Easter PEEPS Cupcake Recipe & Craft

Are you a fan of PEEPS? Easter sweets always include PEEPS bunnies and PEEPS chicks. What is your favorite Easter sweet treat?

This is the simplest Easter Recipe and Easter Craft that can be made quickly.

1. First  you make some cupcakes. Use any cupcake recipe - we use our easy Best Ever Cupcake recipe. The recipe is for Chocolate which can be made Vanilla by just omitting the cocoa powder or purchase cupcakes from your favorite bakery. 
2. Bake the cupcakes, cool and frost with your favorite frosting. We do use the Best Buttercream Frosting.
3. Add your favorite PEEPS to the top of the cupcake. 

If you want to make the cupcake even fancier, buy cupcake wraps (mine are green Easter eggs)  and wrap around the cupcake liner. Add ribbon around the cupcake and make a bow. Very easy!

Do you have any favorite Easter Recipes or Easter Crafts? If so, add them to my Recipes for the Holidays Pinterest Board or my Easter Treats & Recipes Board.

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Easter Recipes Easter Crafts and Easter Treats Link Party

Time for a new holiday party! Share any of your Easter Recipes, Easter Crafts and Easter Treats to the below Link Party.

Share anything related to Easter! I can't wait to see your treats, crafts and other ideas. I will randomly add them pins to my Easter Treats & Crafts Pinterest Board. As a special treat, If you add anything that involves PEEPS I will pin that to my special board, PEEPS Easter FUN.


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Easter Goodies in a Jar

We love Easter and Springtime at my home! Spring brings brighter colors, lighter recipes and more healthier family outdoor activities like hiking.

Hop to it and create this very tasty project with your kids! This is a fun gift in a jar idea which can be made and shared. I love the fact that PEEPS are around for most major holidays so this recipe can be used if you substitue the sweet bunnies for hearts, ghost,etc. You can also grab seasonal M&Ms for this project, too! If you make these jars to giveaway, make sure to create one for your Easter meal!


Holiday in a Jar (click to go to printable)

Ingredients

1 package graham crackers, crushed
8 PEEPS
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 cups M & Ms
1 Mason Jar with lid

Directions

Mix together graham crackers and brown sugar. Pour into jar.
Take PEEPS and put them all around the inside of the jar.
Pour in M&Ms and seal jar.

Copy the below instructions and tie to jar with a pretty matching ribbon!

Jar Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F
Empty jar contents into a bowl.
Cut PEEPS into small pieces
Add 1/2 cup of melted butter
Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla
Mix well.
Pat into a greased 8 X 8 baking dish
Bake for 15-20 minutes.
Let cool completely and then cut into bars.

My 12 year old did these all on her own. She made the jar at Girl Scouts and then came home and baked the treats. They were tasty!  We decided that once baked, this recipe would be tasty broken up over ice cream!!  Enjoy and have fun doing these for other holidays! HOP to it!

Here is our Easter Smore with PEEPS idea, too!

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Welcome to the Blog Bash 2011! June 22nd-26th 2011

130  Bloggers are giving away a minimum of $100 prize packages on their blogs. 

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Share your favorite PEEPS moment!

Raise your hand if you LOVE PEEPS! Which season of PEEPS are your favorite? Share you memories and recipes with us!

I have fond memories as a kid getting the cute lil' chicks in my Easter basket!  I, of course, passed that tradition on to my daughters.  They have no clue what life was like back in the 70s & 80s because back then we only had the PEEPS chicks. I do believe that the bunnies could be purchased when I was a kid but I always remember getting bright yellow chicks!

As for these crazy modern times, PEEPS seem to pop out for all the top candy buying holidays!  Peeps are out at Valentine's Day, Halloween, Christmas, Easter and more? I'm not sure but I think I saw American Flag peeps once!  Which are your favorites??  Which PEEPS have you seen?  Is there a PEEP out there that you wish they made? 

My most favorite peeps moment was last year when my brother-in-law came for a visit.  He was 20 at the time and a junior in college.  You can imagine his maturity level being less that the maturity level of my tween & teen daughters.  He is real close in age with my girls and so they have always shared good times together growing up.  His visit was in the spring so the evenings were cool  which always means BONFIRE!   

All of us were sitting out around the fire talking, laughing, making & eating smores.  Next thing I knew, the Easter PEEPS where out and in the fire! Uncle Brian, Mr. Firebug, encouraged and I'm certain spear-headed the entire plan!

We were now making smores with the peeps!  I do have to admit, though, that PEEPS as a smore is TASTY!  I think they have a higher sugar content than just plain, boring marshmallows. Before I knew it, they were putting one PEEP in the fire at a time so they could see the peep grow and burn.  It really was funny but I felt so sad for the lil' chicks and bunnies. 

It seems, now we have a new PEEP tradition at our home especially when Uncle Brian comes for a visit!!!!  I hope you enjoyed the photos! I just happen to have a few on my cell phone! Of course for 2011 the cell phone pictures aren't so great but you get the gist of our fun!

One of our newest tradition is to make and share PEEPS Treats in a jar!  These are great for the kids to make and pass out to teachers, girl scout leaders, Sunday school teacher and more!  Enjoy!

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So what is your favorite Peeps memory??  Do you have a favorite Peep holiday?  I hope you'll take a minute and share with me!

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