DINING: Help for Japan, classes and candy

Jean-Luc Daul, executive pastry chef at the Four Seasons, 3960 Las Vegas Blvd. South, has created lemon cupcakes as a benefit for Japanese disaster relief. The cupcakes are $5 each in the hotel’s Verandah restaurant and proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross. ...

In its continuing series of “cinco de ...” monthly parties, El Segundo Sol at the Fashion Show mall, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, will celebrate Cinco de April on Tuesday (April 5), with Loco Hour prices in effect all day.

The restaurant also has planned a Cooking Fiesta from 10 a.m. to noon April 30. Among the dishes to be covered are nachos with crab and poblano, and shrimp and carne fajitas with Oaxacan black beans; prickly pear margaritas also are on the menu. It’s $25, plus tax and tip; call 258-1211. ...

See’s Candies has announced its annual Easter and Mother’s Day collections. They include a keepsake box packed with milk, dark and white chocolates, a milk-chocolate rabbit with bow and a rocky road egg. ...

And Ethel M stores will offer a peanut-butter truffle box, fruit truffle box, strawberry marshmallows, lemon marshmallows and white chocolate bunny pops. ...