Easter Treats

Normally on a holiday I get very excited about dessert possibilities. It's a craving as much as it is a gift I want to share.

Now i know Easter has passed, but I wanted to share my adventures in Easter treat making! I had never taken a huge liking to Easter before. It just really wasn't a grand fun holiday like Halloween is to me, but as I've gotten older and "wiser" my sentimentalities have changed. It's obviously a celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, but for me its also an awakening of the Earth from slumber. (as the Pagan's probably would have it) but its something to be mindful of!

Normally I would make some sugar cookies and call it good. This year I noticed my favorite bakery was putting out so many Easter things and i found out that Easter is the chef's favorite holiday to bake for! Well that struck me funny cause i never thought of Easter as being a "favorite"!

Then I started perusing Pinterest and seeing so many cute things I could make (Natasha's are far more advanced, macarons and giant chocolate eggs...) I started putting together the idea of making treats for family and the Sunday school class I was teaching.

I will tell you I am not proud of the cake pops, but they are edible!

I did enough research to learn that I would need a special dye to color the candy coating, but I didn't know enough about the consistency of the coating. I learned you really must make very round smooth balls or the lumps will show, and that it also helps to have the candy at a certain temperature. I found several troubleshooting articles after the fact that explained the process MUCH more thoroughly!

The bunny bait was easy, very much like rice krispies, I followed the recipe fairly closely, but used different candies.

Here's everything looking adorbs!

Easter Sunday was so refreshing. It was a nice day all around! and I had so much energy and motivation the next day to get my place clean, it was just the perfect way to usher in spring! I was running around like a headless chicken, but it was a good renewing kind of energy! I may cuss a little, drink a little, I'm just a little less about hiding it, and a lot more about living the adventure that is my life.

Happy Easter and Spring everyone!