Edible Easter crafts are a fun activity for kids of all ages. These Easter recipes are a great way to spend some quality family time together and satisfy everyone's sweet tooth. So get out the Easter candies, get ready to bake and let's make some edible Easter treats.
Easter Craft Idea #1
Edible Easter crafts are always a favorite in our house. Not only do we have a blast making these items but eating them is just as much fun. One of our favorites is an edible bird's nest. This is a finger licking good craft project for kids of all ages.
How to Make an Edible Birds Nest
Supplies
Chocolate Cake Mix
Paper cup cake holders
Cup Cake Pan
Crumbly Chocolate Bars (like Butterfingers)
Easter Candy Eggs
Marshmallow Peeps
Frosting
Bake the cupcakes as directed and let cool. Give each child a cupcake, candy bars, Easter candy eggs, frosting and peeps. Have the kids frost their cupcake and then add the crumbly chocolate bar (breaking into stick like pieces) around the outer edge to form the nest. Then add Easter egg candies and the marshmallow peeps. These cute nests are totally edible and will look great at your Easter dinner table.
Edible Easter Craft Idea #2
This Easter egg "treat" tree is easy, inexpensive and delicious.
How to Make an Egg Treat Tree
Supplies
Broken Tree Branch or Sticks
Empty Plastic Container (like from margarine)
Floral Foam or Styrofoam ball
Plastic Easter Eggs
Easter Candy
Ribbon
Hot Glue
Construction Paper
Decorate the outside of your plastic container by covering with colored construction paper. Place the floral foam in the container and stick your tree branch part way through the foam. Fill up several plastic eggs with Easter Candy. Hot glue a piece of ribbon to the top of the Easter egg. Hot glue a loop at the top of the ribbon and hang on the branch. Repeat adding eggs until you have a fun and tasty looking "treat" tree. Place this cute little tree out where everyone can grab an egg for their tasty treat.
Edible Easter Craft Idea #3
Have a wiggly, jiggly good time with jell-o mold Easter treats.
How to Make Jell-o Easter Treats
Supplies
Easter Shapes Jell-o Mold
Jell-o
Cool Whip
Easter Candies
Make up the jell-o and pour into the mold. Let this set up. Then remove from the mold and set them on the plates. Plop on some whip cream and get ready to decorate. Using the Easter candies, decorate your jell-o Easter shape. For Easter eggs use different colored candy to make them colorful. For Easter animal shapes, add candies for the ears, eyes, nose and mouth. Eat right away or refrigerate for later.
These tasty edible Easter crafts will have you and your kids "hopping" with tons of fun. Although edible crafts are fun and yummy, they won't last long. So don't forget to make some Easter crafts for kids using other craft supplies so you can decorate your house with these crafts your kids make.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Simple Easter Recipes
Long ago, making bread pudding was common in every kitchen. It would only take a few ingredients such as stale and hard bread, milk, eggs, spices, or depending on what was on hand, for one to make a tasty and delicious side dish or dessert.
What probably started the idea was to avoid the waste of stale bread, so instead of throwing away, frugal cooks soaked bread in milk, sugar, butter, fruits and seasonings then bake. Sometimes families would add meat and vegetable to the recipe resulting to meat-based puddings. Modern bread pudding is made with custard, flans, porridges and other ways bearing different flavors. While old-fashioned bread pudding is merrily making a come-back along with today's reborn of traditional foods, either of its sweet or savory versions can be easy to make, and even if you're a beginner, bread pudding dessert is one of the simplest desserts you can start right away. Let's try two modern pudding bread recipes for your Easter brunch.
Fruit Cocktail Bread Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
In a mixing bowl, beat together sugar, butter and cinnamon with an electric mixer for 1 minute, or 3 minutes by hand. Add eggs and beat until blended. Fold bread cubes and fruit cocktail tidbits into the creamed mixture then pour into crock pot. Cover and cook on Low for 6 to 7 hours or on High for 3 to 4 hours.
You may top with crushed nuts or whipped cream topping if desired. Serve warm or cold.
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare chocolate chips in a large mixing bowl, set aside. In a saucepan, heat the cream over medium heat until simmering. Pour hot cream over the chocolate chips, whisking until the chips dissolve. Whisk sugar into the mixture then the milk, eggs, and vanilla to form a custard base.
Add the bread cubes into the bowl, gently mixing to coat bread cubes with the custard base. Set mixture aside to allow the bread to soak for an hour. Toss once in a while so bread is thoroughly soaked into the custard base. For the meantime, heat the oven to 325 degrees, and grease a baking dish.
