I Love (chocolate) Easter (bunnies)
One of the perks of working at a bar is the presents. By presents I am talking gifts of food, wonderful, glorious food. My favorite patron of this tradition is Belgian Paul (we call him that to distinct him from English Paul). Paul works at Cannelle Patisserie in Jackson Heights, Queens, and often brings fresh made treats home to Brooklyn with him.
This time, he brought me a dark chocolate Easter bunny, hollow, and highlighted with a white-chocolate nose and paws. Now, I remember chocolate bunnies from my days of frilly pale pink dresses, Sunday church services, and the hunt for tiny chocolate eggs around my house when I woke up in the morning. While all of this was fun and I wouldn’t trade it for the world, I recall never being impressed with the cheap, milk chocolate rabbit with candy eyes that always graced my Easter basket. In fact, I would try and swap my bunny for all my sister’s tasty solid chocolate-foiled wrapped eggs, which worked until she got wise to my scheme. Mom, Dad, thanks for those memories, but Paul, this bunny rocked my Easter basket this year. So much in fact, I let my roommate eat all the little chocolate eggs.
Read some thoughts people have on Easter Bunnies (via Serious Eats).
April 8th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Love this! Mmmmm, it looks delicious. I like to eat the ears first, but always feel a little guilty…haha.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I love how you distinguish BelgiumPaul from English Paul. The Belgian’s know their chocolate.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Belgium Paul always has good vittles!
April 8th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
that bunny looks so delicious I could eat him up. Tell you the truth, I never did like the hollow milk chocolate bunnies with their candy googly eyes. It seemed like the thing to do, though, when my daughters were young. And don’t forget Easter grass, that green plasticky stuff that sticks to everything like foam packing peanuts and you find in your sock drawer six months after Easter. Thanks for the great post!
Jay
April 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Looks tasty!
April 11th, 2009 at 1:33 am
This bunny looks more alive than the usually chocolate bunny molds. Why with the skillful details around his open mouth and closed eyes, he looks like he might be singing… Hey I would sing too if I were covered in delicious dark chocolate.