Are there Peeps peeping at you from baskets? Are there plastic eggs with jelly beans in them hiding around the family room? Are there marshmallow eggs tempting you to eat just one more? Have you even cut into the chocolate walnut filled Easter egg?
Rather than hiding it from your children (or yourself) and giving them a piece a day until next Halloween, recycle it. I do recommend throwing out anything that doesn't meet your food standards, though. It will not become nutritious in another form. These ideas for new treats are simply that--treats!
Crafty with Candy
If you don't think you have anything salvageable, then buy the candy from your kids at a fair price per pound, or trade them a toy for it. Bright colored candies are also great items for crafts. Let you kids glue them on a cigar box or butter tub in pretty designs. Shellack them and give them to grandma for Mother's Day! She'll love them!
More and S'More Peeps
A friend in Arlington roasted her Peeps on skewers for an evening of s-mores. That's a great way to get rid of those little pesky pets. Lightly roast a marshmallow filled egg for the same results.
Tasty Add-Ins
Chop up Easter eggs and candies and mix them into cookie dough or spruce up some brownie batter before baking. If you don't think the candies will survive in an oven, mix them into some slightly softened vanilla ice cream then refreeze or use them as decorations on sugar cookies or a cake.
Your children will be so impressed with your ingenuity they won't mind that their baskets are empty.
Go ahead, Hop to it!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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Sadly, there's no peeps left in my basket. lol. cuz they're all in my tummy.
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