Would you like ham and scalloped potatoes? I asked my husband a few days prior to Easter Sunday.
Ham? Asking with his nose a little turned up.
Then I suggested Or we could do roast chicken and scalloped potatoes, what do you think?Â
Well, ham is fine I guess. Most indecisive husband award goes to…
And so Easter Sunday rolled around. We were feeling a little lazy. I headed out on my walk with Alfie, Nicole (my 10 month pregnant neighbour!) and her pooch, who Alfie hates. We talked about what our Easter traditions were, and had a little chat. It was getting quite warm out so after the walk instead of going on my weekly run together with my husband, I decided to run 1.79 miles on the treadmill while he snoozed on the couch for a bit.
When I came back home, I noticed he was awake asking me when we’re going to head out for our run together. You know when you’re just in the mood to run and you need to get out there otherwise it probably wouldn’t happen later? That’s what I did. He asked me if I’d like to go again, and to be honest – I really didn’t want to. But as soon as he said he wanted company for half of his run, I decided to get off my butt and go for another run.
My husband and I prefer to run right before the sun sets, so it’s cooler outside. And before that had to happen, we needed to get some groceries for our Easter dinner. I’m surprised the stores were open, then again my husband didn’t get Good Friday, nor Easter Monday off work.
We went to the grocery store and seriously could not pass up the pre-cooked rotisserie chicken fr $4.94. In Canada, I swear they’re at least nine bucks. So that was our easter dinner plan. Clearly I enjoyed taking photos of my shoes/pants on Sunday. I’m obsessed with these black sneakers, they’re from Target by the way!
In the afternoon, I’m not entirely sure how – but we ran out of time and things got a bit hectic. As per usual. I don’t let that bother me any more. But, we took Alfie out and went on a 6km run together. It was probably one of the best runs of my year so far. I didn’t feel winded, nor did anything hurt. I blame it on the warm-up that I did on the treadmill a few hours prior. Guess that was pretty good for me!
Once we came home, I had to head over to Baskin Robbins because I placed a telephone order for a bunny ice cream cake a couple of hours prior, and it was ready for pick-up. Baskin Robbins seriously does the cutest cakes for any occasion. We picked it up just in the nick of time to have for our Easter dessert.
After everything got settled away, I made the veggies to go with the roast chicken we picked up prior. I love feasting on special occasions, so I did not disappoint delivering a full plate of food to the table. Check out all the yummy goodness I made! I like to pat myself on the back. I picked up a dark chocolate Lindt bunny for my husband, and a milk chocolate one for myself. World Market was having a crazy good sale a couple of weeks ago leading up to Easter and some of the stuff was 50% off! I refrained on buying all the cute bunny items, and only bought two chocolate ones for ourselves.
Of course, we dug into the cake immediately after. My husband was such a stindge cutting the cake. Half a piece for the both of us? You gotta be kiddin’ me! Slice another piece off for us b’y. With the Baskin Robbins bunny roll cake, you could choose from 3 different flavours of ice cream in the middle: vanilla,mint chocolate chip, or chocolate chip. I chose the latter — it was pretty amazing. Technically this cake serves 6-8 people, but we aren’t sharing!
However I will share something else with you guys. You can enter to win a Baskin Robbins gift card too valued at $31, enough for you to buy a bunny roll ice cream cake too! Yay, what a surprise! Just enter using the rafflecopter form below. Giveaway is only open to US residents.Â
Although my post is a little late going up since Easter was a few days ago, I still hope you had a wonderful Easter with your family!
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Everything looks so delicious! How good are those Lindt bunnies? Are they hallow on the inside? I’ve been wanting to try one, but every other chocolate bunny I have ever purchased have been kind of bland and taste old.
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@Connie: Have you never had lindt chocolate before? It’s probably my favourite chocolate out there. Especially the lindt chocolate balls that have the soft truffly chocolate in the centre. Ugh, so good. The bunnies though are hollow and they still taste pretty creamy (not like cheap chocolate).
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@Nancy: Nice! I LOVE the red Lindt chocolate balls. I was hoping the bunnies would have some sort of creamy center. It still looks good nonetheless.
@Connie: p.s. I ate it all. It WAS delicious.
