Jennifer Sheahan: How to make easy edible Easter gifts and decorations

The Home of the Year winner shows how to create her favourite sweet treats

Jennifer Sheahan, former Home of the Year winner, left, with some of her favourite Easter treats.

I love, love, love Easter, and if you haven’t yet heard my arguments for why I feel it is the best holiday (yes, better than Christmas) then hear me now — you don’t have to buy presents, there’s no obligation to spend all day visiting people, you get to eat your body weight in chocolate, you can forget about slaving over a turkey all day, and nobody expects you to haul decorations down from the attic (though I do personally love Easter decorations — perhaps more so because there is no pressure to put them up). Plus there’s a grand auld stretch in the evenings, and with it come daffodils and furze springing up all over the landscape with bright yellow cheeriness. It’s ideal. 

I wrote an ode to Easter this time last year, where I gave tips and recipes for making and decorating Easter eggs of all types — chocolate eggs, cookie eggs, and even Rice Krispie eggs.