Play with your food: Easter recipes

These easy recipes take Easter treats way beyond the pastel. Start with some delightful appetizers of Cheesy Chicks and Hard-boiled Hens. Then, take a walk on the sweet side with our adorable Puddin' Pie Baskets and Cheesecake Bunnies. Then celebrate nesting season with some divinely Devilish Egg Cakes and no-fuss Choco-nests filled with candy eggs. Now let’s get crackin’!

Cheesecake Bunnies

Hop on down to the grocery store for a premade cheesecake to make this super-easy Easter dessert.

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Cheesy Chicks & Hard-boiled Hens

Everyone will cluck in admiration for these cute Easter appetizers!

Download the Cheesy Chicks & Hard-boiled Hens recipes

Puddin' Pie Baskets

For a yummy twist on the standard Easter cookie, bake up some eggs-tra special baskets.

Download the Puddin' Pie Baskets recipe

Devilish Egg Cakes

This deviled dessert ascends to angelic heights when served in a delicious shell of white chocolate.

Download the Devilish Egg Cakes recipe

Choco-nests

These adorably easy-to-make nests are fun to fill with whatever favorite candies you choose.

Download the Choco-nests recipe

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Jennifer Fuijta cooks and overeats in Kansas City, where she’s a writer for Hallmark. Her husband and teenage sons say she’s nice except when she is in the kitchen, where she’s a total bossypants.