peeps - Shelley Beatty

Easter 2014

April 28, 2014 by shelley

We enjoyed a delightful Easter! The day was perfect weather and all the flowers and bushes were blooming. It was a perfect day to celebrate Easter.

Bread

Bunny bread

carrot cake cupcakes

Carrot cake in flower pot dessert

Carrot cake

carrot decorated carrot cake

chaffing dishes

Chick cupcakes

chicken cupcakes

chicks in nests

Dessert Table

Desserts galore

Desserts

Easter desserts

Flower pot cakes

Ham, Turkey, Potatoes and Corn

Happy Easter

Oversized carrot cake cupcakes

Peep kabobs

Peeps in rice krispie treat nests

Peeps

Pots

Racecar peeps

Salads

Yum

Fluff salad

Easter came early this year, the last Sunday in March. And to think it was just a week ago we were shoveling almost a foot of snow. Spring is much later this year and I was not able to use any flowers from my yard, the forsythia has not even bloomed yet. But I still had my Easter flower centerpiece on the table.

Easter table is set with deseret rose place settings, accented with a green charger, pink handled fiesta ware flatware.

Flower centerpiece.

Each place has its own carrot cake in a flower pot, and new this year a yellow chocolate duck.

The traditional carrot cake flower pot with real flower and peep bunny.

Easter place setting.

Easter Dinner place setting with carrot cake flower pot and chocolate duck.

Easter Buffet Dinner

Ham, turkey, potatoes and green beans are all kept warm in beautiful copper chaffing dishes.

Stollen, bunny bread (both from Great Harvest Bread) and fresh made rolls are part of our Easter dinner.

Even though the Bunny Bread from Great Harvest Bread is delicious, no one can bring themselves to take a knife and slice into the bunny.

Carrot Cake, and carrot candy and carrot cake baked in a flower pot are also part of the dessert buffet.

Another tradition is chick cupcakes.

Brightly colored chick lemon flavored cupcakes and peep bunnies on a stick are just a part of our Easter dinner dessert.

A whole clutch of chick cupcakes, in lemon, have become a traditional part of Easter dinner.

Peeps on a stick!

Bunny peeps on a stick.

My sister, husband and kids; Zain, Aalia, and Nial came to Easter dinner along with our friend Charles.

Happy Easter!

Easter 2012 April 8th

April 16, 2012 by shelley

Our Easter dinner traditions include carrot cake cooked in clay flower pots, decorated with coconut green “grass”, real flowers, bunny peeps, gummy worms and jelly beans:

Our traditional Easter dessert, flower pot filled with carrot cake decorated with green coconut grass, flowers, bunny peep and a gummy worm.

Another tradition is our chick cupcakes (made with lemon flavored cupcakes and frosting, a vanilla wafer for the chick’s head, orange slices cut in half for wings, peach gummy rings cut up for the beak, a little orange frosting and sprinkles and a dot of black icing for the eyes: