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Easter Basket
Cake
Cake:
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon fresh grated lemon peel
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and place rack in the
center of the oven. Butter, and dust bundt pan with flour.
Set aside.
2. In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer)
cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy and pale in
color (about 3 minutes). Add the eggs, one at a time,
mixing well after each addition. Beat in the milk and lemon
zest.
3. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt and then
add to the batter along with the lemon juice. Mix only until
incorporated.
4. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the top
with an offset spatula. Bake about 40 - 45 minutes, or until
a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Frosting:
Butter Cream Frosting
1 cup butter
2 pounds powdered sugar
milk (as much as needed)
Yellow natural coloring
Green natural coloring
Lavender or Blue natural coloring
Cutting Cake:
1 cardboard circle (size of half dollar)
1 serrated knife for cutting cake
1 knife for spreading icing
1 pastry brush (optional)
1 cake pedestal or serving dish
5. Invert cake pan onto a cookie sheet. Take a serrated
knife and cut a layer off the bottom of the cake so that it
will sit flat.
6. Invert cake onto
your serving dish.
Take a spoon and dig
out some of the middle
of your cake at the top
leaving the edges. Place
cardboard circle over hole
in center of cake.
Our goal is to make the
cake look like a basket
that you can fill. Brush out
any extra crumbs.
Decorating Supplies:
3 decorating bags 3 decorating couplers
1 grass tip (optional) 2 star tips
1 basket weave tips 1 Easter basket handle
7. Take about a cup of
your butter cream icing
and thin with some water.
Spread over the whole
cake. Let dry.
8. Separate your icing into
three bowls. Color them
green , lavender, yellow.
Spread a thin layer of green
icing inside the top of the
cake. If you have a grass tip
you can make grass
on the inside.
9. Fill a decorating bag with
lavender icing and use a star tip
along the border of the green icing.
Change tip and do a basket weave
around the entire sides of the cake.
10. Fill one decorator back with yellow
icing and a star tip. Star between lavender
stars and basket weave. Also use star tip
to make a ribbon boarder at the bottom.
.
11. Place easter basket handle down inside
of cake and fill cake with chocolate candy
and rest the easter bunny on the handle.
The large bunny and chocolate on this cake
came from the Squirrel's Nest.
Paper Bag Leprechaun Puppet
What You'll Need:
• Lunch sized paper bag
• Scissors
• Glue
• Green, white, black, orange,
and yellow construction paper
• 2 Wiggle eyes
• Crayons
What to Do:
1. Click on shamrock to print out template.
2. Cut out and trace the pieces onto the colored construction
paper as indicated on the templates.
3. Glue all the pieces onto the paper bag as pictured.
4. Glue the wiggle eyes onto the face. Draw on the other
facial features with the crayons.
Optional Variation:
Instead of copying all the templates over onto colored
construction paper, you can simply print the templates onto
white construction paper and color the pieces with crayons.
What You'll Need:
• Lunch sized paper bag
• Scissors
• Glue
• Green, white, black, orange,
and yellow construction paper
• 2 Wiggle eyes
• Crayons
What to Do:
1. Click on shamrock to print out template.
2. Cut out and trace the pieces onto the colored construction
paper as indicated on the templates.
3. Glue all the pieces onto the paper bag as pictured.
4. Glue the wiggle eyes onto the face. Draw on the other
facial features with the crayons.
Optional Variation:
Instead of copying all the templates over onto colored
construction paper, you can simply print the templates onto
white construction paper and color the pieces with crayons.
Easter
Bunny
What you'll need:
Cotton balls
Styrofoam egg
Pink chenille stem (pipe cleaner)
Thicker dark pink chenille stem (pipe cleaner)
Wiggle eyes
Small pink pom-pom
Wire cutters or scissors
Cardboard
Tacky Glue
Fabric or lace
How to make it:
1. Glue cotton balls on a styrofoam egg
for tail, feet, and paws.
2. Bend thick pink pipe cleaner for the
ears. Poke into top of egg.
3. Glue on wiggle eyes, a small pink
pom-pom nose. Poke pink chenille whiskers
into the egg.
4. Place on a cardboard circle with hole
cut out for base of egg to rest in. The
cardboard can be covered with fabric or lace.
Tips:
I cut a hole in the bottom of a coffee filter.
You could cover it with lace too if you want
them to sit up higher. You can use whatever
you have around the house for the base.
Bunny
What you'll need:
Cotton balls
Styrofoam egg
Pink chenille stem (pipe cleaner)
Thicker dark pink chenille stem (pipe cleaner)
Wiggle eyes
Small pink pom-pom
Wire cutters or scissors
Cardboard
Tacky Glue
Fabric or lace
How to make it:
1. Glue cotton balls on a styrofoam egg
for tail, feet, and paws.
2. Bend thick pink pipe cleaner for the
ears. Poke into top of egg.
3. Glue on wiggle eyes, a small pink
pom-pom nose. Poke pink chenille whiskers
into the egg.
4. Place on a cardboard circle with hole
cut out for base of egg to rest in. The
cardboard can be covered with fabric or lace.
Tips:
I cut a hole in the bottom of a coffee filter.
You could cover it with lace too if you want
them to sit up higher. You can use whatever
you have around the house for the base.
Fuzzy
Chicks
You Need:
Yarn (Whatever color you like)
Styrofoam Eggs
Wiggle Eyes -- 15mm
Orange Pipe Cleaners - 1 per egg
Tacky Glue
Instructions:
1- Place a dot of tacky glue at the top of the egg. Start
to make a circle of yarn over the glue. Hold the yarn
down and start winding around once.
