Some of my favorite memories of my boys growing up happened on Easter mornings. That’s because my husband and I put crepe paper up in the hallway the night before as a reminder to the boys they were not allowed to go downstairs until we were awake. That meant they’d sit on the top step of the stairs and scope out all the eggs they could see in the living room. Listening to these two plot who would get what colored egg and which the Easter Bunny meant for them, had the husband and me giggling behind our closed door.
Once we finally gave in and let the hunt begin, the boys would race through the living room finding all the places the bunny had hidden his treasures. As young kids the bunny helped them out by putting colored Easter grass with all the hidden eggs, it was something my husband’s mother did, so we carried on the tradition. After opening all their eggs, counting up their money, and stuffing as much chocolate into their mouths as they could, we’d have a big Easter breakfast. After breakfast, they’d get their regular Easter Baskets filled with outdoor toys like bubbles, jump ropes, sidewalk chalk, and more and they’d head outside to use them. We’d also head to the in-laws and my parents for a few more egg hunts – it’s just not a holiday unless you have enough chocolate in the house to last a month!
Easter Traditions – When Our Children Became Adults
My kids are adults now, but they still love Easter Baskets. Granted now they’re filled with gift cards, Blu-ray’s, and electronics, but that’s not to say that candy isn’t still a big part of them, because it is. We also try to have brunch when work schedules allow and, of course, there are always sweet treats to share and often an outdoor toy or game because we refuse to grow up, and so do they!
This year I’m making (see recipe below) to go along with the Easter crafts I’ve already made (see Glitter Candle Tutorial and Add Some Sparkle to Flameless Candles (or regular wax); Easy Easter Crafts: Wooden Pennant Banner; and Easy Easter Crafts: Painted Pots featuring WHOPPERS ROBIN EGGS and REESE’S Peanut Butter Bunnies) and am hoping we’ll be able to get together to enjoy it. If not, we’ll be packing up the treats for them to take home with their Easter Baskets to celebrate when they can.
Having traditions is part of what makes us a happy family and creates so many great memories.
- :Brownie Layer
- 1 c non-salted butter, melted
- 1-1/2 tsp real vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs
- 2 c granulated sugar
- ¾ c Cocoa, unsweetened
- 1 c all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- Cheesecake Layer
- 16 oz cream cheese, softened (2 packs)
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 1 tsp real vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1-1/2 cups chopped Peanut Butter Cups (mini or large) - reserve a few for topping
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Prepare a 9" x13" baking dish by spraying with non-stick spray or line it with aluminum foil.
- Brownie Batter
- In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, sugar, and vanilla. Mix on low until incorporated. Add eggs, one at a time, beating at medium speed after each addition.
- Add the Cocoa and mix on low speed. Scrap down the sides and continue mixing until fully combined.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt and mix just until combined (or combine by hand).
- Measure out one cup of brownie batter and set aside. Pour the rest into the prepared pan; set aside.
- Cheesecake Layer
- Rinse the mixing bowl and beaters ending with cold water. Dry and add the cream cheese to the bowl and beat at medium speed until it's smooth. Add the granulated sugar, scrape down the sides, and beat again.
- Once smooth, add the vanilla and the eggs, Beat again at medium speed until creamy - scrape sides and beaters as necessary.
- Pour the cream cheese mixture over the top of the brownie mixture in the prepared pan and using a spatula, smooth it evenly over the brownie batter.
- Sprinkle the cream cheese layer with the chopped REESE’S Peanut Butter Cups evenly.
- Top the candy layer with the reserved browning batter by dropping it by spoonfuls leaving much of the candy layer exposed.
- Use a butter knife to gently swirl the batters together if desired to combine them or leave them as separate layers.
- Bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove to wire rack and cool completely before cutting into squares. Refrigerate leftovers (though I prefer mine cold and refrigerated after cooling and before serving)
I like the egg dye activity. I liked the Happy Easter Bunny Cake
My favorite Easter tradition is coloring Easter eggs. My favorite Hershey Easter recipe is the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnet cookies.
Easter egg hunt, the Hershey bunny cake is cute
I love that Easter Bark recipe. Looks so cute AND delicious! 🙂
My favorite tradition is enjoying Easter dinner with the family and celebrating Christ’s resurrection.
this is really nice and I hope to win for my grandkids
My favorite Easter traditions are dying eggs and having an Easter egg hunt. I would love to try the chocolatey peanut brittle.
