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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Brachs Bunny Basket EggsCandy is a microcosm of society and existence. I know this because there are certain candies that indicate the presence of the divine in every scrumptious bite. Then there is evidence of evil on this planet. The Easter “marshmallow egg” is one of the latter candies.
This candy has promise on the outside, as all temptresses do. It’s big, so of course it’s appealing to any foolish child who hasn’t learned that “bigger is not always better.” What’s more, it is an evil that has no name. Really, what are these things called? If I say marshmallow egg, you might thing of the satisfying marshmallow half-hemispheres that are drenched in chocolate this time of year. Or even something that resembles an Easter-themed Circus Peanut. Brachs has chosen to call their version of these Bunny Basket Eggs. I will hereafter refer to them as BBBE, which when pronounced as an acronym (as all good acronyms should be) it will sound like a stuttered bee-bee or a very cold person trying to say ‘bean.’
Part of their temptation lies in their beguiling size, which is made up entirely of sugar with a dash of artificial color and carnauba wax. That’s a Starburst Jelly bean there; it’s no match for the Mastodon known as a Brachs Bunny Basket Egg.
I hope you understand that Brachs probably makes the finest BBBEs there are. They’re generous with the color and they’re even flavored. The green ones are lime and orange ones are orange. I can’t tell you what the rest are. Please don’t make me eat more of them. If you haven’t already guessed, these are horrid candies. It’s not like I’m against eating pure sugar, I have in fact indulged in full spoonfuls of honey or brown sugar as a treat quite often. The shell of a BBBE is similar to a jelly bean. It’s a rather grainy sugar coating that’s smooth on the outside and lightly flavored. The center of a BBBE is a fluffy, grainy sugar that really isn’t like marshmallow, but I call it that because the ingredients mention gelatin and corn starch. I don’t think BBBEs can be made and delivered fresh, not to mention the fact that few people eat them right out of a pristine bag. They’re intended to sit in amongst the pastel cello grass of an Easter basket until all the other choice candies are consumed and a desperate sugar-toothed child is force to eat it. Then the last thing this child remembers of his Easter experience is this deplorable egg. The smell of these inside the bag is like a mess of flavored lipsticks or a bad candle shop. A combination of fake fruit flavors and of course airborne microfine sugar which is intent on giving you that satisfying sweet feeling on your tongue before you even eat one. I realize that this candy has its champions, and that by no means makes you minions of evil. I can only surmise that the experience of eating these foul little fingers of pure sucrose is inextricably tied to a pleasant experience and these help you relive a little of it. If that’s the reason, then I completely support their continued, but limited, production as a therapy device. If you would like to read someone who might share your unending love of these, you might want to pick up Hilary Lifton’s memoir called Candy and Me: A Love Story (you can preview the chapter online). I honestly did try to like these. I never cared for them as a child, but I did buy them, make them look pretty in the photos (they are actually very pretty) and of course ate TWO! That’s why they get a rating of two instead of one. (You may now commence in the comments section telling me how wrong I am.) Related Candies
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I am with you all the way..horrid…But then..I don’t like marshmallows…I remember these sitting in our Easter baskets until they were hockey pucks..we never ate then, not even in desperation..lol.
Yeah, one of these a year will do ya. They might be more palatable if they were smaller. Not knowing how to classify what’s inside the shell is also a sticking point for me. WTH is that stuff?
Ughhhhh…when I was very small, my Easter basket would be filled with these, spice jelly beans, and malt balls, all of which I loathed. I know most people would disagree with me about the malt balls, but then, my favorite candies are marizpan and turkish delight, so I suppose I’m weird!
When I got a bit older, my easter basket consisted of a Helen Grace egg, which was (and still is) really yummy.
Always hated these things but as a kid you forget and you go for the big one- doh!
aaaaagh! i had forgotten about these! please remove this review and burn it! i don’t want the memories!
Oh my gosh. I had forgotten about these as well. But upon reading your review, I swear I could taste them and feel that texture in my mouth….the so sweet that it hurts your teeth kind of taste.
It seems like I always got purple ones in my basket.
Thanks for reminding me of these horrors. :-(
The WORST thing about these—other than that for some reason they kept coming back, year after year, and not one of us 4 kids actually liked them, and that we’d always have to try them again—is that they’d sit around long enough for the dogs to get into them, and that is never pretty. Yuck!
I liked them when I was little, but I imagine they’d be a bit much now.
