chocolate easter bunnies
I've had bunny on the brain since reading the recession candy post earlier & it's made me curious about you other eaters... When it comes to chocolate Easter bunnies what's your preference? Hollow? Solid? Candy eye? Dark? Milk? Does it have to come from a particular shop? How do you go about eating your bunny...what do you nibble first? Ears? Head? Tail? Bite off the candy eye, perhaps?
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33 Comments:
I never liked the chocolate bunnies. I always thought the chocolate tasted too waxy and not rich enough.
juliebugsmama at 2:23PM on 03/24/09
Solid chocolate only. Start with the ears and work your way down.
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Maryland Crab at 2:24PM on 03/24/09
Technically, you get more chocolate from a solid bunny, but it's much easier to break off a piece of hollow bunny.
runnereater at 2:26PM on 03/24/09
I prefer Peeps to the bunnies, personally...
healthygirl78 at 2:32PM on 03/24/09
Hollow chocolate, filled with jelly beans was always my favorite. Now I usually get a solid dark chcocolate one.
Embackus at 2:37PM on 03/24/09
I remember when I was a kid getting this huge chocolate egg in my Easter basket filled with Three Musketeer filling! Anyone ever have one of those?
arm1970 at 2:41PM on 03/24/09
I like my hollow bunny stuffed with Peeps :)
finsbigfan at 3:29PM on 03/24/09
Hollow dark (with solid ears), candy eye, ONLY from Schmidt's Confectionary on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven.
FYI, that was usually my sister's bunny, haha -- she was allergic to milk, so she always got the dark bunny and I got the milk. There was nothing wrong with my bunny, I just always thought the dark was more interesting because it was different. To this day, though, although she's outgrown the allergy, she still gets the dark bunny and I get the milk one, and she has to hide hers from me. She's 19 and I'm 21. =)
kfarrel3 at 3:40PM on 03/24/09
I'm not crazy about chocolate, give me the purple jelly beans : )
NanaJoie at 3:41PM on 03/24/09
uh oh! You guys better watch out! Don Luis will NOT be happy about this post!!! haha jk
foodiegal at 3:42PM on 03/24/09
You can keep the chocolate bunny...but I'll take anything peanut butter filled! The Reeses peanut butter eggs, Peanut Butter Smidgens, or my personal favorite, the chocolate bunny for PB lovers...the PB dino!
cycorider at 4:20PM on 03/24/09
Schmidt's Confectionary is WONDERFUL, and now I have to haul out there for bunnies!
MMinNYC at 4:37PM on 03/24/09
@kfarrel3--I agree with you on Schmidt's--I ONLY get my candy from Schmidt's....I love the dark/milk marshmallow eggs for Easter & everyone always asks for those--I also will eat just about everything else in that damn store as well.....Anyone in the NY area--you NEED to go to this place...an institution for at least 80 years..you won't be disappointed!!
On another note, I love "Peeps" but they have to be slightly stale..I keep the package open for a week or 2 before eating them....
Italiancupcake at 4:39PM on 03/24/09
Second the stale Peeps. Aged Peeps are the best. But, back on topic....hollow bunnies are much easier to eat in bed at 2 in the morning. Question for anyone in the NJ/NY area. I remember a small solid bunny I had while visiting my fathers family in Asbury Park, NJ in the mid 60's. It was about 2 inches and hazelnut flavored, my first taste of hazelnut. Have never seen it since. Any ideas what it was???
finsbigfan at 5:13PM on 03/24/09
@finsbigfan---I think I recall what you mean. I had that hazelnut bunny in the late 70's as a child, last seen in the early 80's....(hazelnut bunny last seen on I-95, westbound) All kidding aside, I will ask someone older in the family who may know the name.... If I find out, I will get back to you.. That was a good bunny, wasn't it?! I think it may have been Perugina, but I'm not sure...
Italiancupcake at 5:21PM on 03/24/09
@italiancupcake Great bunny. Thanks, it gives me someplace to start. Funny, I haven't thought about that bunny for years. This thread got my memory a rollin'!
finsbigfan at 5:27PM on 03/24/09
@finsbigfan are you talking about the Gianduja Easter Bunny?
foodiegal at 5:40PM on 03/24/09
@foodiegal Just saw it online. No. These were small. Traditional easter bunny. Besides, this side of the family would never have had something so nice:) ---What? What? Heh heh. They were small and on a dessert tray with other things.
finsbigfan at 5:48PM on 03/24/09
You can keep the bunny, but hand over the Cadbury Creme Eggs!
