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Natural Selection Hamper

To celebrate Easter, the UK’s leading supplier of dried fruit Natural Selection have given me this rather marvellous baking hamper to give away to one of you lucky lot.

Here’s what you get:

3 x packs of Chopped Apricots

3 x packs of Dried Cranberries

3 x packs of 5 Fruit Mix

3 x packs of Crystallised Ginger

3 x packs of Cinnamon Cranberries

3 x packs Chopped Dates

2 x packs of Crimson Raisins

1 x Natural Selection branded apron

1 x rolling pin

You’ll also get a copy of Great British Bake Off How to Bake

If you’re interested in stocking up on dried fruit you can ‘Like’ Natural Selection Foods on Facebook, where you’ll be able to take advantage of an exclusive offer – there’s a coupon that people can print off the page allowing them to save £1 on bags of product in the range at ASDA and Sainsbury’s.

You can also find some great Easter recipes using the Natural Selection range over on Holly Bell’s fabulous website Recipes from a normal mum. If you’ve not checked out her blog before, I’d really recommend you do, as the GBBO finalist has some inspiring stuff and down-to-earth chat.

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Comments

  2. Tracy K Nixon says

    I bake Easter biscuits with my children and they decorate them with icing and silver balls, sprinkles etc! Afterwards we hang them on our Easter tree! (In the house of course!)

  3. sandra siddall says

    I love to bake a lovely chocolate sponge..with cream filling covered in chocolate and lightly dusted with icing sugar and decorated with cadbury mini eggs 🙂

  4. Clare Wilson says

    Healthy Muffins – from the Nigella website – as an antidote to all the chocolate that’s around. The children love making them and we all like eating them!

  7. Lisa Meridale says

    I love to bake banana cake with chocolate icing. It sounds sickly but its delicious.

  9. kathleen hooper says

    I love baking muffins, and might try experimenting with some new variation this Easter

  15. Georgina Ball says

    I love making chocolate nests using melted chcocolate and shredded wheat and then filing them with mini eggs!

  18. Kara Harrison says

    I only started baking last Autumn so this will be my first Easter baking goods, but I’ll definitely be trying Hot cross buns. I also want to make some little personal chocolate cakes for everyone to enjoy.

  19. Janine Bedford says

    I love Easter baking, especially hot cross buns but with chocolate chunks instead of fruit. Also chocolate cornflake cakes topped with mini eggs.

  20. Lorraine Bishop says

    I always make a lemon drizzle cake at easter and its become a family tradition with my sister making a lemon meringue pie.

  22. Rachael Simmons says

    I love to bake chocolate cornflake cakes topped with mini eggs for easter! 😀

  24. fiona gray says

    Nigellas shredded wheat Easter nests – the healthy option until you get carried away and add lots of mini eggs nom,nom,nom 🙂

  28. Clementina says

    My 3 year old is currently obsessed with the gingerbread man so this is the rave at the moment 😉

  31. Donna Gilligan says

    I love chocolate rice krispie nests, simple but delicious and my 3yo can very nearly do them by herself

  32. Karen says

    My daughter is a young leader at the local Rainbows so we love to plan easy cakes to make which the rainbows have so much fun in decorating.

  37. emma b says

    I like to bake gooey triple chocolate brownies (as if everyone hasn’t already had enough of chocolate!)

  39. Carol Peace says

    My favourite has to be making cupcakes with the grandchildren so they have something to give thier Mum and Dad at easter.

  41. Linda Revell says

    I’ll be making a fruit cake covered in marzipan which is quickly grilled for a couple of minutes until lighly golden brown yummy!

  49. angela sandhu says

    I am thinking of trying to make hot cross buns this easter-never done that before! Other than that, my son loves to make the usual chocolate cornflake cakes!

  55. Julie Kenny says

    I love to bake Easter biscuits – well help my kids to bake them …I`m usually in charge of tidying up! Xx

  58. jennifer thorpe says

    I love baking cupcakes with my little girl at easter, and decorating them with tiny yellow chicks

  70. Jen Bell says

    Anything that involves cadburys mini eggs! lol. A must have at our house every easter has to be mini egg nests though, made with shredded wheat 🙂

  75. Kelly Young says

    I love to bake shortbread biscuits into cute shapes then decorating them 🙂

    Thank You for a great competition 😀

  79. Anthony Martin says

    cake with crushed mini eggs running through em, a secret filling of cadburys cream egg filling running through the centre,

  82. Joanne Dummigan says

    I like to bake easter cupcakes, with green buttercream that looks like grass with 3 chocolate eggs on top, yum!!

