The last round of cookie and treat-making featured the green theme for St. Patrick’s Day. This week the temperatures don’t feel like Spring, but everything is turning green and the daffodils and magnolia trees are in bloom. To celebrate Easter, we searched for some fun treat recipes to make and box up for a delivery run to the family this weekend. Many of us have had at least the first COVID vaccination dose and several have had their second dose. We are hoping that very soon we will be able to meet safely in person without masks! It has been a long year of physical separation, but we remain patient and want to be fully vaccinated before we get together again.
In the meantime pink and pastel colors make this selection bright and festive.
How about carrot cake baked as a cookie with cream cheese frosting and a piped on carrot decoration?
https://www.landolakes.com/recipe/17080/carrot-cake-cookies/
We thought the little kids would get a kick out of Bird’s Nest Treats made with squiggly Chinese noodles and filled with jelly bean eggs.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/bird-s-nest-treats/
At Christmas I always make a big batch of Chex Mix using white almond bark, cereals, pretzels, peanuts and red and green M & M’s. Here is an Easter version using pink candy melts
https://wishesndishes.com/easter-bunny-tail-chex-mix/.
Nutter Butter Peanut Butter cookies get disguised as Spring chicks.
https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a19473539/nutter-butter-chicks-recipe/
To help fill the box we made this batch of bar cookies.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/golden-m-m-s-bars/
I have a new embossed rolling pin embellished with bunny rabbits and shamrocks that I used on a Butter Cookie dough (previously published with other embossed cookie patterns) and rounded out the collection with cut-out Royal-iced using the go-to recipe previously posted for Martha’s Star Cookie Tree . Tomorrow we hit to the road to make our deliveries.
Have a very Happy Easter weekend!
Some Enchanted Eating 