Easter S'mores Jar

I'll start by telling you what these cute little Easter treats are not.

They are not healthy. 

Everything else they are: cute, simple, giftable, keepable, tasty, so on and so forth.  I'm giving some away and planned to keep one for ourselves, however, once the babies saw it they had to have it, so it's been eaten. But I think this would be a great "the Easter Bunny had a practice run" for kids to wake up to on Saturday morning, or to tuck it in a basket as a swap for the usual load of candy on Easter.

All you need is:

1 jar

ribbon or tulle for a bow

1 pack of graham crackers, crushed

7 peeps or bunny peeps

1/3 C brown sugar (optional)*

1 1/2 C Mini Cadbury Eggs

if giving away, a baking instructions card

To assemble jars:

Pour 2/3 of the crushed grahams into the jar. Layer the bunnies in next. In the center of the jar, pour the brown sugar if using, then the remaining grahams to support the bunnies. Top with mini cadbury eggs, Seal up the jar and tie it up real nice.

To bake:

Empty the entire contents of the jar into a bowl. Snip the bunnies into bits with kitchen shears. Pour in 1/2 C of melted, salted butter and 1 tsp vanilla extract. Mix well. Pat into a greased 9"x9" pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes. Cool and cut into bars.

*note on brown sugar: this helps the bars to set, but if all that sugar on sugar on sugar makes you squeamish (as it did me) then you can leave it out. Be aware that your bars will not set until completely cooled, at which point they are still tasty, just not ooey gooey s'morey. If you want them warm, they will be crumbly.