The Easter basket, just like the Easter eggs, is simply part of Easter! After all, you have to store the painted eggs in a nice way and display them. But how about making some edible ones this year? Whether as a snack with coffee or as a dessert at a feast, the little nests are guaranteed to be the highlight on the table and outshine all other decorations. They will also pamper your senses of taste. Children in particular will definitely enjoy these treats, especially if they were allowed to help with the baking. We have put together some interesting recipes with which you can bake an Easter basket - both with classic yeast dough and an alternative with quark.
Bake an Easter nest - recipe for classic Easter nests made from yeast dough
Anyone who thinks of treats for Easter will come to mindthe Easter plait (Easter bread)probably the first thing that comes to mind. It's no wonder that you can bake a delicious Easter basket with this dough. We give you a recipe that even beginners can use to easily make an Easter basketbaking at Easter. It is decorated with a colorful Easter egg.
For 6 nests:
- 150 ml milk
- 100g raisins
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 200 g sour cream
- 2 cups flour (cup with 250 ml volume)
- 1 No
- 10g dry yeast
- 100 g Almond slivers
- 1 egg yolk
- colored Easter egg
Baking an Easter nest with an egg in the middle – preparation
Warm the milk a little, pour it into a large bowl and dissolve the yeast in it. Then stir in the sugar and then half of the flour. Cover the bowl with cling film and place in a warm place for an hour.
Then add the remaining flour and sour cream, knead a dough and let it rise in a warm place for an hour. Towards the end of the time, soak the raisins for 10 minutes by pouring boiling water over them. Then drain them, pat them dry with kitchen paper and knead them into the dough.
Now roll the dough into a thick roll and cut it into two centimeter long pieces. Roll each of these pieces thinner to create thin strands. You need two such strands per nest, which you twist together in a spiral. Form a nest and fasten the ends well together. Repeat with the other strands too.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and spread the nests onto a baking tray lined with baking paper where you let them rise for another 10 minutes. Then brush the nests with egg yolk, sprinkle the almonds over them and place an egg in the middle of each nest. Bake them for 10 to 15 minutes.
Easter nests with quark and oil dough
Beginners to baking usually prefer it, first of allwithout yeastto try their luck. That's not a problem, because you can also bake an Easter basket without yeast dough and it's guaranteed to be no less delicious. If you would like to bake an Easter nest without yeast, you can use this recipe:
For 10 nests:
- 400 g Flour
- 200 g Quark
- 8 tbsp milk
- 80g sugar
- 1 egg, size M
- 8 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 packet of baking powder
- 1 egg yolk and 1 teaspoon milk for brushing
Quick baking idea without yeast – preparation
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees (fan oven) and first mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Then add the other ingredients and knead a dough. Only knead very briefly. Divide the dough into 10 portions for a total of 10 nests. You can now divide each of these portions into two or three parts, depending on whether you make the variant from the recipe above or with threeBraid strandswant.
You then form nests from the cords or braids, which you then distribute on trays lined with baking paper. Brush them with the egg yolk and milk mixture and bake them until golden brown, about 15 minutes.
Other ideas for Easter nests: Bake your own shortcrust pastry for the Easter nest
If you want to save yourself the wait for yeast dough because it has to rise, you can bake an Easter basket with quark and oil dough. Another variant would be shortcrust pastry. Just choose the same recipe as for Christmasfor the vanilla crescentsfor example, and then use the dough to form rolls and nests or small bowl shapes that you fill with Easter grass and mini eggs. You can get the bowls, for example, by rolling out the dough thinly, cutting it out and then placing it over ovenproof cups or something similar for baking, or using a muffin tin.
Cookie molds with a hole for the eggs in the middle are also suitable for shortcrust pastry. Or how aboutDough for shortbread cookies? You can then use a piping bag and star nozzle to pipe this into the shape of nests, for example - without having to braid it first. With both variants you can bake the Easter nest without eggs and then add them after it has cooled.
Ideas with multiple nests and sprinkles
You can also put several nests together and create such a pretty pastry. The individual parts can then be picked off and distributed. Instead of using almonds, or in addition to them, you can also coat the finished nests with icing and spread colorful sprinkles over them.
