Bake Your Own Easter Treats

It’s easy to buy a manufactured, mass-produced Easter egg to gift to someone, but if you’re looking to add the personal touch, there are baking options that you can try. The below method will produce small Easter egg basket cakes; they are both quick and easy to make, while being absolutely delicious for anyone who has the pleasure of eating them!

- Egg baskets.

You will need:

- Cornflakes or other similar cereal.
- Small Easter eggs, such as Mini Eggs or those found in slot machines outside of grocery stores.
- Several large bars of milk chocolate

Optional extras:

- Sprinkles / hundreds and thousands
- Whipped cream
- Syrup

To make:

- Melt the chocolate in a sauce pan. This may take awhile, so if you’re short on time you can add small amounts of milk. Stir until the chocolate is thicky, creamy and most definitely a liquid.

- Keeping the chocolate on the heat, add in your chosen cereal. Quickly stir the cereal in to the chocolate, so the cereal is coated in the chocolate mix. It’s important to do this as quickly as possible, and remove from the heat when the cereal and the chocolate are thoroughly mixed together.

- Remove from the heat and allow the chocolate to cool slightly for one to two minutes.

- Use a tablespoon to separate the chocolate-covered cereal in to small “basket” shaped round shapes. Create a small indentation in the centre of each “basket”. Place each basket on a separate tray and refrigerate for two hours.

- When solid, remove the baskets and place one egg in the centre of the basket. You can also add the whipped cream, syrup or sprinkles at this point if you have chosen to use them.

- Serve and enjoy!

Plan The Perfect Easter Egg Hunt

One of the enduring traditions of Easter is the Easter egg hunt, ostensibly where young children hunt around their homes and gardens in search of gifts left by the Easter Bunny. If you’re planning on playing the role of the Easter Bunny and setting up an Easter egg hunt for your children, here’s a few tips to make it go with a bang:

- Choose your hiding places depending on the age of your children.

The younger children are, the less patience they will have when it comes to an Easter egg hunt. If you’re children are under the age of eight, keep your hunt short and relatively easy to complete. Leave some of the eggs or chocolate a little bit on show – so it’s easy to spot and easy to find.

If your children are older than eight, you can be a little more adventurous.

- Try clues.

While most Easter egg hunts usually just involve children running around to try and find eggs without much direction, you can always try a clue-driven Easter egg hunt. This works particularly well if you want the fun of a hunt without the expense of buying a lot of chocolate eggs: start with one clue, which leads to the next clue and so on, and at the final location your children find their chocolate Easter gifts.

-  Think like a child.

When placing the eggs for children to find, try and step in to your child’s mindset: where would they look for clues, where is convenient? Also remember to keep things at the relevant eye height for a child, as any gifts that are too high may go unnoticed.