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Haha my husband and I have been know to polish off a whole tub of icecream on our own :) That bunny cake is too cute. The little bum on it? I can’t even!
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@Megan Joy: Ice cream + popcorn = all I need in life.
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I am OBSSESSED with ice cream cakes! Probably because I was never allowed to have one growing up! This looks amazing!
@kelly – a side of sweet: You weren’t allowed?! That makes me so sad! You better make up for it now!! I used to get an icecream cake every year for my birthday lol.
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mint chocolate chip, also mocha almond fudge!
I love your blog but I am specifically commenting for that Baskin Robbins gift card. It’s tradition in my family to have a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake for birthdays. Since I don’t want to wait until September, I hope I win so I can enjoy cake now!
Easter was great and I love your shoes as well!!
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@Lauren (@pinkonthecheek): Haha I don’t blame you! Enter away!
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I can’t eat it, but I loveeee vanilla bean ice cream !
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Aww, I miss posts like these! Simple, every-day ones :)
Glad you had a good Easter– my mouth was watering when I seen those photos! Looks amazing. And THAT CAKE IS SO ADORABLE! Especially the end part of it (the bunny behind… loll).
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Oooooo that bunny cake!!! Love.
Happy Easter to you and yours :))
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I don’t have a Baskin Robbins super close to me. There are some, but we have to pass Carvel to get there, so our ice cream cakes come from there.
your feast looks amazing! I also like to have a big feast for the holidays! We went with Ham this year, I could have eaten the whole thing! Baskin robins never ceases to amaze me! They have the best treats! The bunny cake looks so yummy! Sounds like you had a great holiday :)
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Oh my goodness, your food is making me hungry. That cake is just too precious, I wish I’d of had a cute cake like that for our Easter meal.
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I’m sitting here waiting for my carb-less lunch to finish cooking and drooling over that cake! Baskin Robbins makes the most adorable cakes. Thank you for sharing!
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Every holiday is an excuse to indulge! That cake looks so yummy! ps Afie is a cutie pie
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It looks like you had an amazing Easter Sunday. The cake is absolutely adorable and would love a bite
Belated Happy Easter! The cake made the simple celebration superb! I like caramel flavored ice cream! Been drooling now for an ice cream cake!
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I also have one of those indecisive husbands. I always tell him, “if I have to cook it, the least you can do is choose it!”
That cake is adorable, I bet it was delicious! I miss ice cream cakes, they haven’t really caught on Denmark. Ooooh… maybe I could make one from scratch!
I’d enter the giveaway, but there’s really no point :( Good luck to all who enter!
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That is the cutest bunny ice cream cake I have ever seen. One of our Easter traditions it that every year someone has to bring a lamb cake or some other dessert. The goal is to find the creepiest one you can. This year my mom made the weirdest egg shaped cake…and forgot some ingredients so she couldn’t even cut into it. Ha!
What an adorable bunny cake! It looks delicious!
I love mint chip ice cream….yum!
This looks like such a fantastic meal! I never would have thought to have a custom Easter dessert from Baskin Robbins, it’s definitely a must try! Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience with us!
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Yay for the run! The dinner looks absolutely delicious. Yes, our Easter was perfect watching the kiddos hunt for candy and money eggs!
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Ham and scalloped potatoes sounded good to me.
However, the dinner that was made looked delicious as well. The ice cream cake!!! Yes. I hadn’t had one since I worked to BR as a teen.
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I love birthday cake!
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I had no idea that Baskin Robbins made cakes like that, how adorable!! I love that you guys run together, I so wish my husband would run with me. Sounds like a great way to spend Easter!!
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I love doing non traditional meals for holidays!! Sounds like you had a great Easter weekend with your husband!
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My favorite ice cream? I have so many…gosh, um…rocky road, pecan…blah blah blah. We had the usual for our Easter dinner. Ham ;)
This looks like an amazing Easter dinner and the cake wow. I love the cake and will have to go out and get one along with the chicken with veggies. Then I will have to go for walk instead of a run. Thanks so much for sharing.
We had a very lazy Easter Sunday here as well. We have no family in town, so we do not go all out anymore. I will say it would have been fun to have a cake from Baskin Robbins to brighten the day.
