Good morning! Hoppy Easter!
🎵Here comes Peter cotton tail, hopping down the bunny trail!🎵
Easter I think is such a cute time of year, I like the years when there isn’t a ton of snow still but, in Saskatchewan all you can do is wait and see!
There’s not a whole lot going on for Easter this year, I assume that’s going to be a good normal for most people this year!
I am definitely looking forward to the Easter Bunny, there is just so many different fun things to do, and who doesn’t love a holiday that you can have the children go and find hidden goodies and, keep themyour hair for a couple minutes!
This year I am not over filling those baskets with chocolate, I am trying more homemade goodies, and more toys vs candy in their baskets!
There is so many yummy treats to make, with little time for it!
I love to themed stuff, if I can theme everything I will and I would! So, when it comes to Easter of course everything needs to be carrots!
This year I am hoping to make of course the classic carrot cake, carrots and cream cheese sandwich cookies, they are absolutely delicious and like an Oreo for Easter!
In the past I have made homemade Kinder eggs, those are a lot of fun to make they were definitely time-consuming but I will leave some pictures or when I did that down below!
What are you planning to do for Easter baskets this year?
Do you do more treats from the bunny, or more toys from the bunny and treats from the kitchen?
I usually get more than what I need, when I head into that Dollar Tree it is so easy to get ahead of myself that it gets a little crazy at times!
It can be easier to have extra stuff on hand, most days where I may be threw a couple too many things in the cart as you never know when you’re going to need a dollar store goody!
When I had went in last time to get more Easter decorations, as I realized I really have no decorations! They didn’t have a whole lot, whether they were already running out at the store that I went to or that there just isn’t as much little stuff for Easter!
I do find that some holidays if you want almost need to do more crafts for them then we will go and find a little knick-knacks!
Maybe it’s just my store and the timing oh, I do know that each of the Dollar Trees that I go to weather in the same city or the other city that I go to I bounce between two, definitely carry some different stuff!
Let’s get baking now I guess!
CLASSIC CARROT CAKE
Who doesn’t love carrot cake for Easter! With a delicious cake, that is easy to whip together it’s one of our favorites for Easter!
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup cooking oil
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 cups grated carrots
Beat sugar and cooking oil into a mixing bowl. Beaten eggs, one at a time then add vanilla. Measure in the next 5 ingredients start a mix. Stiring grated carrot. Turn into grease 9 x 13 in pan. Bake at 350° F in the oven for 35 to 45 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. Cool and frost
CREAM CHEESE ICING
- 4 oz (half brick) cream cheese
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 cups icing sugar
Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla well. Add sugar slowly beating until fluffy. Spread over cake. Maybe doubled to ice a two layer cake or simply because the icing is delicious!
CARROT CAKE CREAM CHEESE SANDWICH COOKIES!
These truly are as good as they sound! Absolutely DELICIOUS!
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- /2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup cooking oil
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup grated carrots
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
- 8 oz (one block) cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Line two sheets with parchment paper put to the side. In a bowl mix together flour cinnamon baking soda and salt step to the side. In a different bowl mix sugars, egg and vanilla until well blended. Mixed carrots and flour mixture mix until smooth. Scope out some dough roll into a ball and flatten down. Baked for between 12 and 15 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Let cool completely. Scoop icing onto one half and sandwich the cookies together!
ENJOY!
I always loved baking yummy themed Easter stuff!
Do you always make sure that stuff looks as cute as it can be, or do you just whip it up and know that it’ll taste just as good?
I hope you have an awesome happy Easter, if you want to see more goodies that I have been making or some more day-to-day mom stuff, make sure you follow the other social media pages I will have links down below!
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Until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend, and a productive week!
Bye for now!
Classy Classic's By Kandis 