Easter, for me, has always been synonymous with candy. Hidden Easter baskets with chocolate bunnies and jelly beans inside, yellow marshmallow Peeps (best eaten eye-first), and my personal favorite: Cadbury Cream Eggs… although I mostly just liked the sugary fondant inside. Even when I stopped celebrating the holiday itself, it still meant a package of sweets in the mail from my mom and the inevitable post-Easter candy markdown.

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