Last Minute Easter Treats

There's only a few days until Easter but there's still plenty of time to bake some Easter treats. I've gathered together a few ideas for last minute Easter treats that you can keep the kids busy with this week.

Caramel Chocolate Easter Cupcakes

Chocolate Pretzel Easter Nests

Chocolate Crispy Easter Egg with a Hidden Creme Egg

Mini Egg Cookies - Makes approx 16 large cookies

115g Butter, softened
230g Caster sugar
35g Golden syrup
1 Egg
230g Self Raising Flour
1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
100g Chocolate Mini eggs

• Beat the butter and sugar together
• Mix in the golden syrup & egg
• Stir the flour and bicarbonate of soda together and add to the butter/sugar mixture
• Mix well, adding the mini eggs just as the mixture starts to come together
• Roll mixture into balls (heaped tbsp) and place on a greased baking sheet, spaced well apart
• Bake in a preheated 170 C oven for approx 10 minutes, until golden brown
• Cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack
• Store in an airtight container

No Bake Easter Loaf Cake


Sugar & Spice Easter Nest Biscuits


Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes


Easter Mini Egg Rocky Road


Chocolate Rice Krispie Easter Egg Nests



No Bake Unicorn Mini Egg White Chocolate Slice 


Lemon & Almond Easter Cake


Mini Egg Chocolate Pavlovas



Easter Chocolate Granola Cakes

Extremely Chocolatey Easter Cupcakes

Easter Bunny Butt Cupcakes

Mini Egg Rocky Road Bites

For more Easter baking inspiration follow my Seasonal recipes Pinterest board:

Chocolate Crispy Easter Egg with a Hidden Creme Egg

With many children already finished school for the Easter holidays, and others (like ours) finishing at the end of this week, there's still plenty of time to for Easter baking and crafts. You will find plenty of inspiration for baking and yummy Easter treats in my seasonal Pinterest board. These Chocolate Crispy Easter Eggs are one of many simple recipe ideas that you can make with the kids, whatever your cooking ability. 

New Chocolates from Cadbury

So, just when I'm getting myself into this Paleo diet business (of a sorts - cavemen ate fruit, grapes are a fruit, grapes make wine, therefore wine is Paleo friendly, right?), I receive chocolate in the post, how is that for timing! I didn't just receive one package though, I received two! I shouldn't really complain, it makes my kids happy and happy kids make for a happy Mum.

Products in the Cadbury Easter range this year include one of my favourite chocolate bars - Freddo. Freddo's are great, just a small amount of chocolate which is perfect for a little treat. The little Freddo Easter egg contains Freddo faces which are like mini Freddo bars and great for the younger chocolate lover.

For the older ones, including chocolate loving adults, there is the Marvellous Creations egg, which contains 2 bars of Marvellous Creations, in cookie nut crunch and jelly popping candy varieties.

Another Easter treat that I was excited to see was the Daim eggs - Cadbury milk chocolate with Daim bar bits. I cut one of these open and could smell the Daim straight away, although I couldn't see any visible bits in it - I'm looking forward to Easter when I am going to allow myself a couple (or few) of these little beauties!

A few weeks ago I saw the new Cadbury chocolate with Ritz crackers and I got very very excited - I love Ritz and I love the combination of chocolate with a salty cracker - chocolate covered pretzels being one of my favourite combinations. When I first tried this bar I was a little disappointed though, for me I felt that there could have been a little more cracker - crazy huh? I sometimes have to question my own sanity, who in their right mind wants more cracker with their chocolate! I am willing to give it a second opinion though and am saving this for a weekend treat.

The kids on the other hand absolutely loved the Cadbury Lu bar - Lu Prince biscuits are always the biscuits that we buy when on holiday overseas, a light biscuit sandwich with a chocolate cream in the middle, yum! It's a bit like a rich tea biscuit but better, and the kids assured me that it was a great combination with the Cadbury milk chocolate.

  

I received the Cadbury chocolate for the purpose of this review