Homemade recipes for yeast bread for Easter that you will enjoy. Get inspired!

Are you wondering what pastries are baked for Easter?

Do you want to make these holidays more pleasant with some sweet goodness from sourdough?

Then you’ve come to the right place!

We have the best Easter pastry recipes for you, just get inspired!

Easter Jews

According to tradition, Jews are baked every year on Maundy Thursday. Whoever dreams of them at dawn the next day will enjoy good health throughout the year. Check out more Easter traditions.

Ingredients

• 500 g semi-coarse flour
• 15 g of yeast
• 175 ml lukewarm milk (you can add more as needed)
• 60 g of butter
• 50 g of granulated sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• pinch of salt
• 1 egg for brushing
• butter for wiping the baking sheet
• honey/jams

Method

• In a small container, prepare the yeast from a small amount of lukewarm milk, flour and a teaspoon of sugar. After you have the yeast, add it to the sifted flour with sugar and a pinch of salt.
• Then beat the butter with the egg yolk into a foam and add to the mixture. Add lukewarm milk as needed.
• Make a smooth and non-sticky dough and let it rise in a warm place for about an hour.
• Cut the dough into pieces, form balls, and shape them into thin rolls (about as thin as a finger), approximately 20 cm long. Then roll them into spirals or escutcheons, chicks, knots…
• Put them on a greased tray or on a tray with baking paper, let them rise for a while, brush with a beaten egg.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for about 15 minutes.
• After baking, immediately brush them with warmed honey or sprinkle with powdered sugar. Alternatively, spread jams.

Easter cakes

Play with shapes and fillings. We chose the round poppy classic. However, there are no limits to imagination.

Ingredients

• yeast dough (from 500 g of flour), see the first recipe
• 1 egg
• 200 g of ground poppy seeds
• 250 ml of milk
• 100 g of sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• a pinch of cinnamon
• lemon peel

Method

• First, preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Roll out the dough into a rectangle and cut out circles.
• Using a glass, make a well in the center and brush with warmed butter.
• Prepare the poppy seed filling by boiling the poppy seeds with milk until thickened, then season with sugar, cinnamon and lemon zest.
• Place the filling in the wells on the cakes.
• Place the cakes on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes.

Cinnamon Snails

Cinnamon will scent your afternoon and is guaranteed to improve your mood. The right Easter snack. Better hide from carolers.

Ingredients

• yeast dough (from 500 g of flour), see the first recipe
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• butter
• semolina sugar
• cinnamon
• 1 egg

Method

• First, preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Roll the dough into a rectangle and brush with warmed butter.
• Sprinkle generously with sugar and cinnamon.
• Roll the dough into a roll and cut the snails.
• Place the snails on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and brush with beaten egg.
• Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 20 minutes.

Easter sweet rolls

Wasp nests are no different from snails. We can cut the slices wider so that they really resemble wasp hives in shape. Excellent delicacy!

Ingredients

• yeast dough (from 500 g of flour), see the first recipe
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• butter
• semolina sugar
• cocoa
• ground walnuts
• 1 egg

Method

• First, preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Then roll the dough into a rectangle and cover with the warmed dough.
• Sprinkle generously with sugar and cocoa.
• Place the nuts on top.
• Roll the dough into a roll and cut into 1.5 cm thick slices.
• Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and brush with egg.
• Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 20 minutes.

Traditional Easter bun

A typical goody for the spring holidays is undoubtedly the mazanec, which could be referred to as one of the main symbols of the Czech Easter. Prepare this Easter pastry according to us.

Ingredients

• 2 and 1/2 cups (330 g) semi-coarse flour
• 1/2 cup (120 ml) lukewarm milk
• 2/3 cubes of melted unsalted butter (70 g)
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons of dry yeast
• 1/3 cup (65 g) granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons (35 g) raisins
• 1-2 teaspoons of vanilla essence or 1 bag of vanilla sugar
• 2 tablespoons (35 g) blanched almonds
• freshly grated lemon zest from 1/2 – 1 lemon
• pinch of salt
• rum for dipping raisins (approx. 4-5 spoons)

Finishing ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1-2 handfuls of peeled almonds

Method

• The day before baking, soak the raisins in rum and cover with a plate.
• Then sift the flour into a large bowl, make a well in the middle and add the dried yeast, a teaspoon of sugar and cover it with half of the lukewarm milk.
• Mix gently with a little flour to make a thin dough. Then cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.
• After rising, add lukewarm melted butter, remaining milk, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla, salt, grated lemon peel and knead a smooth, elastic dough.
• After processing, add chopped almonds with soaked raisins to the bowl and also work them into the dough. Set the raisin rum aside.
• Cover the finished dough and let it rise in a warm place for another 30 minutes.
• Line a tray with baking paper and place the bun-shaped dough on the tray. Leave to rise for another hour.
• After the last rise, make a cross on the top using a sharp knife.
• Preheat the oven to 180°C.
• While baking, crack the eggs, add the raisin rum and beat with a fork. Spread the spread over the entire surface, sprinkle with slivered almonds and bake for 30 minutes.
• After baking, test with a skewer. If the dough is stuck to the stick, let it bake for another 10 minutes.
• Then remove from the oven and let cool.

We have presented you with five popular recipes for Easter yeast bread.

Various sweet rolls, buns and buns can also be prepared from leavened dough.

In addition to cottage cheese, poppy seeds and jam or marmalade, nuts, almonds or coconut are used as fillings for this pastry .

The filling should be firmer, especially for the snails and wasps’ nests, so that it does not leak onto the baking sheet during baking. Too thin cottage cheese filling can be thickened with sponge crumbs or coconut, poppy seeds and jam can be thickened with grated gingerbread.