So fun! I'd like to win!

My favorite Easter Candy is the Robin's Egg chocolate malt balls. To incorporate - I'd make a chocolate malted ice cream with the Robin's eggs chopped up and swirled in it!

My favorite easter candy, hands down, is cadbury mini eggs... the kind with the crispy candy coating. They don't need to be used in a dessert, they're perfect the way they are!

Chocolate-covered peanut butter eggs. I'm not a dessert maker per se, but they'd be great chopped up and added to brownie batter before baking. Not the most creative, but if I win the basket I promise I'll put the candy to good use.

If I'm going to break my healthy eating habits, it should be with something wonderful. This should do the trick!

Am I supposed to share with the kiddies? :(

Favorite Easter candy...Cadbury mini-eggs.

I'd make cupcakes and decorate the tops with coconut nests filled with mini-eggs.

I too am a big fan of the mini-eggs. I like the idea of crushing them and substituting them for chocalte chips in cookies. Hmmm... weekend project?

Oooh...someone already said this, but the malted milk ball eggs. I remember as a kid going for my little bag of malted milk ball eggs as soon as my mom let me (no candy before 11...being a kid is hard sometimes!) and then just sucking on them individually until I got to the malted center. So. Good.

I too love the Cadbury mini eggs, but for a dessert idea using Easter candy; I would chop up Reese's PB Eggs and layer them with ice cream sandwiches and Cool Whip for a delicious, retro treat - this is my husband's birthday treat request nearly every year!

Robin's Eggs malted candy-decoration for coconut cupcakes

My favorite are the Peeps! I would probably make chocolate cupcakes, and stick a bunny peep in the center and bake them, kinda like a s'more cake.

Peeps pie! Peeps adorning/enhancing the topping of a lemon meringue pie...

My favorite Easter candy, by far, are Cadbury Creme Eggs...the full-sized ones. I'd have to wonder, however, if you could cook with them. Perhaps substitute one or two for the chocolate called for in fudge or pudding?

Hmmm, Cadbury Creme Egg pudding...I might have to try that.

I would make a chocolate cake or cupcakes which would be the "dirt" then I would carve out small holes and bury jelly beans inside, replace the carve outs and make it into an easter egg Hunt. Of course, the top would be covered in Marzipan "grass" with other "eastery" candy decorations.

i love jelly beans and malted milk balls too. i'd let the kids i babysit decorate cupcakes with the candy.

Cadbury cream eggs for sure! I wonder what it would be like to stuff a mini one in the center of a cupcake and bake them? mmm, gooey.... :)

I love the little foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. I would unwrap them and drop them into thick brownie batter to make chocolate chunk brownies (preferably with a homemade butterscotch drizzle on top).

Yep - Cadbury Creme Eggs. Last year my husband threatened to read the ingredients to me if I didn't share, so he got half. I like Easter candy way better than Halloween.

Malted milk eggs (although those big beautiful jelly beans look yummy too). Easiest way to use them is crushed with my homemade mexican chocolate gelato.

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As a child, my favorite was spice gumdrops cut up and incorporated into oatmeal cookies. Haven't had it for years, but I guess I should probably make it for my kids.

I can't even lie: I'd serve them plain! Who doesn't love candy, straight-up?

Jelly beans are definitely my favorite - I don't eat them unless it's easter time, and then I sit there thinking, "Man, these are so good, why did I wait till Easter to eat them?"

I just found a recipe online suggesting mixing jelly beans into rice krispie treats. I'm gonna have to try it now!

~Q

I never was very picky as long as I got a chunk of chocolate. I prefer the white chocalate solid bunnys. Never tried cooking with them but I soppuse they would melt down nicely to swirl into a cake.

Solid, dark chocolate rabbit are my favorite. And I love chopped chocolate bars in brownies-- what about a bunny brownie?

Cadbury mini-eggs are the best.... I love the sugary shell! I'd mix them in with vanilla ice cream for dessert.

Mmm...coconut and chocolate birds' nests with jelly bean eggs.

