A hunting we will go ....
We indulged in numerous easter egg hunts on Sunday - hunting at our friends house and hunting at home with family.
So just how many eggs are too many!
I hope you enjoyed a hunt or two at your place.
xx
Thank you cards shop giveaway winner
My contest ended yesterday and I just picked a winner using random.org and I am delighted to announce the winner of the Thank you cards shop is...
Drumroll please? Without further ado, the lucky winner is...
Erin, of sweet blog Lucky by Design about interiors, baking and more, who was loving the Elephant with Balloons thank you cards. Please e-mail me your details.
Congratulations Helen, you will receive $50 of store credit for Thank you cards shop
Thank you to all of you sweets that entered, to my loyal followers and new friends.
Have a sweet day!
Easter Chocolate lollipops
I love chocolate, so when the lovely people at Hotel Chocolat sent me a load of white chocolate drops, I was so excited. I love how easy it is to melt the chocolate drops and the taste, well yummy!
What could I make this time? I started by ordering some bunny and leaf lollipop moulds as I love how sophisticated the bunny moulds look. After making some white chocolate Easter bunny lollipops I had a go at colouring the chocolate using powdered green colouring. I made the chocolate leaf lollipops in green chocolate and thought they looked like lettuce leaves that the bunny could sit amongst. After experimenting with a few glasses, jars, pots etc. I settled on using the shot glasses filled with some edible green grass I picked up on a recent trip to Butlers.
I will be using them tomorrow as table settings for my guests at my Easter Monday tea party. Now I must dash as I have lunch at my folks and a special little lady is playing the Easter Bunny this year! Then later tonight I will be setting up my Easter table and adding the finishing touches to my cupcakes!
Easter Chocolate lollipops
What you will need:
Sitting bunny lollipop moulds
Leaf lollipop moulds
White chocolate drops
Green dusting powder
2mm pink double faced satin ribbon
2mm blue double faced satin ribbon
5mm blue gingham ribbon
5mm pink gingham ribbon
Edible green grass
Six shot glasses
Instructions
- Temper (melt) and colour your chocolate, place lollipop sticks in moulds
- Squeeze chocolate into moulds
- Lightly tap moulds so chocolate lays flat and air bubbles are removed, and leave to set
- Turn out chocolate lollipops
- Tie gingham ribbon around bases
- Make a bow and trim ends
- Repeat step 1-4 with white chocolate in Easter bunny lollipop moulds
- Tie 2mm ribbon into a bow around neck of bunny
- Shred edible grass
- Fill shot glass with edible grass
- Place leaf lollipops in edible grass
- Place Easter bunny lollipop in centre of leaf lollipops
Have a sweet Easter!
Easter Wrapped Up
The happiest of Easters to you, dear friends! Hope you are having a scrumptious long weekend - whatever you are doing this religious holiday and whomever you are doing it with...
I've had a lovely few days packed with family, friends, sunshine and perhaps the odd piece of chocolate here and there ;).
I thought I'd do a little wrap-up of some of what I've been up to, and then I plan on visiting all your blogs to peep in on YOUR Easter adventures!
It started a few days ago when I hosted six kids (and 5 babies!) at my place for an Easter soiree. It being the first year any of us let our kidlets go to town with chocolate, we did go a tad overboard with the ensuing Easter egg hunt. But really, it's a first-time-mum rite of passage to go a little mental at first Easters and Christmases, right?! ahem. Anyway, the kids decorated and glued together little paper baskets to collect their eggs while we lounged luxuriously in the glorious April sunshine drinking coffee and eating cupcakes. Really, could the weather be any more perfect at the mo? It took a few minutes for the kids to catch on, but once they did it was on for young and old and baskets were overflowing with brightly foiled chocolate...
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| Fern and her cousin Ellen made this string of bunting for the cubby |
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| my Easter cupcakes on a Nigella Lawson platter (the perfect shape for Easter! |
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| Fern decorating her basket |
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| Hunting for eggs... |
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| then eating them... |
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| Someone snapped this pic while I wasn't looking... |
Late Saturday night, we snaked a mini-egg trail from Fern's room outside. We did something else also which I will talk about later in the week... I bit some 'bite marks' into the carrot and filled the nests with a handmade bunny and (in Fern's case) a Humpty Dumpty egg. Unfortunately, Elliott and Fern each woke through the night, and I can't tell you how many times I kicked and almost tripped over one of those mini eggs in the darkness...
When the kids awoke at 6 o'clockish, we went outside to see what the 'bunny' had left. (no pics, I had the video camera at this point!) Needless to say, Fern was beside herself with excitement. We let her eat chocolate for breakfast (actually we all did, I didn't actually eat real food til 11am - shocking!):
Later, I snapped Fern with her little bunny on the cubby stairs - I made her her own 'fluttering butterfly' shirt; I hardly ever get around to making anything for my own kids!
When the kids awoke at 6 o'clockish, we went outside to see what the 'bunny' had left. (no pics, I had the video camera at this point!) Needless to say, Fern was beside herself with excitement. We let her eat chocolate for breakfast (actually we all did, I didn't actually eat real food til 11am - shocking!):
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| Fern tucking into her 'Humpy Dumpy' at 6am |
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| I'm sorry, can't resist sharing this pic! |
That's it for now... the kids have gone to bed, Fern has eaten more chocolate in the last 24 hours than she has in her entire life (as have I, come to think of it) and it's been a happy day! Can't wait to read about your adventures, do do share! x
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