Our favorite Easter tradition is going to sunrise service at our church. Our favorite recipe is the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets recipe.
my favorite Easter tradition is dying Easter eggs. i want to try the peanut butter easter bonnets.
Favorite tradition is Easter egg hunts. Favorite recipe is Choco-Berry Bavarian Cream
Every year we have an Easter Egg hunt at our house for our grandchildren. Its so much fun! The craft that I like the most is the bunny race car with Reese’s Peanut butter eggs and Rolo’s. I am going to try and make them for my grandchildren’s Easter baskets.
We get together with a group of friends to share Easter dinner each year. I’m going to make the Easter wreath made with the chocolate easter eggs this year.
I like Peanut Butter Bunny cakes, and I love to make the kids easter baskets
A favorite tradition is helping my Mom get ready for the big day. It was like a family reunion day at our house. Aunts and uncles, cousins, siblings and friends. After lunch it was the big egg hunt and then the traditional baseball game.
I really love the Truck Basket idea. I have alot of nephews and they would love that. You could sit a basket in the dump bed and fill it up.
I like the recipe for the Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie
our tradition is lunch and hiding the eggs for the kids
I like the peanut butter bunnycakes
My favorite Easter tradition is enjoying a nice ham dinner with my family. An Easter craft recipe that I like from the website is the Coconut Marshmallow Nests. It looks cute and delicious.
My favorite Easter tradition is enjoying a nice ham dinner with my family. An Easter craft recipe that I like from the website is the Coconut Marshmallow Nests. It looks cute and delicious!
A favorite tradition for our Easter is to hide the baskets. We also like to make a cake in the shape of Rabbit with a bow tie.
I love dying Easter eggs and Peanut Butter Bunnycakes
I would love to make the malted white chocolate bark. This sounds wonderful. One of my favorite Easter traditions is a big Sunday dinner after church on Sunday.
Hiding the easter basket sstuff either inside or outside of the house depening on the weather. The Hershey’s Bunny cakd is cute.
We still do easter egg hunts and my kids are teen/tween. I think the mini Reeses baskets are so cute and clever!
Sorry my comment cont from above I hit enter to quickly my favorite recipe is Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie
Our only real easter tradition is to hide the kids easter eggs before church on easter Sunday, My favorite recipe on the Hershey’s Site is the
My favorite tradition is coloring eggs with my son. we use to do the whole egg hunt thing but he is 18 now so we just color eggs. And my recipe of choice is the peanut butter Easter bonnets recipe
The easter egg hunt never get old and I was impressed with the coconut marshmellow nests because I like those ingredients.
My favorite recipe is the Chocolate Raspberry Dessert.
My favorite Easter tradition is going to early dawn service Easter morning.
My favorite tradition is watching the kids open their baskets! Choco-Berry Bavarian Cream looks tasty!
My favorite tradition is my kids’ scavenger hunt for their baskets! I’d love to make the Easter Bunny Egg Racers!
My daughter and I go shopping the day before Easter and spend that evening going through all of our buys.
I love the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets.
My favorite tradition is coloring eggs. the Chic Chick basket is cute!
love the traditional Easter Dinner
Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets
My favorite Easter tradition is the annual Easter Egg Hunt. I love getting the filled plastic eggs ready and watching the children’s excitement. I would love to try the recipe of the Easy-Bake Brownie Pie with Strawberry Cream Topping from the Hershey’s site this Easter.
My favorite tradition is going to my Grandma’s for Easter Lunch and I’d love to try the Chocolate Cheese Pie with Cherries on top that they have on their site
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Coloring eggs and the Coconut Marshmallow Nests
LOVE CHOCOLATE…EASTER IS SUCH A GREAT SEASON 🙂
The easter basket cupcakes look yummy. Our favorite easter tradition is to go to Church for midnight mass and get very dressed up and walk around the church three times.
I like dying eggs with my family and I like the Reese’s Racers craft.
Dying eggs with my family & my fave recipe is the Peanut butter Easter Bonnets 🙂
I love chocolate
I like eating chocolate and I like the spring birdhouse.