  83. EMMA WALTERS says

    looooove carrot ake, so will be attempting one of these and trying cupcakes with my son 🙂
    @emmav6

  91. lyndsey b says

    A traditional Simnel cake here, only have it once a year, Easter isnt Easter without a simnel cake 🙂

  98. michael worth says

    i bake chocolate bunnies,with icing,i give them out to the neighbours sometimes.

  100. Kirsty Fox says

    Just realised my chocolate cornflake ckaes don’t need baking, lol, so I would say fairy cakes with mini eggs on top, yum!

  104. Louise Middleton says

    Cupcakes galore any flavour will do, but usually it’s lavender with sugared violets atop 🙂

  105. Kim Allen says

    I love making cupcakes and decorating them with a birds nest (made from crunched up shredded wheat mixed with melted mars bars or chocolate) with a couple of mini eggs in them 🙂

  107. andi g says

    I bake every Sunday with my 9 year old daughter. Today we are making cornflakes chocky nests with little eggs and chicks to decorate!

  113. Dawn F says

    I haven’t made it yet, but I saw a really cool recipe for a chocolate cake with mini eggs on top. Looks good!

  114. Lynne OConnor says

    I’m going to try hot cross buns this year as well as family favourite, carrot cake

  116. Judith Allen says

    Not very easterish I suppose, because it’s a favourite any time, but Mary Berry’s Sunday Best chocolate cake.

  118. Gemma Turner says

    It would have to be Easter Shaped Biscuits, so my little boy can ice them and decorate them how he wishes 🙂 it’s messy but so much fun!

  124. Jo Baxter says

    Bread and butter pudding made from hot cross buns and chunks of chocolate !! Mmmmm deeelish

  130. Claire Nelson says

    Its not actually baked more melted(!) but I love Nigella’s malteser bake at Easter.

  132. libby hughes says

    My favourite thing to bake is scones!! mmm especially with jam cotted cream, yum yum

  133. carole collard says

    From being a small child i always use to make a simnel cake every Easter with my nanny, sadly she died 11 years ago but im pleased to say its a tradition i have carried onward and hope to do so for many years

  140. Paula Smith says

    I don’t know if you can really call it baking but at Easter we love making Chocolate Cornflake nests. It’s the most fun for the kids and really simple

  143. Sheila Reeves says

    Simnel Cake – but i’m the only one in myt immdeiate family that likes it ;))

  145. nikki lane says

    Easter baking is a joint effort with my 2 boys (so nothing too tricky lol) we are going to make marshmellow and rice krispy cakes but in a tray, and chocolate rice krispy cakes also in tray, when cool we are going to cut out bunny and chick shapes. The boys will then decorate them with chocolate buttons sprinkles icing opens, in their own unique style. Pop them into gift bags for them to give out at easter. Looking forward to it! xx

  147. tracey gibbons says

    i love to bake little mini chocolate cakes which my 3 boys decorate and everone gets one after our easter lunch

  158. Sonia Mahon says

    Love making Easter Biscuits using easter cutters. Decorating with some lemon icing! x

  162. Pauline Wilson says

    I would like to say hot cross buns but I’ve never attempted them, so it has to be Easter cupcakes with mini eggs and sprinkles

  165. Adele Hill says

    I bake hot cross buns and cupcake which my kids kid decorate with easter themes. We have great fun making them and even more fun eating them.

  167. Hilda hazel Wright says

    Much as I love the smell of hot cross buns, I don’t like the taste so my easter treat would just been cornflake cakes with mini eggs. I would of course ‘accidentally’ leave far too much ‘leftover’ in the pan!

  172. caroline blake says

    My favourite thing to bake is my famed lemon poppy loaf. Is so light yet so rich…………….. mmmmm

  173. KATIE WRIGHT says

    Easter nests. Crushed up shredded wheat covered in melted chocolate topped with mini chocolate eggs

  176. katrina walsh says

    Its the old school rice krispie cakes with a sugary shedded wheat nest in top and some mini eggs

  177. Adele Leek says

    Me and my 2 children always bake in the Easter holidays (I think we will do it this afternoon as the weather is so bad) we will we be making gingerbread men with a selection of sweet treats for e.g. smarties, gumdrops and different coloured icings. yum yum ;}

  182. Caroline says

    I love making little fairy cakes topped with bunnies and chicks made out of fondant icing.

  183. Nicola Wall says

    Any kind of crispy cake filled with mini eggs, rice crispies and marshmellows. Simple but delicious and great fun for the kids!

  190. Fran Light says

    My favourite thing to bake at Easter is gingerbread bunnies! I have some great cutters of big bunnies with big floppy ears (all the better for biting off … nom nom nom!!!)

