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Pastry

Serve this lamb, rice and vine leaf borek with garlic dip.

Give it a whirl: Five spiral pastries to cook this weekend

Four seasonal pies to take for a spin − and a dessert to round it out.

Serve this lamb, rice and vine leaf borek with garlic dip.
EASY

Give this impressive but surprisingly simple Greek-style lamb borek a swirl

Dolmades (stuffed vine leaves) meet lamb borek in this impressive savoury spiral.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
You can use baby spinach but English spinach has a far superior flavour.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s spanakopita-inspired artichoke, green olive and spinach spiral filo pie

This vibrant, zingy pie is inspired by Greek spanakopita and also happens to be vegan.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Rustic vegetarian quiche with greens and bagel seasoning.
EASY

Rustic quiche, heavy on the greens, with bagel seasoning

Bagel seasoning adds a different kind of crunch to this free-form and robust vegetarian quiche.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Decorate this triple chocolate tart with Easter eggs or seasonal fruit.
EASY

The ultimate Easter (chocolate) tart

This easy-peasy triple chocolate tart is as pretty adorned with Easter eggs as with beautiful in-season fruit.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Easter egg millefeuille.

Adam Liaw’s Easter egg millefeuille

If you’ve got surplus chocolate eggs this Easter (and who doesn’t?), try turning them into something a little more exciting.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Strawberry galette with rose cream.

Strawberry galette with rose cream

Baked until the strawberries are bubbly and the pastry flaky and golden, this rustic tart is heaven.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Helen Goh’s bisteeya-inspired vegetarian pies.
EASY

Sweet potato, spinach and chickpea party pies

These bite-sized vegetarian canapes can be made vegan, too.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh

Ligurian torta with greens and three-cheeses

This savoury pie, packed with greens and three different types of cheese, originates from Liguria in north-west Italy.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Macadamia and honey cigars.

Sunday baking project: Adam Liaw’s macadamia and honey cigars

These filo pastry cigars are almost a cheat’s baklava. Filled with nuts and drenched in a rich honey syrup.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw