Easter
Carrot Cake
Description
Decorated as little carrot slices. Use any recipe
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Carrot Cake Fudge
Description
Carrot cake fudge with cream cheese fudge topping
Ingredients
- Carrot cake fudge
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- 3 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz.)
- 1 cup dry carrot cake mix
- 1/2 cup marshmallow cream
- Cream cheese fudge
- 3/4 cup canned cream cheese frosting
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 2 Tablespoons marshmallow cream
- Jordan almonds or other candy to decorate
Directions
- Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and set aside. In a large sauce pan combine the butter, 3 cups white chips, and can of sweetened condensed milk. Stir over low heat until melted and smooth.
- Stir in the dry cake mix 1/4 cup at a time until thoroughly combined. Stir in the marshmallow cream. Keep stirring to keep the fudge from sticking on the bottom. Pour into prepared pan. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- In another saucepan, melt the 1 cup of white chips over low heat. Stir in the cream cheese frosting and marshmallow cream when the chips are melted. Pour over the carrot cake layer and smooth out. Press the Jordan almonds into the top. Chill 1 hour before cutting. Cut into approximately 40-50 squares.
Carrot Shaped Crescent Rolls with Ham Salad
Description
Wrap crescent dough around a cone shaped piece of parchment paper and brush with orange food coloring mixed with milk. Fill with ham or chicken salad and garnish with fresh dill
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Colored Deviled Eggs
Description
Use any deviled egg recipe as preferred. After cutting the hard-boiled eggs in half, color the halves by soaking in a bowl of cold water + 1 tsp vinegar + a few drops food coloring.
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Easter Basket Cookies
Description
Ingredients
- sugar cookie dough (premade or from scratch)
- colored sugar sprinkles
- white frosting
- shredded coconut
- green food dye
- jelly beans
- licorice
Directions
- Roll sugar cookie dough in sprinkles. Place in mini muffin tin and push down in center.
- Bake for recommended time (by cookie recipe)
- Push down in the center again when cookies come out of oven. Cool
- Fill centers with white icing. Stir coconut in a bowl with a few drops of green food coloring to dye. Sprinkle on top of the icing.
- Use jelly beans and licorice to decorate
Easter Cake
Description
Decorate cake with coconut mixed with green food coloring for grass, mini robins eggs candies and bunny peeps. Use a basket weave icing tip to frost the edge to look like a basket
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Easter Eggs
Description
Hardboil eggs. Gently crack shells with the back of a spoon but leave the shells intact. Let shells soak in a ziplock bag with food coloring and a bit of vinegar for 30 minutes. Rinse off the eggs in water and vinegar.
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Hatching Chick Deviled Eggs
Description
Instead of cutting eggs in half, cut eggs like a hatching egg and fill with deviled egg mix. Draw on faces with dyed mustard.
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Macaroon Nests
Description
Make macaroons. While still warm, push down in the center to create a hole, fill with a dollup of nutella. Use mini Robin’s eggs on top
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Peep Sunflower Cake
Description
Bake any sort of cake you want in a round pan. Frost with chocolate icing and decorate with yellow peeps and chocolate chips. I made a white cake dyed with Easter colors for the different layers.
