Simnel cake was traditionally given by servant girls to their mothers when they returned home on Mothering Sunday and it's now become a classic Easter cake. Preheat the oven to 150C/130C Fan/Gas 2.

Whether your Easter tradition is a cake shaped like a bunny or butter shaped like a lamb (or something totally unrelated to food made in the likeness of cute animals), I urge you to keep it going.

Best Easter dessert: M&S Easter Lamb Meets Colin The Caterpillar, £12 (joint winner) The judges said: Who doesn't love a Colin the Caterpillar cake? For this Easter makeover, you get two ...