Easter Cookies, Easter Eggs

There are traditions with Easter but not as many as Christmas. There are Easter foods as there are Christmas foods but most of the food centers on Good Friday on culminating with Easter Dinner on Sunday.

One of the Easter foods are cookies. My mother made cookies for my brother and I for Easter. Cutout cookies, frosted and decorated. It's a tradition I did for Daughter Sarah. And a tradition that I still like to do.

But not just decorated cookies but painted cookies. Little Easter bunnies with pink ears and noses and a black tail and whiskers. Perfect little bunny cookies.
And chicks -- the royal icing colored yellow and then the details painted on. The idea came from Monique, La Table De Nana. Hers are far nicer and more detailed than mine but I find these darling.
A chick and a bunny --
Two of each tied in a celophane bag with a purple ribbon.
Ready to be delivered to friends and family.

And once the cookies are done, it's time to dye the eggs . . . I do as my mother does . . . . tea cups filled with boiling water, a teaspoon of vinegar and food coloring.

My French egg holder is the perfect drying rack, and when the eggs are all done . . .

It's the perfect rack to display the eggs on the breakfast room table. Another tradition . . . for these are the eggs that eons ago, the bunnies used to hide on Easter eve.

Come Easter morning, with a basket in tow, we'd go out to find the eggs hidden by the Easter Bunny. Silly Rabbit -- he traded chocolate for eggs but as he hopped away, the eggs would fall out . . . he'd have no eggs so he'd have to go to another house to leave more chocolate and get more eggs which he'd drop as he hopped away . . . .

It's Saturday and besides Pink, it's Easter Yellow. And the chicks (or my "peeps" as I called them) are definitely yellow. As are some of the eggs. And the old chick, which I rescued from basement storage today when I brought up the egg rack. He seemed lonesome.

Please join Beverly at How Sweet the Sound to see the pinks of this Saturday!