This morning I started my day off right with a milk chocolate Easter egg from Jacques Torres. Do I normally eat breakfast? Nope. Do I celebrate Easter? Double nope. Am I using Easter as an excuse to eat oversized chocolate sculptures of unhatched chickens? Oh yeah. Rattling from within the white chocolate-streaked egg told me there was a surprise inside. Carefully prying the egg open with a knife revealed five baby eggs made of milk, white and dark chocolate. That's one fertile egg. Full of...delicious babies. The chocolate wasn't the stuff of the heavens, but the balance of sweetness and milkiness made the smooth, mild chocolate dangerously easy to eat without feeling the unpleasant effects of a chocolate coma... More

I love Nosheteria's cute and delicious Cadbury Mini Egg nest cookies for Easter. I found a recipe for thumbprint cookies here, used ground pecans rather than ground walnut pieces, and simply omitted the jam placing a Mini Egg or two into the center of each cookie. The cookies were dense, rich with butter, and not too sweet, the perfect compliment to the chocolatey candy of the Mini Eggs. Related: Not Martha's taste comparison of US Mini Eggs (Hershey under license from Cadbury) to Canadian Mini Eggs (Cadbury Chocolate, Toronto).... More

Like a Halloween costume for your Easter egg. Photograph by Rakka. I couldn't resist the obvious pun—or double-dipping into Lia's earlier post about the Master Shake Easter egg. Blogger Rakka also made the cool Lego-themed eggs above.... More

"Shake-zula, the mic rulah, the old schoolah you wanna trip, he'll bring it to ya," says Flickr user Rakka, who created this amazing Master Shake Easter Egg. Fans of Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force, is this not the best Easter egg of all time? We at Serious Eats love the rest of Rakka's Easter Eggs too though; Alaina likes the Lego eggs and I have a soft spot for the KISS eggs—nothing says "Happy Easter!" quite like Gene Simmons painted on an egg.... More

Photograph from iStockphoto.com Joyce Gemperlein in the Philadelphia Inquirer provides fine advice for buying and cooking ham. She says the most important thing is to do your hamwork. Here's a cheat sheet (or at least the hamlights): Get good hamferences: Buy your ham from a butcher you or someone you trust has dealt withBuy bone-in ham: The bone marrow suffuses the meat with big-time flavorBuy a shank-end ham: It's easier to carve and has sweeter meat... More

Food blogger Maki Ito's Far East–Easter mashup: Putting Easter and dim sum together, I devised these bunny shaped bao, or steamed buns. (The inspiration for the shape came from a pair of fluffy white bunny slippers I saw at a flea market last summer.) They are quite simple really: tender steamed bun dough is filled and formed into an oval, and the ears are cut with scissors. Ito filled these steamed buns with a mixture of egg, bacon, and chives.... More

I'm probably in the minority on this, but I'd rather find one of these cute faux, forever bunnies in my Easter basket than one of its chocolate, instantly devoured cousins. "This faux candy is our forever bunny. Please don’t eat them! our forever bunnies look like chocolate, but we made them out of plaster and paint so they’ll last forever." Get one for yourself or a friend from Small Stump's shop on Etsy.com.... More

"For me and many others, the arrival of spring was heralded not by the vernal equinox nor by the springing forward of clocks but by the appearance of Cadbury Creme Eggs in grocery and drug stores. (With global warming messing everything up these days, such material signs might soon be the only evidence of seasonal change remaining.)" Not only did Creme Egg enthusiast Doug Gordon stock up on his favorite Easter candy this year, but he also made himself some Cadbury Creme Egg ice cream, and for that act commited in the pursuit of Serious Eating we salute him. (This Easter, Brits are getting an official Cadbury Creme Egg ice cream in limited edition for the first time; they... More

Forget about buying Peeps this Easter and make your own super cute pastel-colored marshmallows! Williams-Sonoma will sell you a kit with everything you need: "marshmallow mix, duck and bunny molds, pastry bags for piping the prepared marshmallow into molds, as well as the purple, pink and yellow sanding sugars and black eyes you’ll need for decorating your creations. You can also cut the marshmallow into shapes using the included butterfly, bunny and chick cookie cutters." $24.50 for the kit, which is available online/catalog only, not in stores. [via Popgadget]... More