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Favorite Easter Desserts
Posted by busylizzy • 3/25/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: baking, cooking, desserts, easter, food, recipes
My mom never made a special cake or pie or whatever b/c we had tons of chocolate from the Easter Bunny.
Anyone have favorite desserts from their Easter childhood memories?
I found some recipes that sound yummy and might try one on my daughter - Decadent Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Pie, Easter Basket Cupcakes, Carrot Pecan Cake and Easter Egg Jello Jigglers. I might add a few more to my list, depending what I hear here at BC.
www.recipesfortheseasons.blogspot.com/
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I love carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. So delicious! For some reason, the only time I ever have carrot cake is at Easter.
When I was growing up, I loved Cadbury Chocolate Eggs. In college, I used to make Easter candy baskets for my roommates. -
My mother never made desserts for Easter because there was too much candy floating around. She made omelettes instead, and cut one end so that my omelette resembled rabbit ears because she always knew that I preferred to bite the head off a chocolate bunny first. -
We used to dye hard-boiled eggs, but got tired of tossing them out every year (no one ever ate them). We have a new tradition of making chocolate covered peanut butter eggs. The kids have just as much fun decorating them and every one of them gets eaten.-
This is our first year of not dyeing eggs. Hubby doesn't like them boiled or deviled. I overloaded on eggs last year when I needed to take in tons of protein and now can't stand the sight of them. I think my daughter is just copying my adversion. And I'm not making them for the cats!!!!
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In England we have a type of sweet bread cake called Hot cross buns which you can eat plain or toasted with butter.-
You just like saying "hot cross buns."
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Well it describes mine perfectly....and I like having butter spread on them but that's a different story.
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And a story I'm sure I'd rather not hear.
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Of course, fruitcake, we do that all the time on the beach here in SoCal to get tanned.
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Anin - I was at the grocery store this morning and they bakery had boxes and boxes of hot cross buns for sale. I guess us Yanks do hold onto part of our past.
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Anin - I added a recipe for Hot Cross buns. You can add raisins, dried currents or dried cranberries if you want. Or you can eat them plain. Thanks for the idea. recipesfortheseasons.blogspot.com/2009/03/hot-cross-buns-for-easter.html#li...
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Anin, My mother always made those. They're something my memory associates so strongly with Easter.
All joking aside, I'm glad you mentioned them.
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Laura Secord's Easter eggs!
The ones with the butter cream inside... Wicked!
The day after Easter, when everything is half-price, I sometimes go to the store early in the day and buy a bunch of them. -
Nobody has mentioned the most decadent Easter treat of all...the candy egg...a Kool-Aid-flavored bomb of up to a pound of crystalline sucrose made up to be a spring-colored version of Faberge, and made to cause any diabetic to reach for her insulin just by looking at it.
All for the kiddies, of course. As soon as their permanent teeth are in, NO MORE!
And how about those nests made from cookie dough that had been run through one of those extrusion gizmos and baked with chocolate chips and filled with white chocolate eggs and whipped cream? They're enough to make the Cadbury Bunny jealous!
I even saw one top it off with one of those Peeps just to be cute!-
We made our nests from melted butterscotch chips, peanut butter, and chow-mein noodles. While the mixture was warm, we'd fashion nests and then place a few miniature robin egg candies in them. Pastel peanut M&Ms also work.
It's a great, fun treat to make with kids.
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I love the Peanut butter pie recipe.
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We just eat some sort of fruit pie, maybe apple, with a sharp cheddar cheese.
Mmmmmmm. (By the way, our Easter Baskets are rarely loaded with candy - we prefer to load them with all the special treats we love individually - like my mom gets avocados, my husband get's Coke, and I typically get coffee).-
I like your easter basket idea. We usually put non-edibles like coloring books and art supplies and spring toys like bubbles in with the treats.
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We do that too! Well, not for the adults, but still...
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simnel cake, that is a lovely easter treat-
I never heard of simnel cake. Of what does it consist?
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got this off wiki:
"Simnel cake is a light fruit cake, similar to a Christmas cake, covered in marzipan, and eaten at Easter in Great Britain and Ireland. A layer of marzipan or almond paste is also baked into the middle of the cake. On the top of the cake, around the edge, are eleven marzipan balls to represent the true disciples of Jesus; Judas is omitted. In some variations Christ is also represented, by a ball placed at the centre.
The cake is made from these ingredients: white flour, sugar, butter, eggs, fragrant spices, dried fruits, zest and candied peel.
Simnel cakes have been known since mediaeval times, and were originally a Mothering Sunday tradition, when young girls in service would make one to be taken home to their mothers on their day off. The word simnel probably derived from the Latin word simila, meaning fine, wheaten flour with which the cakes were made.
A popular legend attributes the invention of the Simnel cake to Lambert Simnel, although this is undoubtedly false, since the Simnel cake appears in English literature prior to Lambert's escapades.
Different towns had their own recipes and shapes of the Simnel cake. Bury, Devizes and Shrewsbury produced large numbers to their own recipes, but it is the Shrewsbury version that became most popular and well known." -
I got i Bury recipe and 2 Shrewsbury recipes up for Simnel cake. Couldn't find any recipes for the Devizes version.
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Habichuelas con dulce (sweet creamed beans). A local thing. I'm too lazy, do an image search!
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