Easter....goodies and craft

Precious Easter Goodies:
(from http://familyfun.go.com/)


Ingredients:
1 dozen cupcakes
1 bag jelly beans
2 cups white icing
Sweetened coconut, colored with green food coloring

Instructions:
* 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.
* Shake the shredded coconut in a stainless steel bowl. Sprinkle on food coloring bit by bit, mixing vigorously to distribute the color
* Place a pinch of shredded coconut on each iced cupcake. Now place three jelly beans on the "nest" of coconut.
* Tie a small ribbon bow on the pipe cleaner or licorice handle at a jaunty angle.
* Put one cupcake basket by each place setting at Easter brunch or give them as gifts.

Ingredients:
1 dozen 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:
* Frost a cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with white icing and sprinkle on shredded coconut fur.
* 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.
* 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'd like.

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Resurrection Eggs are a great way to share the story of the Resurrection with your child. This is a step-by-step video on how to make your own and also shows how to share it with you little one(s)....Enjoy!!


Happy Easter!!