Bunny Pancakes

Bunny pancake with blueberry eyes and saltwater taffy whiskers!

So today is Easter - Hallelujah, He is Risen... He is Risen indeed!  We would normally have a big dinner but instead, we are a household of sickies, well, I am the sick one which means I do not want to cook today and since we were just with our family, I let the kids choose.  They chose blueberry pancakes.  I had to take this opportunity to make at least one bunny pancake so that I could have something to add to my blog.  I did make the pancakes purple, which is kind of hard to see.  I first placed a blueberry on the pan for each eye and the nose and then I cut banana saltwater taffy into strips and placed them around the nose for their whiskers.  I then just made a circle for the head and added some ears.  The saltwater taffy totally melted and they made indents into the pancakes.  I ended up making 2 bunnies, one for each of my munchkins!  Super easy and very cute!

Diane

Peanut Butter Easter Rabbit Treat

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bunny

If you want to know the recipe to make these, look at my Peanut Butter Easter eggs.  I used the exact same peanut butter and icing sugar recipe but used a bunny rabbit cookie cutter.  I decorated one for each of my kids.  They loved them, of course!

My handsome son and his bunny

The Miss and her bunny!

Diane

Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs

Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs decorated with coloured chocolate

I LOVE Reese so I decided to whip up my own.  I have to be truthful, I do not use a recipe.  I have made chocolate peanut butter treats before and I added graham cracker crumbs but this time around I just mixed peanut butter and icing sugar until I liked the taste.  I made them last year and this year for Easter.  Last year I mixed by hand and this year I mixed with the hand mixer.  If you want more firm peanut butter, mix with hand but I liked the fluffier/lighter texture you get when you use the mixer.  The problem with the mixer is it is harder to cover the peanut butter eggs with chocolate since it does not hold its' form as well.  So, basically... I mix peanut butter (use the non-stir type) and icing sugar until I like the taste, use a cookie cutter to help me form the mixture, set in freezer, take out and dip in melting chocolate, put back in freezer, take out after it is set and decorate.  Last year I actually 'painted' the eggs with coloured chocolate.... this proved to be labour intensive but provided wonderful results.  This year I 'painted' on a bit of regular chocolate and then sprinkled some coloured sugar on it or cake confetti - easier to do but not as nice looking.  All in all, they are way better than store bought Reese and a fun Easter treat.

This years eggs with sugar

Diane

Bunny Krispie Treat

The final bunny before my son decorated it!

I had some leftover pink candy melts from a previous treat and it had already been melted so... I looked in my pantry and realized that I still had some Krispie cereal left.  I re-melted the candy melts and mixed in the cereal.  I used my rabbit cookie cutter and I just spooned some of the mixture into the cookie cutter and spread it out to fill the entire cutter.  I lifted the cookie cutter and since it held its' shape, I could just make another one!  I decided to not decorate these bunnies and let my kids decorate them.  I gave each of them a small amount of pink icing, coloured sugar and confetti dots.  I only got a picture of my sons because my daughter decided to eat hers before I got a picture.

Spooned into the cookie cutter

Ready to decorate!

Colton's bunny - icing, yellow sugar, yellow confetti dots

Diane

Bunny and Butterfly French Toast - Easter Breakfast

Pink Bunny French Toast

Purple Butterfly French Toast

Last year on Good Friday my friends and I had a 'buffet' brunch for all our kids.  I chose to bring the french toast so I got my cookie cutters out and made bunny and butterfly shaped french toast.  If you know how to make french toast, you can make them into any shape.  To get them coloured I just added some food colouring.  Why?  Because it makes it more fun.  Most kids love to eat coloured food.  The pink bunnies turned out better than the purple butterflies because I could not get the colour right for the butterflies.  Oh well, lesson learned and it is something I can change this year.

Diane

Bunny Rabbit Pita Sandwich

Pita Bunny Sandwich

I think I got the idea for this lunch from familyfun.com but I tweaked it so my kids would eat it.  The one I originally saw was a white bunny but my son does not like cream cheese so I made a brown bunny with peanut butter.  The main part of this is 2 pitas, one cut in half for the ears.  The inner part of the ear was raspberry jam.  The eyes and nose were dried cranberries and then rod pretzels for the whiskers.  Super easy and quick to make but much more fun to eat than a regular sandwich!

Diane

PEEP on a Stick

PEEP on a stick covered in candy melts

PEEP on a stick with some simple add-ons

My son was home sick today so my daughter and I decided to 'art' and make a fun snack, of course.  I had Peeps from the Dollar Tree so I decided to add even more sugar and make it a Peep on a stick.  I just dipped the stick in the candy melts, put the Peep on the stick, put it in the fridge for a bit and then dipped them in the candy melts.  For the pink ones I added some white sugar granules for the inside of the ears and black confetti dots for the eyes.  You could use edible markers to add a little mouth too.  Then my daughter told me to keep some blue, so I did.  Instead of dipping them in pink I just put the black confetti dots on top of where the Peep eyes already were (by using dots of candy melts as 'glue') and then I painted a small strip of the candy melts inside the ears and sprinkled some sugar on it.  These treats would actually be perfect for an Easter time baby shower if you do not have kids in the house to enjoy them.  Super easy and quick to make and it dresses up your basic Peep.

PEEPS before they were decorated

The whole bunch of PEEPS

Diane

Easter Basket Cupcake

Easter Basket Cupcake

The easiest, and probably most common, Easter treat is to make an Easter basket cupcake.  I made them last year and I am sure I will do it again.  Last year I used my re-usable silicone cupcake holders which make for a perfect basket.  I made a whole batch of cupcakes (I use box caked) and I iced all the cupcakes but let all of our kids decorate their own baskets.  All you need for this very simple, but cute, Easter snack is a cupcake, icing, green coconut (optional), egg shaped candies (we used jelly beans) and a piece of licorice for the basket handle.  The kids loved making it and of course, they liked to eat it.

Diane

Chicken Nest Easter Treat

Peep sitting on jelly eggs and the chow mein/chocolate nest

I have not looked on-line for this idea but I am sure there are pictures of snacks a lot like this but I still wanted to try and create something fun for Easter/Spring.  Super easy to make.  When my daughter saw it she said, "That is so cute."  Melt some chocolate and mix some chow mein noodles in it.  You could use crushed pretzels and coconut instead of chow mein, I am sure!  'Blob' it on parchment paper and I then put it in the fridge to set it quicker.  After that all you do is place some type of egg shaped candy (I used jelly bean eggs) and top it off with a Peep.  You could also make your own bird marshmallows but I can buy these at the Dollar Tree so it ends up being cheaper and easier.  Cute, simple and a yummy sugar rush for the kids!

Diane

The chow mein/chocolate nest

Jelly eggs on the nest