I know it is absolutely nowhere near Easter, but it just feels right to share this info on the spur of the moment. C’mon now, cut me some slack! 🙂

For starters, Easter is known as the most sacred Christian holiday of the year. Jesus Christ’s resurrection after his crucifixion is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday.

Did you know that ninety million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced each year? No child's Easter basket is ever complete without a chocolate Easter bunny or two. But how did Easter get mixed up with a rabbit? Where did that come in?

No one knows for sure but rumor has it that this is so because rabbits are well known for their enthusiastic breeding habits, making them a common symbol of fertility.

Another legend points the Easter bunnies to the Goddess of Fertility, Eostre, for whom the term "Easter" was derived. The legend says that Eostre found a wounded bird in a snowy forest one winter. In order for the bird to survive the cold, she turned it into a rabbit. But the transformation was unfinished, because the rabbit continued laying eggs. As a thank you, every spring, the rabbit decorated her eggs and presented them to Eostre.

Or maybe because rabbits are known for their high-energy mating schedule and it was just intended as an Easter inside joke, but who knows? People started creating rabbit-shaped pastries and cakes by the beginning of the 19^th century, and later on came up with Chocolate Bunnies!

Whether to eat the ears first, or the tail or the feet, it’s all up to you. But most of the Easter bunnies lose their ears before the other parts of their body.  Chocolate bunnies have evolved into creations that are milk, dark or white chocolate.

And there you have it, the origin of chocolate Easter eggs, bunnies, and all of those spectacular chocolate stuff that chocophiles cannot live without! Life without it is just downright boring, especially at Easter, which is, yes I know, and I'm saying it again, nowhere near.

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Joanna Maligaya

Staff Writer/Content Developer at Chocolate University Online

Ever since she can remember, Joanna has always considered chocolate as the ultimate food for her soul. She believes in the saying, “9 out of 10 people love chocolate, and the 10th always lies.”

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