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Frog Cupcakes

Submitted by: kymama

Home Town: Lexington, Kentucky, USA

These frog faced cupcakes are fun and easy to make for a child's birthday.

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Easy Bunny Cake

Submitted by: Joni Ehman

A simple version of a coconut white cake shaped like a bunny head!

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Apple Ladybug Treats

Submitted by: Veros L.

Living In: Ventura, California, USA

Red apples are decorated to look like lady bugs. This is a quick and fun snack that kids will enjoy making and eating. For once kids can play with their food.

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This is a great cake to do after a unit on bugs, wildlife, etc. Have the kids help decorate it! Use licorice whips for antennas, or gumdrops. Spread icing around caterpillar and sprinkle green tinted coconut for grass. Use any flavor cake mix or any Bundt cake recipe.

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Edible Face

Submitted by: Heather Heath

Cheddar, cherry tomatoes, carrot, oranges and crackers are cut and arranged to make a face children will love to eat.

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Bird's Nest Egg Salad

Submitted by: Taste of Home Test Kitchen

Create these cute chow mein noodle nests with just three ingredients, then fill them with mounds of a nicely seasoned egg salad for tasty results.

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Birds' Nests IV

Submitted by: Maureen Worman

The thumb print cookie that melts in your mouth, with creamy frosting.

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Snappy Turtle Cookies

Submitted by: Robin J.

An old recipe from my Mom's collection that I inherited when she passed away. They look like real turtles.

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Coconut Lamb Cake

Submitted by: Trena

White Cake for Lamb Mold. Reserve some coconut to tint green and arrange around mold as grass. Use raisins for eyes and nose and a slice of maraschino cherry for the mouth.

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Easter Lamb Pound Cake

Submitted by: Joanie

Home Town: Homewood, Illinois, USA

Living In: Conroe, Texas, USA

An Easter favorite, this pound cake pairs bourbon and pecans, in a recipe handed down through the generations. Decorate with frosting, and jelly beans for the eyes and nose. Cover frosting with shredded coconut, if desired.

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Zebra Sweets

Submitted by: Taste of Home Test Kitchen

A horse-shaped cookie cutter is the key to these tasty treats made with marshmallow and crisp rice cereal. Melted vanilla and chocolate chips create the zebra's eye-catching stripes.

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Cream Cheese Penguins

Submitted by: Valerie Cuff

Home Town: Charleston, West Virginia, USA

Just imagine a cute display of penguins, made with black olives, carrots and cream cheese! You can add scarves and hats by using fresh red pepper strips, or canned pimentos cut into different shapes. Use frilly toothpicks if you can.

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Chocolate Mice

Submitted by: Rosina

Kids will love these, they are whimsical and fun. Cute chocolate mice rolled in confectioners' sugar or chocolate cookie crumbs are very realistic.

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Dirt Cake II

Submitted by: DARLENEL

Kids love dirt. Can be made in a large flower pot or 2 small flower pots.

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Ants on a Log

Submitted by: Michele O'Sullivan

Home Town: San Diego, California, USA

Living In: Henderson, Nevada, USA

This is a fun snack that kids can make. It consists of artfully arranged celery, peanut butter and raisins.

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Black Cat Cookies

Submitted by: Kathy Stock

Our children look forward to helping me bake these cute cat cookies each year. They've become experts at making the faces with candy corn and red-hots. --Kathy Stock, Levasy, Missouri

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Turtle Bread

Submitted by: Jo

An imaginative food that kids will love, this simple yeast bread is shaped like a turtle, complete with raisin eyes. If you have problems getting your children to eat bread, this may be the solution you need.

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Cute Egg Chicks

Submitted by: Taste of Home Test Kitchen

These big-eyed chicks will steal the show at your Easter table or on a buffet! Our Test Kitchen staff took a little artistic license with a recipe shared by field editor Tami Escher of Dumont, Minnesota...and came up with these clever chicks.

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Easter Lamb Cake II

Submitted by: Patricia

This white cake is baked in a lamb mold for Easter and can be decorated to look like a little lamb. If desired, spices can be added just before adding the egg whites. Some good choices are anise, nutmeg or cinnamon.

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Peanut Butter Christmas Mice

Submitted by: Paula

These adorable little cookies are made of creamy peanut butter, butter, sugar, egg and flour. They are transformed into little mice with peanut halves for ears, green candies for eyes, and red licorice for tails.