CookiePie at 5:50PM on 03/24/09
The hollow Ghetto ones you get at Walgreens with the blue ribbon around it's neck. Yummy
chardonnay at 6:48PM on 03/24/09
over the years I've made chocolate bunnies for a friends kids, I bought the molds and have used them to make bunnies with pb filling, marshmellow filling, and truffle filling. These kids(now 17 and 14) have requested bunnies this year again filled with my almond butter filling. SO is getting his hollow bunnie filled with jelly beans.
huneybumper at 7:12PM on 03/24/09
As a kid, I used to get a Russell Stover basket, with a stuffed rabbit, filled mostly with flavored marshmallow eggs and a caramel or marshmallow bunny with big ears.
Ahh...what memories....
I never got solid chocolate bunnies, I think because my mom was afraid I'd scarf the whole thing--and that is the problem with the solid bunnies--you can't eat it all, but then you have rather nasty gnawed or broken chocolate left...
HeartofGlass at 7:51PM on 03/24/09
Stale peeps. Smashed choc bunny so hollow, coconut cream egg but only a sliver because man is that sweet. Zitner's Butter Krak dark chocolate Easter eggs, oh man its like heroin.
JerzeeTomato at 8:28PM on 03/24/09
@huneybumper, can I be one of your friend's kids?
cycorider at 9:44PM on 03/24/09
@MM & Italiancupcake, I'm so glad other people on here know about Schmidt's! A girl I knew in highschool used to work there, but other than that I didn't think anyone but my mom knew about the store, haha. I think I may have to drop some not-so-subtle hints to my mother to mail me some chocolate this Easter, since I won't be home.
kfarrel3 at 10:41PM on 03/24/09
Anyone know of Josh Early Candies in PA? They always do their Peanut Roll Eggs at Easter time. Maybe you can get them all year round now...but you couldn't back in the day. I send my 88 year old Grandmother candies from them every year on her birthday. I figure candy ain't gonna bring her down!! LOL
arm1970 at 2:53AM on 03/25/09
Solid dark without the candy eyes... Start from the top and work your way down... errr.... or was that the last post?! anyways... as far as peeps go, cut their little peep heads off and leave them for dead!
Pavlov at 6:08AM on 03/25/09
@cycorider LOL I do tend to spoil them but thats my job ;-) and sure place your order now lol
huneybumper at 11:16AM on 03/25/09
Malley's chocolates--Cleveland, OH is the place for chocolate Easter goodness.
I love their milk chocolate bunnies, but my favorite are their Nutmallows--eggs filled with a marshmallow and nut mixture. They are highly enjoyable, as is seeing the giant Easter bunny on their factory roof.
bobcatsteph3 at 12:19PM on 03/25/09
Save the bunny, go for the Cadbury Cream Eggs!
decemberain27 at 12:37PM on 03/25/09
gives me a chocolate Easter bunny. And this shows how tricky those guys are. I eat the chocolate and I think, wait a second... this isn't around Easter. "Was this a test?" He said, "Yes." "And what does it mean?" He said, "Well, had you eaten the ears first you would have been normal; had you eaten the feet first you would have had an inferiority complex; had you eaten the tail first you would have had latent homosexual tendencies; and had you eaten the breasts first you would have had a latent oedipal complex." I said, "Well, go on. What does it mean when you bite out the eyes and scream, 'Stop staring at me!'?'" Emo Phillips
rejee at 5:29PM on 08/17/09
how weird! i THOUGHT i WAS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT LIKED PEEPS AFTER THEY HARDENED UP.I would open a pack up and let them dry out for a couple of days,yummmm
cook4u at 5:50PM on 08/17/09
I have some peeps left from easter. they were too cute to eat.
As for the question, I like solid milk chocolate. Hollow milk chocolate is ok, but you have to make sure its not just "chocolatey flavored". How gross is that?
blizcheetah at 6:12PM on 08/17/09