I have to stick up for these things, since everyone else hates them. I really like the orange ones. But it’s true that they are so sweet they burn, and they definitely have a strong chemical taste. The purple ones remind me too much of spice jelly beans and gumdrops, which are truly disgusting.
I love those things. Really—I do! There’s something about how sickening sweet they are that satisfies my sweet tooth until next Easter.
I’d rather have those than jelly beans any day.
Cybele! Brave, brave, dedicated Cybele.
So that’s what they’re called.
I’d buy one if they were sold as singles for a nickel.
Nostalgia.
Daphne - they may have been the EXACT same eggs! Just dusted off each year.
Cyn - I just tried a purple one, to try to figure out what flavor they are. As near as I can tell it’s floral air freshener.
MuscialMom - you’re probably in luck then after the holiday with all the sales! I know some people think that same about my addiction to malted milk balls.
Desertwind - I did see that they were selling something like these in an “Easter Assortment” where they had a dozen variety packets with other candies in them like jelly beans and malt balls. Either that or find two dozen friends to pitch in a nickel for each dose of nostalgia for each of you!
I have only eaten one of these in my entire life, and that was more than enough. I never really thought of them as candy when I was a kid. Maybe it was because of the weird shape, they look like a piece of a vegetable that has been frenched. Nothing about them says egg to me. I guess I was drawn in by the sweet smell (or maybe the scent from some good candies rubbed off on them). Its almost as if someone sprayed them down with artificial flavoring right before they were put in the bag. They are just as useless as peeps (at least peeps look kind of cute as decoration), and they have an offensive taste.
These were the ones I was talking about! Ohmigosh, how vile! Prime example of something you think will be wonderful in your naive, youthful years… until you bite into it. Then you try another color, thinking maybe you just “got a bad egg.” Hehe. Really, the whole substance and consitency of the confection is appalling. That’s so true about letting it “sit in amongst the pastel cello grass of an Easter basket until all the other choice candies are consumed.” Even though I like jelly beans, I always used to leave the mini ones in the until all the chocolate candies were consumed (when we were little my grandparents used to hide easter baskets for us in their house, and they tended to favor the beans, probably because they’re cheap). And even then, I prefer red and black jelly beans (or spiced).
These are easily some of the worst candies in existence. I had no name for them before when reminiscing about the revolting dregs of the
Easter basket with friends. Thank God I’m no longer alone…
While indeed these BBBEs, as you call them, are the double wides of the trailer park candies, what they lack in sophistication, they make up in
solidty and volume, not to mention sensory overstimulation and visual impact. Originally called Duck Eggs and manufactured by various
companies (of which Brachs is the only worth purchasing; trust me) they have become, IMHO, the icon of April candies excluding chocolate in general and Cadbury Eggs specifically. Don’t bother looking for them on closeout, I’ll have already bought them all. Reputed to have enough sugar to cure clinical depression and with a glass of milk…heaven on earth.
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FINE THESE OLD FASHIONED EASTER EGGS FOREVER….APPARENTLY THE LOCAL STORES DON’T CARRY THEM. I ALWAY’S LOVED THEM….YES THEY ARE VERY VERY SWEET…A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY! WE ALWAYS STORED THEM IN AN AIR TIGHT CONTAINER AND THEY WOULD LAST A LONG TIME.
HOWADAY’S I JUST LIKE THE THOUGHT OF THE GREAT EASTER EGG HUNT’S WE HAD DURING A SIMPLIER TIME. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO FIND WHERE THEY ARE SOLD IN THE RALEIGH NC AREA.
Mr Man - your comments have been cracking me up, thanks!
Joan - you can order these online (a different brand) from Candy Warehouse:
http://www.candywarehouse.com/marshmallowegg.html
Beauty must truly be in the eye of the beholder because these are my favorite of all the
Easter candies. I looked forward to my Easter
Basket as a child mainly because I couldn’t wait
to get a hold of those big beautifull brightly colored pieces of candy. I eat one of those with
a hard boiled egg and a glass of milk and I figured those must be the meals that they serve
in heaven. It seems as though Brachs is the only
one making those anymore and I certainly hope they never stop at least until I am in heaven
and get them there.
Cybele, your description of the flavor of the purple one as “floral air freshener” is priceless.
I did kind of like these as a kid, but my mother often ate more of them than I did. As some others have said, a little bit of the sugar overload went a long way. I doubt they’ll end up in my kids’ Easter basket despite my (very slight) fondness for them.
