Easter Special Recipes

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Jelly Bean Nest Cookie Recipe


Ingredients:

* 2 cups miniature marshmallows
* Butter
* 1 (6-ounce) package (4 cups) chow mein noodles
* Jelly beans

Method:

* Combine marshmallows and butter in 2-quart saucepan; cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted (6 to 8 minutes). Stir in noodles until very well coated.
* Press mixture on bottom and up sides of each buttered 12 cup muffin pan cup with buttered fingers. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or until firm.
* Remove from cups; fill with jelly beans.

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Gingerbread Easter Bunny Cookie Recipe



Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup (c) margarine
• 1/2 c brown sugar
• 1/2 c dark molasses
• 3 1/2 c flour
• 1 teaspoon (ts) baking soda
• 1/4 ts cloves
• 1/2 ts cinnamon
• 1 ts ginger
• 1/2 ts salt
• 1/4 c water

Method:

• The first step begins with the preheating of oven to a temperature of nearly 350 ° F
• Take the margarine and sugar in a bowl and blend them nicely till it turns creamy and then beat in the molasses.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, powdered cloves, powdered cinnamon, and powdered ginger.
• Pour these dry ingredients to the mixture of margarine and then put water into it so as to prepare the dough. Knead it until it is soft.
• The next step consists of rolling the dough directly on the cookie sheet.
• With the help of cookie cutter, cut the cookies in the shape of bunny rabbits.
• Then bake the cookies for about 8 minutes and your Gingerbread Easter bunny cookies recipe is ready to serve.

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Easter Dream Bar Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1-cup margarine
* 1-cup brown sugar
* 1 egg
* 2-cup flour
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 12 ounce chocolate morsels
* 1 cup nuts, chopped

Method:

* Take a bowl and put margarine, brown sugar and egg in it. Now mix well.
* Add on 2 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon Vanilla to it.
* Stir until everything gets properly mixed.
* Spread the mixture on to the greased cookie sheet.
* The next step consists of baking at a temperature of 350 ° F for about 15-20 minutes. Keep baking till the color turns light brown.
* Take 12 ounce chocolate morsels and melt them.
* Do the topping with these melted chocolate morsels on the baked mixture.
* Spread chocolate nuts on it. Seeking the help of spatula, insert these nuts deep into the chocolate.
* Let the baked nutty mixture cool down and later on, cut bars out of it. And the yummy cookies are ready to be served.

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Apricot Squares Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup (c) shortening
* 1/2 c sugar
* 1 ea Egg, well beaten
* 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
* 1 1/2 c flour
* 1 1/2 ts baking powder
* 1/2 ts salt
* 1/2 ts cinnamon
* 1 pn cloves
* 2 tablespoon milk
* 3/4 c apricot preserves

Method:

* Take about 1/2 cup shortening and cream it.
* Add on sugar to it and continue creaming till it becomes fluffy.
* Add eggs and lemon juice and beat them well.
* Take a bowl and put all the dry ingredients in it for sifting with milk.
* Take a well-greased pan and spread the batter prepared but only half the quantity.
* Add on apricot preserves to it for covering purpose.
* Put the remaining half batter into it.
* Bake the batter for nearly half an hour at a temperature of 400 degrees.
* When the color of the mixture has turned golden, take it out from the oven for cooling it. Once the batter has cooled down, cut them in the shape of squares.

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Apple Easter Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
* 1 (18 ounce) box spice cake mix
* 1 small box instant butterscotch or vanilla pudding and pie filling
* 4 eggs
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 1/2 cup cold water
* 3 apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped
* 1 cup golden raisins

Method:

* Sprinkle walnuts in bottom of greased and floured 10-inch tube pan or 12-cup fluted tube pan; set aside.
* Mix cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil and water in large bowl with mixer at medium speed for 3 minutes or until well blended. Stir in apples and raisins if desired. Pour batter into prepared pan.
* Bake at 325 degrees F for 55 to 65 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 15 minutes; invert onto rack and cool completely. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar before serving.

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Baked Smoked Ham Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1 large smoked ham, about 12 to 18 pounds
* Whole cloves
* 3 cups pineapple juice
* 1 pound dark brown sugar
* One 16-ounce bottle dark corn syrup

Method:

* Preheat the oven to 325° F.
* Take a shallow roasting pan and place the ham on it.
* Score the fat and cover it with cloves.
* Take the pineapple juice and pour it over the ham.
* Bake the ham for 12 minutes per pound.
* Remove the baked ham from the oven after 1 1/2 hours.
* Sprinkle brown sugar on the baked ham.
* Without touching the brown sugar, pour the corn syrup over the ham.
* Continue baking the ham but don't forget to moisten it every 15 minutes.
* Once the baking part is over, remove the ham from the oven and let it cool. But moistening with water has to be done at frequent intervals, till the ham gets completely cool. And the yummy dish is ready to be served.

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Angel Food Cake Recipe


Ingredients:

* 1 1/2 c- sugar
* 1 c- flour
* 1 ts -cream of tartar
* 1/8 ts- salt
* 11 ea- egg whites
* 1 ts- vanilla

Method:

* Sieve collectively the sugar, flour, cream of tartar, and salt 4 times.
* Beat the egg whites until it becomes dry. Fold the dry constituents into eggs.
* Now add vanilla.
* Bake the matter at 250 degrees F. for about 1 hour.
* Dust with crushed sugar or frost top and sides with desired frosting.