Easter 2010

This year's was about as exciting as Easter 2009--that is to say, not very--but I still seem unable to resist making an Easter dessert every year, even if I have no other meal plans. Often I make a Grasshopper Pie, but this year I did a variation of something my mom started years ago which is decorating cake with green-tinted coconut and candy eggs. This year I chose chocolate cupcakes with malted milk eggs (usually I use Cadbury chocolate pastel eggs, but couldn't find them in my grocery store this go 'round). The cupcakes were the same base as Martha Stewart's Hi-Hat cupcakes. It was a fun, if dorky, experience. Then I gave most of them away...