Easter Recipes for Kids to Make
Easter recipes kids
can make and serve
at your Easter table or just for fun. Add a Bird's nest to an Easter
basket, or serve the Pear Edible Bunny as a salad with brunch. Your children will feel so proud that they were able to
participate. These recipes for kids are easy enough for Scout troops, classrooms and Sunday school
classes to prepare in a short period of time.
Kit's Tip: I make the Bird's nests every year, with small name
cards
for place settings.
Easter Bird's Nests
1/3c. butterscotch morsels
1c.chow-mein noodles
candy robin's eggs
Melt butterscotch morsels in a medium microwave safe bowl.
Add
chow-mein noodles to melted morsels and mix.
Shape into a circle on
wax paper. Use a large spoon
to make indention in center. Let nests harden and then
add jelly beans or chocolate eggs.
Easter Egg Filled Candies
A recipe for older children
Ingredients:
2 packages unflavored gelatin dissolved in
1/2 cup cold water
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup water
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 lb. sweetened baking chocolate
Melting Chocolate - you can use white "almond bark" from the grocery
store You'll also find Wilton's Candy Melts at a larger craft store.
They come in beautiful Easter Colors!
1. Boil sugar, water and salt until thread stage.
2. Add gelatin and heat until thick and stands in peaks.
Add 1/2 tsp. vanilla. Beat for about 20 minutes.
3. To make the eggs shapes fill muffin tins with flour .
Make an indent in the flour with a real egg. Pour candy mixture into molds. Let set.
4. Melt chocolate candy according to the instructions on the package.
Dip
prepared eggs into chocolate mixture and place on a sheet of waxed paper until set.
When the egg coating has hardened you can melt another color of melting
chips and decorate or drizzle.
Edible Easter Bunny Salad
Ingredients:
Pear halves
Raisins
Miniature marshmallows or cottage cheese
Lettuce
Apple slices or Almonds
Place a lettuce leaf on a plate. Add the pear half on
lettuce, for body.
Insert raisins for the eyes and nose.
The ears are made from apples slices or almonds
and a miniature marshmallow or cottage cheese
become the bushy tail.
Related Easter Links:
Easter Egg Dyeing
Easter Main Story
Easter Recipes for Kids
Easter Games and Activities
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