Immerse yourself in the lure and lore of chocolate and follow these easy recipes for the Festival season this Easter.
Chocolate Easter Eggs Recipe
Ingredients:
- Plastic Easter eggs
- White chocolate
- Food coloring
Instructions:
- Melt white chocolate in the microwave. Melt a little chocolate at a time.
- Pour a layer of white chocolate (not colored) into the bottom half of your plastic egg.
- Melt more chocolate and mix with food coloring. Then pour colored melted chocolate into your egg.
- Layer colored and white chocolate in your egg halves. Don't overfill.
- Let the egg halves cool for about fifteen minutes. Then carefully seal the two egg halves back together. Your egg will still be soft. Wipe off any excess chocolate
- Cool in refrigerator or freezer overnight.
Easter Basket Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 dozen cupcakes
- 1 bag jelly beans
- 2 cups white icing
- Sweetened coconut, colored with green food coloring
Instructions:
- First, frost the cupcakes with white icing. Bend a pipe cleaner or a piece of red licorice into an arch and push the ends into the sides of each cupcake.
- Shake the shredded coconut in a stainless steel bowl. Sprinkle on food coloring bit by bit, mixing vigorously to distribute the color
- Place a pinch of shredded coconut on each iced cupcake. Now place three jelly beans on the "nest" of coconut.
- Tie a small ribbon bow on the pipe cleaner or licorice handle at a jaunty angle.
- Put one cupcake basket by each place setting at Easter brunch or give them as gifts.
Festsive Easter Bunny Cake Recipe
Time needed: Under 1 Hour
Recipe Ingredients:
- Bake your favorite cake recipe or store-bought cake mix according to package directions in two 9-inch round cake pans (you will need only one layer of cake, so save the other for snacking).
- When cooled, cut the round in half, frost the top of one half, and place the other on top of it.
- Arrange the cake upright on a platter with the cut sides down. Cut out a small triangle and round the edges with a knife.
- Frost the cake with white frosting and sprinkle it with a layer of coconut 'fur.' (For a pink bunny, you can mix the coconut with 4 drops of red food coloring.)
- Decorate with construction paper ears, and use jelly beans or gumdrops for eyes, a nose and a mouth. Black shoestring licorice makes good whiskers, and a marshmallow, of course, makes the perfect cotton tail.
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