I love those multi-colored and scented eggs more then anything in the world, except maybe my wife and kids. The poor man’s cocaine,white gold, bunny lovin goo, death by sugar,sugary sensory overload. I bought everybag at the local pharmacy (sorry to anyone looking to purchase for easter). They bring back good childhood memories! My kids love’em and my wife hates’em! I will be going to the gym for months to work them out of my system or in a diabetic coma. If the liberals have their way to make the death sentence more humane by killing death row inmates by sugar ingestion, then I would do what I had to just to be put to death by sugar bunny eggs. Not really but almost.
I actually happen to love these. Odd…every single candy for Easter that you’ve rated as horrid and unnapealing, I happen to have a huge fondness for. These eggs are sort of a tradition in my family: we love the smell, the thick candy shell and the fluff inside.
True, you can’t eat too many of them in one sitting because of the sweet factor, but we tend to love them anyway. All in all, I generally hate sweet things.
Go figure.
As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then yumminess must be in the mouth of the taster, because i think these chewy little delights are exactly that—delights. Dainty delicacies that taste DIVINE! If I ran this blog, I’d give ‘em at LEAST an 8
I used to like these when I was a kiddoe except for the purple ones that tasted like hmm lavender or something similar, like air freshener or detergent reaaaaaally yucky; however i still ate them and liked the other ones… of course, i’m a candy addict so maybe my opinion isnt that reliable :p but do follow my advise… do not try the purple ones!!
HAHA, i i used to crack the hard part off and eat the marshmallow stuff inside, but that only worked if they were kinda stale. I like them okay (excuse my horrid grammar) but yes, they’re probably one of those candies wehre if you feed them to your kids by the Easter basketfull you’ll probaly regret ever buying them. My little brother always ate all of his during Easter and went out to buy more. go figure (:
I found this blog because I was trying to find a supplier for these hideously delicious sugar bombs. It’s October, I’m five months into my first pregnancy and craving them fiercely, and the baby will be born long before Easter rolls around again. I hope this is not one of those cravings that haunts me for four more months! (By the way, my mom and I are the only people I know who like them. When I was a kid with six brothers and sisters, I traded all of my color jelly beans for black jelly beans and these sugar eggs. The other kids were thrilled with the trade. :D)
Christine - CandyWarehouse.com sells them all year round:
http://store.candywarehouse.com/marshmallowegg.html
The minimum purchase is 5 lbs ... but that should get you through the trimester!
Noo! These are the BEST ever! I have always loved these, and even decades after my parents told me I was too old for Easter, I still buy a few bags a year. I can’t believe so many people hate these.
Cybele, thank you! I had found that site, but as Mr. Man and Bill both mentioned, Brachs are the only ones worth eating. The Sweets brand sold at Candywarehouse.com are not the same. The sugar isn’t hard enough and the marshmallow stuff is actually trying to be marshmallow-y, so it’s kinda chewy and rubbery. The Brachs stuff only resembles marshmallow in color, not texture or flavor. <sigh> Thanks for looking for me, though! If you find a source for the Brachs, let me know. :D
These are, quite honestly, my favorite candy in the entire world. I know how disgusting they are, but I’ve been to my local Target and grocery store almost every day since February 15 waiting for these to hit the shelves. I love them. LOVE them!
I think you are all out of your mind. What’s this about being too sweet? You’re talking about easter candy! It’s supposed to be sweet. What kind of easter candy are you eating that ISN’T solid sugar. What do you think jelly beans are made out of…chicken? I’m sure you all love Peeps, you weirdos.
This is the one bit of easter candy worth eating and I wish they made it all year.
I absolutely loved the Brach’s Bunny Basket Eggs. They were called “marshmallow eggs,” but I agree they need a different name, as they are confused with the (horrid in my opinion) chocolate covered marshmallow eggs. I’ve been looking for these all over the place and was afraid they’d been discontinued…and yes, it IS a part of wonderful Easter memories. But I actually DID like them and look forward to enjoying them again. Thanks for the Walgreen’s tip!
I ADORE these eggs! I loved them as a child, and still love them as an adult. For me, it’s an Easter highlight. The best part is the yummy candy outside. My grandsons now like them, too. I have had such trouble finding them this year, but finally just located them at CVS Drug Store. They are now EACH individually wrapped in cellophane which I think is a bit much. I’m not sure why they did it.
