AA2: Carrot Patch Cookies

This next Easter treat is are Carrot Patch Cookies. Just in like the last Easter treat blog; this next special treat will add even a little more creativity and fun to your Easter day. What you will need for this are: orange Mike and Ike Candies, green gummy candies, Nabisco Bisco sugar wafer cookies, chocolate frosting, and chocolate wafer cookie crumbs. For the green gummy candies you can just use ripped pieces of green licorice. A very important note as to why Nabisco Bisco wafers are used is because they are much smaller than any other brands. Now I can tell you how to make these fun treats! 

Step 1: To make each carrot, cut a little slit in the top of the Mike and Ike candies. Then you want to cut a small triangle from the green gummy candies, and then fringe the base to form the leaves.

Step 2: After that tuck the triangle into the slit of the Mike and Ike and pinch it close. This will make the carrot.

Step 3: Now to make each so called carrot planter you want to place a wafer cookie base on a flat surface. Now form the longer walls by using two whole wafer cookies then to form the shorter walls cut another wafer cookie in half and place on the adjacent sides. To attach the pieces use frosting.

Step 4: To fill the flour planters, combine 2 tablespoons frosting with 2 tablespoons of cookie crumbs. Then fill each box with the mixture, and then press 3 of the carrots into each of the planter boxes. 

If needed add more the frosting mixture to hold the carrots in place. These treats can be perfect for decorations around the Easter dinner table, or even for just a little snack to munch on!

AA1. Easter Cupcake Baskets

Looking for something a little creative and fun to make? With this fun recipe you can create an edible Easter basket made out of cupcakes. You can fill the basket with jelly beans and little chocolate eggs! This is just a bunch of Easter fun! To do this you will need: a dozen of cupcakes, one bag of jelly beans, 2 cups of white frosting, either a pipe cleaner or red licorice and sweetened coconut colored with green food coloring. This should be somewhat super easy and fun to make! I like this recipe because it adds a little more creativity in it rather than other recipes on my blog. Let’s get going on this! 

Step 1: First you want to start off by frosting the cupcakes with the white frosting. Then you want to bend a pipe cleaner or what I prefer red licorice into an arch and push the ends into the side of the cupcakes to make a handle.

Step 2: After that shake the shredded coconut into a stainless steel bowl. Then sprinkle the green food coloring bit by bit, mixing evenly to distribute the color. 

Step 3: Now you want to place a pinch of the shredded coconut onto the tops of the iced cupcakes. This will give it the grassy kind of look as in like an Easter basket. After that place 3 jelly beans into the “nest” of the coconuts. 

Step 4: Next tie a small ribbon into a bow on the pipe cleaner or the licorice at a cute angle to kind of give it the finish touch or look.

That is all it takes! And then you can place each cupcake basket by each plate setting at Easter dinner or just hand them out as cute little gifts! It will go great with little kids Easter baskets full of candy!

Z2. Easter Cookies

Make eating a little more fun this Easter with rainbow cookies! These aren’t any ordinary cookies; they are cookies with 3 different colors! It is basically a cookie sandwich with frosting in between. This next recipe yields about 18 servings, takes about 50 minutes to prep and 1 hour and 30 minutes total cook time. To make these awesome cookies you will need: 1 pouch of Betty Crocker sugar mix, softened butter or margarine, Gold Medal all-purpose flour, an egg, 3 different food coloring, granulated sugar by your desire, and a dub of Betty Crocker whipped vanilla ready-to-spread frosting. And now let’s learn how to make these! 

 

Step 1: Heat the oven to 375 degrees. While waiting for the oven to heat up you can make the mix. 

Step 2: Stir the cookies mix with, ½ cup of butter, ¼ cup of flour, and one egg into a medium bowl until dough is formed. Then divide the dough evenly among 3 bowls. Then you can tint each bowl by putting in a few drop of food coloring to the dough.

Step 3: Now shape 1/3 cup of each dough into a rope about 5 inches long and 1 inch diameter. Then place the ropes side by side and a little more than ¼ inch apart on a floured surface; roll into ¼ inch thick.

Step 4: Then cut with 2 to 2 ½ inch egg shaped cookie cutter so that each cookie has 3 colors. Then sprinkle with sugar. Then you want to place at least 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough. 

Step 5: Lastly bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden brown, and let cool for 1 minute. After cooling remove from the cookie sheet and place onto a wire cooling rack. It will take about 30 minutes to cool completely. Then you want to spread frosting on the bottom of half of the cookies. And top with remaining cookies.

Z1. Bunny Cupcakes

April 20^th is quickly approaching and I bet you are looking for some great Easter ideas. Maybe you want need something for an Easter basket or just because you have a tad bit of sweet tooth. These bunny cupcakes I am about to show you are not only a wonderful dessert but super adorable! Not only is it a cupcake but it has marshmallow peeps on them too, and other sorts of candy! And all of this is just a hop away from making delicious bunny cupcakes. These cupcakes are super easy to make and fun to make with others. This recipe makes up to 45 servings with 30 minute prep time. To make them you will need: Betty Crocker super moist yellow or white cake mix, water, vegetable oil, eggs, OR egg whites, pink food coloring, 2 containers of white fluffy frosting, 5 large marshmallows, pink sugar, and candy decorations and sprinkles, or desired. Now let’s learn! 

Step 1: First start off by heating the oven to 350 degrees, or if you have a darker pan 325 degrees. Then make and bake the cake mix as directed on the box. That will make 24 cupcakes.

Step 2: Then cool the cupcakes in the pan for about 10 minutes, then remove them and move to a cooling rack. It will take about 30 minutes for them to completely cool.

Step 3: Now stir a few drops into one of the containers of the pink frosting. After the cupcakes are completely cooled you can frost the cupcakes with the pink frosting. 

Step 4: Now spoon 1 heaping teaspoon of white frosting onto the center of each cupcake. Then to make the ears on the bunny, cute each large marshmallow into 5 different pieces using kitchen scissors. Now to make it look like bunny ears cut each marshmallow down the center to within ¼ inch of the edge. Then separate to look like bunny ears. 

Step 5: Then press one side of the bunny ears into the pink sugar. Then arrange on each side of the white frosting to create the bunny look you’re aiming for. 

Step 6: Now you can add additional decoration if you desire. You can use candy and sprinkles to make eyes, nose, and whiskers as shown.