Sugar Swings! Serve Some: hula

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Hula Bunny PEEPS and a Spring Hop Along PEEPS Party!!

Yay! It's PEEPS season! If you follow the blog or my posts at all you probably know I'm all about PEEPS. Totally LOVE 'EM! Last year I had an entire week of PEEPS Pops including PEEPS dressed up as The Beatles, The Sesame Street Gang, KISS, Some famous Art Work, The Avengers, Baseball Players, Where the Wild Things Are and this year some Mickey and Minnie PEEPS Pops, and of course the Star Wars PEEPS Troopers! You can say I kinda have a thing for Marshmallow PEEPS!

And this year a bunch of crazy bloggers agreed to do a Spring Hop Along PEEPS Party where everyone created a unique treat with PEEPS as a theme. I know crazy, right? Well if crazy means super fun and awesome, then it's crazy!

This year I definitely had some trouble coming up with a fun idea. I had a couple and they just didn't pan out right, but then tried these hula bunnies!

Start with a square pretzel as a base and I used PEEPS bunnies (I like them better than the chicks for whatever weird reason). Attach to pretzel with some candy melt or melted chocolate. Then add a grass skirt with some more green candy melt (I put the wafers into a zip lock baggie, melt in the microwave, then snip a small end off and pipe on). Use brown to do a belt on top of the grass skirt. Add a "coconut top". This is just some plain m and m's attached with more melted candy. I wanted all brown to be more like coconuts, but apparently there are very few brown m n' m's in a single pack these days, so I used the other colors too, which I think work well with these colorful Hula PEEPS!

You can make them alone, or add them to your favorite cupcakes or treat too! They'd be great for a luau or Hawaiian themed party! I really had fun with these, especially the ties in the back for the coconut m and m tops!

The tiny bunny arms are some non-pareil sprinkles. Add a candy melt/sprinkle flower to the ears and you have yourself some hula bunnies!

I really like how these came out and the little flower really pulls it together!

Please check out the other PEEPS creations from the other bloggers who joined in on the Spring Hop Along PEEPS Party! Thanks to all of you for playing along and especially to Christi from Love From the Oven for helping to put all this together! She also put together an awesome PEEPS giveaway, so enter via the Rafflecopter below to win some PEEPSalicious PEEPS stuff to make your own PEEPS treat (or to just eat 'em stale like I do!).

Ready for more fabulous PEEPS recipes and ideas??? Visit the following websites, each is sharing an amazing PEEPS post for you today, so hop on over and check them all out! Don't forget to enter to win the fabulous PEEPS Prize Pack as well! Happy Spring!

PEEPS bunnies in Chocolate Easter Eggs from The Decorated Cookie

PEEPS Cupcakes from Hoosier Homemade

Spring PEEPS Truffles from Java Cupcake

Pavlova Peeps Nests from Crazy for Crust

PEEPS S'mores from The Southern Institute

Giant PEEPS Cereal Treat from Dollhouse Bake Shoppe

PEEPS Candy Bars from The Domestic Rebel

Rice Krispies PEEPS from Creative Food

Easter Cake with White Chocolate PEEPS from Bird on a Cake

Hula Bunny PEEPS from Sugar Swings! Serve Some

Peeping Peeps from Miss Candiquik

Bird House S'mores on a Stick From Kitchen Fun with My Three Sons

Layered S'mores Brownies with PEEPS from Shugary Sweets

PEEPS Brownie Pops from Munchkin Munchies

Easter PEEPS in their Finest from Pint Sized Baker

Peeps Get Married from Haniela's

Peek A Boo PEEPS Cookies from In Katrina's Kitchen

Spring Hop Along PEEPS Party from Love From the Oven

PEEPS Eclair Cake Cups from Inside BruCrew Life

Raiding the Carrot Patch - PEEPS Pudding from Hungry Happenings

Very Vanilla PEEPS Cake from Pink Little Cake

Peeps Centerpiece Cookies from The Baked Equation

PEEPS Magician Hat from Not Your Momma's Cookie

Enter to win some fun PEEPS treats!

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THANKS to everyone who participated in this PEEPS Party, all are bloggers I totally look up to and admire. And THANK YOU for visiting and indulging the slight PEEPS problem I seem to have! Have a great week!

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