{"id":6102,"date":"2012-04-01T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2012-03-30T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:42:41","slug":"what-is-easter-without-a-chocolate-bunny-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/04\/what-is-easter-without-a-chocolate-bunny-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Easter Without a Chocolate Bunny Rabbit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Choc-Bunny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6103\" title=\"Choc Bunny\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Choc-Bunny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>What is Easter without a chocolate bunny rabbit? Among a basket of jellybeans, chocolate eggs, and marshmallow chickens, only the chocolate rabbit stands alone. Towering over the other treats, the bunny surveys all he sees and decides he is the most worthy of being eaten. Rightly so, but all bunnies are not created equal. Some are hollow, some are solid milk chocolate.\u00a0 Some are dark and white chocolate too!<\/p>\n<p>The Easter bunny tradition started back in the early 1800\u2019s in Germany.\u00a0 Where the character was depicted as a rabbit bring Easter eggs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Similar to the story of Father Christmas the Easter bunny brought a basket of goodies filled with colored eggs, candy and sometimes a toy or stuffed bunny to the homes of children.<\/p>\n<p>They both traditionally have brought gifts to children the night before their respective holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Bunnies typically being related to spring often times are associated with populating.\u00a0 As the old saying goes when a family has lots of children; that the parents are \u201cpopulating like rabbits\u201d.\u00a0 Rabbits are a symbol of antiquity, fertility, and often times have large litters.\u00a0 It is therefore not surprising that rabbits should become fertility symbols, or that their springtime mating antics should enter into Easter folklore.<\/p>\n<p>Easter bunnies in the Victorian Day also were clothed.\u00a0 Some are such as Peter Rabbit; Beatrice Potter\u2019s Bunny; The Rabbit and the Hare; and White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Choc-Bunny-Mold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6104\" title=\"Choc Bunny Mold\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Choc-Bunny-Mold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>The picture shown here is a metal mold for pouring and constructing chocolate rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>Each side would be poured with melted chocolate and after setting up, would be brushed with a thin coat of chocolate and then pressed together.\u00a0 Thus forming a solid chocolate Easter bunny, hollow bunnies are form in much of the same way only poured out after setting up for the desired length of time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>This post is sponsored by:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Teton_sponsorjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5151\" title=\"Teton_sponsorjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Teton_sponsorjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Teton_sponsorjpg.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Teton_sponsorjpg-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Easter without a chocolate bunny rabbit? 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