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Easter Bunny Salad

Posted in Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, Quick and Easy, Recipes, Salads, tagged , , , , on April 6, 2012| 1 Comment »

When I was a young girl, my mom had a circa 1960-something Betty Crocker cook-book for kids that originally belonged to my sister. I glommed onto it once I decided I wanted to bake and create in the kitchen. This was one of the first things I made. Mom also made these pear bunnies for us sometimes and they never failed to make me smile.

Easy and simple, make pear bunnies for Easter and see if your kids aren’t begging for more.

Ingredients - leaf lettuce, a can of pear halves (or fresh pears, cut in half) cottage cheese, cranberries, sliced almonds and Red Hots. You are supposed to use raisins instead of cranberries, but since I hate raisins, my bunnies have bizarre red eyes.

 

Put leaf lettuce on a plate. You can use as many as you like.

 

Place pear half on lettuce, split side down.

 

Add a dollop of cottage cheese at the broad end of the pear for a tail.

 

Stick in sliced almonds for ears, cranberries for eyes and a Red Hot nose.

 

Enjoy!

 

She Who Wishes You all a Very Happy Easter!

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Easter Bunny Bread

Posted in Appetizers, bread, Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, Recipes, tagged , , , on April 5, 2012| 1 Comment »

Here’s a fast and fun recipe you can make using bread dough from a tube. Youngsters, and the young at heart, will really enjoy these!

Ingredients - bread dough, an egg and salt. If you have refrigerated breadsticks in a tube they would be perfect. I used a tube of dough I had on hand. If you want to be miss Betty-homemaker, you could also use made-from-scratch bread dough. I was not feeling the Betty-ness.

 

If you are using a piece of bread dough, roll into a log (or take out of tube) and cut into slices about 1-1/2 inches thick.

 

Roll slices into about a 12-inch long piece.

 

Fold in half, this forms the bottom of the bunny.

 

Lap the ends over each other once...

 

Then twice to form the body and ears.

 

Reserve a few pieces of dough to make the tail. Just pinch off a little ball and place it in the space created by the twists.

 

Separate the egg white from the yolk. Lightly beat egg white and then brush onto bread before putting into oven. Bake the bread according at 350 degrees until lightly browned.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

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Fruity Pebble Eggs

Posted in Cookies, Desserts, Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Recipes, tagged , , , , , on April 4, 2012| 1 Comment »

 

I stole this idea from pin on Pinterest that used Rice Krispies. This was a fun and flavorful alternative. Enjoy!

Ingredients

Melt marshmallows with oil or butter, like you would for Rice Krispie Treats.

 

Stir in cereal until well-coated.

Grease your hands and shape cereal mixture into egg-shaped treats.

 

Then if you want to get all fancy-pants, you can add frosting stripes, sprinkles and fun accents.

 

She Who Really Likes Fruity Pebbles

 

 

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Easter Nest Cookies

Posted in Cookies, Desserts, Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Recipes, tagged , , , , on April 3, 2012| 4 Comments »

Easter nest cookies made with Chinese noodles and some sort of chip are a fun and easy treat. I’ve seen these made with chocolate and butterscotch chips, but never white chocolate, so I decide to give it a whirl.

It whirled really well.

Try these fast-to-make goodies for a kid (and adult) pleasing surprise.

Ingredients

 

Melt white chocolate chips with just a little bit of cream. I nuked mine for about 10 seconds in the microwave, stirred and continued nuking in short intervals until melted.

 

Place coconut in a ziploc bag.

 

Sprinkle in a little food coloring.

 

Seal bag and work around massage bag to disperse coloring throughout the coconut without turning your fingers sickly shade of green.

 

Melt chips. Use melting discs for best results. If you're like me and don't have any when you get the wild idea to make these, chips work fine, just remember you'll have to stir the lumps out.

 

Coat noodles with the melted chocolate then drop into nest-sized lumps onto a piece of waxed paper or parchment (or foil if you happen to be out of the previous options).

 

Fill the center of your nest with coconut then top with jelly beans.

 

Enjoy!

 

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