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Easy chocolate recipes to use up leftover Easter eggs and Mini Eggs. 3 delicious Cadbury Mini Eggs recipes to make over Easter weekend. Crumbly, velvety shortcake mixed with the fresh sweetness of strawberries make these tartlets perfect for an after-dinner treat.

3 delicious Cadbury Mini Eggs recipes to make over Easter weekend

Makes 12 tartlets Prep time 20 minutes Chilling time 15–30 minutes Cooking time 6–8 minutes Ingredients 100g butter3 tbsp caster sugar120g plain flour, plus extra for dusting½ tsp baking powdera pinch of salt12 Cadbury Mini Eggs200g 0% fat Greek yoghurt200g fresh strawberries Method Lightly butter a 12-hole tartlet tin. In a food mixer or with a hand-held electric whisk, beat the butter and sugar until they are pale and creamy. Roll the mixture into a ball and knead it lightly with your hands. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough until it is 5mm thick, and cut out 6cm circles with a pastry cutter or a saucer. Bake the tartlets in the oven for 6–8 minutes until they are cooked and golden brown. Put the Cadbury Mini Eggs into a sealable plastic bag and smash them into small pieces with a rolling pin or meat mallet.

Easy Candied Walnuts - Two Peas & Their Pod. Candied Walnuts are great for salads, baking, snacking, gifting, and more!

Easy Candied Walnuts - Two Peas & Their Pod

You only need 10 minutes to make this Easy Candied Walnuts recipe! You will love the crunchy, sweet, and oh so addicting candied nuts! Easy Candied Walnuts My dad loves walnuts and always kept a jar of walnuts in our pantry. I was never a huge walnut fan until he introduced me to candied walnuts. I love this candied walnuts recipe because you make them on the stove top and not in the oven. We always make candied walnuts for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so freeing up oven space is very important. How to Make Candied Walnuts You are going to LOVE this super easy candied walnuts recipe! Walnuts-Use walnut halves or pieces. Vodka dipped rainbow marshmallow pops. OK, super cool party people and anyone in the DC area who may come to my house for a happy hour in the near future, I have something I think you’ll like.

vodka dipped rainbow marshmallow pops

Vodka dipped rainbow marshmallow pops. It’s a colorful cocktail and dessert in one, and on a stick no less. And sparkly. And rainbow. Perfect for a grown-up My Little Pony party. I did fancy myself brilliant when the bizarre train of thought in my head stopped at these. But I still call them “drunken.” Or maybe this is what “drunken” rainbow marshmallow pops look like: I used the same method of creating sparkle marshmallow pops I’ve used for years, starting HERE. Next time, I’m trying these with gin. how to make drunken rainbow marshmallow pops you will need:* vodka8-ounce mason jarmarshmallowslollipop stickssprinklesStyrofoam block *Find the Styrofoam block, lollipop sticks and sprinkles in every color at the craft store.

Pour vodka in a cup. Prop the marshmallow in the Styrofoam block to dry. Feel free to share (nicely)! Kiss Pies. Only 5 days before Christmas!

Kiss Pies

Woohoo, is everyone ready? What a great time of year. This really is the best…..even if I feel like I’ve gained 50 lbs the last month! I’ve got such a fun little pie to share with you today that really couldn’t get any easier. I am talking 2 main ingredients people I decided to use the rest of my Mint truffle Kisses, but ANY Hershey kiss will work beautifully here. Hope you enjoy! Here you have it, some refrigerated pie crust and any Hershey Kisses I used these bad boys! Unroll your pie crust after it’s been thawed and place the first group your kisses around like so. You’ll cut a 2 1/2- 3 inch circle for each kiss. You’ll brush a light egg wash over each little pie…. ….and sprinkle with sugar. Trying to do this with one hand while taking the photo=dumping of sugar, lol! Here they are, I seriously love these! Awhhhh, look at these little Kiss Pies Little cuties. One of my readers who lives in China sent me these adorable mini forks!

1. 2. About 14 little pies. Brandy truffles.