Spring Recipes for Mother’s Day (Mothering Sunday)

Spring Recipes for Mother’s Day (Mothering Sunday) – A collection of ecipes for Mothering Sunday, some of which were my late mother’s recipes

Seasonal Recipes for your Mums on Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day) in the UK is on Sunday the 15th March, this year 2026.

If you still have your mother, which I don’t sadly, why not treat them to breakfast in bed, or a seasonal afternoon tea?

In today’s post I’ve compiled a list of my favourite recipes, (and some of my mum’s recipes) in this post. They are mainly baking recipes, and some vintage recipes too.

There’s also a few breakfast ideas, for a special breakfast in bed. If you are a new mum or a grandmother, why not treat yourself to some of them – and bake a cake maybe?

Recipes for Mother’s Day (Mothering Sunday)

• Easy Simnel Cake
• Old-Fashioned Milk Chocolate Cake
• Traditional Mothering Buns

• A Vintage Recipe: Queen Cakes for Mothering Sunday
• Apple Rose Tarts for Mother’s Day
• Mothering Sunday and Tea in the Parlour with Little Chocolate & Violet Fancies

• Victorian Spring Posy Cake for Mother’s Day using Crystallised Violets
• Violets and Lace……. Home-made Crystallised Violets for Cakes and Bakes
• Lemon & Elderflower Cake with Raspberries

• Lemon Curd Fairy Cakes
• Old-Fashioned Almond Rice Cakes
• Vanilla Butterfly Cakes

• Cherry Bakewell Fairy Cakes
• Strawberries & Cream Midsummer Fairy Cakes
• Princess Elizabeth Cakes

• Be-Ro Victoria Scones
• Buckingham Palace Fruit Scones
• Small Batch Cream Tea Scones

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Breakfast and Brunch Recipe Ideas

• Smoked Salmon “Egg in a Basket” (Egg in a Hole)
• Drop Scones (Scotch Pancakes)
• Egg in a Cup

• Jam Fingers (Slices)
• Microwave Omelette in a Mug
• Egg in a Nest (Egg in a Hole)

Tea Cakes and Tea Loaves

• Fruit and Cherry Afternoon Tea Cake
• Old-Fashioned Ovaltine Tea Loaf
• Sticky Marmalade Tea Loaf

• Quick and Easy Spice Cake (Tea Loaf)
• Stem Ginger & Golden Syrup Tea Loaf
• Old-Fashioned Malt Loaf

Vintage Tea Room Recipes

• Old-Fashioned “Tea Room” Custard Tarts
• Chocolate Teatime Tiffin
• Vintage Tea Room English Madeleines

• Old-Fashioned Tea Cake Squares
• Traditional Banbury Cakes
• Old-Fashioned Lemon Meringue Pie