Easter Desserts

It's Easter, which means it's time to decorate & hide the eggs, but it also means . . . desserts.

I'm a sucker for sweets, I have a major sweet tooth & we love making desserts as a family.

Here are 3 cute & Easter friendly ideas for you guys to make with your little ones at home.

BIRDS IN A NEST

Ingredients:

Peeps

Melting Chocolate (regular or white)

Pretzel Sticks

M&M's 

In our house there is one sweet snack everybody loves . . . chocolate covered pretzels. So this dessert is a little twist off of that. Instead of getting a normal pretzel you will get the small skinny "sticks", break them up (they don't have to be perfect, we get messy when we're in the kitchen. My rule is "it doesn't have to be beautiful . . . it just has to taste good). To melt your chocolate I find it easiest to use a glass bowl (it helps with the heating) be very careful not to over heat. You want to only heat for about 30 seconds at a time before checking on it & stirring. Now take a handful of those broken pretzels & throw them in your chocolate. Once they are coated place them on your parchment paper (I had to use foil because I was out), you want to aim to get them in a "circle" shape, to make them look like a "nest" but really the kids are more interested in hurrying so they can lick the chocolate off their fingers. That is the difficult part . . . now just place your peep in the center & throw some M&M's on there for "eggs".

BUNNIES IN THE DIRT

Ingredients:

Chocolate Pudding

Chocolate Graham Crackers (Oreo's)

Melting Chocolate

This is really just like making mud pudding, the only thing different is your putting a bunny on top instead of gummy worms. With your melting chocolate your going to draw out bunny "butts" the kids thought this was hilarious. We used baby marshmallows for the cotton tails.

Mix up your chocolate pudding & in a separate bowl crumble up your chocolate graham crackers (you can also use Oreo's), now you will layer the pudding & the graham crackers. Just make sure the graham cracker crumbles are on top for the dirt affect. Now that your done lay your bunny butt on top.

Another sweet snack that we all love is Smore's

No in-depth instructions needed on this one, you can easily swap out the marshmallow for a peep.

I hope this was fun & inspiring for you to get your little ones involved in making tasty sweets with you. Leave a comment below & let me know if you have something that your family likes to make together.