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Almond M&M Candy Carrots topped with Mike & Ike Greens

February 28, 2013 This post may contain affiliate links.

The Easter Bunny found the perfect treats to stick into your kids Easter Baskets! These Almond M&M Candy Carrots are simple to make and great gifts to hand out to your family!

The Easter Bunny found the perfect treats to stick into your kids Easter Baskets! These Almond M&M Candy Carrots are simple to make and great gifts to hand out to your family!

This past December I created Candy Christmas Lights using colorful Almond M&M’s and green Mike and Ike Candies and they quickly became one of my top ten posts. They were definitely one of the simplest edible crafts I have ever made. When I was brainstorming ideas for Easter, my wonderfully creative exchange student suggested I make carrots like the light bulbs. Brilliant, right?

The Easter Bunny found the perfect treats to stick into your kids Easter Baskets! These Almond M&M Candy Carrots are simple to make and great gifts to hand out to your family!

These tiny little candy carrots can be served in a candy dish or used to decorate cakes and cupcakes. To make my cupcake pictured above, I just topped a frosted cupcake with some cake crumbs and added a few carrots.

I crafted the bunny out of white modeling chocolate using a bento rice mold, just like I created my Caramel Chocolate Fudgy Bears for Valentine’s Day. If you’d like to make one too, you can use the directions for the bear and just swap out white modeling chocolate for the caramel modeling chocolate and use the bunny mold that comes in the set with the bear mold, (directions, here)

The Easter Bunny found the perfect treats to stick into your kids Easter Baskets! These Almond M&M Candy Carrots are simple to make and great gifts to hand out to your family!

Almond M&M and Mike and Ike Candy Carrots

You’ll Need:

green Mike and Ike Candies

Orange Almond M&M’s (or use orange Jordan Almonds or Orange Chocolate Jordan Almonds)

Supplies:

kitchen shears

The Easter Bunny found the perfect treats to stick into your kids Easter Baskets! These Almond M&M Candy Carrots are simple to make and great gifts to hand out to your family!

Cut green Mike and Ike candies in half. Use the kitchen shears to cut the green candies so that they look like the greens on top of a carrot. Just make lots of snips all over the candy, leaving the sticky side flat. Press the sticky side of the Mike and Ike up against the more rounded tip of the orange Almond M&M.

That’s it! Now go make some carrots.

The Easter Bunny found the perfect treats to stick into your kids Easter Baskets! These Almond M&M Candy Carrots are simple to make and great gifts to hand out to your family!

Use Wilton’s Picket Fence Cupcake Wrappers to create this cupcake.

Items used to make this project are available for sale on Amazon.com (commission earned for sales)


 

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  1. paintings

    April 14, 2014 at 5:58 am

    The dirt I used is actually brownie crumbs, but cake crumbs, or crushed chocolate cookies would work just as well. Thanks for sharing the useful information.

    Reply
  2. Anonymous

    March 27, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    Not only are the M&M carrots cute & quick, thanks for showing how to use them by posting several different ways you displayed them. Tavette – S. Florida

    Reply
  3. Shifra Khan

    May 16, 2013 at 7:13 am

    I made the dirt out of Oreos and some fudge brownies and butter.worked like a charm.

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      May 16, 2013 at 10:53 am

      Glad to hear it worked so well.

      Reply
  4. M.J. Powell

    March 14, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    These are adorable!!
    Our party is live today and we would like to invite you to share this there: http://thebusybhive.blogspot.com/
    Hope to see you there.
    Thanks!
    The Busy Bee's,
    Myrna and Joye.

    Reply
  5. Jessica @ Play Trains!

    March 13, 2013 at 3:03 am

    Very clever! These are awfully cute.

    Reply
  6. Brenda @ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com

    March 13, 2013 at 1:06 am

    How creative!! LOVE these!!

    Reply
  7. Michelle | Creative Food

    March 11, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Love these!! So simple to make and absolutely adorable!

    Reply
  8. Kathleen Richardson

    March 11, 2013 at 12:41 am

    Adorable and even I could follow those directions. Must pin this.

    Reply
  9. petit4chocolatier

    March 10, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    Such a great idea! Looks incredible and tasty 🙂

    Reply
  10. Brenda

    March 8, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    Beth, I tried to copy your carrots. I had to use peanut m&m's … showed them on my blog … linked back to you 🙂

    Reply
  11. Милана Ишутина

    March 5, 2013 at 8:10 am

    Great idea! Beautiful, light and I think it is very appetizing! Thank you.

    Reply
  12. Anonymous

    March 3, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    That's so amazing and brilliant!! You are so creative!!

    Reply
  13. Sandra

    March 2, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    What is the "dirt" made of?

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      March 2, 2013 at 10:20 pm

      The dirt I used is actually brownie crumbs, but cake crumbs, or crushed chocolate cookies would work just as well.

      Reply
    • Sandra

      March 4, 2013 at 2:04 pm

      Thank you.

      Reply
  14. hron

    March 2, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    WHAT FUN!!!! Gonna "plant" a carrot garden with my grandgirls!!! Thank you so much for your creative, fun ideas!!!!

    Reply
  15. Alexa

    March 2, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    It looks like you could also do this with grape tomatoes for a healthier or nut-free version.

    Reply
  16. Pams Party

    March 1, 2013 at 8:09 pm

    Very cute idea.

    Just curious since I notice your box is like this too.. Why is the name Mike scribbled out on all the boxes of Mike and Ikes? I noticed this while shopping recently.

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      March 2, 2013 at 2:55 am

      Thanks Pam.

      As far as the name Mike being scribbled out, it's a marketing thing. Apparently Mike and Ike are fighting and they no longer want to be on the box together. I don't quite understand the marketing concept. I'll be curious to see if Mike and Ike reconcile!

      Reply
  17. Brenda

    March 1, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    Genius! You and your exchange student make a great team 🙂

    Reply
  18. The Partiologist

    March 1, 2013 at 5:01 am

    This IS brilliant – it's so simple and looks just like little carrots!!

    Reply
  19. Kalamity Kelli

    March 1, 2013 at 1:04 am

    You are so creative! This will be great for my friends at work. Thank you!

    Reply
  20. Kulinarny Zenit

    February 28, 2013 at 7:57 pm

    So lovely !

    Reply
  21. Loris Glassworks

    February 28, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    What a cute idea, I pinned it to my Easter board. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
    Lori in Atlanta

    Reply

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