I love coloring eggs and I luv the Bunny Cake recipe!
Our tradition is always coloring and hiding the eggs for children to hunt. The recipe I would like to try is the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets. They are so cute.
My favorite Easter Tradition is dyeing eggs together as a family. I love the Easter Basket Cupcakes!
My favorite Easter tradition is coloring eggs with the kids. My favorite recipe from the site is for the MOUNDS Coconut Easter Basket Cake.
My favorite easter tradition is to dye eggs. I like the bunny cake recipe.
Our favorite tradition is dying and decorating eggs. I like the recipe for Macaroon Cookie Nests. Thanks.
my favorite tradition is the egg hunt and I would like to try the HERSHEY’S “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” Easter Bunny Cake, it looks good and so much fun
Our favorite Easter tradition is our Easter egg hunt-Especially when the weather is nice enough to have it outside! I love the Coconut Marshmallow Nests recipe.
My favorite Easter tradition is decorating eggs and I love the bunny cake recipe.
My favorite tradition is making Easter baskets for my nieces and nephews, and I love the MOUNDS Coconut Easter Basket Cake. It looks delicious.
Easter egg hunts are my favorite tradition! Peanut Butter Bunnycakes are my favorite recipe!
We like our easter egg hunt. The foil wreath would be fun.
I love dying easter eggs and the reese’s easter baskets.
Tradition is sunrise service and I’d make the Chocolate Yogurt Cheesecake from the Hershey’s website. Looks really good.
My favorite tradition is having an Easter Egg Hunt and I like the REESE’S Miniatures Easter Baskets.
Thanks for the chance to win!
We like to color Easter eggs with the kids and I would love to try the Chocolate-Nut Pinwheel Cookies
My favorite tradition that I have continued with my own kids is a huge ham diner after the egg hunt.I would love to make whoppers robin eggs wreath craft project.
My favorite Easter tradition is coloring and decorating eggs. It’s so much fun and counts as quality time with family. It’s interesting to see all of the ideas they come up with. My favorite craft from the Hershey’s website are for the Egg Holders – Advanced. Very cute.
My favorite tradition is Easter Egg Hunting and I would LOVE to try the Peanut Butter Bunnycakes recipe – looks amazing 🙂
My favorite Easter tradition is hiding candy filled plastic eggs out in the yard for my kids to find. My favorite recipe on the website is the Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake.
my favorite easter tradition is coloring eggs. My favorite craft was the idea for the bakers basket, thinking of giving this to my mom.
My favorite craft idea is the mini basket. I enjoy having ham every year for Easter.
My favorite tradition – brunch. The craft I want to make is the foil egg wreath.
I love spending Easter at my grandma’s with my whole family, making dinner together! I love the Peanut Butter Bunnycakes recipe!
I love spending easter at my grandma’s with my whole family & making dinner together! I love the Peanut Butter Bunnycakes recipe!!
dyeing eggs
the Easter Basket Cupcakes
The Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake recipe sounds amazing!
Having an Easter egg hunt and dying eggs is some favorite traditions in our home! Along with an Easter feast of course 🙂
My favorite Easter tradition is the egg hunt and I like the edible reese’s mini basket
My favorite Easter tradition is the egg hunts and photos with the bunny. I like the Adorable #hersheys #easter Critter Cups craft.
my favorite tradition is the egg hunt and i like the edible reese’s mini basket
My favorite Easter tradition is getting together with my family for an Easter Egg Hunt! And I would love to try the Easter Basket Cupcakes!
We go to the SonRise Service at church on Easter morning. I would like to make the Easter Critter Cups with my grandson.
I love easter egg hunts. They are my favorite tradition
My favorite recipe would be the easter basket cupcakes.
We always dye easter eggs. I like the peanut butter easter bonnet cookie recipe.
coloring eggs together and my favorite recipe is Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets
My favorite Easter tradition is going to Easter service with my family. The recipe I want to make is the Chocolate Cream Puffs!
My favorite tradition is my older nephews hiding eggs for their younger cousins. I like the Easter Critter Cup craft.
My favorite Easter Tradition is celebrating Jesus and Having an Easter Egg Hunt with my family. My favorite craft would be the Birds Nest Centerpiece.
