And for tomorrow's gustatory delight, consider:
EASTER TURDUCKEN
COOKING WITH PEEPSThink everyone might be making Marshmallow Peeps Cupcakes this year? For a more elaborate celebration, try your hand at the Easter Turducken. This bad Larry requires you to stuff a Cadbury Creme Egg into the business end of a Peep. This unholy union is then put inside one of those crappy, hollow milk chocolate bunnies. This is really something you should (and easily can) do.
DIRECTIONSAs with traditional turducken, Easter turducken starts from the inside out. The core is formed with miniature Cadbury cream eggs:
Take an ordinary peep and make a large slit in the bottom, as deep as possible without going all the way through:
Stuff an egg into the slit, stretch the sides around it, and fold the peep’s tail down. Repeat with a few more peeps.
The outer layer finally makes good use of one of the more odious culinary travesties, the irritating hollow bunny. As a kid, nothing was more annoying that thinking you’d been given a huge block of chocolate, and it turns out to be empty. To get the egg-stuffed peep goodness into this abomination, first you must open the bottom. Anything worth doing is worth doing with power tools, so take a dremel and cut around the perimeter of the bottom:
Once the hole is made, stuff the now egg-bloated peeps into the bunny. Note that some hollow bunnies suck even more than others, and crack and fall apart really easily, so be careful. Once you’re done, put the bottom back on. The really ambitious might try re-melting the seam in the bottom closed with a crème brûlée torch.
Voilà, the loathsome hollow bunny is transformed into several thousand calories, as God intended. Many children wonder around Easter how it is that bunnies lay eggs. As a side benefit, Easter turducken illustrates clearly that this “theory” is wrong. Obviously bunnies lay chickens, which then lay the eggs. Mystery solved.
Now fully prepared, the Easter turducken can be eaten. There is probably some kind of psychological test about what part of the bunny you eat first. I always go for the neck. Since it is held together only by a cheap-ass hollow bunny, once you start eating your turducken, it will collapse rapidly. Be prepared for a mess.
der Brucer
Note: not part of a heart-health diet
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Easter turducken • 98g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 456 Calories from Fat 158
Total Fat 18g 27% DV*
Saturated Fat 11g 44% DV*
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol < 15mg 4% DV*
Sodium 74mg 4% DV*
Total Carbohydrate 70g 24% DV*
Dietary Fiber 0g 0% DV*
Sugars 65g
Protein 6g 11% DV*
