Cadbury Mini Eggs - Yes.

Cadbury Cream Eggs - Hand them over to my sister, who loves them.

Peeps- In small doses.

Snickers Eggs, Reeses Eggs - Yes, please.

Choco/Marshmallow Eggs - Sure.

Chocolate Bunny - Only if it's Whitman's grade chocolate or higher. Lindt, Cadbury, etc.

Jelly Beans - Meh.

Russell Stover Maple Cream Eggs - Aaaaawwwww yeah. Jackpot.

I remember in 5th grade, my mother slipped a pack of disposable razors into my basket for the first time, and they were staples in Easter baskets and Christmas stockings from then on.

Ditto the Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs and Starburst Jelly Beans. MMMM.

We were talking about this at work today and I said, "Listen carefully, because you'll rarely hear me say this: Peeps are just much too sweet for me!"

Although I like the little dioramas done with them. I have an idea for next year!

I don't know if anyone puts these in Easter baskets, but I really love the Pillsbury break-and-beak sugar cookies with bunnies and eggs on them. They are sooo delicious.

Reese's pieces in a carrot shaped bag
Chocolates from the local chocolate place shaped like bunnies that I only eat red hots off of

I'd really like to see more sour patch kids. My boys mom is the only one who truly understands my candy habits. She actually just brought me an Easter gift bag tonight with sour patch jelly beans, tootsie pops and reese's eggs :) She rocks!

Agreed!! My sons & I got so excited when Kroger started selling them around Christmas time this year (a full two months early!!).

I got these too!!! One time I chewed one for too long and it turned into liquid in my mouth (shudder)

I like these. Yummy.:)

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Wow, none of you ever had See's Easter baskets?

Ewwwww. Gross.

the only people who don't like a krabby patty have never eaten one!

I think See's is a west coast/California thing only. I looooove See's though. Bordeaux = heaven!

I've only had See's once, and that was when a friend from Cali sent me some. It was yummy.

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Did anyone else get cheese curls in a pastry bag with a little green straw to look like a carrot in their basket? Whoever came up with the idea was genius - less sugar to cause bounce off the walls! When I was a Sunday School Teacher, I always refused to do Easter Sunday!

For years, I would get just black jelly beans, which my daddy told me was something "personal" from the Easter Bunny! And, my favorite Golden Book was about the Easter Bunny!

Solid good quality chocolate bunnies with ears that are bite worthy. See's chocolate covered candy eggs with frosting decoration. Milka chocolate eggs are also a favorite. Coconut nests with jelly beans, nom nom. I also liked the sugar eggs that had icing decoration and some kind of edible diorama inside. http://www.sugareggs.com/

As a kid it was always about the egg hunt and I liked all kinds of candy, even peeps and black jelly beans. Robin's eggs, and Cadbury mini eggs, YUM.

I didn't have a straight up basket from See's, but items from See's are a part of every holiday. We used to enjoy Joseph Schmidt until they were bought out by Hershey's and then closed. My grandmother always got me Irish Potatoes from See's for St. Patrick's Day, and I should totally send some to Irish Lake next year.

Easter is really bitter sweet for me as my father died on Good Friday and my grandfather's funeral was on Good Friday last year. My nephew was adorable and left a note at home for the Easter Bunny and called his dad from the hotel with our room number so the Easter Bunny could find him. We got a suite and I got to hide candy and plastic eggs for him which was a real treat when he woke up and was so excited the Easter Bunny came.

Since I'm allergic to food dye and pork this Easter is going to be about chocolate and lamb, but I may have something small with dye in it and try some organic pork from the co-op. I loved coloring eggs growing up and searching for hidden real and plastic ones. The Easter Bunny came to my house but he also came to church and we got to search there. My childhood church is no longer a place of worship, but you can see how massive it is on this youtube video. http://youtu.be/ODC2HlpsnPk I liked writing on eggs in white crayon to decorate them and always used all of the stickers and paper stand accessories for my eggs. It was serious business because those eggs ended up in egg cups or used for deviled eggs.

I'm in the hate peeps love cadburry creme eggs crowd.

In our Easter baskets growing up we always had those malted eggs and at least one chocolate bunny. For my son, I've been doing jelly beans and a small little gift of toy or dvd. Plus, he gets whatever else from all the community egg hunts we go to!

