Try these Easter treats recipes to add a little pizazz to your Easter festivities! You’ll find super easy 2 ingredient lemon bars, strawberry mousse, jelly bean bark and more! They’re great for parties or any get together where you need some sweet treats!
Recipes for Homemade Easter Treats
Here are some recipes for some delicious homemade Easter treats your kids are sure to love! These recipes are tasty and easy to prepare. They’re great for parties or family get togethers!
Jelly Bean Bark
1 1/4 lbs. white chocolate wafers, bark or chips
2 cups mini jelly beans
Line a 15x10x1 inch jelly roll pan with foil and grease with butter (no substitutes). Melt the chocolate in the microwave for 3-4 minutes, stirring every minute or so. Spread on a pan and sprinkle with jelly beans. When cooled, break into pieces.
This easy strawberry mousse recipe makes a quick and easy strawberry dessert your kids are sure to love!
Easy Strawberry Mousse Recipe
2 tsp. unflavored gelatin
2 Tbsp. cold water
1/4 cup boiling water
1 1/3 cups instant strawberry drink mix (like Nestle’s strawberry)
2 cups heavy whipping cream
2 tsp. vanilla
Soften gelatin in cold water. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir in boiling water and keep stirring until gelatin is dissolved. Cool 10 minutes. Combine drink mix, whipping cream and gelatin mixture, beating until thickened. Beat in vanilla. Spoon into individual dishes. Chill for 1-2 hours. Serves 8.
This easy 2 ingredient lemon bars recipe makes a super yummy dessert! The lemony flavor, creamy texture and powdered sugar meld to make a dessert that is magical!
Easy 2 Ingredient Lemon Bars Recipe
1 box angel food cake mix
1 can lemon pie filling
Mix ingredients. Pour into a greased 9×13 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Bunny Bait
1 bag (about 4 cups) popcorn, popped
Pastel M&M’s
Pretzel sticks, broken into about 1 inch pieces
6 oz. white chocolate or almond bark
sprinkles, optional
Place everything but the white chocolate (or almond bark) into a large bowl. Melt the white chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir and microwave again, repeating until melted. Pour on popcorn mix and toss well. Spread on wax paper, sprinkle with sprinkles and cool.
Easter Fun – Jelly Bean Lollipops!
For a different twist on an Easter egg hunt this year, try planting jelly beans the night before. Take 3-5 jelly beans and plant them in a little dirt. The next morning when the kids get up, they should find that a lollipop that has grown where the jelly beans were planted!
It is fun to make the sucker or lollipop the same color as the jelly beans and you could use different colored jelly beans for a multicolored sucker.
Also I do know kids so they will probably try to get you to plant jelly beans every night so to help you moms and dads out tell them they will only grow on the night before Easter. We parents always need to stay on step ahead.
Jill
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I just love all these recipes! They all sound so good.
I just want to say that this post inpired me to make my own Easter candy. I made vanilla flavored lollipops with sprinkles, and chocolate bunnies, and I will be adding jelly beans to chocolate to make some yummy bark. I had so much fun!
Re: Quick Lemon Bars
Should I make the cake batter following the package directions, or do you mean for me to simply combine the dry cake mix with the lemon pie filling? No eggs, no oil…?
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Jan
Just mix the dry cake batter and pie filling together and bake. Now that I right this I wonder what this would taste like done with apple or blueberry pie filling. I bet that would be good too. Just thinking.
I’ve tried blueberry pie filling and it is really good!
Jill, both major brands of cake mix have the powdered egg white already in the angel food cake mix. They both only require adding water. I tried the lemon bar recipe using the Pillsbury mix and only mixed the dry cake mix and canned lemon pie filling as the recipe calls for but it puffed up and ended up like a lemon angle food cake instead of the lemon bars. What am I doing wrong??
How long do I “just bake” this?
That jelly bean bark sounds so good. Think I will make it this Easter.
Had hubby get the ingredients for the lemon bars. I mixed the two items together and ended up with a 9 x 13 pan of lemon angel food cake instead of lemon bars. ? I looked at the cake mix box and saw where it said it’s a “just add water” cake mix. Oops! Hahaha! It’ll still be good, I am sure. ??
Moderator, please disregard my comments/questions (2 total) about the lemon bars. I went to Tawra’s video and saw she used the same type cake mix I used and saw the outcome was the same as mine. I was looking at the photo with the recipe on this post as what it should look like, so I was confused.
I love the planting jelly bean ideas. One time (off subject) my daughter (when she was 4) got a hold of my bag of dried beans. While I was in the shower she planted them in a empty flower bed in the backyard. I can’t believe they grew. LOL