Hmm, my favorite easter candy is the cadbury egg, of course. I would make these AWESOME muffins:
http://bakingbites.com/2008/03/cadbury-creme-egg-muffins/

Sadly I stopped getting easter baskets long ago..

I love the pretty little malt ball eggs. I'd put them on top of mini individual tarts to make birds' nests.

My mom used to make homemade chocolate covered marshmallow eggs. I'd serve it all by itself with a big old glass of milk.

Cadbury eggs are my favorite easter candy.

PEEPS!
peep-krispie treats, made with crushed graham crackers instead of rice krispies. mixing in some kind of easter chocolate make for a tasty springtime s'more :o)

I alwasy got a chocolate Easter egg filled with peanut butter from Marie's Candies in West Liberty, Ohio and I would probably try incoporating it into a chocolate cake...I saw something similar on Baking Bites with Cadbury eggs.

I absolutely LOVE Jordan Almonds and the colors are perfect for the holiday. Yet being so hard to bite into I don't think the should be incoporated into any recipe. I will have to go with what I read above, and now want to try!, rice crispy treats with jelly beans (jelly beans being my second favorite)!

my favorite easter candy is and has always been cadbury mini eggs - not the creme-filled kind, but the kind with the crisp, powdered-sugary shell.

and, though it has never occurred to me to use them in a dessert proper, this post has sent me into creative-thinking mode about them. in addition to all the baking possibilities, i think that a trifle might be the best way to capitalize on both the chocolate and the shell. maybe a raspberry trifle with shortbread crumbles for crust and crushed eggs stirred in and sprinkled on top? yes.

yes, indeed.

I love Cadbury mini eggs, milk not dark, and they are perfect decorations for cupcakes or on a chocolate cake. In a frosting next, of course. A couple of Peeps on the cake guarding the nest would be cute, too.

Or, a chocolate bunny on the cake with a basket filled with Cadbury eggs!

I love Cadbury Cream Eggs!

I want to try making these cupcakes -- they look amazing!

Cadbury mini eggs! I bed they'd be delicious used in place of chocolate chips in something that got them all melty - maybe a blondie...

my favorite easter candy is definately Cadbury Cream Eggs (especially the mini ones that have a better mix of chocolate and cream- yumm). I generally eat all the candies plain, however, put under the gun, decorating cupcakes or cakes with the mini eggs (or the cute spring time colored gum drops) would make a special desert even more of an event!!

I love jelly beans! I'd top vanilla ice cream with them to add color, texture, and flavor. :)

Peeps - as a decoration on top of cupcakes. I know, not very creative but whatever.

I'm a total chocolate lover, but I'll push past the chocolate bunny to get to the malt eggs.

jelly beans on those twiggy chocolate peanut buttery nests. yum! as it has been years since i've been home for easter and live alone, i tend not to buy easter sweets. this would surely be a treat!

Cadbury mini eggs. I'll eat a whole bag in one sitting.

I love all the little chocolate eggs.

My favorite are whopper eggs! I would make a chocolate cake and put a layer in the middle with cholcolate frosting and decoate the top of the cake with them too. Yum!

Mmmmm, those cadbury mini eggs. Recipe-wise, I would take the NYT recipe from a few years ago (was it from Nigella?) that makes a chocolate cake with a chocolate whipped-cream "nest" as frosting and those mini-eggs sprinkled on top.

I also adore the Russell Stover bird nests of chocolate and coconut and jelly bean "eggs."

peeps dioramas! Yeaaah!

I love the malted milk eggs too. I just eat those by the handful. Good thing they only come around once a year.

peeps, yum. for peeps smores!

My favorite candy is Cadbury Creme eggs, but they are so perfect on their own, that incorporating them into any kind of dessert would be a step in the wrong direction.

A close second would be jelly beans, so I'm thinking I'd make a Meyer lemon curd tart, and fold some chopped up jelly beans into the curd for a surprising crunch, then top the tart with torched-Italian meringue-and-jelly-bean decorations.

No contest - jelly beans. No recipe, straight up.

