Happy Easter!

 I hope that each of you has a blessed Easter!! And may your Easter baskets be filled with your favorite candy! (I hope mine has Russell Stover vanilla creme eggs in it! LOL!)

Easter cupcakes

C'mon - you knew I was going to blog about Easter cupcakes, didn't you?

I was reading an article about "the cutest ever Easter cupcakes" on the Food Network website and when I got to the picture of the little lamb cupcakes, I laughed out loud! I'm not sure how they would taste - but they are so adorable! And I bet kids would have a blast making them. But somehow I don't think I could talk Buddy & Lulu into making them with me. Gosh, they get so difficult when they're over 18. Sigh.

How darned cute are these??? They remind me of the sheep in the Serta mattress commercials, LOL!

Food Network's Little Lamb Cupcakes

I love these sparkling baby cakes cupcake beauties (also from Food Network)! They're almost too pretty to eat. Not really. I would devour that cupcake in a heartbeat. Her and her pretty little dog, too. Yum.

Food Network's Sparkling Baby Cakes

These little bunny cupcakes are from Wilton.com, and I think they're pretty darned cute, too. They have several Easter cupcake ideas on their website.

Wilton's Sweet Tooth Bunny Cupcakes

Anyone planning to make Easter/spring cupcakes? What are you making?

Old Time Candy

Who doesn't have a favorite candy from when you were a kid? Chances are, one or more of your favorites are no longer available. But there is an online store that has a TON of "old time candy"!

I've shopped at Old Time Candy in the past - they have great customer service & fast shipping. Right now, if you use the code ebunny, you get 10% off your order.

 5 lb. Easter basket (picture courtesy of Old Time Candy)

One of their offerings is a 5 lb. Easter basket for $39.99. The description from the site says:

Each basket is packed with jelly beans, speckled malted eggs, chocolate foiled eggs, caramel and marshmallow eggs, Reese's peanut butter eggs, chocolate Bunnyettes, yellow Peeps, chocolate animals, Cadbury Eggs, chocolate rabbit, Easter Pez, Tootsie bank, giant Pixy Stix and the following retro toys: paddle ball game, finger trap and wooden pop gun. The basket measures almost 12 inches wide at the top edge and 7.5 inches deep. It holds a whopping 5 lbs of candy and toys with a height of over 11 inches.

 3 lb. Easter box (picture courtesy of Old Time Candy)

Then there is the 3 lb. Easter box for $24.99. The description is as follows:

Over three pounds of Easter favorites including yellow Peeps, chocolate foiled eggs, jelly beans, speckled malted eggs, caramel marshmallow eggs, chocolate Bunnyettes, Reese's Peanut Butter eggs, chocolate rabbit, chocolate Easter animal and Cadbury Eggs packed in an Easter box. 

 (picture courtesy of Old Time Candy)

They also offer tons of other pre-made gift baskets/boxes. But my favorite thing is their bulk and penny candy - which you can use to pack-a-bag. Yes, that's right - just like you used to do at the penny candy store! You pick the candy and the amount and fill the bag with your favorite candies!!

Definitely check them out for a really neat option for Easter (or any other occasion, or really any non-occasion, because candy is always appropriate, LOL).

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