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Showing posts with label easter dessert snack recipes. Show all posts

Decadent Reese's Peanut Butter & Chocolate Pie

Ingredients~

Directions~

  • Prepare pudding according to box instructions and set aside.
  • Spread peanut butter in bottom of crust
  • Layer pudding on top of peanut butter
  • Top with Cool Whip
  • Arrange Reese peanut butter eggs on top
  • Drizzle caramel over pie.
  • Chill at least 1 hour and serve. Cut slices between each egg.

Adorable Easter Basket Cupcakes - The Easy Version!

INGREDIENTS~
  • One boxed cake mix
  • 1 (16 ounce) can vanilla or white ready-to-spread frosting
  • 3-4 cups Sweetened Coconut Flakes
  • green food coloring
  • jelly beans (the spotted ones if you can find them) or bird-shaped Peeps
  • strawberry licorice strips

DIRECTIONS~
  • Make cupcakes according to directions on box.
  • Let them cool completely.
  • Combine 2 drops of green food coloring with 1 tsp of water
  • Pour coconut into a glass or metal bowl
  • Drizzle green coloring on top of the coconut.
  • Mix immediately and well to get even distribution of color.
  • Ice each cupcake with vanilla or white frosting
  • Arrange tinted coconut on each cupcake in the shape of a ring/circle. This is the outside shape of a "nest"
  • Place a few jelly beans in the center. These are the "bird eggs" for the "nest" or place a Peep in the middle.
  • For handle of "basket" poke wooden skewer into opposite sides of the cupcake. This is where the handles will go
  • Bend a Twizzler into the curve you need for the handle, and poke ends deep into those holes you made with the skewer.

Easter Egg Jello Jigglers




Ingredients~
2.5 cups boiling water
2-6oz pkgs or 1-12oz pkg JELL-O any flavor
1 pkg. (3.4 oz.) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding
1 cup cold milk
Assorted decorating gels

Directions~



  • Pour Jello powder into large glass or metal mixing bowl

  • ADD boiling water and stir 2 min. until completely dissolved.

  • Cool 30 min. at room temperature.

  • BEAT pudding mix and milk together in another bowl with whisk 2 min.

  • Pour into to gelatin mixture slowly

  • Stir until well blended.

  • Pour into 13x9-inch cake pan.

  • REFRIGERATE 3 hours or until firm.

  • Dip bottom of pan in warm water 15 sec.

  • Use 2-inch egg-shaped cookie cutter to cut out shapes, being careful to cut all the way through gelatin to bottom of pan.

  • Remove JIGGLERS from pan.

  • Decorate with gels to resemble Easter eggs.

  • Keep refrigerated.

*The Jello scraps remaining in the pan after the cutouts are done can be refrigerated in a tightly covered container then tossed together with cut-up fruit for a colorful dessert the whole family will love.



Thank you, Kraft Foods!