Do you live to break cascarones on your favorite people during Easter Sunday? I use to love breaking a confetti filled cascaron on my Grandfather when I was a kid. I could tell he would get so mad but couldn’t say anything because it was part of the tradition. Poor Grandpa. I foresee Confetti Eggs or “Cascarones,” as they’re called in (more…)
I’ve had my eye on Easter for the last couple of days and am counting down the days for the Easter Bunny to hop through town, so my boy can take photos with his furry friend. In the meantime, I have been decorating my house and building my son’s Easter basket behind closed doors. He was napping when this photo was taken. Click over to Babble where I show how I built this Easter basket and bought EVERYTHING at Target! Happy Easter.
Easter just wouldn’t be complete without the presence of an ambrosia salad. I love this colorful, sweet and creamy salad. Some people make it with fruit cocktail, but my family prepares this little gem of a salad with mostly fresh fruit. Take sweet fruit and add nuts, marshmallows and cream to the bowl for a super yummy bunny treat. Even the Easter Rabbit will not be able to refuse. Adults and children alike scramble for the last bite. If ambrosia salad is not an Easter staple for you and yours, you’re surely missing out.
All photos taken by: Nicole Presley
Ingredients for ambrosia salad:
3/4 – cup pineapple chunks (sliced in half)
1 – cup maraschino cherries (cut in half)
1 – cup green seedless grapes (cut in half)
1 – cup seedless tangerines (peeled, and chopped into cubes)
1 – basket strawberries (sliced)
1 1/2 – cups shredded sweetened coconut
1 – cup pear (cored and sliced)
1 – cup fuji apple (cored and sliced)
2 – bananas (sliced)
3/4 – cup almonds (chopped)
3/4 – cup pecans (chopped)
1 – cup sugar
1/2 – teaspoon vanilla extract
2 – cups sour cream
1 – cup mini marshmallows
In a big bowl combine all chopped fruit. Then add chopped nuts and mix to combine. Set to the side.
In a bowl add sugar, vanilla and sour cream and mix well. Then pour the sweet cream mixture over the fruit. Mix well.
Then add marshmallows to fruit and cream mixture. Mix well and serve!
This is what happens when you get me and Ericka Sanchez from Nibbles and Feasts together….. We make confetti eggs to celebrate Easter with! Hippity Hoppity your way over to The Two Good Eggs and check out our HOW TO MAKE CONFETTI EGGS by clicking HERE!
BOMBS AWAY!!!!
