Recipe: Cheese Bunny, Oreo Bunny, Easter Mints, Finger Painted Cookies for Wichita Falls

Here are several ideas for you. Good luck with the "little ones." I bet they're adorable:-)!!

Cheese Bunnies
Mix:
one package (about 5 oz) herb and garlic cheese spread
one package cream cheese (3 oz)

Refrigerate 2 hours, or until firm.
Then roll mixture into 24 balls (using about 2 teaspoons each)
Add:
ears (carrot sticks)
eyes (pieces of raisin)
noses (triangles of roasted red pepper)
whiskers (chives)

Place each bunny head on a cucumber slice or on a round cracker.

OREO Bunny

Prep Time: 30 min
Total Time: 30 min
Serves: Makes 1

4 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
2 Tbsp. ready-to-spread vanilla frosting
2 jelly beans
BAKER'S ANGEL FLAKE Coconut and decorator gel

PLACE 1 cookie on flat surface to form base; make a slight indentation in center of base. Make a semicircle cut in another cookie; stand on edge, cut-side up, in indentation on base, securing with frosting.

PLACE 1 cookie in semicircle for head, securing with frosting. Cut remaining cookie in half for ears. Cut point off of one end of each half; secure cut end with frosting to head for ears.

PLACE jelly beans on base for feet. Decorate with coconut and gel.

Easy PEBBLES Easter Nests
Prep Time: 15 min
Total Time: 15 min
Serves: Makes 24

2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
3 cups JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows
4 cups POST Fruity PEBBLES Cereal
BAKER'S ANGEL FLAKE Coconut
Assorted candies

Preparation (you make the nests and let the children fill them.)
MICROWAVE butter in large microwavable bowl on HIGH 30 seconds or until melted. Add marshmallows; toss to coat. Microwave 1-1/2 minutes, stirring after 45 seconds. Add cereal; toss lightly to coat well.

PRESS firmly into lightly greased muffin pan to form 24 nests; cool.
FILL nests with coconut and candies.

Easter Chick Snack:
Take a nutter butter cookie
Ice it with yellow frosting
Use a candy corn for the beak
Use chocolate chips for eyes
Peep Peep Eat up....Yummy!

Easter Mints Kids Can Make

1/3 cup Soft butter
1/3 cup Light corn syrup
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Flavoring
3 1/2 cups (1 lb) sifted confectioner's sugar
Large bowl
Wooden spoon
Paper plates
Pencils

This is a no-cook recipe the children can mix with their hands. Flavor it with any of the liquid flavorings in the supermarket, such as strawberry and lemon. If you want, you can instead divide it into three portions and add a few drops of food coloring to tint it yellow, red, and green. The knead a small amount of flavoring into each one. This recipe makes about 1 1/2 lbs of candy.
Help the children measure all the ingredients into the large bowl. They can take turns stirring it with the wooden spoon until it becomes too stiff. Then they can knead it with their hands. They should continue kneading until the dough is smooth.

Give each child a paper plate and a pencil. Tell them to turn their plates OVER and write their names on the Bottom to prevent pencil lead from getting on their mints. Help them hold their pencils correctly. Make sure they use upper and lower case letters.

Give each child a portion of dough on his or her plate. The children can pinch off pieces, roll them into balls, and press them lightly with a fork to make a fancy butter mint. Children who cannot roll the candy into balls can make snakes, cut the snakes into pieces, and press the pieces with a fork. They might eat the pieces with the fork, but that's ok too.

Leave the mints on the plates and refrigerate them for 30 minutes, until they become firm. Easter Mints taste even better the second day, if you can keep everyone from eating them all on the first day. Cover with plastic wrap and keep them in the refrigerator.

Fingerpainted Cookies

We took sugar cookie dough that I purchased out of the refrigerator section at the grocery store. (or you can make your own)

We cut it into 1/4-inch slices (you can squish slightly into an egg shape).

Then we took an egg white and mixed food coloring in it. (light blue or pink are nice)

The kids "fingerpainted" eggs onto the cookies. If you make a single thumbprint and add two pinkie finger ears, it looks like a bunny! (The recipe doesn't say but I presume that you then bake these.)

Even my 20 month old could do this with supervision. He loved it.