With Easter just around the corner, I was curious if you have/had any family traditions?
Now that my son is a little older, we’ve fallen out of the habit, but we would often have an easter egg treasure hunt around our home.
I hide 5-6 small treats in different locations with clues telling him where to look next, a chocolate egg would then be waiting in the final room. I’d have him zigzagging across our home, garden and sometimes even the car.
I’m sure he thinks he’s far too grown up for this kind of thing, but I suspect he’d be running around just as enthusiastically if present him with the first clue.
Do/did you have any family traditions at this time of year?
We too have had Easter egg hunts, as you describe. When the children were young, it was with small drawings of the next place to look. We had an egg hunt having an Easter party - then the children looked for Easter eggs in the garden, finding puzzle pieces they needed to assemble at the end. The puzzle was made of a cardboard A3-size where I’d written where the end point was. That way the kids went to the end point together (avoiding that the oldest got the most ).
The «kids» are actually home for Easter now, and declared last night that they are in no way too old for an Easter egg hunt, despite being adults. So here we go again, I guess…
I had planned to share some photos of the “easter nest” cakes I was planning to make last night, but my grocery delivery was missing the essential ingredient (Shredded Wheat)! I ended up just eating my mini eggs as they were.
I don’t really have any Easter traditions, but I did love making those cakes when I was younger.
I grew up Jewish, so no real Easter traditions, but a related one -
My grandparents owned a ladies clothing store in New Orleans and my mom worked for them. The Saturday before Easter was the busiest day of the year in the store, even extending into Sat evening. Every so often the first Passover seder would be on Easter Saturday - so we had some seders that didn’t start until after 10 pm when the store finally closed.
And of course since it was the US south - white shows could only be worn from Easter to Labor Day!
@toml I did notice that there were Christian, Jewish and Sikh festivals all very close to each other this year which is pretty cool that so many people around the world were able to celebrate something so close together.
Personally, I always find it interesting to hear about different nations/cultures celebrate key events. For example, weddings in the US seems to be much grander affairs than here in the UK (or at least that’s what I’ve read).
@Maggie8K in the UK, it’s commonplace for chocolate eggs are shared with friends (usually children) I read somewhere that this is a tradition that didn’t make it to the states.
Easter bonnets are of course a thing here, however it completely bypassed me for some reason and I only learned of it in my mid-20’s.
@Mark_B In the US. we definitely have chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies, too.
There is a local candy company in New Orleans (where I grew up) that does 3 different candy eggs -
pecan eggs - a nougat center wrapped in caramel and crushed pecans.
heavenly hash eggs - a marshmallow center wrapped in chocolate with pecans. This candy then became a popular ice cream flavor in the US, too. Recent variants have strawberry flavored marshmallow and dark chocolate.
gold brick eggs - solid chocolate with pecans swirled in. Also available in dark chocolate, too.
Elmer’s easter candy is one of those things I miss about New Orleans!
Do you mean that U.K. kids or friends are given or exchange chocolate eggs?
In the U.S., kids often receive Easter baskets filled with treats, including chocolate eggs and bunnies and other stuff, like small toys or stuffed animals. There also are Easter egg hunts — mostly held privately, but sometimes among churches, communities, cities or organizations.
Many people celebrate Easter, even if they’re not religious or from other religions, because children and their friends are included.
BTW, maybe google “Peeps contest” and check out fun or goofy things Americans do with the treats — they’re sugar-coated marshmallows. They started out being sold most heavily as Easter treats, but have extended into Halloween, Christmas and Valentine’s Day goodies as well. People love them or hate them, but they’re iconic.
This is an example of a chocolate egg that’d be given as a gift - virtually every candy/chocolate brand will have lots of variations of these.
Many people celebrate Easter, even if they’re not religious or from other religions, because children and their friends are included.
That’s mostly the same here - Easter and Christmas are widely celebrated.
BTW, maybe google “Peeps contest”
I’ve heard of peeps on US TV shows, but I don’t recall seeing them sold here. In fact, I think the TV shows are often saying they aren’t the best snack.
On the whole, I don’t particularly like US chocolate, but I must say that Reece’s cup are epic.
Cool tradition. I don’t shop much in the candy aisles in the U.S., but I don’t remember those being sold (maybe that’s changed) — usually our Easter chocolates were shaped like bunnies. If they were eggs, they were smaller. But commercially, Easter baskets stuffed with goodies have been around for generations. Businesses made them so tempting, all kids wanted them. Some people make their own to gift as well.
Yes, Peeps aren’t even considered edible by many folks. But there are some amazing contests where people use them to build statues, dioramas and such. Fun to see how creative and ambitious people get.
U.K. / European chocolates are much more tasty on the whole than U.S. ones. You can buy great chocolates here, but the better ones, especially artisanal ones, are much more expensive.
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