Fun Easter Treats, Desserts, for Kids

Host Bee on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Celebrating Easter with Your Children!

The Easter season provides many wonderful opportunities to spend special time with your children. I have vivid memories as a child, even as a teenager, of dyeing eggs and setting out our empty baskets and the necessary bundle of carrots for the Easter Bunny! On Easter morning, our baskets would be filled with candy, the carrots eaten, and our colorful dyed eggs nestled in each basket.

As mentioned in Creating Fabulous Easter Baskets, consider obtaining personalized baskets for each person in your family. For some added photo value, have the children put out carrots that still have the greens attached!

There are also many fun baking projects that you can do with your children in preparation for Easter! Here are a few easy and cute ideas to try:

Tiny or Full Sized Easter Baskets

Bake cupcakes or a round two-layer cake. Decorate with icing and treat the top of either the cake or cupcakes as if they were an Easter basket!
Fill the flat area of the cake or cupcake with little chocolate eggs, jelly beans, marshmallow peeps, coconut tinted with food dye, or whatever fits well!
Twist one or two chenille pipe cleaners together and imbed each end into the cake or cupcake to create a handle.
On the cake version, tie a beautiful bow onto the top of the handle!

Easter Bonnet Cookies

These cookies can be made with your own sugar cookie dough or pre-made purchased dough.
Roll out cookie dough and cut out an equal number of larger and smaller circles.
Bake according to your own recipe or the package directions.
Assemble each “hat” by attaching the smaller circle to the larger one with icing.
Decorate each “hat” with icing, sprinkles, and small candies to your heart’s content! (see a variety of cookie decorating supplies available at Williams-Sonoma.com)

Bird’s Nest Treats

These treats are easy to make and really cute to have on the Easter table!

Materials Needed

chow mein noodles
chocolate chips or brick chocolate
jelly beans
candy coated chocolate eggs
marshmallow chicks
peanut butter
wax paper
paper plates (colored plates optional)

Instructions

Place squares of wax paper onto individual plates
Put chow mien noodles in a large bowl
If using brick chocolate, break into pieces
Melt chocolate chips or pieces in the microwave, or over low heat on the stove, just until melted
Pour melted chocolate over chow mien noodles and mix together to coat
Place mounds of chocolate/chow mien mixture onto several plates (on top of wax paper)
Have children form the mixtures into nests. (Be sure the chocolate has cooled, but don’t wait too long or it will harden.)
Using peanut butter as an adhesive, “glue” down the jelly beans and candy coated chocolate eggs inside the nest cavity. “Glue” a marshmallow chick on the edge of or inside the nest.

This recipe was taken from Fabulousfoods.com

I hope you enjoy these Easter activities with your children. Do you have a favorite Easter craft or activity? I’d love to hear!

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