Chocolate for Easter: It’s Not Just Bunnies

Chocolate for Easter: It’s Not Just Bunnies
Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries. Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS
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by Daniel Neman St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It is a fact universally acknowledged that chocolate Easter bunnies taste best when you start by eating their ears.

It’s part of the whole chocolate-for-Easter thing, a longstanding tradition that no one seems to know how it began. My own personal guess, based on no specialized knowledge of the subject whatsoever, is that people eat chocolate for Easter because chocolate tastes good.

It’s as fine a reason as any, and better than most. Pretty much any reasoning involving chocolate is better than most.

This Easter, I resolved to make four types of chocolate candies to give as Easter gifts to family, friends and loved ones, or just to serve at your own home. And I also made caramels, because some people actually prefer caramels to chocolate.

I know. I don’t understand it, either. And I can’t figure out how I married one.