Easter Bunny Bait -recipe :)

It is almost Easter!  

Although it is not one of our favorite holidays it is a sure sign that spring is coming and I couldn’t be more excited.

A few days ago we all decorated the house with bright colors and eggs; it is amazing how bright decorations can really bring a sense of cheerfulness into a home.

Today Liam and Hannah decorated some eater eggs and made “Easter Bunny Bait” so that the Easter Bunny will bring them their baskets tomorrow.

I found this recipe years ago and use it all the time because it is so easy and delicious.  If you need to entice the Easter Bunny to hop to your house, here is the recipe for Easter Bunny Bait.
Ingredients- (the M&M’s, peanuts, pretzels and sprinkles can be changed to other candies or have more of one than the other depending on your sweet tooth preference)

• 1 package white candy melts
• 10 cups air popped popcorn or 2 packages of micro-wave popcorn
• 1 ½ cup pastel M&M’s
• 1 ½ cup salted peanuts
• 1 ½ cup twig style pretzels, I break them in half or thirds to have more
• Multi-colored sprinkles

Instructions-
• In a large bowl mix the popcorn, M&M’s, peanuts, and pretzels.
• In a glass measuring cup microwave the candy melts, checking and stirring every 30 seconds until it is fully melted.
• Pour the melts over the popcorn mix and immediately stir coating the mixture.  Add the sprinkles and continue to mix.  Dump mixture on a flax surfaced covered with wax paper and let cool and harden.  Your Easter Bunny will like your bait!

Liam and Hannah has so much fun making the bait, although they did eat a good portion of it while mixing…

I think they had more fun getting messy and painting eggs.  We always wait until the day before the dye eggs and I always realize on that day it is a bad idea; the kids have dyed hands for Easter.  It makes for interesting photos.

Hannah, as always, got really creative using jewels, stickers and sparkles to decorate her eggs.  They were beautiful.  Liam on the other hand was dipping them and painting them with all the colors…they turned out “delightfully Liam beautiful.”  I have to laugh when they do crafts together, they are so opposite.

Hope you had fun decorating and getting ready for Easter!


Go Green and Stay Keen,

Julie