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    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » Easter Recipes

    Peeps Pudding Cups

    Published: Mar 19, '13 · Modified: Aug 13, '23 · By: Beth Klosterboer · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Make a cute Easter dessert featuring a Peeps marshmallow bunny raiding the carrot patch. These Peeps Pudding Cups are easy to make by topping a bowl of delicious chocolate pudding with cookie crumbs, candy carrots, and a bunny of course.

    chocolate pudding dirt cup topped with candy carrots and a Peeps marshmallow bunny eating the carrots.

    Today I'm going to share a super easy Easter dessert recipe featuring Peeps.

    Each sugar-coated marshmallow bunny is nestled in a bowl of chocolate pudding that is topped with crushed chocolate cookie dirt filled with candy carrots. It looks as though the garden has been invaded by the bunny.

    Whether you love or hate eating marshmallow Peeps, there is no denying they are fun to add to edible crafts for Easter. I personally love the sugar-coated marshmallow bunnies and chicks.

    Ohio bicentennial basket filled with Peeps having a picnic, fishing, working on a farm, and more arranged on Rice Krispie treat hay with a candy buckeye tree and peeps flying in a chocolate Wright B Flyer.

    I love them so much that back in 2003, I created this Peeps on the Farm in Ohio basket, for a contest that Just Born, the maker of Peeps, hosted. I won first prize (not the grand prize) which was a year's supply of Peeps. Giant boxes filled with 365 packages of Peeps arrived at my doorstep.

    Crazy, right? So, was the amount of work I put into that basket. With the exception of the wicker basket, a metal hook, and a few toothpick fishing poles, the entire thing was edible even the chocolate airplane!

    a clear glass dish filled with chocolate pudding and topped with cookie crumb dirt and candy carrots with a purple Peeps Bunny in the middle is set on an Easter napkin near a stuffed Peep bunny.

    This recipe won't take a fraction of the time! It's super easy.

    So, let's get started.

    Ingredients

    white modeling chocolate (click the link for the recipe)
    orange and green food coloring
    OR use gummy carrots or royal icing carrots

    Peeps Marshmallow Bunnies
    2 candy eyes per bunny
    1 pink sugar pearl (round candy sprinkle) per bunny
    1 white heart-shaped sprinkle per bunny
    corn syrup (to use as edible glue)
    chocolate pudding
    crushed chocolate cookies (about one cookie per pudding)

    Instructions

    making candy carrots using modeling chocolate.

    Making candy carrots.

    I couldn't find candy carrots when I decided to make these desserts, so I made my own using homemade modeling chocolate (also known as candy clay).

    You can use gummy carrots or royal icing carrots.

    • Pinch off and color some modeling chocolate green.
    • Color a larger amount orange.
    • Pinch off pea-size pieces of orange and roll them into balls.
    • Then roll them into carrot shapes. Pinch off tiny pieces of green and roll them into very thin logs.
    • Cut into ¼" or so pieces. Use a toothpick to create a hole in each carrot.
    • Dab a bit of corn syrup into each hole. Insert a green log into each carrot.
    • Flatten and cut the green to look like leaves.
    • Use a knife to make indentations across each carrot, if desired.
    adding candy eyes, a pink sugar pearl nose, a heart-shaped white sprinkle for the teeth, and a candy carrot to a Peeps       Bunny using corn syrup.

    Decorate your Peeps bunny.

    Your Peeps already have faces, and if you choose, you can skip the steps of adding decorations to the faces, but I like the more expressive faces and the buck teeth. If you do too, then use the backside of each Peep to create the new face.

    Use corn syrup as glue to attach two candy eyes and one pink sugar pearl for a nose to each bunny. Break off the tip of each white candy heart to make buck teeth for your bunnies. Add them just under the pink nose.

    Use a skewer or toothpick to poke a hole for the mouth in each bunny. Dip the tip of a modeling chocolate carrot into corn syrup. Press it into the mouth.

    three glass dessert cups, one filled with chocolate pudding, one with cookie crumbs on top, and one with a Peeps bunny eating candy carrots.

    Fill a dessert cup with pudding, add some edible cookie crumb dirt, nestled in a decorated bunny, and add more modeling chocolate carrots. Then serve.

    Peeps pudding cups made with chocolate pudding and cookie crumb dirt, modeling chocolate carrots, and a marshmallow bunny.