Are malted eggs like Whoppers, but in the shape of an egg?

http://www.best-price-wholesale.com/...s/whoppers.gif

It seems like many of us have decided that what we had in baskets as children is what should always be in baskets! I definitely think along those lines.

All the toy manufacturers would have you believe that Easter is a big toy season with huge toys like kids get at Christmas! We wait until Christmas. Besides the candy, we've always put in each basket: a book and something else small--jewelry or a CD or even VS underwear.

They are Robin's Eggs and they are like whoppers but egg shaped and with a very light candy coating (colored, like eggs).. like an m&m coating.They are made by Whoppers.


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Yes, and covered in a candy shell.

iLike!

I don't think I'd like the candy coated shell. I mean, not over the malted part. Plus, I don't like Whoppers because they're too hard. I like the taste, I just wish they weren't so hard. The candy coated shell would be too much.

See, I much prefer them to malted milk balls without the shell. The candy shell makes them perfect.

ITA

VandalSquirrel I'm thinking of you! Turn your PMs back on if you ever want to talk.

Haha, yea it definitely wasn't the best gum in the world (it didn't keep its flavor long at all), but for some reason, I couldn't get enough of it. I think because it was one of those things that I only got once a year, so in some way it was "special." And when I'd ask anyone about it, they never had a clue what I was talking about. I was the cool kid with the unusual gum. :p

Everyone who doesn't know what a See's Easter basket is, raise your hand...

:: Raises hand ::

Me and my brother always got at least one non-candy item in our baskets. I usually received small stuffed animals, 2 of which I still have to this day... one being a Beanie Baby that I got during that whole craze. I also received the book 'The Velveteen Rabbit' one year.


I remember these! I HATED them.


And I know that I'm on the Loves-Cadbury-eggs/Hates-Peeps team, however, the more people post this picture in this thread...

... the more I think that this is just about the worst picture of this product. If I had never had one before, and I saw this, there's no way in hell I'd try it.


ETA: Wow, you really can't find a good picture of this candy that tries to show what it looks like on the inside.

This one really didn't help the eggs' case.

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ETA again: Ewwww! Cadbury Creme Egg brulee!

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I just like solid milk chocolate. Peanuts, peanut butter, nougat and caramel are the only other kind of filling I like inside.

Am I the only one who always got a toothbrush in my Easter Basket? :confused:

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I didn't get one in my Easter Basket, but I'd always get one at Halloween.. from the dentists who lived next door. And our neighbors on the other side would take Polaroid pictures of us, which included a Halloween border. So we got to take home toothbrushes, plus a picture of ourselves completely pissed off because we didn't get any candy :p

Meringue cookies in cute colors, supersweet but I just love those

And I couldn't care less about the chocolate. That's why I like the robin's eggs over the regular malted milk balls -- I don't notice the chocolate as much.

I don't fall squarely on Team Hates Chocolate (unless it's chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream -- really don't like either) but I am firmly on Team Usually Chooses Something Other Than Chocolate. (Sorry DrPhil.)

Ah well, that's why we all have our own Easter baskets.

And Tulip86 -- meringue cookies for the win.

Robin's eggs

I totally agree with you about chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream. That's weird, though. I don't know how can I like milk chocolate, but not like chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream.

I love the concept of Cadbury's Creme Eggs, but in reality they are just way too sweet for me.

It's not the taste of Cadbury Creme Eggs that I object to, it's the texture - which tends to be the case with most foods I don't care for.

But, I wonder if any CCE enthusiasts have tried the deep fried Cadbury Creme Egg recipe?

I think that might make the middle a little less stiff/gritty.

In addition to the candies already posted and the hard boiled eggs, we would also get a little something that went with whatever we gave up for Lent. For example, the year I gave up biting my nails (terrible habit, I know), I got some pink nail polish.

I just remembered that this dietician we know ate SIX Cadbury's creme eggs one morning and then went for a blood test. He swore that you could see the creme in the blood.

Holy smokes. SIX? I don't know whether I'm impressed or grossed out. Six in one sitting is insane.

I like the tiny Cadbury milk chocolate eggs (not the creme eggs!) with the crunchy candy shell. I love that they look like real little eggs.