Easter Egg Hunt March 23

Eggies!

Today was the community wide Easter Egg hunt- Asher's first Easter egg hunt ever. Yesterday we let him practice in the backyard so he'd at least have an idea of what to do. (He picked them up and threw them at me like balls yesterday).

They divided up the field into ages, with eggs spread in each, and a line dividing the sections. The 0-2 group's eggs were closer to the fence, and each subsequent age group's eggs were spread further out, with the oldest group's eggs hidden throughout trees.

 All the groups started at the same time. Asher really enjoyed finding eggs and putting them in the basket.

 And then he discovered that there were things inside the eggs! And then he had to shake and open each egg and examine its' contents. So the egg hunting progressed a bit more slowly then.

 And he enjoyed it. When we got home we opened all the eggs, I let him have some chocolate and then I hid the rest of the chocolate from him. So far he seems to have forgotten about it, thankfully. I don't know if I am stricter than usual in terms of food, but he doesn't get chocolate to eat. Or candy or lollipops. Or whatever. TV is the thing I let slide, as a stay-at-home and temporarily single mom, it is the one thing that gives me a break when I am with Asher all day every day. But that's another story!

I haven't been to any Easter Egg hunts as an adult or a mom, so I have no basis of comparison, but I found this one to be well organized. There were lots of eggs, more than enough for each child (though I heard some moms, with kids' baskets overflowing, disagree). Asher didn't care at all for the 'Easter Bunny' so no photos of that. We were able to find a parking spot facing the field so Mom didn't have to leave the car on that cold and wet morning to watch.

Did you notice the liner for the basket? I whipped that up in about 20 minutes, and if you don't look too closely it looks fantastic! I wanted to brighten up his Easter basket. Filling it up with eggs covers all the flaws!

Happy Easter!

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Hot Cross Buns!

The ingredients!


340 ml water
2 tbsp. oil
2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. brown sugar


600 g. bread flour
3 tbsp. milk powder
1 tbsp. ground mixed spice
1 tbsp. cinnamon
2 1/4 tsp. yeast


And in the bread machine it went, on the dough setting. It mixes it and allows it to rise. Thanks, Julie, for lending me the bread machine!

Then you mix in the sultanas or chocolate chips. Technically, the recipe says to toss them in the bread machine when it beeps three times... but I haven't heard it beep yet, so mine go in at the end!

Then I left it to rise 20 minutes.

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I mixed 2 tbsp water and 40g. plain flour to make a sticky goo that I drew the crosses with. I used a piping bag and a wide flat piping nozzle. They go in the oven at 190 C for 15 or 20 minutes.

When they came out of the oven I glazed them with a mixture of 1/2 c. icing sugar, 1/4 tsp. allspice, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, and 1 tbsp. water.

They didn't last long after that!

**NOTE: The more observant may notice that the buns in the earlier photos had raisins, and the buns in the last photo had chocolate chips. I brought the sultana ones to church Frinday night for the Good Friday service, so I didn't get photos after they came out of the oven (I was in a bit of a rush!)

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