It's technically not quite Easter yet but since we did our celebration on Friday, the holiday is pretty much over for me. Friday was pretty fun. I swapped my normal Friday activities with Sunday's which gave me the day to just chill and enjoy the festivities. We did gifts this year. I got an adorable Calico Critter baby bunny in a basket Easter with cute little Eastery accessories that I wanted really badly.
I still have not yet opened my Critter set. It's so cute I almost hate to take it out of the box. Once I do that it's going to have to be stored away so that I don't lose any of the pieces. But I also can't wait to play with those little eggs that the baby bunny comes with! :D Too, too cute. I will save this for a rainy day, I think.
Later on in the afternoon, we dyed Easter eggs! I haven't dyed eggs in years, so this was a lot of fun. We just got the plain dye this time, no fancy stuff. I think the plain boring dyes can be more fun in some ways as it is a lot of fun to dip eggs from one dye into the next to mix it up and create some really cool colors. I managed to dye one of my eggs an olive green! I'll have to take pics of them really soon. There is no room in the fridge for them so they will be food for wild animals pretty soon. I am always sad to throw out my Easter eggs. While I don't get quite as attached to them as I do my pumpkins every year, it's still sad. Silly maybe, but I can't help it.
Fun fact - you can bake brownies using PEEPs as a sweetener. We ended up with several packages after a mix up of who loves which candies, so I decided that I wanted to experiment and see if I could make a batch of brownies with no sugar and just melt these nasty mothers (that nobody wanted to eat) down to sweeten the brownies with. My thought was to melt them down via a double boiler and then add them into the dry ingredients. I added some (almond) milk into the bowl to encourage the melting action that showed no signs of happening the first several minutes of this experiment. I was thinking that I might have to scrap this whole thing - I mean, those things could outlast the apocalypse! After awhile though, they began to soften and turn into a sticky, sweet, bubbling mix of goo. I used peanut butter instead of regular butter, and I added that to this bubbling mixture so that it would melt. I honestly added a little too much, and it was the all natural ground up at the local health food kind, and therefore, I ended up adding just a pinch more sugar to counter balance the lack of sweetness that a Jiffy peanut butter would not have had. Overall, they turned out pretty good. Maybe a little bitter, which likely came from the coffee that got spilled in the batter. But not bad, considering I just threw ingredients together and hoped for the best. I've got 2 more boxes of PEEPs to melt down and eviscerate so next time I will make some frosting to accompany the next batch of brownies I make. :) That was fun. It was fun to experiment to see what could be done. This has probably already been done, but given how much Google sucks any more as a search engine, I couldn't find any recipes that used melted down PEEPs as a sweetener.
Over all, it was a good holiday that ended with eating some of the yummiest pizza that I have made in awhile. I topped it with finely chopped leftover London Broil, red pepper, tomato and green olives. Delicious!