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That looks like a great meal! We love ham at Easter and fun Easter desserts. I must say that your Easter Bunny dessert looks so good. I should get one next year and I agree that your hubby should really have cut bigger pieces!
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I LOVE vanilla. But, if I’m at BR I go for mint chip. YUM.
Looks like a great Easter.
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Hi Nancy! I could never turn down any ice cream, but I think birthday cake is my favorite flavor. Yay for this giveaway! Pick me!
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$4.94 for a rotisserie chicken?? I’m obviously going to the wrong supermarket. They’re about $8 or $9 here in Berkeley and coming from Australia I though that was cheap!
Onto the ice cream… My favourite flavour is mint chocolate chip. And can I just point out how happy it makes me to see you spell flavour the correct way! I’m always torn between using my usual British/Australian/Canadian spelling and American spelling on my blog. Because I now have more American readers than Australian I’ve started dropping the letter “u” in lots of words and switching the “s” in words like organise to a “z” but it feels so wrong :)
@Sally from Little Hiccups: Yes I’m pretty sure the $4.94 was regular price. Now it wasn’t super big (it was small/medium size) but it fed my husband and I and we had enough for leftovers for the next day, so I spose it could feed 4 adults. We bought it at our Walmart Neighbourhood Market!!!
I’ll never go to American spelling and get rid of my U’s in colour/flavour/etc – (or even switching away from Celcius) however, with the word organize I never did spell that with an “S”!
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My favorite flavor is mint chocolate chip! But I love trying new flavors. I’ll try about any flavor that’s smothered with hot fudge sauce and whipped cream.
Sounds like you had a fun Easter! Thanks for sharing!
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Aw that’s nice that you ran with him again! I like the bunny cake.
What a fun Easter, your meal looks delicious! We ended up getting Mac & Cheese, no ham for us either ;) My favorite ice cream is peanut butter chocolate!
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Everything looks good! My family and I had a pretty laidback Easter Sunday. :)
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That is seriously an adorable bunny cake. I love Baskin Robbins. I wish we had a location closer to where I live so we could enjoy it more often.
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My favorite is Rocky Road. Marshmallow belongs in ice cream like peanut butter belongs in chocolate.
At baskin robbins, I always get the same thing. Bottom scoop pralines and cream, top scoop pistachio almond. There’s nothing better!
I used to love getting a peach milk shake from Baskin Robbins! I like to look at the available flavors and try something new.
I just love Vanilla
What a darling cake. My kids would really love this – looks so good!
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The cake was super cute. I like the design and I bet that it’s done well with creativity. I can’t believe that the bunny roll cake was made from ice cream. Mint chocolate chip is my favorite flavor. I hope that a nearby shop here sells that! :) We are too far from Baskin Robbins.
Oh my goodness! That bunny cake is too adorable. My daughters would absolutely love to have it. I am going to enter the giveaway because this would be a real treat.
I forgot to mention I love mint chocolate chip!
I’m a bit of an ice cream-aholic so it’s hard for me to decide on one flavor. Chocolate, on top of chocolate, with peanut butter, and more chocolate of some sort sounds prety tasty right now but tomorrow I might crave strawberry cheesecake! I know that I definitely wouldn’t mind giving that bunny a try though! :)
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I love your Easter Sunday dinner spread and dessert! That adorable bunny ice cream cake is to die for! Thanks for sharing a wonderful giveaway! I joined! Wish me luck! :)
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Mint Chocolate Chip! Bring it on! I can’t wait to win ALL THE ICE CREAM!! :)
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My favorite ice cream is French Vanilla.
Sounds like a fun and relaxing day! I haven’t had a Baskin Robbins cake in forever and remember it being my favorite choice growing up! Who can resist an ice cream and cake combo :)
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10 months pregnant? lots of good thoughts to your neighbor! I love that you two run together!
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Your Easter Dinner is delicious and That Easter Bunny Ice Cream Cake is just the cutest!
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Love that you ran again to keep your man company and love the cake from Baskin Robbins.We love a good icecream cake as well for special occasions.
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Your dinner looks yummy! We just started doing long walks over here and I enjoy them! The first one we did was almost 6 miles! I was ready to die! hahaha
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