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Peeps. Creme Eggs. Chocolate bunnies. Jellybeans.
Ahhhhh Easter. The holiday where we worship at the altar of sugar, sugar and more sugar.
Of course, the candies of Easter are that much more sacred because most of them aren’t offered any time other than those months surrounding the holiday – which only leads to a deeper obsession with nabbing them while you can. Cause a Cadbury Egg just isn’t a Cadbury Egg on the Fourth of July.
And that brings us to this week’s Settle This: Which candy puts the Easter in your basket?
Tell us your favorite Easter candy (or pour on the sugar and name more than one) and you could be headed to Candyland by Sunday morning. Write an ode to your favorite creme-filled goody. Or a love song to peanut butter eggs. Or just remind us what you can’t get through spring without…
One creative candy lover will win a $20 gift certificate to Powell’s Sweet Shoppe to buy their own basket of candy to nosh on. Winner will be chosen by their wit and creativity in their comment. Basically, that means I want to be entertained.
Contest ends Thursday April 5th 11:59pm. Winner announced by Friday (4/6) morning. See rules here.
Congratulations to Carol for giving me yet another reason to try Cadbury eggs! (Some of my family members hate them too, but the Easter bunny gave them some anyways. Mwuhahaha!)
reese’s peanut butter eggs- the mini foil-wrapped ones, not the big ones! Oooohhhhhh so good…
Report comment Report commentAfter 43 years memories rush back to me every Easter morning. I get up early to find by own basket full of goodies and trinkets, deciding what to wear and what stuffed bunny or easter themed jewlery to bring with me to Easter Sunday Mass. And finally the long anticipated wait of seeing my grandmothers enormous brown wicker basket laced with plastic green grass and the colorful array of layers of every kind of Easter candy that comes out during the Easter season. All of my 15 cousins would sneak over to the dining room table and stretch our necks to search for our favorite candy. My sister would snag the popular Peeps Mashmellow bunnies that lined the edge of the basket and were the easiest to reach for us little kids. Jellybeans were scattered around the whole basket giving a lovely rainbow effect. Shiny foil wrapped chocolate bunnies soon disappeared. A favorite with many were the Chocolate coverd marshmellow shaped eggs that were abundant in the basket. Colored foil wrapped chocolate coins hide in the plastic grass. My favorite candy of all is the candy coated, speckelled, egg shaped malt ball. A most addicting candy, I looked forward every Easter to dig through the basket and find that blue coated malt ball that turned my mouth blue. I would savour the taste in my mouth, first with the sweet candy coating, then the melting chocolate and finally the crunchy middle. Yumm. Fourty-three years later the same basket is still running over with candy but looks surprisingly smaller than the basket of my youth.
Report comment Report commentHershey’s Speckled Robin Eggs are the one Easter candy that turn the grown ups in my family into kids. We may not agree on fashion or politics, but put out a basket of the malted candy eggs, and we all agree that they bring back the best Easter memories as we scarf them down in quantities large enough to ruin our Easter dinner appetites. Oh yum! I may have to go buy some now. Right now!
Report comment Report commentPEEPS AND CHOCOLATE COVERED MARSHMELLOW BUNNIES AND EGGS. I AM HAVING WITHDRAWLS FROM THE FACT THAT OUR LOCAL GROCERY STORE DOES NOT HAVE THEM. i WAS STUNNED WHEN THEY NEVER CAME IN. IT HAS TO BE PEEPS. PINK,YELLOW,PURPLE,WHITE.I THINK STHAT I COVERED ALL THE COLORS. CHRIS
Report comment Report commentI love a solid dark chocolate Easter Bunny!!! I start at his ears, eating a little each day.mmmm
Report comment Report commentPEEPS! Marshmallows in the shape of a chick, dunked in sugar granules that melt in your mouth. Every holiday has some kind of chocolate present, so for me having a yummy Peep always signifies that Easter has arrived!!!
Report comment Report commentOur Easter bunny only leaves my favorites now, she’s very well trained (oh wait, she’s ME!)….Cadbury eggs are amazing. It’s fine if my kids don’t like them in their baskets, I’m more than happy to oblige. The big ones are the best, but the mini ones are relatively guilt free, so those are good too. Cadbury mini eggs are fantastic as well and another personal fave. That crispy sugar coating with the melty smooth milk chocolate inside. Heaven. There are way too many choices of jelly bean out there these days if you ask me…our bunny brings original and the sour patch kids version. If forced to pick one favorite Easter candy, I guess it would have to be the Cadbury egg for it’s sweet, gooey goodness (and the gross-out factor too). Still cool after all these years.
Report comment Report commentWe’re shall we start. Well my all time favorite easter candy is Brach jelly beans , not the black ones yuck,and not the orange or yellow and who ever thought green was a good choice for a jelly bean was just plain nuts. Red is the only the only one for me. Red has a red flavor. Makes your tongue turn red. When I was a kiddo type person on Easter I would rob my brother and sisters baskets of only their red jelly beans. A cry would go out in the early morning She’s done it again. All the red jelly beans were gone again. Chocolate bunnies kept their ears, little peeps kept their peep heads, but red jelly beans were mine mine mine.
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aw man, didn’t read the creativity part… hmmm… … … damn. wish I was as funny as my toddler. Um, I ate a whole bag of reese’s peanut butter eggs in two days? wait, that’s not funny, that’s just sad… *sigh*
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