Toss the pecans into the soaked bread mixture, then pour the mixture into the baking dish. Cover loosely with foil, and bake for 45 to 50 minutes. Remove foil and increase the heat to 400 degrees. Continue baking for 10 minutes longer or until the top of pudding has lightly browned.
You may top your bread pudding with whipped cream. Serve warm or cold.
What probably started the idea was to avoid the waste of stale bread, so instead of throwing away, frugal cooks soaked bread in milk, sugar, butter, fruits and seasonings then bake. Sometimes families would add meat and vegetable to the recipe resulting to meat-based puddings. Modern bread pudding is made with custard, flans, porridges and other ways bearing different flavors. While old-fashioned bread pudding is merrily making a come-back along with today's reborn of traditional foods, either of its sweet or savory versions can be easy to make, and even if you're a beginner, bread pudding dessert is one of the simplest desserts you can start right away. Let's try two modern pudding bread recipes for your Easter brunch.
Fruit Cocktail Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 5 cups bread cubes, or torn into pieces
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter, not margarine
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 8 eggs, slightly beaten
- 2 cans fruit cocktail, drained and cut into tidbits
- chopped nuts, optional
- Whipped cream, optional
Directions
In a mixing bowl, beat together sugar, butter and cinnamon with an electric mixer for 1 minute, or 3 minutes by hand. Add eggs and beat until blended. Fold bread cubes and fruit cocktail tidbits into the creamed mixture then pour into crock pot. Cover and cook on Low for 6 to 7 hours or on High for 3 to 4 hours.
You may top with crushed nuts or whipped cream topping if desired. Serve warm or cold.
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 1 loaf bread, cubed or torn into pieces
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups milk
- 1 1/4 cups white-chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups toasted pecans, crushed
Directions
Prepare chocolate chips in a large mixing bowl, set aside. In a saucepan, heat the cream over medium heat until simmering. Pour hot cream over the chocolate chips, whisking until the chips dissolve. Whisk sugar into the mixture then the milk, eggs, and vanilla to form a custard base.
Add the bread cubes into the bowl, gently mixing to coat bread cubes with the custard base. Set mixture aside to allow the bread to soak for an hour. Toss once in a while so bread is thoroughly soaked into the custard base. For the meantime, heat the oven to 325 degrees, and grease a baking dish.
Toss the pecans into the soaked bread mixture, then pour the mixture into the baking dish. Cover loosely with foil, and bake for 45 to 50 minutes. Remove foil and increase the heat to 400 degrees. Continue baking for 10 minutes longer or until the top of pudding has lightly browned.
You may top your bread pudding with whipped cream. Serve warm or cold.
What Easter Recipe Should I Serve?
Not confident what to serve on Easter? Will need some new Easter dinner ideas and Easter dinner recipes? Don't be concerned, entertaining for Easter doesn't actually have to be that difficult or complex. Supplying you arrive up with a number of video games to entertain and add in a few traditional Easter dinner essentials you can't truly go wrong.
Easter dinner recipes seriously don't have to be that extravagant. The very best Easter dinner tips can commonly be just based mostly close to a regular roast with a several tasty sides. As well as this tends to make serving simple. Set it on the table relatives style and allow everyone plate for by themselves. So what to serve on Easter as your main course? Baked ham or lamb are the heart of most Easter dinner recipes. Earning your very own honey baked ham is basic and a dish it is difficult to go mistaken with even if your are a comprehensive novice in the kitchen. Lamb helps make a wonderful change and presents a selection of new flavors to be experimented with out and is guaranteed to be a hit. Roast leg of lamb is uncomplicated to throw in the oven and allow it do it's thing, providing you lots of time to make sure your guests are entertained. However is you want to get a very little much more innovative you can play with lamb chops and racks of lamb for more ornamental Easter dinner concepts and gorgeous plate presentations.
Even though you are waiting for your Easter dinner recipes to operate their magic don't be shy about developing a number of entertaining video games for the adults to indulge in. This can be a whole lot of entertaining in particular with a number of delightful cocktails. What drinks to serve on Easter? Something sweet and colorful matches the bill, particularly layered cocktails or those calling for flavored or chocolate liqueurs. No a person is also old for an egg and spoon race. If you have teenagers who are acting like they are bored out of their minds then provide them with some paintball masks and allow them duel it out with an egg fight outside, the shells in fact make excellent fertilizer.
Not inspired by the Easter dinner tips you have found so far or just not positive you want to have to do the whole formal dinner factor? Then why not offer you to do an Easter brunch as an alternative. This will give you far more room to experiment if you desire even though letting you put together forward of time and be capable to unwind and eat with your guests rather of hopping in and out of the kitchen. Feel about egg mimosas, cold cuts, salmon and ham quiches.
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