Easter Recipes

Confetti Eggs
{From Oh Happy Day}

Ingredients:
Eggs
Dye {we use vinegar and food coloring}
Confetti {we use fruity pebbles cereal}
Tissue paper
Sewing needle
Toothpick
Scissors

Directions:
1. Using your sewing needle, poke a small hole at the top of an egg.
2. Open a larger hole at the larger part of the egg.
3. Use a toothpick to stir up the yolk and then let it drain out of the larger hole into a bowl.
4. Rinse the egg shell and allow to dry. Repeat with remaining eggs and use the yolks to make scrambled eggs.
5. Use dye to color the egg shells and allow to dry again.
6. Fill each egg about halfway with confetti.
7. Cut a piece of tissue paper to cover the larger hole and secure with glue.

Strawberry Cream Pie
{From Southern Living}

Ingredients:

1 package cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup whipping cream, whipped
1 pie crust
1 quart fresh strawberries, hulled
3 one-ounce squares semisweet chocolate
1 tablespoon butter

Directions:
1. Beat cream cheese until creamy. Gradually add sugar and almond extract, beating well.
2. Stir a fourth of the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture. Fold in the remaining whipped cream.
3. Spoon mixture into pie crust. Arrange strawberries, stem side down over whipped cream mixture. Cover and chill for three hours.
4. Melt chocolate and butter in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Right before serving, pipe chocolate mixture into a decorative design over strawberries. Makes eight servings.