I was just whining (to myself) about not getting Easter baskets anymore. I'm also a firm believer in not messing with perfection, I'll take my Easter candy as is. Maybe eaten in conjunction with brunch that included roast lamb.

Cadbury mini eggs!

cadbury mini eggs! and orange jelly beans :)

My family has a tradition of bunny cakes that the little kids always love - a typical yellow cake, baked in 2 8" or 9" round pans. Slice each cake in half, and place the halves together into a half moon, cut sides down on a tray (spackle together with white frosting of your choice).

Cut a pie slice shaped chunk (but with the tip of the pie not cut out) out of the side, from about 1 o'clock to about 3 o'clock (if that makes sense), being sure to not to cut through the whole thing. This shapes the bunny head and the body. Then turn the chunk around, attach it with frosting to the back of the cake (this forms the tail).

Frost entire cake, then cover with sweetened shaved coconut (nice fluffy bunny). Use black jelly beans for eyes, and a pink cadbury egg for a nose. Cut out pink paper ears and attach with toothpicks to the top of the head. (Makes 2 bunnies from one boxed mix, and since I don't bake, I definitely use a boxed mix)

Finally, you can color some additional coconut with green food coloring and spread it onto the tray under the cake, spreading cadbury eggs and jelly beans all around.

jelly beans hands down. i don't know how i'd incorporate them into dessert, i guess they would be the dessert!

My favorite easter candy is the Reese's Peanut Butter Egg. Marshmallow Peeps are a close second :) I also really love the Ring Jells I used to chow down on at Passover Seder as a kid.

When I was growing up I loved peanut butter chocolate eggs, there was a Russell Stover store near my house and around easter it was a wonderland. I would chop them up and add to a really good, really dark chocolate brownie. Or melt them and pour into tiny tart shells made with cream cheese.

Now, I adore the chocolate peeps... rush out and buy some if you haven't tried them. They are the perfect cross between hot chocolate and marshmallows. I'd use them for smores, though I might feel bad lighting the cute bunnies on fire! :D

Jelly beans. I notice some are much more flavorful than others. I think the cutest old time Easter dessert is a cake you make with two round cake layers which you cut up to form a bunny wearing a bow tie. The jelly beans are used to decorate the eyes and bow tie. I LOVE EASTER!
JP in DC

Jelly beans are by far my favourites. I'd make them into simple little nest cookies-- thumb-print cookies rolled in shredded coconut, pressed, and baked. Then decorate with three "nested" jelly beans. This also works well with Cadbury mini-eggs.

Wow, it's been years since I had an Easter basket - but traditionally, it was the only time I had white chocolate, which (yes, I know it's not *really* chocolate) still to this day is my favorite? How to use it? I can make a killer white chocolate macadamia chunk cookie, or make a bread pudding with white chocolate and some of those lovely local sour cherries I canned last summer.

Jelly beans are definitely my favorite. I would probably use it all for cupcakes, decorating, mixing it in. It's all good!

I'd mix jelly beans into cake mix.

You can't go wrong with jelly beans, especially the traditional mix (sorry, but I'm just not interested in peanut butter or jalapeño jelly beans).

Cadbury 'flake' chocolate bar - so delicious and delicate! I can really see using one (or many!) them to crumble over whipped cream adorning a piece of banana cream pie!

PEEPS!! I'VE SEEN THEM MORE AND MORE AROUND OTHER HOLIDAYS, HOWEVER I ONLY LIKE TO ENJOY THEM DURING EASTER..IT DOENS'T SEEM RIGHT ON ANY OF THE OTHER HOLIDAYS!

For all the peeps lovers:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/03/18/funny-pictures-peep-show/

Also, to Columbus Foodie - Me, too! White chocolate is totally "easter food" in my head. (I also had a fantastic white chocolate and raspberry muffin the other day. wow.)

Every year my mother gives me the same lame excuse - I can't have an Easter basket because I'm Jewish!!!! Please, please reward me with this gift of forbidden treats!

