Baffled

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So, I've been tapped to make dessert for Easter dinner with friends this year. I can't imagine dessert will be all that big a deal after 7 metric tons of Cadbury eggs, peanut butter eggs, Whopper eggs, etc. etc., but I'm committed to doing it

Comments

Ideas...

[anonymous]

I don't know of any traditional Easter desserts besides Ricotta/rice pie with pineapple, but i'm nto sure i fyou're feeling Carmella Soprano enough for that. With two boys under 4, good ol' banana pudding never goes wrong. Also I recently made a cheesecake brownie thing for a baby shower that went over big. Brownies on the bottom, cheesecake on top. Yum-like and whatnot.
MamaQ

[ardentdelirium]

we don't usually have a traditional dessert but when we do easter with the extended family, we usually get something from the (former) family bakery in Baltimore (The Fenwick Bakery, if you're looking to try some goodies. They make lots of yummy stuff) For easter they usually make coconut covered lamb-shaped cakes (I despise these, because they look so pretty but I hate coconut) and these little egg shaped poundcakes. they're bigger than hens eggs but basically shaped the same (rather then being flat on top, like some egg cakes) and covered with chocolate icing, with decorations piped on top (its been ages since I've had them, but I think flowers tended to be the most common decoration)

when we do easter at home, most years, we just snack on some bunny ears or have ice cream.

williams sonoma has a bunny-cake 3-d mold, but I'd definitely use toothpicks as well as frosting to hold it together because instead of being top and bottom like the pumpkin mold, its front and back.

betty crocker suggests an easter basket cake

here's a list

[summercamp]

My mom does long stemmed strawberries dipped in white & regular chocolate, but since that's a fruit, it's kind of out for you....

[tigmode]

Our easter desserts tend to one of a few tings......since we always have ham for dinner: sweet potato pie, pineapple upside down cake, lemon poppyseed bundt cake with a real simple lemon icing glaze dripped on it for we are not frosting fans either.

[geah]

"So I have to ask: Is there a traditional Easter dessert?"

Blood pudding.

[modernfairie]

I'm not really sure what that is - or what it entails... honestly, I don't want to know.

But I have this DISGUSTING image of...
entrails and blood, and chocolate-pudding-smears in a glass bowl...
sitting on someone's pretty counter,
and hoity-toity people picking at it with fondue forks!

[geah]

From: http://www.cimorelli.com/pie/mangia/bloodpud.htm

Blood Pudding

INGREDIENTS:

* 3 quarts pork blood
* 1-1/2 pounds raisins
* 1-1/4 pounds sugar
* 1 pound mixed nuts & chestnuts
* 3/4 pound rice--cooked
* 2 oranges with all rind
* 1 pound figs
* 1 teaspoon red pepper
* 1 teaspoon black pepper
* 2 tablespoons salt
* bay leaf

DIRECTIONS:

Mix all and bake in oven for one (1) hour.

COMMENTS:
This pudding was made when the hogs were slaughtered
on the farm.
Although this may sound strange to us today,
"Blood Pudding" was a common dish during the earlier
part of this century. When a hog was slaughtered,
nothing went to waste.

[modernfairie]

I realize now that I sounded like a complete SNOB! sorry. :\

It was very economically aware of people to use...
and they really had to use what they HAD... and...
...ya know - I'm sorry.
I still, I just can't bring myself to say it.
To justify consuming three quarters of a gallon of dead pig blood?
I'm just having a Carrie-induced seizure right now.