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RECIPE SPECIAL: Three Easy Easter Recipes!
Hey, baker babes. Need new ideas for sweet spring treats? These Easter treats are fun 'n' easy to make. Serve 'em up at a springy soiree, a family dinner or make it a group proj and bake 'em with your pals this weekend.
Magic Marshmallows
Tired of the usual Peeps and Cadbury crème eggs to celebrate your Easter? It's time to make a new tradition with this yummy 'n’ easy chocolate marshmallow snack. Best part about it is you can mix and match the toppings!
What You’ll Need:
2 cups chocolate chips2 Tbsp canola/vegetable oil
1 package large marshmallows
Different toppings (colored sprinkles, fruity pebbles, M 'n' M's, etc)
What You’ll Do:
Stir chocolate and oil in a saucepan over low heat until it is nice 'n’ smooth. Let it cool. Place each topping you choose in a dish. Get a baking sheet with foil all prepped up.
Dip 1 marshmallow in the chocolate mix – making sure that the 'mallow is fully coated. Next, dip it in your candy topping of choice. Repeat steps with remaining marshmallows.
Put each marshmallow on baking sheet. Freeze about three hours and enjoy!
*Tip: If you’re not a marshmallow fan, or if you're super serious about shaping up for summer, this recipe is just as delicious when substituted with banana slices!
-Jackie Evens
Easter Bunny Cake
Wanna make a cool cake to celebrate spring? Our Easter Bunny cake is simple, delish and sure to get you hopping into the season.
What You'll Need:
Yellow or Funfetti cake mix (and all the ingredients that your mix calls for)
Rainbow sprinkles
Easter-colored M 'n' M's
2 round 9-inch cake pans
One can white frosting
Cookie sheet
Twizzlers/licorice
Colored jellybeans
Food coloring
Package of coconut flakes
Assorted Easter candy of your choice
What You'll Do:
First, make the cake itself. We recommend color-filled Funfetti mix to celebrate all the bold blooms of spring. Another way to get a colorful cake? Add rainbow sprinkles or pastel colored M 'n' M's to a box of regular yellow cake mix. Bake the cake according to box directions, using two nine-inch round cake pans. Let cakes cool completely.
Turn one cake over on the middle of a cookie sheet. This will be the bunny's face. The second round cake will be used to make the bow tie and ears. Cut a curve to form an oval from the top to bottom on one side of the cake. This will be one ear. Make another curve on the opposite side. The leftover middle part will placed under the bunny's face to be his bow tie.
Use white frosting to frost the face and ears. For the bow tie, you might want to mix the white icing with your fave color. Use diff colored jelly beans for the nose, eyes and polka dots on the bow tie. To make the mouth and whiskers, use licorice or Twizzlers.
Now, it's time to give your bunny a li'l garden to hop around in. Add green food coloring to coconut shavings to make garden grass. Sprinkle the grass around your cake on the cookie sheet. Make your garden super springy by adding other Easter faves - colorful jellybeans, Easter-colored M 'n' M's, chocolate bunnies, candy Easter eggs and Peeps chickies. Use any leftover rainbow sprinkles or anything else you can think of!
-Cait Rohan
Colorful Chocolate Popcorn Balls
Looking for a snack that'll satisfy both your sweet and salty taste buds? These chocolate popcorn balls will do the trick AND ring in spring. Plus, the bold colors really match this season's bright vibes.
What You’ll Need:
½ cup sugar
½ cup corn syrup
¼ cup butter
8 cups popped popcorn
1 cup tiny cooking M&Ms
What You’ll Do:
Combine sugar, corn syrup, and butter and cook in saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, then add popcorn until fully coated. Remove mix from heat. Stir in mini M 'n' Ms. Shape into small popcorn balls and let cool.
*Our tip: If you want to make these balls even more colorful for spring, add rainbow sprinkles (or even fruity pebbles) to the mix!
-Jackie Evens
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