We found the bunny basket eggs at Walgreens in
Woodland Hills, California on Topanga Blvd….
they are difficult to find. This is my Easter
memory and I hope they keep making them!
1045pm, one week after the original posting. Lying in bed with my girlfriend, deep in afterglow, and discussing the terrible way the major candy companies have usurped the old-fashioned Easter junk. Spare me the Hershey Kisses in pink foil and the rabbit-shaped Peanut Butter Cups. What I want, I said, are those giant, candy-shelled marshmallow eggs. I google that exact term and find your blog. Yes, some people hate them. But that’s OK - because I note something major, something miraculous: I LIVE JUST ONE MINUTE FROM THE SAME WALGREEN’S!!!! I jump out of bed, pull on my clothes, and tear out of the house. I’m back, a few minutes later, with two bags - THE LAST TWO BAGS - of those eggs. Even more amazing, my girlfriend is still there, waiting.
This is better than any previous Easter resurrection, whether ordained by a higher power, or imagined by man.
There is only one kind of Easter candy in which I ever have had an interest—this is it! If I never see any other kind, it’ll be fine with me. Since I can’t find them in any local store, I was forced to order them on the Internet. I shelled out $50 for them, including shipping. Even the site recommended by Brach’s doesn’t carry them! I found them at http://www.hometowncandy.com for those of you who would invert this blog’s rating.
Kevin - I in no way want this candy to be discontinued ... I love the idea and love that other folks love them. I think they should also be easier to find (I’m having trouble finding the Fiesta Malt Eggs this year).
However, please reconsider using Hometown Candy ... read over this post about problems with that website. Could you add your experience to the comments there (even if you had no problems).
Everyone has their opinions…I myself love these and can’t wait for Easter to come around so I can have my once a year treat. My wife knows how much I like these candies that she actually buys several bags and surprises me throughout the year with them. (Depending on how good I am of course)
Anyway…I do believe that once a year is enough, otherwise I would be a fat oaf. But with that saids…if you don’t like them….don’t buy them. I only hope that they keep making these for years to come.
I also have no idea why the individually wrapped them now either. A little over kill if you ask me.
Oh how I LOVE these. Easily my favorite candy around easter. Used to be peeps, but now it’s these. Nummmmy…
Couldn’t resist adding my mother’s craving to your cloying community. I’ve sortied the Menlo Park area including Walgreen’s, Rite Aid, Nob Hill, Safeway to no avail to find these blasted eggs. Finally I found a few bags at Target, but she wanted more! Yes, she is sick in many ways. Now, post-Easter, Target is ransacked! I’ll have to widen my radius or keep her alive until next Easter when I’ll be better prepared to hoard them knowing there are others like her in the universe. My commiserations.
Actually, Easter just wouldn’t be Easter without these! They are, by far, my favorite!
Oh my, these were my favorite Easter candy! I could eat these things all day! Sadly, I didn’t see any this year and didn’t have any :(
These are my favorite. Sometimes you can get knockoffs from Walmart that are idividually wrapped for hiding. My mom knew how to keep the house clean and some thing like these were just tossed on the carpet behind the sofa leg. I wish they were available all year long.
I’m sorry to say, but these are my overall favorite easter candy. I usually buy the Wal-Mart rip-off brand, but found the Brachs this year. (The other brands, and usually even the Brachs seemed to be individually wrapped anymore but) this bag didn’t have them individually wrapped and all together, so they were “fresh” and soft, which was novel at first, but it does make the grainy texture of the center more prominent. I think I’ll go back to the knock-off brands- they seem to mix the filling better.
But I will agree that the purple “flavor” was… strange, at best. The impression I was immedately struck with while eating one was the taste was incredibly similar to the smell of fresh crystal cat litter when you pour it out. Not a pleasant candy experience by any means.
These things are delicious.
Ok Gang,
I might be the only one that didn’t mind finding these in my easter basket. Why? Well they were a GREAT source of makeup. See once you liked off the outer coating the food color could be used as lipstick! I was very fond of red. On another note as kids I’ll never forget my older brother hurled one at me I ducked and it broke the old grouchy neighbor’s garage window. Mom & dad made us pay for it out of our paper route money! Grrrrrr!
I adore these things! I had no idea how many people hated them. The wonderful pure-sugar texture melting in your mouth. The grainy “marshmallow” filling. MMMMMMMM…. candy eggs *drools*. I don’t give a flip about all the valentine candy they have out, all I want is a bag or two of these delicious eggs!
