11/28/2023 0 Comments Chocolate easter baskets![]() When crafting your gourmet Easter basket, here are some of the best ways to celebrate the holiday, while being mindful of the environment and making a big impression. As a homage to Ostara and her rabbits, our offerings take their cues from her story and these sweet treats of rabbits and eggs will delight everyone who receives them from the Easter bunny! This year, we went into the kitchen to create some new Easter treats to bring whimsy and childlike wonder to your Easter gift. Chocolatiers all over the world fill their shop windows with beautiful gourmet chocolate eggs and chocolate Easter bunnies to be shared on Easter morning or as a hostess gift for Easter dinner. ![]() Today, a gourmet Easter basket filled with goodies is a mainstay of the holiday. When the settlers came to the US, this tradition was brought with them, and today, the Easter basket is a symbol of the awakening of spring, nests filled with eggs that will bring new life, and of the fertility of the womb itself. In the 1600’s the tradition of Easter baskets spread throughout Europe, where folklore suggested the delivery of colored eggs, left by a rabbit at the doorways of homes with children. So touched was Ostara by their gesture, she recruited her rabbits to color the eggs and return them to the children brightly hued, in birds’ nests, the predecessor to the Easter basket. It has been told that children presented the goddess with gifts of eggs for bringing them this new, sun-drenched season. ![]() Because he had once been able to lay eggs, it is said that she bestowed him with the powers of everlasting fertility and an ability to produce eggs once a year to commemorate Spring Equinox rituals and Ostara, herself. Legend says she revived him, removed his broken wings and turned him into a rabbit. Her sacred animal was once a dying bird with frozen wings. Others insist she was hare-headed herself. Some say Ostara had minions that were rabbits. Ostara was celebrated by all in her orbit for bringing the spring and the joyful abundance that comes with it. Like many other holiday traditions, the Easter basket is one that has a long history behind it, beginning with the heroine goddess of our Easter collection: Ostara. Once these Easter treats are devoured, these same baskets are ready for an annual egg hunt and to be filled again with the sweet treats of the holiday. Even now, the store shelves are already lined with woven baskets, chocolate gift baskets and gift boxes ready to be filled with shreds of colored paper, chocolates, truffles, chocolate Easter bunnies, jelly beans and fruits. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.If you ask people, especially kids, to tell you one thing they love about Easter, inevitably, the Easter basket and all of the chocolate bunny treats inside will come up again and again. Baked by Melissa Spring Fling Gift Box 25-Pack, $37 Baked by Melissaįor a bite-size option, consider this Spring-themed Baked by Melissa cupcake box that comes with an assortment of festive flavors like cookie butter, chocolate blackout, chocolate creme egg and triple chocolate fudge.
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