For all those who love to offer sweet bread for breakfast and want to do something special for Easter. Instead of baking it in a baking pan simply take small portions of your yeast dough and roll them. Make a knot with each of the rolls and shape the ends like the ears of a bunny. Some sugar pearls, raisins or nuts will make eyes and nose. Spread some whisked egg yolk and bake as usually.
For Easter we don’t make gifts but tradtionally we have a little surprise like chocolate eggs. Those can be hidden under these crazy chicken. They look nice especially when placed in a group. They may also work as carrier for a little gift of money. I found the how-to instruciton in a magazine called “mein schoenes land” and fell in love with them immediately.
You’ll need some paper (different colors and patterns), uni colored card stock, a pencil, scissors, glue or double-sided adhesive tape, different round plates.
Draw circles on backside of your paper with the help of the round plates and cut out. Fold circles in the middle and cut in halves. Roll a cornet with each half and fix with some glue. Transfer pattern to plain-colored cardstock and cut out. Cut two eyes out of white paper and draw black pupils and glue eyes on both sides of head. Cut two slits into the body of your chicken and place chicken head inside. For the tail you need two or three thin stripes of paper. Twist them round your pencil, glue them together and fix at the lower end of the chicken’s body.
To hide some smalle Easter eggs you can take a dessert plate but for bigger eggs you’ll need a larger plate or even one for cakes with about 11″ diameter. If you like you can wind a ribbon round the chicken’s neck. There you can easily place curled banknote.
Good Friday will put an end to the donkey’s fasting period and the first thing I’m going to prepare are some fried eggs for the Easter Tea Time. Looking through the site of Dr. Oetker I found a wonderful recipe which is quickly done. If even this is too complicated for you then simply buy some deep-frozen puff pastry to prepare them.
For all those who don’t like a table setting in light blue and pink for Easter. The individual parts explain themselves. Unfortunately there are no butterflies but I really didn’t have the time to cut them out. In replacement I took some Easter decoration parts from last year. The pictures show how colour and way of folding can be changed for the napkins. For Easter I’ll place some chocolate Easter bunnies on top of the cutlery pouches. Combined with different flowers and decorating pieces the pouches are the base for several new decorations.
The butterflies are also made with the gift wrapping paper. Take my pattern, draw it on the backside of your paper and cut it out. Lightly crease both wings directly besides the butterfly’s body. You can easily fold them up now and it looks as if our little flyer is just lifting off. I glued its body on a small decoration peg so that I could place them on the edge of a bowl, a basket or even between some flowers.
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