Novelty Cake Pan: Horseshoe. The leader in cake decorating tools Wilton doesn’t mess around with anything but the best! Their bake ware is the choice of serious bakers for wedding cakes and other special occasions. Features: thick durable construction, pure aluminum for consistent and professional results. Constructed of Aluminum for rust resistance and easy washing. Package takes any two-layer ca…
SCULPEY-SuperFlex: Bake & Bend Clay! These packages contain clay that you knead; shape; roll; and cut like any other polymer clay; the difference is in the effects after baking. After you bake this clay it becomes flexible; bendable and it always snaps right back! Sculpey Bake & Bend 4048 contains six 1 ounce blocks of polymer clay: white; black; red; blue; yellow; and green; a purple plastic s…
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Ateco’s 29-Piece Decorating Tube Set with Hinged Storage Box contains 26 of Ateco’s most popular decorating tubes, coupler, two flower nails and instructions in a plastic storage container. Made in the USA by Ateco. Since 1905, Ateco has supplied fine restaurants and bakeries with quality built, specialty baking tools. Ateco products are internationally renowned for their high quality. When you us…
Bake, serve and store ? one piece of Corningware bakware does the job of three regular dishes! The SimplyLite collection takes kitchen innovation even further, utilizing a revolutionary new material that’s half the weight of traditional ceramic bakeware yet just as durable. One-year limited warranty….
Easter is a celebration of rebirth both spiritually and physically. It is a spring holiday that welcomes in new growth and flowering. Trees are budding, flowers are slowly blooming, lawns are greening and the days grow longer. The dark and cold of winter give way to a new optimism filled with sun, warmth and cheer. The religious origins of Easter are an integral part of the Christian holiday but do not preclude people of all faiths to celebrate the more secular side of this holiday. There is plenty to enjoy as the bunnies, chicks, children’s baskets filled with candy and family gatherings present another side of Easter. So no matter your beliefs, we can all celebrate the new awakenings that happen each year with the onset of springtime.
I always love Easter dinner. I keep it simple by buying or ordering a honey baked ham. Add some yummy scalloped potatoes, a colorful jello mold filled with fruit and some fresh roasted or sautéed vegetables and my menu is set. I also do Easter as a buffet. Some times we have brunch, other years it is an early dinner depending on everyone’s schedules. No matter how much you try to avoid it, Easter is an all day sugar festival for the kids so it is always best to have your dinner earlier than later. Let them eat something of substance before they fill up on all the Easter candy.
When the kids were smaller, we always enjoyed making Easter favors for everyone. Sometimes we did small plants or flowers, decorated the pot, added the recipient’s name with paint marker, wrapped it in ribbon and added in some dyed and decorated eggs that we had made together. These could be set around the table as placeholders too. Decorating the eggs was an event in itself. There are so many creative egg decorating kits at the stores. So you can dye, paint, stamp, sticker, glue and even draw on eggs! The key is to keep this event age appropriate. It takes all the fun out of the project if they can’t do it themselves or what they make looks terrible. So make sure your egg decorating activity will meet the age criteria.
An egg hunt is also a popular Easter tradition. In our family, we never hid the eggs. We hid the baskets. Easter morning would have the kids running around the house to find their baskets. Our family tradition happened later in the day when all the cousins and friends were over for dinner. We would follow the Easter Bunny Trail. The kids would be all over the neighborhood finding the clues that the Bunny had left. Like Hansel and Gretel’s trail, the Bunny left a trail of clues would lead the kids to the ultimate Easter Basket with goodies for one and all. Rain or shine, adults and kids would all be out there together chasing the Bunny and his clever clues. It was truly such a fun tradition, that when the kids were in high school, we actually did it for all their friends. It was a huge success. Just goes to show that you are never too old to celebrate Easter!
There are more great ideas for Easter recipes, decorations and an easy how to tutorial on making cake balls, the perfect Easter dessert as well as sample clues to help you stage your own Bunny Trail Hunt at Celebration Ideas Online.com.
About the Author
Carol is married with four grown children whose family loves to celebrate everything! Her favorite hobby now that the kids are all on their own or off to college is her web site: Celebration Ideas Online, a resource center for fun family celebration ideas. Great ideas for college care packages too.
Mini Metal Cookie Cutters Easter 12 per package includes bunny face, chick, egg, cross, sun, carrot, flower, tulip, sprinkling can, umbrella, bunny, and butterfly cutters. Each measures approximately 1.5 inches. Made of metal….
Set the table for religious holidays by using this inexpensive aluminum pan to bake a cross-shaped cake (or mold a gelatin dessert). The pan molds a cake in a beveled form for a 3-D effect that’s more pleasing than a flat surface. Any two-layer cake mix fills the 15-by-12-by-2-inch mold, and the pan’s packaging includes baking and decorating tips. –Fred Brack…
Mini Non-Stick Cake Pan 6 Cavity. Mini cakes are fun to serve at Easter brunch or wrap them up and add to baskets. Easy- release, easy-clean non-stick steel bakes cakes with great detail. Also excellent for brownies, ice cream molds, muffins and more. One mix makes about 14-18 cakes. Made of aluminum….
Great for Easter cookies, cakes, cupcakes, ice cream, and much more. These colorful green jimmies with multi-colored egg sprinkles will add a little extra fun to your goodies. This package contains (1) 3.75oz/106g plastic jar. Certified Kosher. Made in USA….
This book aims to capture the spirit of the festivities, with practical ideas and inspiration to bring the delights of spring into the home. It includes lots of projects and things to make from egg decorating to cooking Easter treats….
