This looks a bit weird, I know, but a gift is all about the recipient. For my nephew's easter basket I found an exact copy of the little frying pan I have that he loves and has been threatening to steal when he moves into his new house. He'll be very surprised. I'm going to add some fake grass to the pan and fill it with Reese's peanut butter eggs, aka his favorite candy (I'm writing this on 4/1, so Easter is four days away.)
For my guy I'm making a nice roasted chicken dinner and his favorite coffee cake, but no basket. I offered but he doesn't want one. I'm not going to dye eggs because my nephew already makes hard-boiled eggs weekly, and we wouldn't be able to eat them fast enough.
As a diabetic there's not a lot about Easter I can consume. I did find a new treat I can have occasionally that is a consolation prize: a low sugar Oreo knockoff called Leos. They're quite sweet and a nice substitute for the real thing. I'm planning to have a pack with a cup of tea as an Easter snack.
I posted this recipe for crumb coffee cake on the blog five years ago, but I'll share it again for Easter. It doesn't require any fancy ingredients, uses one pan and tastes delicious, and there are a bunch of easy variations. It's my guy's favorite dessert and the one I'm making on Sunday. The only change I've made to the recipe was to add a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the cake batter.
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