Easter Treat Recipes That You Can Make With Your Toddler

                                                                Easter Basket Cupcakes

 

This Easter, decorate this cute little cupcake basket with jelly beans.

Ingredients

• 1 dozen cupcakes
• 1 bag jelly beans

• 2 cups white icing
• Sweetened coconut, colored with green food coloring

 

Instructions

1. First, frost the cupcakes with white icing. Bend a pipe cleaner or a piece of red licorice into an arch and push the ends into the sides of each cupcake.
   
2. Shake the shredded coconut in a stainless steel bowl. Sprinkle on food coloring bit by bit, mixing vigorously to distribute the color
   
3. Place a pinch of shredded coconut on each iced cupcake. Now place three jelly beans on the "nest" of coconut.
   
4. Tie a small ribbon bow on the pipe cleaner or licorice handle at a jaunty angle.
   
5. Put one cupcake basket by each place setting at Easter brunch or give them as gifts.
   
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                                               Easter Bunny Cupcakes
   

Ingredients

• A cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe)
• White icing
• Shredded coconut
• Pink decorators' sugar

• Jelly bean nose
• Chewable Sweet Tart eyes
• Large marshmallow
• Mini marshmallows

Instructions

1. Frost a cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with white icing and sprinkle on shredded coconut fur.
   
2. Cut a large marshmallow in half widthwise. Squeeze each half slightly to give it an oval shape, then decorate the sticky side of each one with pink decorators' sugar and set them in place for ears.
   
3. Add a jelly bean nose and either jelly bean or snipped Sweet Tart eyes, and mini marshmallows for cheeks. For a finishing touch, draw on decorators' gel pupils or whiskers if you like.
   
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                                                                 Meringue Bird Nests

                                                                       

Ingredients

• 4 egg whites
• 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
• Pinch of salt
• 1 cup sugar

• 1 tsp. vanilla
• Shredded coconut
• Candy eggs (jelly beans, chocolate, egg-shaped malt balls)

  

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper (available at most grocery stores). (about 1 to 2 minutes).
   
2. In a mixing bowl, whip together the egg whites, cream of tartar and salt until soft peaks form.
   
3. Then, slowly add the sugar, beating constantly until the mixture is glossy and stiff (another minute or so). Beat in the vanilla extract until just combined.
   
4. Now you're ready to make the meringue nests. Spoon three mounds of the mixture onto each baking sheet. Use the bowl of the spoon to shape each mound into a 4-inch-wide circle with a 2-inch-deep depression in the center. Give your nests a lived-in look by sprinkling shredded coconut over each one.
   
5. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until the meringues are dry and the coconut has turned golden brown. Once cool, tuck one malted candy egg or jelly bean into the nest for each child in the family. Makes 6 nests.
   
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