Recipe: Edible Hollow Easter Eggs
Last year I did the craft that looks just like these that uses yarn and glue on balloons. They came out really cute, but after Easter, they were pretty mangled, so we tossed them. Instead, I think we may make this edible version from She Knows – and they are SUPER CUTE!
Ingredients:
- Chocolate candy melts in pastel colors (1 cup solid candy melts = about 3 hollow eggs)
- Piping bags, frosting, or zip-closed sandwich bags
- Small latex balloons (DO NOT USE WATER BALLOONS!)
- Non-stick cooking spray
- Straws or wooden skewers
- Clothespins
- Plastic cups or glasses (larger than the inflated balloons)
- Optional: Small Easter candies like jelly beans
Directions:
- Inflate balloons to about the size of a real egg or slightly larger. (Do not use water balloons. The latex is too thin and will burst when you pour hot melted chocolate on it.)
- Put one cup of chocolate candy melts in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each heating until completely melted. Pour the melted chocolate into a piping bag or zip-closed bag. Cut off the tip or corner or the bag.
- Work over the sink or a newspaper and hold the inflated balloons by the tied end. Grab each balloon by the end, and lightly spray your balloons with non-stick cooking spray, then drizzle melted chocolate across the bottom of the balloon in all directions. Turn balloon over and continue drizzling chocolate over the top and sides.
- With a clothespin, clip the balloon to a straw or wooden skewer and balance inside of a cup or glass to dry.
- Once the chocolate is completely dry and cooled, deflate your balloon by clipping the tied end with scissors to release the air. Let it release the air on its own, don’t rush it.
- Very carefully and slowly pull the balloon out of the hole that is left where the tie of the balloon was.
- You can either leave the eggs as they are, or you can break some of the candy and use it as a basket. Fill with little candies for extra fun!
DIY Rainbow Jello Egg Jigglers
Seriously, are these not the CUTEST things you’ve ever seen? They are extremely pretty and a bit tedious to make. You can always just make 1 or 2 colors of Jello instead and work yourself up to these full spectrum rainbows. Here’s what you do:
Using Jell-O Jigglers Egg Molds, coat the mold with a generous amount of cooking spray. Use a syringe to add each layer of color at a time, then chill for 10-15 minutes between each layer before moving to the next. Store them in the fridge in an egg-carton, making “hard boiled eggs” that were filled with Jell-O instead. :)
Recipe: Fluffy Bunny Butt Cookies
Spring is here and Easter has some of the cutest and brightest holiday treats. These adorable Fluffy Bunny Butt Cookies recipe from the Pillsbury website are easy and will be a big hit at any parties or family parties this weekend. Have your kids help decorate these lil cuties!
Ingredients:
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookies
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 container (12 oz) fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting
- 22 miniature marshmallows
- Spring colored candy sprinkles
- Optional: Pink gel food color
Directions:
- Heat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, knead cookie dough and flour with hands until well mixed.
- Reshape dough into 9 x 1 1/2-inch log. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Remove plastic wrap. Cut cookie dough into 33 slices. Cut 11 of these slices into 4 equal wedges. Shape each of the wedges into ovals for bunny feet. Place cookie dough slices and bunny feet on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 8 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Let cool for 1 minute, then remove from cookie sheets and place on cooling racks. Cool completely (10-15 minutes).
- While cooling, using a medium microwavable bowl, stir frosting and 1 to 3 drops pink food color until well blended and you find the color pink you like best. Microwave frosting uncovered on High for 10 to 15 seconds or until soft, but not translucent.
- To make bunny butt, frost 1 whole cookie slice and 2 bunny feet with frosting. Place bunny feet on bottom of cookie as shown in photo. Place 1 marshmallow in center of each cookie for tail.
- Decorate bunny paws with candy sprinkles. Repeat with remaining cookie slices and bunny feet. These can be baked and frozen for up to 2 months before thawed and eaten.
FUN EXTRA: If you want to decorate more, you can add ears to your bunny by placing candy-coated almonds or jelly beans at top of each cookie.
Recipe: No-Bake Chocolate Birds Nests
This recipe from Food.com looks so yummy and the cookies are very easy to make. They call them “Easter Nests”, but I think they could be made year round, not just at Easter time, and the cookies would be fun to have at parties and potlucks.
Ingredients:
- 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 10 oz thin chow mein noodles
- Jelly beans, egg-shaped candies (or other candy of your choice)
Directions:
- Line 2 baking sheets with foil. Lightly coat the foil with nonstick spray.
- Scrape condensed milk into a medium saucepan or microwave-safe bowl; add chocolate chips.
- Place over low heat and stir often, or microwave on high 2 to 4 minutes, stirring every minute, until chips melt and mixture is blended and smooth.
- Put noodles into a large bowl, pour on chocolate mixture and toss with a rubber spatula until noodles are coated.
- Drop generous 1/4 to 1/2 cup fulls on prepared baking sheets.
- Lightly spray fingertips with the nonstick spray.
- Form mounds into nests making a depression in the center & fill with candies.
- Let nests cool to set.
- Store loosely covered at room temperature and will keep for up to 3 days.
Easter Bunny Race Cars
Saw this floating around Facebook yesterday and knew I had to share it with you all. What a fun way to make an edible spring decoration with the kids!
Ingredients:
- Large Marshmallows, cut horizontally
- Marshmallow Bunny Peeps
- Mini pretzels
- Cream-Filled Cakes (e.g. Cloud Cakes or Twinkies)
- Decorator Icing
- Frosting
- Sprinkles
Directions:
- Cut a small rectangle out of the top of the cream-filled cake about a third of the way back from the “front” of the car.
- Use the white decorator icing to adhere the bunny Peep, mini pretzel “steering wheel” and large marshmallows in place.
- Use frosting and sprinkles to decorate your car. Allow to set, then enjoy!