    Variations

    This idea could also be used on a chocolate cupcake or a bowl of chocolate mousse. You could even create an entire garden filled with carrots and bunnies on a brownie or cake.

    Storage

    These festive Easter desserts can even be made ahead and kept in the refrigerator for a day. I don't normally refrigerate modeling chocolate as it can develop condensation, but these carrots are so small, you don't really notice it.

    I've had my Peeps Pudding in the refrigerator for three days and they still look great.

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    Beth Klosterboer
    Beth Klosterboer
    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. cherrybaby016

      March 19, 2013 at 4:50 pm

      I love Peeps! My big sister and I love to sit and catch up over a small box of chicks, we have always shared them during the Easter season ever since I was a child.

      Reply
    2. Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff

      March 19, 2013 at 4:23 pm

      Sooo cute ... even Peeps eat their vegetables!

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        March 19, 2013 at 4:26 pm

        Chocolate carrots are my kind of vegetables too!

        Reply
    3. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      March 19, 2013 at 4:08 pm

      Thanks for sharing a link!

      Reply
    4. Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel

      March 19, 2013 at 3:52 pm

      OMG, how cute are these?!

      Reply
    5. Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel

      March 19, 2013 at 3:51 pm

      OMG, how cute are these?!

      Reply
    6. Pint Sized Baker

      March 19, 2013 at 2:58 pm

      These little guys are so cute. Who would bother them in the garden? Love 'em!

      Reply
    7. dragonswing

      March 19, 2013 at 2:48 pm

      Oh this is so cute! And thank you for the instructions for the modeling chocolate. Even as a child, I was the only one in the family to like the marshmallow treats. SO I got to eat them all!! I prefer fresh but if they
      are a bit stale, I will still eat them.

      Reply
    8. Pink Little Cake

      March 19, 2013 at 2:35 pm

      I adore these mini carrots, and I would definitly go with the bowl of chocolate mousse

      Reply
    9. Jennifer @ Not Your Momma's Cookie

      March 19, 2013 at 2:26 pm

      So completely clever and cute! I adore these, Beth!!

      Reply
    10. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

      March 19, 2013 at 2:00 pm

      These are adorable!

      Reply
    11. Betsy Eves - JavaCupcake.com

      March 19, 2013 at 1:59 pm

      Oooooooooh I love how you gave them faces!! GENIUS idea!!!

      Reply
    12. Kalamity Kelli

      March 19, 2013 at 1:40 pm

      I love your Ohio Farm Peeps! I'm doing a Peeps on Earth diorama this year - I was actually supposed to do it last night. Ah well, maybe tonight. The pudding is fabulous with the carrot-eating Peep!

      Reply
    13. Lisa@hooplapalooza

      March 19, 2013 at 1:33 pm

      these crack me up! and your peeps basket is like out of the park crazy creative! 🙂

      Reply
    14. Robin In Ruskin

      March 19, 2013 at 1:17 pm

      Your ideas are soooo cute! love those little peeps!

      Reply
    15. craftmomdawn

      March 19, 2013 at 1:13 pm

      I like them fresh out of the package, soft and gooey.
      You are very creative with Peeps

      Reply
    16. craftmomdawn

      March 19, 2013 at 1:12 pm

      Fresh out of the package.
      You are very creative with Peeps

      Reply
    17. Madonna

      March 19, 2013 at 1:06 pm

      omgoodness how cute. I love peeps anyway you can imagine. I am old enough to remember when you could only get peeps at Easter. I am so glad they offer them all the time now. We made a Peep cake for Easter last year. It was so cute.

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        March 19, 2013 at 1:17 pm

        Oh, me too. I always anxiously awaited the arrival of Peeps in the grocery store each spring.

        Reply
      • dragonswing

        March 19, 2013 at 2:50 pm

        I will have to look harder cause the only time I see them is at the holiday

        Reply
    18. sugarswings

      March 19, 2013 at 12:35 pm

      So adorable!! Love the big eyes on them and I love them stale! Thanks for playing along!!!!

      Reply
    19. The Partiologist

      March 19, 2013 at 12:26 pm

      Love love love your peeps pudding - too cute!

      Reply
    20. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

      March 19, 2013 at 11:53 am

      This is so cute Beth! Love how you did the face!!

      Reply
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