Obviously, some of you have just lost touch with your inner child, because it is not so much about how these candies taste, but how you eat them. All of us grown up kids know that you’re supposed to bite off the ends and try to suck out the pseudo marshmallow substrate while keeping the remaining candy shell intact. Tres cool!
The red ones (cherry?) remind me of that lipstick your mom wore when you were a kid. And yes, the purple ones taste like perfume, but then, I like violet candies, so that figures.
Even before Valentine’s Day was officially over I was scouting the stores, eager to be the one, the only, crazy for Bunny Basket Egg shopper in my neck of the woods. Success! I scored 11 bags at Target. Yes, I absconded with the entire stock. Sorry. In retrospect I think it’s heartily unfair that they’ll have hundreds of bags of all the other crappy candy out there, and only a dozen bags of BBBEs. Clearly the afficionados form an elitist group rather like FIAT owners.
I am one of the lucky ones I suppose. I absolutely love these scrumptious little eggs and no one else in my family would touch them. SO I got them alll to myself. I have been looking all over for them but the shipping costs for the company talked about was outrageous. I am going to just end up buying them in bulk, which means a five pound bag, over two hundred pieces. I am going on a hunt for them right now at my local walgreens.
I truly love these. I have not found them anywhere this year, not even the trusty Walgreens, which is usually my Brach’s headquarters. I am considering ordering them from online. - - - One thing I do that might make them more palatable to some people (but maybe not, I realize) is to put them in my own jerry-rigged candy humidor. I take a leftover tin from Christmas and set a glass of water in it. Then I open a couple of bags of these eggs and pour them in around the glass, stabilizing it so it won’t easily tip over. Then I close the tin tight and carefully set it up somewhere for a few days. When I get it down, the eggs are easily crushed between your fingers, and are nice, soft chews (but not soggy). I like them best this way, which is sort of the opposite of my Peeps air-drying ritual to toughen up the mushy little chicks and bunnies. It IS a free country. But I think those who dislike this candy are missing out. (I mean, you say it’s pure sugar like that’s a BAD thing…)
I found the bunny basket eggs at Target but they are not quite the same. For one thing they are smaller than usual, it seems they grow smaller over time. But the most disturbing change is that the fluffy white center is no longer the same, it has more of a granular texture and much of the fluffiness is gone. However the taste is pretty much the same which probably means the recipe is the same but the process has been changed. I don’t know how far back you go but I remember when these things were about two and a half inches long and an inch high with a thick, and I mean thick candy shell. You used to be able to buy them at all the major department stores like Sears,Penny’s,Montgomery Wards etc. in “bulk” from their candy departments. I remember for a while you could find the red ones with the shell flavored like a mild “red hot”, they were GREAT. Good luck and let me know what you think about the new white center.
Oh Cybele, I love reading the Candy Blog. Your commentary is always so wonderful. And the variety of things you review always spark my interest. I’ve found myself trying/looking for sweets that you’ve reviewed all across the board and I have to agree with you on most of your reviews. It’s been fun to say “Hey, this was on the Candy Blog!”
The BBBE used to be the bane of my Easters every year. There’s very little candy that I liked around Easter, actually, but the first time I had one of these I spit it out. I tried them again, one of each colour (just a nibble!). They were just so horrid I couldn’t stand them anymore. They actually make me feel a little ill because I don’t like supersweet candies. Plus the texture always reminded me of wax and dry pencil erasers (maybe I just always got stale ones that were really grainy/tacky).
I feel like an alcoholic who has walked into his first AA meeting. I truly thought I was all alone-the only one who loves these horrid things. These have always been my favorites at Easter. For me, part of the enjoyment is the shape. And certainly biting into the hard shell (you could kill a squirrel with one of these in a slingshot). I had included them in my daughter’s Easter basket for years, but she never took to them. I’m currently in a bit of a panic because apart from a store 90 minutes away, I just can’t seem to find them around here this year (yes, I am contemplating making the drive…). Usually it’s easy because quite simply, nobody else buys them. Got four bags after Easter last year for about 20 cents each. Lasted me into September. I’ll try Target.
I found them here:
Wrapped Old Fashioned Marshmallow Easter Eggs: 5LB Bag Classic marshmallow Easter eggs in bright, ...
http://www.candywarehouse.com/wrappedeggs.html
When I went there to day they were sold out.
