Easter Bunny Salad Recipe - Kid Cooking Fun

Pear and Cottage Cheese Salad Makes a Cute Easter Dish

Feb 14, 2009 Cyndi Allison

Play with your food! Easter Bunny Salads are easy to make and cute for your holiday dinner.

Southerners enjoy playing with food and coming up with creative ideas for various holidays. This spruced up pear and cottage cheese salad is a lot of fun.

In one town, everyone loves to share the story of the sheep cake made by—of course—the wife of a sheep farmer. The cake was presented with coconut colored green for grass and some little candy flowers with the sheep cake in the center as the showstopper. It did indeed stop the show when everyone went over to look and found that one of the farmers had lined up black jelly beans behind the cute little lamb cake.

Easter Bunny Salads won’t make the crowd laugh like the sheep cake with jelly bean droppings, but they do make everyone smile. These little spring salads are easy to make and taste good.

The inspiration for the little salad bunnies is, of course, a traditional Southern pear salad. You put a generous lettuce leaf in the bottom of a small salad bowl, place a canned pear half with the dipped side up and then grate cheddar cheese on top. That’s as a good and quick starter to a meal and looks pretty.

Easter Bunny Salad Recipe

1 can pear halves
Lettuce (or use spring colored bowls for a contrast to the light colored ingredients)
Raisins
Cinnamon candies (the little round red hots usually sold in clear bags in the candy section at the grocery)
Slivered almonds
Cottage cheese

*The amounts are listed very generally, because you can make any number of salads. Be sure to get enough pear halves. The other items in the recipe are used in very small amounts as decorations.

Directions:

Set out the number of bowls you need to have salads for everyone. The small sized plastic throw-away bowls work fine, or be more earth friendly and use your own. If the bowls are white or light colored, line with large lettuce leaves just to add a nice background for the pear bunny.
Place a pear half in each bowl with the dipped or dinted side down, so it looks like a nice plump Easter bunny.
Add two raisins at the top for eyes.
Use one cinnamon candy for the nose.
Two slivered almonds make the bunny ears.
Use a small dab of cottage cheese for the bunny cotton tail.
Chill until ready to serve, but don’t make these very far ahead, because the cinnamon candy may start to “bleed” and make the bunny nose messy looking.

This is a super simple holiday recipe, and it’s fun for kids to make. They can either make their own bunny appetizers or help make the starter course for the Easter dinner and then enjoy the compliments from family and friends.

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Happy Easter