Easter Fun

I was inspired by the pretty jello egg pictures I saw on Pinterest and followed the link to the Tip Junkie Blog http://go.tipjunkie.com/ea/466/choosetothrive.blogspot.com/2011/04/rainbow-easter-eggs.html. You can get the jello molds from the kraft website (a few months before Easter) if you pay for shipping and handling. I found that it worked really well to use 5 molds and 5 large boxes of jello made with the evaporated milk instructions from Kraft. They were pretty easy to make and everyone seemed to like them. The milk cut some of the sweetness of jello which made them even better. :o)

Next I set out to make some Easter Egg Oreo Truffles and some Oreo Truffles made in the shape of Baby Chicks. As I was brainstorming on what to use for the feet, my creative Husband found some mini licorice rope at Cost Plus World Markets that we could pull apart into ropes of 3 and then spread out each of the ropes on one side to make feet. We used coconut coated in yellow food coloring for the head feathers and rolled out an orange Starburst candy and cut it into small triangles for the beak. They ended up taking a little more time than I originally planned so we made a bunch of colored egg shaped Oreo Truffles with different sprinkles on the top as well.  My daughter even got into the action and helped apply sprinkles to the eggs.