Jim
I saw these last night at Walmart, I am in WA, Cybele: they also has fiesta malt balls. Just thought I’d let you know.
I love these.
I drove all over town today trying to find some (at 50% off) to stock my desk drawer, but had no luck.
It’s a sad Easter for me. :(
My mother-in-law gave us some this year. I had totally forgotten about them (probably because I’m a Cadbury Creme Egg addict). I can understand why some people don’t like them, they are VERY sweet, but I do actually like them. They are definitely the type of candy to only eat 1 or 2 at a time.
Hurray for those brave souls who have come out of the easter basket to stand behind the righteousness of the BBBE. This is one of the finest seasonal candies ever produced. I have had a hollow space in my adult life where those enormous confectionery eggs used to sit. It is now filled.
I have always considered this egg a primitive form of the jelly bean, which, I’m told, derived from Turkish delight. It seems to me the BBBE and the jelly bean must have a very similar recipe since eating a bbbe is almost exactly like eating an entire handful of jelly beans without the stick to your teeth dilemma of the jelly centers.
As for the BBBE name, I can’t ratify that moniker. It doesn’t roll around the mouth like the required name should. After all, these are enormous globs of sugary goodness, hey maybe that should be their name. Whatever they should be called, I hope someone comes up with something better than BBBE, something that reflects the ages of easter longing this sweet tooth has felt in their absence.
Welcome back to the Easter shelves Enormous Globs of Sugary Goodness.
These candies rule!
I love them and look forward to them every Easter. Anyone who says otherwise needs therapy.
haha
Go Bunny Basket Eggs. YAY !!!
Omgosh!! I tried to find these this year, because for some reason it doesn’t feel like Easter without them!!! They were nowhere to be found!!!! SOO SADDD!!!!
Dude, these things are the “crack” of Easter candy. I’m hopelessly addicted. Brachs called them “Easter Hunt Eggs”, here, though. I hoarded 5 bags of these, but woe is me, now that Easter is over!
I absolutely love bunny basket eggs! I had to go to three stores to find them this year (finally at Walgreen’s) and I bought 4 bags. I hope they never stop making them!
These are great, don’t know why some people find them undesirable. These are my faves at easter, the hard shell is yummy and the inside is pure sugar, not for a dieter, but great for a kid who has them just once a year! Brush your teeth after and not problem. They are good to have when you’ve had so much chocolate you just want a different festive taste.
Oh my goodness these are my favorite Easter candy!!!
I wish I had a million of them to last me the year! Send them to meeeee ^_^
I agree-these are the crack of Easter candy. I think about them all year. I have been waiting and waiting for all the stupid Valentine candy to get out of the way and for them to put out the Easter candy. I feel like a drug addict. I circled the boxes as they were putting out the candy, never fast enough-looking for the basket eggs! Finally, after going to about 5 stores every day for a week, they put them out. I keep buying like four bags at a time and keep saying to myself, this is it, no more! Esp at 3 eggs = 130 calories. I need to go the gym to get rid of this stupid egg habbit! I feel sick and have headaches, but nothing makes me stop! I eat at least a bag a day and will be so glad and upset at the same time when Easter is over so the candy will be gone. There, I have said my peace. Anyone feel the same?
Good News! I found them yesterday March 3, 2009 at my local Walgreens…Brach’s Easter Basket Eggs
Unable to find Brachs marshmellow easter eggs if any one know or see in the area let me know. I tried Hometown - their website did not work.
Found mine at Walgreens great price today in West LA
I LOVE THESE!! These are my number one favorite candy of all time. Candy corn are my second. I haven’t eaten these in 7 years as I have lived overseas that long (I used to average 3 bags/week near easter). While I have returned home several times in that period it has never been around Easter. BUT I’M FINALLY GOING BACK NEAR EASTER TIME!! I will have you oh so sweet bunny basket eggs!! Loved your article and completely understand how most people can hate these tho!
We’ve been trying to find these! Target had them last year and my husband was in seventh heaven. But we just looked today and they stabbed in the back. They didn’t have them! Where can we buy them?
Man…I love them. No. 66 says it for me. The older they are the better. If they are fresh it is too, too easy to get to the “meat”. You have to almost break a tooth getting into the old ones. But, alas, I can’t find any…but I’m still looking. Walgreen’s, Target, Publix, Sears,....