My favorite tradition is our Easter picnic every year (weather permitting)
I really like the Spring Birdhouse Centerpiece craft.
My favorite tradition was hiding Easter eggs for my daughter. My favorite recipe is the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets.
Egg hunt and hersheys kisses mice
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My favorite tradition is decorating eggs with my children. I like the recipe for Coconut Cake Nests.
I like to do Easter egg hunts outside. I would like to try the recipe for chocolate macaroon bars.
Our favorite easter Tradition is decorating eggs with the kids. I want to try the Hersheys Chocolate Cheesecake…Mmmmm
coloring easter eggs and favorite recipe is coconut marshmallow nests
I like dying the eggs. I really think the Black-Eyed Susan Cheesecakes look fun!
My favorite tradition is painting eggs! It’s so much fun to do with the kids 🙂 Even better, we then get to hide the eggs for them to find! Now, the recipe I love from the site is the Chocolate Peanut Butter Rolo Candy Cookies 🙂
My favorite tradition is baking Easter bread and I like the Coconut Marshmallow Nests recipe at the Hershey site.
Our favorite Easter tradition is our annual egg hunt. The recipe I like is the Coconut Marshmallow Nests.
On Easter Sunday, our family always gets together for a meal in the afternoon. I always look forward to it because sometimes it is the first time I have seen some relatives since Christmas. I really like the Reese’s Milk Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Bunny. Thank you for this super giveaway opportunity. Please continue with the terrific blogging.
My favorite tradition is dyeing eggs. I like the whopper wreath.
My favorite easter sunday is chucrh , then brunch and recipe for chocolate truffles
My favorite is HERSHEY’S “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” Easter Bunny Cake
We hunt eggs at my in-laws ranch, my favorite recipe is the easter basket cupcake s
Our favorite is Hunting for Easter eggs and the recipe that I love is Chocolate Macaroon Bars.
Eat egg hunts are probably my favorite tradition – and dying eggs. I really liked the black eyed susan cheesecakes. They were so cute and simple!
My favorite tradition is having a big Easter egg hunt for all the kids in our extended family. I must try the chocolate cheesecake
We always have an Easter egg hunt which the kids love. I like the Easter basket cupcakes
My favorite tradition is hiding candy Easter eggs in the backyard. I love the peanut butter Easter bonnet cookie recipe on the website.
My favorite tradition is to make Angel’s food cake and my favorite recipe is the Easter Basket Cupcakes
my favorite tradition is going over my grandmas house every easter for dinner and baskets.
my favorite recipe is the coconut marshmallow nests
We love to go to the SUnrise service and the race cars made out of Reeses eggs are so cute
My favorite Easter tradition even though Im older is doing and Easter egg hunt! My favorite recipe that I got to try are those delicious Peanut Butter Bunny Cakes! Good Luck everyone! *crossing my fingers*
My favorite tradition is coloring eggs and I want to make the Hershey’s Chocolate Cheesecake recipe.
We hide our kids Easter Baskets for them to find in the house on Easter morning. The older they get, the harder we make it for them to find.
My favorite recipe is the MOUNDS Coconut Easter Basket Cake
Favorite Easter tradition: When the kids were little I loved hiding Easter eggs for them to find. Living in the frozen tundra of northern MIchigan, we often hid eggs inside. Now that they are older we don’t really do anything.
I’ll be giving these coconut honey brownies a try: https://www.hersheys.com/celebrate/easter/recipedetail.aspx?id=3733&name=Coconut-Honey-Bars
1:We like the egg hunt.
2:like the wreath https://www.hersheys.com/celebrate/easter/craftdetail.aspx?id=20
My favorite tradition is coloring Easter Eggs with my kids!
I’d love to make the Chocolate Macaroon Bars!
the Malt Easter Bark Candy recipe looks yummy, and our easter tradition every year is gathering with family for a huge dinner, my fav is the honey baked ham!
i love decorating easter eggs so those egg holder craft ideas are great!
My favorite Easter tradition is going to church with my family to celebrate out risen Savior!
So many of those recipes look so yummy! I think this one is really cute, and I’d love to make them: https://www.hersheys.com/celebrate/easter/recipedetail.aspx?id=3050&name=BlackEyed-Susan-Cheesecakes
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite Easter tradition is the Easter Egg HUNT. My favorite Easter recipe from Hersheys is Coconut Marshmallow Nests!
