Pickled Eggs

For the pickled eggs I used:

Hard-boiled eggs

2 cups of vinegar

1 cup of water

1 teaspoon of salt

1 tablespoon of sugar

red food coloring

I dissolved the salt and sugar in the water and vinegar over medium heat. I added red food coloring until the mixture turned my desired shade of red. I allowed the mixture to cool and poured it over the hard-boiled eggs in the jar.

I placed the jar in the refrigerator to allow the eggs to turn red.

Here's a picture of the finished product:

Painted Blown Easter Eggs and Finished Easter Basket.

For the Easter basket I decided to use watercolors to paint blown eggs.

Once again I used Martha Stewart's Living magazine for inspiration.

Here's the finished Easter basket:

Happy Easter - Sugar Cookies

I wanted to make a Easter Basket similar to the one on the cover of Martha Stewart's magazine. So, I decided to make cutout sugar cookies using the chick cookie template from the magazine along with a rabbit template I found online.

Here are all the ingredients I used:

• 2/3 cup flavored shortening
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 4 teaspoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

1. Cream shortening and sugar in a bowl.

2. Beat in egg, milk and vanilla.

3. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture and mix well.

4.Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until cookies are golden brown. I also made some royal icing and tinted 1/2 of it a pale purple.

First, I outlined the cookie with icing.

Then, I used a thinner version of the royal icing to fill in the outline.

I allowed the icing to set for a few hours.

For the larger sugar cookie rabbit I decided to cover it with chocolate.

I placed the rabbit in the refrigerator to allow the chocolate to set.

This rabbit will later be placed in another Easter basket.

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Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons

Ice Cream Sundae

Today, I made an ice cream sundae to celebrate the 119th anniversary of the first documented ice cream sundae.

Fresh Fruit Bouquet

Here are pictures of the fruit bouquet I made:

The fruits used are: a pineapple, a cantaloupe, oranges, grapes, and strawberries. The tools used were a melon baller, cookie cutters, skewers, and a crinkle cutter.

Here's the fruit bouquet almost finished and the fruit scraps.

Here's a close-up picture.

And here's another close-up.

Here's the finished fruit bouquet arrangement.