Last year I found them at Walmart. This year I found them at Walgreens. I live in the Prescott, Arizona area.
To Jim Starkovich above (my older brother at the other end of the continent). Have no fear, I just mailed you some today before I read your email. I found them at our Alco in Truth or Consequences, and I’m sorry to say I ate the bag I found at Big Lots last week. Alco’s were wrapped, and Big Lots were not! Now that we’re both over 70, I think we can eat anything we want! Both were about 2 bucks.
Sally,
Since having the name of Jim and being over 70 seem to be the criteria, I am waiting for my bag of Easter Basket Eggs as well.
Jim in Arizona
I loved this post, and I absolutely worship these eggs. Luckily Canada seems to get them every year at Shoppers Drug Mart and various other chains…but some years they’re harder to find. Made by Dare and others.
These wonderful eggs are vulgar, completely artificial and a straight, undiluted shot of pure sugar to the candy junkie. I always make myself ill with them every easter and love it!!!
The above commenter (brixton, #76) is my wife and I cannot stand having these atrocious hellnodules in the house. Every year at Easter I dread watching the ravenous consumption of these hospital-waste coloured monstrosities.
Still, every Easter I buy a couple bags of these and hide them around the house. Unfortunately she finds EACH..AND…EVERY…ONE OF THEM.
Maybe I’m weird, but I absolutley looooove those crazy “marshmallow” eggs (which I admit, taste nothing like marshmallows). I love to eat the the outside first and them roll the “white stuff” into aball and let it melt in my mouth. And actually I’m 36 years old so its not a kid thing. I was actually one of the kids that left them in the basket. Now, I just don’t know what it is about them but I can’t get enough of ‘em!!!!
Well, it is only 3 more days til Easter and I have totally struck out!! My sister, Post #74, sent me a bag. My wife found 3 bags but she won’t tell me where she found them. BTW, I’m 71 and have been eating them for 39 years….when I can find them!!!
OMGoodness ... My FAVORITE Easter treat by far!
In fact, just bought 2 bags of these great little eggs at Target the other day. Guess I’d better go back before they’re all scarfed up!
BTW ~ Papas Opera Cream (Dark Chocolate) pretty bloomin’ tasty too!
As in most things, everyone has different tastes, and I, a “mature old white lady” has always thought these were the BEST of Easter candies, although I only let myself have one every now and then now. So keep your opinions to yourself.
I haven’t been able to find these for two years. I did this year. Bought three bags! The best. Went back for more after Easter. They were all sold out at three locations. Don’t listen to the complainers most people love these. Now Peeps you can still find lots of those around.
I agree the best! Sold out here as well. Are they kidding. Maybe they all work for Hershey and are trying to kill the market.
less than 10 minutes ago I bought these on clearance at Walgreen’s in Ocala, FL. 59 cents for the Brach’s 10.5 oz bag
they are my fav easter candy by far. but i ate too many & i feel sick now…
LOVE the bunny basket eggs. I bought mine at Meijer. I also love the rabbits & chicks from brachs (the ones that resemble circus peanuts), which I had to go to a DIFFERENT store to buy. I’m allergic to corn syrup but I MUST have them anyway. My favorite is the blue.
I am so happy I have found people who adore these as much as me! I lament that I couldn’t find them anywhere this year.
After the birth of my second child in March 1999, my mom gifted me bags of Bunny Basket Eggs and Chicks and Rabbits. I ate both bags in the hospital bed. The nurses were disgusted, and I was in sugar heaven!
I miss you, Bunny Basket Eggs…
okay, if anyone is interested, I just started a facebook group for Bunny Basket Eggs Lovers:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736452673#/group.php?gid=75023686447&ref=mf
These are one of my favorite Easter candies. About 8 or 9 years ago, I found a bag of them that were individually wrapped and took them to work and put them in the candy dish. (this has been the only time I ever found a bag of individually wrapped ones) It was fun to watch people’s reactions to them and hear their comments. Yes, they all were ate up the first day.
Unfortunately, the only store that carries them locally during Easter is Walgreens. No other stores, including Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid Drugs or our local grocery store chains (King Soopers, Safeway or Albertsons) ever carry them. If I don’t get them at Walgreens I have to wait an entire year.
I have to admit, I absolutely adore these things. I’ll eat a few bags of them each easter if I’m not careful. I don’t know what it is about them I like because there are better candies that come out at easter.
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