oregon, pastry chef Jodi Elliot prepares the ultimate version: moist and not too sweet.

  • Coconut Flour Carrot Cake

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Plum Upside-Down Cake

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This pretty cake from pastry chef Joanne Chang is moist and buttery, with plenty of sweet and tangy caramelized plums on top.

  • Plum Cake with Hazelnut Brittle and Honey Mascarpone

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Hazelnut-Brown-Butter Brownies

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"In Japan I got into all different flours, like roasted soy flour," says Stella Parks. "Then I thought, Why not use nut flour to make gluten-free brownies?"

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Pecan-Honey Buns

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The honeyed glaze on these sticky, nutty breakfast rolls is luscious and soft when warm, then turns nicely chewy when cool.

  • Cinnamon-Pecan Buns

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Chocolate Truffle Layer Cake

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This outrageous chocolate cake was born from a lucky mistake. Kimberly Sklar, pastry chef at Literati II in Los Angeles, was baking a creme fraiche-spike chocolate cake and, by accident, took the pan out of the oven early. Discovering that the cake was superfudgy, she layered it with dark chocolate and white chocolate ganache, then covered it in dark chocolate frosting.

  • Bittersweet Chocolate Truffles Rolled in Spices

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Mini Cassata Cakes

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At Boulud Sud, pastry chef Ghaya Oliveira makes a version of cassata, the ornate Sicilian dessert with layers of sponge cake, sweetened ricotta, candied fruit, dark chocolate and marzipan. The easy recipe here is Grace Parisi's own interpretation.

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Deep-Dish Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

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Grace Parisi's strawberry rhubarb pie recipe is classic and perfectly tart-sweet. The dough can be made with just butter, but swapping in some lard yields an even flakier crust. As for the filling, she has experimented with several thickeners, but cornstarch is her favorite for juicy fruit pies.

  • Old-Fashioned Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp

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    1 of 11 Lime-Coconut Cupcakes
    2 of 11 Cinnamon Cake with Chile-Chocolate Buttercream
    3 of 11 Red Velvet Beet Cake with Crème Fraîche Icing
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    5 of 11 Classic Carrot Cake with Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting
    6 of 11 Plum Upside-Down Cake
    7 of 11 Hazelnut-Brown-Butter Brownies
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