Malley's chocolate's Nutmallows--milk chocolate covered marshmallows with nuts. And I'd shove those babies in between graham crackers for some tasty S'Mores!

cadbury creme eggs for me, please. i just read a recipe this morning where someone put the mini-sized ones in muffins! i would like to meet this person.

I love both kinds of Cadbury eggs (the cream-filled and the little crunchy ones) and I looove Jelly Belly jelly beans (I don't like the coffee flavored ones, but I like the weird ones like buttered popcorn and jalapeño and I love to eat the pink grapefruit with other fruity ones in a little "fruit salad")

I love them all plain, but I do really like the idea of putting the cadbury cream eggs in a cupcake, yumm!

Malt ball eggs! I would like to experiment with putting them on top of meringue cookies-- It would be my hope that the meringue would form the "nest" to house the eggs.

Cadbury eggs, maybe with ice cream or in bread pudding!

Oh, absolutely chocolate bunnies and jelly beans. What would easter be without them?

mmm i love easter candy! peeps, cadbury eggs, all good :)

Black Jelly Beans - yes, I know, the ones people usually trade for red, white, or orange beans. love them. I wonder if I could chop them up and make some sort of black and white spice muffins??? hmmm

Cadbury creme eggs for sundaes, definitely.

I LOVE Peeps! I'd make cupcakes with green frosting on top piped out to look like blades of grass. Then I'd set the peeps on top. Or that's how I'd do it in theory, anyway. :)

Reeses peanut butter cup eggs! I'd have it underneath a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Jelly beans - the big old-fashioned kind. I'd use them to decorate a chocolate frosted cake (think blue, green, and pink stripes of jelly beans wrapping around the cake). Yummm

jelly beans - i'd make a mosaic with them on top of a cake.

Reese's peanut butter eggs. I would make a sundae with them and vanilla ice cream, chocolate and peanut butter sauce, and whipped cream (and a cherry, of course)

Hmmm...I'm going to go with cadbury eggs.

When we were in Scotland a few years back I was totally geeked at the fact that a McDonald's had a cadbury egg flurry. It was yummy.

jelly beans!
i saw a recipe once for jelly bean biscotti that i always thought would be fun and festive this time of year!

chocolate bunny - I would melt some of it for a berry dip. but not the whole thing. wouldn't want it to suffer.

I love cadbury mini eggs! Those are perfect just the way they are.

But for a dessert, I would take regular cadbury eggs and freeze them. Then unwrap them and coat them in vanilla ice cream and freeze again, so it is like a vanilla ice-cream egg with the cadbury egg in the center. I'd probably decorate the outside - maybe roll in cocoa or sanding sugars, and make a whole bunch so there is an easter basket of frozen treats.

Cadbury eggs - bread pudding.

peeps please

Chocolate crunch eggs - make a cake with green frosting on the top. Pat the frosting with a fork or spoon to make it look like grass. Then hide the eggs!

My twin sister and I used to sneak Easter candy to bed in the bottom of our footie pajamas. Now I know better than to leave the wrappers stuffed in the feet! I heart Easter candy ... and carrots!

please!!

I'm jewish, but we always did easter secularly. I still get baskets or gift of some sort. My favorite was one year when I got a nice laundry basket and new pillows and linens.

As for candy I love it all. For my dessert I'd make a sundae of pistachio, strawberry and vanilla, decorated with small chocolate bunnies.

Little Cadbury eggs chopped and blended into a buttercream frosting on cupcakes. Any kind.

I love malt easter eggs. I have seen them crushed in a food processor and made into a milk malted shake. Mmmmmmmm...

Reese peanut eggs, probably with Ice cream. Followed by black jelly beans, that I would share with my daughter. We are the only black jelly bean lovers in the house. This year I will be eating them alone. She pregnant and nausated. Our first grandchild is on the way! Yeah! Happy Easter every one.

Peeps in smores!! Then you can watch them melt!

I love peanut butter chocolate eggs.

Hmmm. I don't really know how to incorporate them into a baked good, except to mix them into ice cream or something.

Cadbury eggs . . . they are a complete dessert on their own. Adding anything to them -- or them to anything -- would be sacreligious.