If I was feeling a bit ho-hum about Saint Patrick's Day, I have no qualms whatsoever about easter. A giant rabbit that hides colorful eggs filled with candy in your backyard!? How fabulously surreal is that?
Also, it's one of those holidays with a family craft tradition - like baking christmas cookies. I loved those cups of brightly colored dye and wire egg dippers and little shrink wrappers. But really, does anybody think that hiding hard-boiled eggs in the hot sun is a good idea?
So I've been gradually trying to figure out what our easter making tradition will be. This year we started with sugar cookies (from Joy of Vegan Baking) decorated with melted chocolate (crammed in a ziploc bag, corner poked with a tiny skewer hole). But we have lots more experimenting to do.
There are candy molds and cakes to be baked and maybe when Desmond is older we'll do something with wooden eggs.
My yoga-practicing pal made cadbury eggs, and even though I always thought the store-bought ones were gross, I bet hers were rad and I want to eat them.
I'll get back to you with more experiments in the coming weeks.
How about you? What do you put in the easter basket?
