Happy Jelly Bean Day!

I've been looking forward to Today.  I LOVE Jellybeans.  They are by far my favorite candy. Yes more than Chocolate.  I look forward to Easter every year, just for the Jellybeans.  Who could not love this sugary goodness.  

The Turkish delight, a Turkish dessert made of soft jelly covered in confectioner's powder, was an early precursor to the jelly bean and inspired its gummy interior. However, it is generally thought that jelly beans first surfaced in 1861, when Boston confectioner William Schrafft urged people to send his jelly beans to soldiers during the American Civil War. It was not until July 5, 1905, that jelly beans were mentioned in the Chicago Daily News. The advertisement publicized bulk jelly beans sold by volume for nine cents per pound, according to the book The Century in Food: America's Fads and Favorites. Today, most historians contend that jellybeans were first linked with celebrations of Easter in the United States sometime in the 1930s for it's egg-like shape.
From Wikipedia

Celebrate your Love of Jelly Beans. 

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Decorate your home with jelly beans. 

• Mason jars filled with jelly beans, with a ribbon around the jar. Glue a few jelly beans to the lid and varnish to help them keep for a long time.
• Fill an ice cream sundae glass with jelly beans of one flavor. Place a ring of chocolate or brown jelly beans on the surface, topped off with a ring of white jelly beans to look like cream
• Make a candy wreath using jelly beans. Glue or thread jelly beans on a circle of twine. Hang on the wall.
• Fill a glass vase with jelly beans. Place a bunch of flowers on the top for a spring display. Try to match the jelly bean colors with the flowers.

Make jewelry from jelly beans. 

• Thread jelly beans onto a necklace or a bracelet and wear all day.

Make jelly bean cupcakes. 

• Make flower cupcakes. Make rings of jelly beans around the cupcake topping to form petals. Use similar or the same colors to keep the look uniform. Add a jelly bean of a different color in the center.
• Make piles of jelly beans on the cupcake as a topping.
• Place three cupcakes together. Frost with buttercream, and arrange white and yellow jellybeans across the cupcakes to look like corn on the cob. Stick a corn fork each end and it'll look like a corn. Keep on a plate for each corn cupcake set.
• Make animal shapes using jelly beans as cupcake toppings.

Add jelly beans to a drink

• Add to a hot drink. Make your usual cup of tea, hot chocolate, coffee or other hot drink. Toss in a few jelly beans in such flavors as cinnamon or vanilla. Drink.
• Add to a cold drink. Jelly beans are great in an iced chocolate or milkshake. Try a thick shake to have them sit up top.
• Add to an alcoholic drink. Spice up the flavor of vodka or other plain alcohol by dropping in a few jelly beans.

Play a blindfold tasting game. 

• Place different flavors or jelly beans in separate containers. Blindfold each player and have them guess the flavors or the jellybeans. The player who guesses the most right wins. The prize could be a basket of jelly beans.

Just EAT Them.....