Bake or buy cupcakes to make these Easter
flower cupcakes. Photo courtesy McCormick.

• Baked Ham With Mojo Sauce & Papaya Salsa
• Glazed Ham With Dried Cherries & Caramelized Onions
• Or take a look at our ever-popular gourmet ham glaze recipes

If you’re not cooking Easter dinner, how about Easter brunch?

• Start by decorating hard-cooked Easter eggs, to serve with the brunch or for an Easter egg hunt afterwards.
• Next, pick your main course: a Bacon, Egg & Cheese Casserole or Stuffed French Toast.
• For dessert, bake Flower Cupcakes and Spring Meringue Cookies.

Find more Easter ideas by selecting “Easter” from the navigation menu in the right column.

But over the years they’ve tasted worse and worse to us—artificial flavor, and more texture than flavor at that! Perhaps it’s the carnauba wax.

Sorry, Peeps, we’ve replaced you with all-natural, pillowy soft and incredibly flavorful gourmet marshmallows. If your palate demands the best, buy a marshmallow that tastes out of this world.

Check out our review of gourmet marshmallows and you’ll never look at a marshmallow the same way again.

Blackberry marshmallows from Gateau et Ganache.

The dish has evolved over the centuries—the original paella had no conventional meat or seafood, but was made with the more affordable snails!

Paella has become a great party dish. Not only do the current ingredients—chorizo, chicken, seafood and other proteins—make it a delicious and fun main course, but it makes a great buffet centerpiece for parties.

Celebrate National Paella Day on March 27th. Enjoy the history of paella and a paella recipe and then plan a party or a large family gathering.

Forget the same old, same old. Pour something special to talk about over Easter dinner.

Think of Lachryma Christi (“Tears of Christ”). Or Saint Joseph “Offerus” from Jean Louis Chave: It comes from France’s great Rhone appellation named after Joseph of Arimathea, who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after the crucifixion.

Both wines are delicious and can precipitate a dinner table discussion about the meaning of Easter. Read more about them.

Find more information about wine in our Wine Section.

Serve a real Easter wine this year. Photo
courtesy Australian Lamb Council.

Please hop our way this Easter. Photo
courtesy Vosges Haut Chocolate.

Four exotic, solid chocolate bunnies are ready to hop your way:

• Amalfi Bunny (white chocolate, lemon zest and pink peppercorns)
• Barcelona Bunny (hickory-smoked almonds and grey sea salt)
• Orchid Vanilla Bunny (62% dark chocolate with Tahitian vanilla)
• Toffee Bunny (43% dark milk chocolate with toffee chunks and pink Himalayan salt).They’re tasty but petite—2.5 ounces each—so you don’t have to feel guilty about finishing the last bite.

  Find more information on these and our other favorite Easter chocolates.

  Read our full review of Vosges Haut-Chocolat.