  207. Sarah Robertson says

    I’m not a great cook at the moment, so cocopop cakes with mini eggs 🙂

  209. Emma Howard says

    We baked carrot cupcakes and decorated them with micro-eggs to leave out for the Easter Bunny and Easter Chick!

  216. Rob Clayton says

    I like to bake a lemon drizzle cake, and ontop of the lemon icing place some mini creme eggs

  220. Kerry says

    My favourite thing to cook at Easter is little chocolate Easter cupcakes, decorated with mini eggs 🙂

  221. William Gould says

    We bake nothing special at Easter – just the same stuff we bake the rest of the year.

  222. Julie Thomas says

    Chelsea buns – I’ve got a great mix I make in my bread maker and the smell of the spices and fruit while they are rising/cooking is amazing.

  227. Carole Barnes says

    Broken Shredded wheat in melted chocolate stir well put into bun tins hollow middle slightly fill with mini eggs Easter Nests

  238. Beth Norfolk says

    I just made egg fairy cakes, pipe cake mixture into real hollowed out eggs and bake – brilliant for an easter egg hunt!

  240. Craig Brown says

    I like to bake ginger cake and bakewell tarts at easter lovley with homemade custard

  248. Cheryll H says

    Those birds nest made out of shredded wheat and chocolate – OMG I love those so much! The mini eggs inside are an added bonus 🙂 @pipersky1 ps. I know this doesn’t go in the oven so may not be classed as baking but its pretty much the only cooking I do at Easter! 🙂

  250. Victoria Leedham says

    My favourite thing is making our own easter eggs,not really baking but good fun!

  253. caroline says

    We just make a victoria sponge (about the only thing I can make) but use icing to give it a theme

  254. annette ryan says

    i love to bake hot cross buns at easter, brings back memories of baking with my mum 🙂

  257. Emma Lowe says

    i enjoy making little cup cakes with my daughter and then she decorates them after we have iced them.

  261. Patricia Avery says

    It has to be Hot Cross Buns, a traditional favourite in my family. The smell of them baking fills the house and we can’t wait for them to cool down enough to eat them warm with lashings of cold butter. Not very healthy but definitely an Easter treat 🙂

  262. Emma Carter says

    Totally unoriginal but traditionally the best – chocolate cornflake nests with Cadbury Mini Eggs to decorate, my 3 year old daughter loves making them with me too 🙂

  264. siobhan marie says

    i like to get lots of eastery topping like mini eggs and bunny toppers etc and the get the cornflakes and melted chocolate ready put everything on the table and let the kids dig in and make their creation of buns i know its easy but its safe and lots of fun to do together x

  265. wendy stanger (@kikicomp) says

    I love hot cross buns as make them really sticky with lots of sugar wash yum yum

  266. maureen moss says

    sticky hot cross buns with lots of fruit and spice served with fresh farmhouse butter

  272. Jennifer Brown says

    I like baking Easter biscuits and giving them as gifts instead of chocolate eggs.

  274. Sionedwyn says

    oh it has to be making chocolate easter nests with my son – he loves baking and we have so much fun making these!

  281. Sarah Evans says

    I love to bake Easter biscuits with my grandchildren – in shapes such as chicks, eggs and rabbits

  290. Cherryl Thomas says

    My very own gluten, wheat, egg and dairy free fruit cake and it’s absolutely delicious!

  309. Cathy says

    My favourite thing to cook at Easter is a hot cross bun loaf!..like a hot cross bun but a loaf instead of buns..yummy, in the spirit of easter but little lighter (as you can have as many or as few slices as you wan)t, a little different arn’t we all?) and goes a little further..(usefull with families!)

  314. Anthea Holloway says

    I like making hot cross buns because I can add extra fruit and they are not as synthetic tasting as the bought ones!

  315. Sarah Burke says

    It’s not really baking, but I just love to make chocolate cornflake buns with little mini eggs on.

  319. Natasha Gandy says

    I love making those little Easter nests out of chocolate and shredded wheat !! I do them with the kids and they love making them – it isn’t Easter until we have made them !!

  326. SUSAN L HALL says

    I like to make mini chocolate eggs with moulds my mum gave me years ago my friends kids love them

  338. KATHY D says

    /easter nests – weetabix melted in chocolate .
    I once tried Hot x Cross Buns and they were so hard even the birds left them so
    ther easter nests are more up my street

  341. linda curtis says

    chocolate birds nests made with shreddies and mini cocholate eggs with a little yellow chick init

  343. Maria Knight says

    We love to make biscuits cut into bird and bunny shapes and then decorate them with icing and chocolate drops 🙂

  344. LESLEY RENSHAW says

    I love making Chocolate Easter Nests Cakes with mini-eggs.

    It’ a great way of getting the little ones involved in the kitchen and brings the family together to scoff them all afterwards x

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