Easter is a holiday filled with tons of chocolate, all types of eggs and anything pastel. Families get together and typically have brunch before they stuff their faces with all the tasty treats that come in Easter baskets or are hidden in egg hunts. While it’s easy to go out and buy some Cadbury Crème Eggs or Peeps, it’s even easier than you think to whip up some tasty, and fun, Easter treats yourself!
From Oreos, to cupcakes, to s’mores, there are dozens of different creative treats you can make to make sure this Easter is extra special. Cover some strawberries in orange chocolate to look like little carrots or use some small powdered donuts to make pops that look like bunnies. There are so many creative ideas for Easter treats that look like you spent days on them, when in reality, they’re not that hard to make at all!
Just about any dessert can somehow be Easter themed if you put your mind to it. Bunnies, carrots, baby chicks and eggs are the typical Easter symbols, and all these semi-homemade treats involve at least one of them! Here are what TheCelebrityCafe.com believes are the top 10 treats to make this Easter…
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10. Vanilla Cream Jell-O Easter Eggs
Deviled eggs are always a classic appetizer for Easter festivities, and this fun idea turns deviled eggs into a sweet treat. Make Jell-O eggs out of an egg mold (which can be bought in most stores or on Amazon.com), cut them in half, use a melon ball tool to make a little well in each half and then fill the halves with a sweet vanilla cream cheese filling for a sweet twist on deviled eggs!
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9. Egg-Ceptional Cereal Treats
While it’s just as easy to make classic Rice Krispy treats out of a plastic egg, these egg shaped cereal treats are made out of Fruity Pebbles for that pop of color every Easter basket needs. All you need is some butter, mini marshmallows, Fruity Pebbles cereal and some large plastic eggs for these tasty cereal treats that anyone can enjoy.
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8. Donut Bunny Pops
Mini powdered donuts are just great on their own, but this creative idea turns a simple store bought donut into a pop that even looks like a bunny! These take a little more creativity than some other treats, but the cute outcome is completely worth it. With some marshmallows, cookie cutters, toothpicks and red food coloring, you can easily make bunny ears. Attach these to a mini powdered donut, and then stick the donut onto a white chocolate covered lollipop stick. Use a pink jellybean for the nose and tie a bow around the lollipop stick for an adorable bunny donut pop!
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7. Easter Marshmallow Bark
This egg shaped treat is similar to the cereal one, except instead of using marshmallows to hold it together, you’re using white chocolate to hold marshmallows together. Buy pastel colored mini marshmallows to make these extra festive. All you have to do is add the marshmallows to melted white chocolate, spread the mixture onto a pan, decorate with some sprinkles and put in the freezer for about 20 minutes and that’s it!
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6. Oreo Bunnies
Chocolate covered Oreos are extremely easy to make, and always guaranteed to be a tasty hit. These Oreos have a very similar process to the bunny donuts. By using Marshmallows for ears, a pink jellybean for the nose, and drawing eyes with a black edible marker, these white chocolate covered Oreos easily turn into the cutest little bunnies!
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5. Peeps S’mores
Peeps are the classic Easter treat, and although it’s not quite summertime yet, it’s never too early for s’mores. This is possibly the easiest treat to make, but the peeps make it so fun! All you have to do is place chocolate on a graham cracker and then top it with a peep! Heat either over a fire or just pop it in the microwave for a yummy, gooey, Easter treat.
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4. Carrot Strawberries
Chocolate covered strawberries work for any holiday, or realistically any day of the year…they’re just that good. These chocolate covered strawberries are a little extra special, though, because they end up looking just like mini carrots! Dip some juicy strawberries in orange chocolate and keep the stems on for a perfect, and delicious, carrot look-a-like.
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3. Carrot Patch Pudding Cups
All kids love those dirt pudding cups that people make with gummy worms during Halloween, and now somebody has created a similar pudding cup for Easter! Fill clear plastic cups with a pudding and cool whip mixture, top with crumbled Oreos for a dirt effect, and pipe on some orange frosting to look like a carrot is growing out of the dirt. Top with a few blades of fake grass for a perfectly delicious Easter themed pudding cup!
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2. Cadbury Crème Egg Cupcakes
We wait all year for it to finally be the time when Cadbury Crème Eggs can be found in stores. By using any cupcake recipe you desire and placing a frozen Cadbury Crème Egg in the batter before you bake it, you end up with a delicious cupcake with the most amazing hidden surprise. Your guests won’t believe they’re taste buds when they bite into a moist cupcake only to find out that there’s an entire Cadbury Crème Egg hidden inside.
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1. Peanut Butter Fudge Bunnies
Peanut butter and chocolate is one of the greatest sweet combinations known to mankind. These chubby little bunnies take some extra work, but nobody will be able to resist them once they’re finished, so it’s all worth it in the end. Start by making a peanut butter fudge, try not to eat it all before you even begin, and let it harden over night. Use small cutouts to make ears and feet out of milk modeling chocolate. Once the peanut butter fudge is at a solid state, scoop out tablespoons of it to roll into balls. Once you have the balls made, cover them in a homemade chocolate ganache, and connect the feet, ears, and candy eyes. Add a candy sprinkle heart for the nose and you have yourself the most delicious little bunny you’ll ever have the pleasure of eating!
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