Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon
Today we are going to make some creative home made easter eggs, I've got lots of ideas for
you and I've even got some easy options for those of you who don't have an easter egg
mold at home.
The first thing you need to do of course is choose your chocolate.
Good quality chocolate containing cocoa butter tastes the best but you will need to temper
it so that it stays crisp at room temperature.
Watch my tempering video at the end of this one if you are not sure what that means.
Lets start with an easy one solid mini eggs, fill the mold, scrape chocolate off the the
top.
Let them set then tip the excess out.
Warm a plate in the oven and use it to melt the middle and then join the two halves together.
Easy
Now one for people who don't like plain chocolate.
Choose an egg mold and fill it up with chocolate Then tip out the excess and you'll be left
with a smooth layer over the egg.
Scrape off the messy bits around the edges.
This one I am going to give to my husband and he loves fruit and nuts and ginger and
all of that so I am adding that to the inside of the egg before the chocolate sets.
Get creative and add whatever you think the person you are giving it to will like.
So that the top edges are not too thin turn it upside down to set.
So that the chocolate drains down rather than away from the edge.
Once it is set pull the mold away from the egg then tip it out.
Place a plate in the oven until it is warm like we did before and use it to join the
two halves together.
One advantage of making your own eggs is you can hide gifts inside.
If it is a non-food gift wrap it in a protective bag first then add your lollies and seal it
with the other half of the egg.
If you are making one of these for a younger child then put non-edible things inside a
plastic egg that is too big to swallow and put that inside the egg.
Wrap it in cellophane and tie it with a ribbon around the top.
I thought was weird when I found out that kinder surprise eggs were illegal in the USA...
my kids love them, you can see them un-package some on their cute channel.
I'll link you to that one as well.
You can make lacey eggs so that you can see what's inside them.
To do that place the chocolate into a ziplock bag and cut the corner off it.
Zig zag across the mold.
Then turn the egg and zig zag across the other way and then turn again and zigzag across
the middle.
Making lots of tiny triangles by going in three directions like this it gives a good
amount of strength to the egg so it will stay together when you tip it out.
Once it is set pull on the edges of the mold and release the egg.
Place whatever you like inside then then join the two halves together just like we did before.
Now lets have some fun and make an EGG INSIDE AN EGG inside an egg.
Make three basic eggs but don't join them together yet.
I am making two dark and a white chocolate one.
White chocolate is the hardest to temper, so make sure the chocolate that you buy has
a good amount of cocoa butter in it and is crisp with a good shine to it.
If you don't have enough to fill the mold you can spread it thickly, and then tip out
the excess to make it smooth.
Once it is set pull away the edges of the mold to release the egg.
So that we can see the eggs nesting inside each other use a hot piping tip to cut holes
in each egg.
I am using a couple of different sized tips to give different sized holes.
Write a note to go inside the middle egg.
Roll it up and tie it with a ribbon.
Place it in the tiny egg and seal it up using either a hot plate or a saucepan saucepan.
Put that egg inside the white egg and seal it up.
Then place the middle egg inside the big one and close that egg too.
Then wrap the whole thing in cellophane.
You want to be sure the person doesn't re-gift the egg.
Particularly if it has an engagement ring and will you marry note or something personal
inside.
Your super easy option if you don't have an egg mold is to buy an egg from the shop.
Heat a metal piping tip and use it to cut a hole in the top.
Shake out the circle of chocolate so that you've got that.
Then fill it up with lollies of your choice.
To seal up the hole place some melted chocolate on one side and let that stick firm, I've
just placed some of the foil under the other side to hold it in place while it sets.
Then once that's firm fill the gap on the other side.
And wrap the egg up again.
Think about who you are giving the egg to and put their favourite lollies inside.
If you want to put something larger inside the egg you will of course need a bigger egg
from the shop.
In this one I am putting a the message bible because it's easter.. you can read about the
Easter story in Matthew 27 or go to bible.com/app to download a great free bible app from there.
I am also adding a movie ticket, an itunes voucher and a mascara.
What would you like to find inside an egg?
What would be the best thing you could find inside it?
Wrap it all up with a bow.
Now obviously that is not going to fit into a small hole on the top.
Put some foil under your egg to stop it rolling around.
Then heat up a knife either using a brulee torch or hot water and melt out a section
of the egg.
Carefully post the gift inside.
Now the hole will be bigger than the piece because we melted some, so you need to pipe
melted chocolate around the edge on the egg and on the edge of the slice of chocolate
. Then carefully put it into place and use your knife to neaten it up.
Now rewrap it in the foil and use smooth part of your finger nail to flatten that foil back
into place.
To make filled eggs make the shell just like we did before then once it is set fill it
up, I am using dulce de leche you could use any of the fillings I showed you how to make
in the 10 best chocolate truffles video.
Then top each one up with chocolate and once they are set join them together just like
we sis with the solid eggs.
DECORATE THE OUTSIDE You can of course decorate the outside by
piping patterns or words onto your egg in the same or a contrasting colour.
Or you could use the surprise cakes app and put a dragon inside your egg.
Take a photo of the eggs you make and share it in the comments section on the howtocookthat
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