2- Start spreading strips of glue down each side of the
egg; wind the yarn around the egg making sure not to
leave any spaces where you can see the egg. Repeat
the gluing and winding process until you get to the
bottom of the egg. Then measure about how much
you will need and cut the yarn. Wrap the final piece at
the bottom to finish. Let dry.
3- Glue two wiggle eyes on. Cut 2 inches of your
orange pipe cleaner. Fold in half and push the cut
ends into the egg under the eyes. Do again for the
bottom beak.
4- Cut four 3 inch pieces of pipe cleaner for the feet.
Bend one piece around the second piece to make
three toes and a leg. Repeat for the other foot. Push
the legs up into the bottom of the egg on each side.
You will need to manipulate them to get the egg to
stand up.
Chicks
You Need:
Yarn (Whatever color you like)
Styrofoam Eggs
Wiggle Eyes -- 15mm
Orange Pipe Cleaners - 1 per egg
Tacky Glue
Instructions:
1- Place a dot of tacky glue at the top of the egg. Start
to make a circle of yarn over the glue. Hold the yarn
down and start winding around once.
2- Start spreading strips of glue down each side of the
egg; wind the yarn around the egg making sure not to
leave any spaces where you can see the egg. Repeat
the gluing and winding process until you get to the
bottom of the egg. Then measure about how much
you will need and cut the yarn. Wrap the final piece at
the bottom to finish. Let dry.
3- Glue two wiggle eyes on. Cut 2 inches of your
orange pipe cleaner. Fold in half and push the cut
ends into the egg under the eyes. Do again for the
bottom beak.
4- Cut four 3 inch pieces of pipe cleaner for the feet.
Bend one piece around the second piece to make
three toes and a leg. Repeat for the other foot. Push
the legs up into the bottom of the egg on each side.
You will need to manipulate them to get the egg to
stand up.
Luci Willingham
Eli at Easter
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Paper Plate Leprechaun
Supplies:
Paper plate
Pencil
Nickel, Dime, and Penny
Scissors
Glue
Marker
Construction Paper:
- 1 red
- 1 green
- 1 blue
- 1 white
- 1 black
- 1 pink
- 1 yellow
Instructions:
1- Hat- Cut a square from the green paper, the size you
would like the hat to be. Next, cut a thin rectangular strip of
green construction paper for the brim of the hat. Make this
a little longer than the green square which will be the hat.
Cut a long rectangular strip of black construction paper for
the trim on the hat. This should be the same width as the
green square hat. To make the buckle, use yellow
construction paper. Take a small scrap, and fold it in half
and cut a rectangle. Along the fold, you can cut out the
inside to make a hollow rectangle. Glue all the pieces in
place, and then glue the hat to the plate.
2- Eyes-The next step is to make the eyes. I used three
coins as templates for tracing on construction paper, a
quarter, penny, and a dime. I used the quarter to trace a
circle in black, the penny to trace a circle in white, and the
dime to trace a circle in blue. All these circles then get
glued on top of one another, biggest to smallest, to make
the eyes. Then, glue the eyes to the paper plate.
3- Nose -Now it is time to make his nose. I used a bit of pink
construction paper scrap, cut a rectangle and fold in half.
Draw the letter b on the fold and cut out. You can adjust the
shape to make the size of noes you like. Glue on to the face.
4- Mouth- Then use a marker and draw on the mouth. You
can use construction paper to make a mouth. A big grin
would look great!
5- Beard - Next it is time to make his beard. Take the red
construction paper and start cutting thin long strips from it,
about 1/4 inch wide. Cut about a dozen strips. When you
are done, take all these strips and cut them in half to make
them shorter, so you have twice as many as you started
with. Take each strip and roll it tightly around a pencil. This
will make it curly. Then glue each curly strip around the
edge of the plate to make his beard.
Once your done you can use some tape to hang to the door,
or a loop of string can be taped to the back for easy hanging.
Yarn Wrapped Eggs in a Basket
This craft will make a great
centerpiece or just to be on
display during Easter.
Supplies
Easter Grass
Styrofoam® eggs
Craft glue
Yarn (your favorite colors and types)
Your favorite Easter basket
Instructions
1- Pick your favorite yarns for these eggs. You will only
need a small amount. Start at the large end of your
styrofoam egg. Put a dot of glue right in the top center
of your egg and form a tiny circle with your yarn. Hold
circle of yarn in place at top with your finger. Glue up
and down all sides of egg and coil the yarn around and
around the egg. When you get to the bottom, gauge
how much you have left and cut the yarn, winding it to a
tiny circle at the bottom. Here is a close up diagram of
how one should look.
2- Place them in basket either on top of
Easter grass or you can use construction
paper that has been shredded.
This craft will make a great
centerpiece or just to be on
display during Easter.
Supplies
Easter Grass
Styrofoam® eggs
Craft glue
Yarn (your favorite colors and types)
Your favorite Easter basket
Instructions
1- Pick your favorite yarns for these eggs. You will only
need a small amount. Start at the large end of your
styrofoam egg. Put a dot of glue right in the top center
of your egg and form a tiny circle with your yarn. Hold
circle of yarn in place at top with your finger. Glue up
and down all sides of egg and coil the yarn around and
around the egg. When you get to the bottom, gauge
how much you have left and cut the yarn, winding it to a
tiny circle at the bottom. Here is a close up diagram of
how one should look.
2- Place them in basket either on top of
Easter grass or you can use construction
paper that has been shredded.
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