Chocolate Covered Strawberry "Carrots"

One last quick post before Easter - if you haven't decided on dessert or just want a fun little thing to make and/or take check out these fun chocolate covered strawberries. This is very easy and fast to do. I am making chocolate frosted, and green "grass" frosted cupcakes, and will plant one of these "carrots" on top. Gonna be cute :)

You just melt orange chocolate disks (they come in a bag, I find them at the craft store and sometimes the grocery store) and holding the green top part of the clean dry strawberry, dunk it in. Shake off the excess (gently, you want to keep the green stem if possible) and lay on a piece of parchment or waxed paper until they dry. Repeat for as many berry "carrots" as you want. To finish, put the remaining melted chocolate in a plastic baggie, snip a small corner off, and drizzle it over.

one year ago: Brooke makes a candleholder

Peep Cupcakes

Peep cupcakes - super easy and SO cute. Make whatever flavor cupcakes you want, mine are lemon.  I frosted them with marshmallow buttercream, topped each one with a bunny Peep and a few shreds of candy "grass" (comes in a bag, should be able to find now at the grocery or craft store).

How can you not smile looking at these little cuties?

To make marshmallow buttercream frosting I just add one small jar of marshmallow fluff to my normal buttercream recipe which is:

1 stick of softened butter (if using unsalted butter add a pinch of salt to the frosting)
3 - 3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
enough milk to give the consistency I want, maybe 2-3 tablespoons. I don't measure, just pour in a tiny bit at a time.

Beat the butter until smooth, add remaining ingredients with enough milk to make firm spreadable frosting. Then blend in the jar of fluff. So good!

Bunny Cakes

It's almost Easter and I have a few fun things to show you for inspiration this week. Starting with bunny cake...

I have made this bunny cake for years - as long as I can remember. I have friends that have also been making this for as long as I've known them, I'm thinking that might be where I learned this, so that means I've been making it for like 30 years! Classic :)

I have no idea where this originally came from, you can google and see tons of examples of how people have decorated their Easter bunny cake. It's made from 2 white cake layers, one you leave whole (that's his head) and the other you cut into 3 pieces (2 ears are cut from the outside leaving the center part as a bowtie). Arrange them all on a platter and decorate using thin licorice for whiskers and ears, jelly beans, coconut, m&m's, sprinkles - whatever you want!

Last year I decided to break tradition and try a different bunny cake - it's a bunny butt! So cute, might be a new tradition. It does take a little longer to make this one though, so if you want simpler/faster maybe just do the classic bunny cake!

This one is made in an ovenproof bowl along with 3 cupcakes. See here for the recipe and full instructions.

Whichever one you decide to make will be a hit - everyone loves an Easter bunny cake!