Every Easter, we head down to my aunt’s house for a huge feast. She really puts on a spread, complete with spiral ham, slow- cooker cheesy scalloped taters, asparagus casserole, and a huge array of desserts: carrot cake, German chocolate cake, pineapple chess pie, cherry cheesecake, the works!
Then we’re expected to recoup from all that indulging by getting up from the table, moseying out to the yard and hiding Easter eggs for the kids. My one cousin has all the kids in the family, and she fills a dozen of those plastic eggs for EACH child with candy, money, etc. Each kid is assigned a certain colored egg, and each of us is assigned a dozen eggs to hide for one child. It was easier when the kids were little; but the older they get, the more difficult the hiding places have become. That means there is much pressure remembering where we hid the eggs. Imagine recalling the hiding places of 12 eggs while under the influence of an Easter feast-induced brain slosh! And it doesn’t help that as the kids get older, their motivation to find the eggs is influenced by the “I’m too cool to do this” syndrome. Needless to say, some of the eggs end up finding a permanent home in their superbly innovative hiding place. At least it isn’t like the good ol’ days when the Easter Bunny would hide real eggs for my brother and me. Then when an egg went undiscovered, it became VERY apparent a few weeks later by its rather odiferous bidding!
Anyhoo, back to the food. I usually take my Peanut Butter Caramel Chewy Easter Egg Nests.
But I’m changing it up this year by bringing an edible Easter Egg Nest Centerpiece. I started the nest by dipping puff pastry twists into chocolate to form “twigs”. Then I shaped eggs from a basic Buckeye recipe, with Rice Krispies® thrown in for crunch, and covered them in pastel colored white chocolate.
Hidden or not, I’m pretty sure THESE eggs will not be abandoned or lost!
Inspired by Buckeyes —Sherry K-Jazzy Gourmet
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