Hippity-hop, here comes the Easter Bunny! Get your little ones involved in the Easter celebration with these homemade Chocolate Pretzel Bunny Treats. We used M&M’s to create little Easter Bunny silhouettes on top of chocolate-dipped pretzels. It’s a kid-friendly recipe that you can with different colored melting wafers and candy. Make them for a before-Easter dinner snack or send them packed in lunch so the kids can admire their hard work.
How Did Bunnies Come to Be Associated With Easter?
Easter is, in its origins, a religious holiday. So how did we go from church to bunnies and eggs? The symbol of the Easter Bunny originally comes from German Lutherans. The “Easter Hare” would come and judge whether children had been good or bad before Easter, and bring them treats if they behaved well…sort of like Santa Claus! The Easter Bunny’s judgmental nature softened with time, though. He now lives on in candy treats like these chocolate pretzel bunnies. From a Lutheran legend to a candy…who else has that range? But that bunny didn’t come out of nowhere: the rabbit is an ancient pagan symbol of fertility.
Chocolate Pretzel Bunny Treats
Ingredients
- 24 Snaps shaped pretzels
- 1 cup white chocolate melting wafers
- 24 M&M’s
- 24 M&M’s cut in half
Instructions
- In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave the wafters in 30-second increments until they are completely melted and smooth.
- Put a spoonful of melted chocolate on each pretzel and arrange M&M’s on each pretzel to look like a bunny.
- Let the chocolate harden before serving.
Why should the kids have all the fun? Try our Cottontail Cocktail for some adult merrymaking.
Recipe, Styling, and Photography by Anna Franklin
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