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Seasons > Easter > Activities for the Home > More Easter Cakes > Cookie trees and carrot cake recipe
Make a Resurrection cake, then embellish with details to make it look “real”--a cookie “grave stone,” a chocolate “pebble” path, green coconut grass, or Oreo crumb “dirt.” Cornflakes or other cereal make a good ground cover, too. Make trees from celery hearts, carrot tops, broccoli, or fresh herbs such as parsley or rosemary. An alternative is to use fake miniature trees that are made for train model sets or miniature houses.
If you prefer all sweet things, use icing or candy to create flowers or a vine on the grave. See below for step by step instructions for making palm trees and weeping willow trees.
Trees can also be made by melting chocolate and dripping it onto a small square of tinfoil in the bottom of a glass. While the chocolate is still soft, put pretzel sticks into it, and let them rest against the edge of the glass so the “branches” of the tree splay out wider than the base. Once the chocolate has hardened, lift out of the glass and peel off the tinfoil. Then top with pink cotton candy to look like cherry trees, or green tinted rice crispy cookies for a green leafy top to the tree. If you use cotton candy, put it on at the last minute because it will quickly melt from absorbing any moisture in the air. An easier way to make the tree trunk is to put 3 pretzels in a coke cap, and stuff cotton candy around them until they do not wobble.