How to Make Cascarones — Confetti Eggs For Easter

Easter is this weekend and one of my favorite memories as a kid was getting an Easter basket. It was always filled with my favorite candy, including a chocolate Easter bunny. You know what I'm talking about - the one that is hollow inside. Oh, and you have to have one of those Cadbury creme-filled eggs and some Peeps. Got to have me some Peeps!

I don't know how you received your Easter basket, but Mama and Daddy always had a unique way of doing things. They would wake my brother and me up early on Easter Sunday and tell us to go to the back porch because the Easter bunny left us something special.  After tripping over myself to get there, I would find a huge basket wrapped in colorful cellophane. That was just the beginning of a beautiful day because we then had to get ready to go to church and afterward we had a family dinner, took pictures and hid Easter eggs around the backyard. No worries, because if we didn't find all the eggs the squirrels and rabbits certainly would.

I remember one year our church had a Easter egg hunt and I found the golden prize egg. Boy was I excited! My cousins use to come visit us during Easter time and they used to have a basket full of eggs that were filled with paper confetti and when I wasn't looking they would crack one over my head and start laughing. The best part was you didn't know which one had confetti in it. Cascarones is a Mexican tradition of smashing an egg filled with colorful confetti on someone you love. That was a tradition at the house I grew up in and continues to be a tradition today for many families of different ethnic backgrounds. Now, if you really want to make someone mad prank them with a real egg but be prepared for the consequences!

Here's a YouTube video on how to make cascarones, or confetti eggs.

No matter how you plan to spend your Easter, I hope that you and your family have a happy and blessed Easter.