And now for the last installment in our discussion of Easter foods: breads and desserts.

Traditional Easter breads are typically made with lotsof eggs and often have hardboiled eggs woven into their braiding.  Another traditional Easter bread is hot cross buns — sort of a cross betwenn yeast bread and sticky buns.

When it comes to dessert, you can't go wrong with chocolate.  A nice display of chocolate covered eggs and chocolate bunnies on Easter grass makes a lovely centerpiece that you can eat!  For a healthy option, you can serve mixed fresh berries. 

I am also a huge fan of pastries shaped like bunnies.  You can use frozen bread dough to make dinner rolls shaped liked bunnies.  You can use sugar cookie dough to make a huge bunny cookie or use two cake rounds to make a bunny cake.  

To make the cookie, divide the dough into two equal sections.  Make a ball of one half and flatten it to make the body.  Divide the other half into a half and two quarters.  The half gets rolled into a ball to make the head and the quarters are shaped into the ears.  Place the four pieces on a very large cookie sheet and bake as usual.  Cool completely.

To make the cake, use your favorite cake recipe to make two nine inch rounds.  After they have cooled completely, one round will be the face and the other round will be divided into ears and a bowtie.

In both cases, frost the bunny shape with the store-bought or homemade icing of your choice.  If you'd like, you can top the frosting with coconut.  The coconut can be colored with bits of food coloring.  I use pink for the inner ears, blue for the bowtie, and green for grass surrounding the bunny.  Create the face and decorate the bunny using chocolate chips or jelly beans with licorice whips for whiskers.

The hard part will be cutting into it!