If you’ve been following along, this is “the best week of our lives”, according to Scarlet. Of course no week lives up to its name necessarily, and I think I’ve cried twice already this week? And that’s probably twice more than I’ve cried in the last six months? It’s ok, though. It’s refreshing and I’ve been reaching out a bit more than I usually do. That’s even more refreshing.
The big news is that we’ve got chicks! Eight so far, and a few more to come next week. They’re adorable and wiggly and often under a heat lamp, so I can never get a good picture. Cassidy picked up the first batch on Tuesday and we met him at home. He took yesterday off for his birthday and we went to the post office together while the kids were at school. It was quite an experience! We had to go to a special door/window after the post office called us and when we arrived, we could see our box shaking. We heard it chirping! I imagine that’s fun for the postal workers? I felt so.. proud to be holding that box.
In other news, the weather has finally felt like spring, we celebrated Cassidy’s birthday yesterday, and we’re preparing for our annual Easter traditions. Cassidy said he had a great birthday. We spent most of the sunny day alone together.
I’ll have one more Easter recipe to share, before Easter, and then it’s on to the next best thing. We have spring break for the next week, so expect fun and simple posts, and I really have no idea yet what I’ll talk about. During the days, I’ll most likely be on New England road trips, and maybe even a NJ one. Cassidy and I are also due to get away alone next weekend – maybe to Cape Cod. So I have no idea where the next week will take me, but I’ll be checking in. Everyone, have a great weekend!
Ingredients
- 4-Individual Sized Rice Krispie Treats
- 1 pkg. Edible Green Easter Grass
- 1 can Vanilla Frosting
- Orange Sprinkles
- Orange Food Coloring
Instructions
- Cut each Rice Krispie treat in half lengthwise, and trim a little off each corner at one end to make a point
- Take a toothpick and make a small hole in the wider end of each rice krispie treat for the stem
- Color the frosting orange and heat in the microwave for about 20 seconds until just a bit thinner
- Frost each rice krispie carrot with orange frosting, getting a nice thick coat on top and put sprinkles on
- Let sit for about 20 minutes to firm up
- Take 4 little pieces of edible Easter grass and place in the hole you made earlier so the ends stick out to look like a carrot top
- Ready to Eat!
White Chocolate Covered Easter Bunny Rice Krispies Treats
Ingredients Needed:
6 cups Rice Krispies
3 tablespoons butter
10 oz package of marshmallows
white melting chocolate
food coloring
black icing
bunny cookie cutter
Directions:
In a large saucepan melt butter over medium/low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove Saucepan from heat.
Add Rice Krispies cereal to your melted marshmallows. Stir until all cereal is coated evenly.
Press Rice Krispies mixture evenly onto a buttered cookie sheet or use wax paper. Allow to cool completely.
Remove your Rice Krispies treats and place on a flat surface. Cut bunny shapes out with a buttered cookie cutter. Continue until you have used all of your surface area. Eat the scraps. 😉
Using a double boiler, melt your white chocolate on medium/low heat stirring constantly. You can add vegetable oil to thin your chocolate if needed. Add only a tablespoon of oil at a time.
Once your chocolate is a desired consistency, you can spoon chocolate onto your bunnies and spread evenly. You could also melt your chocolate thin enough to pour over the bunnies on a wire cooling rack. Use pastel food coloring to make fun colored bunnies!
Reserve a small amount of white chocolate and dye it light pink for your bunnies ears and nose. Spoon the chocolate into a piping bag or a ziploc bag with the tip cut off.
Use the black icing to give your bunnies a mouth and eyes.
Your bunnies are now ready to eat! Enjoy!
OK, so I haven’t had homemade Rice Krispie Treats in forever. So now I may need to make some this weekend using your adorable recipes here. So, thank you for that. Also glad Cassidy had a great birthday. Oh and those chicks are adorable!!! 😉
I am dying with the cuteness of your chicks! Keep sharing those pictures.
These are soooo easy. No baking, just decorating. I like that. A lot! 🙂
The thing is, I really still think they’re cute! Just not AS cute as they used to be. They have really fluffy and cute butts now!
These are the cutest Rice Krispie treats! And those chicks – darling.
Those are two cute Easter treat ideas. We have a couple of Easter themed molds and I had forgot all about using them this year. I might try to make something today ☺
Happy birthday to Cassidy! He gets the coolest birthday cake ever 🙂 Scarlet should be proud of her decorating skills!!
Also I can’t with the little baby chicks–SO adorable!
This is one of the cutest recipes I’ve ever seen for Easter! So adorable…. thanks for sharing, momma, and hope you have a very happy Easter. And I’m here if you ever need to reach out. I hope you know that 🙂 I know these holidays tend to sucker punch us in the feels sometimes.
Love these! Scarlet has really good cake decorating skills. The baby chicks are so cute…the local store that I pick up dog food from had them for sale and I enjoyed watching them all huddle under the light. So adorable.
Yay the chicks are here. Can’t wait to see all of the candid chick pics I know you are going to post. I’m still waiting for spring to spring in Northern California, and I just learned it suppose to rain next week 🙁 Happy Birthday Cassidy!!!!! Scarlet did an awesome job decorating his cake. I love the carrot rice crispy treats the best Tamara. Happy Easter 🙂
Awe those chicks are so dang cute and I love Rice Krispie treats too! They really are a great snack any time. Happy birthday to Cassidy! Scarlet did a great job with the cake!
Those Rice Krispie treats are so fun! And, how adorable are those baby chicks?!!
I love that you got chicks….and it just seems perfect for you and your family. We’ve thrown around the idea as well. In Somerville you can actually have up to six chickens per building I believe, so we could have communal chickens for our condo!
YOU GOT CHICKS??? OMG TAMARA! So, letme get this right. Two cats. One dog. EIGHT baby chicks and counting. Two kids. One husband.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
LOL
Oh how I adore your family….
BTW- those rice crispy recipes are AWESOME.
You make the best recipes! And I’m so happy you got chicks. We have lots of them in my hometown at my parents’ house and Reiko always had fun every time he visited those chicks.
I love the idea of making shapes out of rice krispie treats. I’ve honestly never thought of that. Yay for baby chicks!
Mmm, yummy!
And my daughter would LOVE chicks. They’re adorable.