I love hiding my kids’ easter baskets and then watching them search all over for them! And I think the Hershey’s Kisses Mice are adorable!
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My favorite Easter tradition is dying Easter eggs and my favorite recipe idea from the Hershey’s site is the Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie.
our favorite Easter tradition is to dye easter eggs then go to my sisters for a big family dinner and easter egg hunt for the kids. i like the HERSHEY’S KISSES Caramel Flowers craft. it is adorable.
My favorite Easter tradition is having all of the family together. The craft I like is the Reese’s racers
I remember when I was small and we didn’t have all of the things they have now to decorate.. mother would fix the colors herself.. by the time we were done we had colors all over our hands..mother then would have a big dinner for Easter.. She would bake a ham and have so many side items and fresh coconut cake..
Hello, My favorite Easter Tradition is dinner with the family and a big Easter Egg hunt for the kids…..I loved the Easter Basket Cupcakes those are so cute! So many neat ideas I can’t wait to try a few for Easter this year 🙂 Thanks!!
My favorite Easter tradition is coloring eggs on Easter morning with my spouse. And the Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie recipe from Hershey’s is enough to make me swoon.
My favorite tradition for Easter, when I was a child, and still today with my own 3 sons is finding our Easter baskets in the morning! It is so fun and the boys are always delighted to go on a search! For the craft, I love the lunchbox notes! I always send notes in my sons’ lunches and this would be an extra special one with a little chocolate treat!
I used to love Easter as a kid. Easter egg hunts, spending time with my grandma baking lamb cakes, and the red egg cracking competition with family.
Easter Egg Hunt, and making Egg Nest Cupcake with kids help.
My favorite tradition is hunting for easter eggs and my favorite recipe posted is the Easter Basket cupcake!
My favorite tradition is our annual easter egg hunt! We go ALL out ) and I cant wait to make the Easter Basket Cupcakes from their website
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I like the Spring Surprise Chocolate Cupcakes recipe the most. My favorite Easter tradition that I do every year is -I like having dinner at my sister’s house and we have a big Easter egg hunt, and give Easter Baskets to all the nieces and nephews. I also bring a dish and dessert and have a great time with the whole family!
ONe of our traditions is everyone gets together at my house and the kids have a Easter scavenger hunt, and follow clues in the yard and outside to find their treat which is hidden in the house, started that years ago because we had dogs who ate anything they could find and the kids love it. Then we all get together and eat a huge Easter meal with ham and all the trimmings . I love this recipe with Hersheys dark chocolate chips and reeses pieces – Black-Eyed Susan Cheesecakes
My favorite Easter Tradition has always been hiding eggs. Even now with my “baby” being 15, I still love to hide eggs before she wakes up. I also always hide a few for my husband just to keep him on his toes:) My favorite recipe on the site is the one for Sugared Chocolate Eggs. I need to try that one this year, they look delicious!
My favorite tradition is coloring Easter eggs with my daughters.
A recipe I like is the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets. They are so cute and look delicious.
Thank you!
We like to Easter egg hunt and my favorite recipe is the coconut cake nests.
I always enjoyed coloring eggs. My fave recipe is Chocolate Mint Dessert.
my favorite Easter tradition is doing the egg hunt at parents house. Id love the choc peanut butter fudge recipe. love to try it.
My favorite Easter tradition is the egg hunt at our house every year. My favorite craft is the Hershey’s Miniature Easter Egg Tree Craft.
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I would like the chocolate truffle cake
My favorite tradition is gorging on coconut cream eggs and my favorite recipe is Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake.
We get together for brunch, and I like the Bird’s Nest Cupcakes.
My favorite easter tradition is doing a scavenger hunt with the kids. My mother did it for my brother and I when we were little too! I think the Peanut Butter Bunny Cakes look really yummy
My favorite Easter tradition is doing an Easter egg hunt for my grandsons. They love it!
My favorite craft is the WHOPPERS ROBIN EGGS Wreath!
My favorite tradition is our big brunch with all the family. I think the whopper wreath would fit in perfectly with our Easter decor.
we love to do an easter egg hunt for the kids each year. I love the birds nest cupcake ideas