Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and the rules of today's Easter
Egg Challenge are simple take a store-bought Easter egg and pimp it on
the inside ... that's right on the inside ... the outside can look the same so
everyone's unsuspecting but the inside has to be surprisingly impressive! Let's
start with an easy one, okay I'm going to take the big egg and then heat up a
circle cutter in a pan and then use that cutter to melt a hole in the bottom of
my egg so I can access the inside. Then I'm just filling up a piping bag with
Nutella. When you fill a piping bag to make it easier if you fold the top of
the piping bag over your fingers then when you're finished and you scrunch it
up you don't have any of the Nutella on the outside of the bag it's all on the
inside. Now I'm just gonna pipe that into the egg and this Nutella doesn't even
seem to be making a dent on filling it up I'm gonna have to open another jar.
That's looking nearly full but let me give it a shake just to make sure ... no
we're gonna need more Nutella! And some more Nutella and finally that's full. Now
to seal it I'm just going to use a little bit of melted chocolate and pour
that on top and once that is set I'm just going to put it back in the
original foil wrapping it up and then just pushing down the ends so that it
folds over on itself and once you both of your ends are all folded in and
sealed put your hands or the palm of your hands
on each end and then use your thumb to smooth from the middle out towards the
ends and doing that will make it nice and tight and sitting snugly around the
egg so that it looks like it's just been bought from the store ... until you pick it
up and then you'll realize it is super heavy! Let's weigh this thing ... 2 kilos (4.4LB)! Oh
my goodness it's a 2kg egg of Nutella goodness ... oh wow when you break
into that at that Nutella oh my goodness. For you
Nutella lovers here's a little piece for you to try... oh
sorry you're a Nutella lover, let me break up a bigger piece for you to try!
Okay moving on to egg number two, to make this one I'm going to cut it open along
the join using a serrated knife just gently going all the way around it more
than once all the way around until it comes open. I want to make this look like
a geode on the inside ... now years ago I showed you how to grow your own sugar
crystal geode which is cool but that takes time because you have to let the
sugar crystals grow, so I'm going to show you a cheats way well two cheats ways if
you don't have time for that. Number one is to smash boiled candy into small
chunks and then line the egg with melted white chocolate. Now you have to make
sure that your white chocolate is cooler than body temperature because chocolate
melts at body temperature so if you put your finger in the melted chocolate and
it feels warm it's going to melt your egg you need to wait until it's cooled
down. Then once you've lined your eggs sprinkle it with lots of the boiled
candy chunks making sure that they go all the way up the sides, then add some
chocolate around the top and join the two halves together and just use your
finger to smooth off any excess. For the geode method number two you just heat
sugar glucose syrup and water up in a saucepan until it starts to go golden
and I'll put all these recipe details on the howtocookthat.net website as always
there's a link to that below. Colour that how you like and then pour it onto some
baking paper to cool. While that's setting roll out some white fondant
really thin and then place that inside an egg and use your thumbs to smooth out
any air bubbles just running it up to the edges making sure there's no more
air bubbles left and it's all smooth and then just run a knife around the top to
cut off the extra fondant. Cover the cooled candy with baking paper and hit
it a few times with a hammer ...
and look that gives me lots of chunks that are all the same colour. Sprinkle
that into the egg and push it down into the fondant and keep going until it is
all covered then you want to join those two halves together in the same way that
we did for the other geode egg. Which one of these do you prefer? The hard-boiled
candy one or the geode made using homemade candy? To me I definitely prefer
this one I think it looks heaps better with all the crystals being the same
colour. If you could find candies at the shop that were all the same colour then
you could of course do that just by smashing those but I could only find the
bags of mixed coloured ones. For the next egg I want to make it look like a
hard-boiled egg on the inside of course. For the yolk I'm just going to use
melted white chocolate mixed with some warm water just to thin it down and then
I'm gonna add in some yellow food colouring and we'll of course need to
leave that to one side to cool. For the boiled egg white bit of it I'm going to
use ice cream because that's nice and white and because I like ice cream :) Fill
it all the way up to the top smooth it off and then use a tablespoon to scoop
out a spot for the yolk. Fill that up with your yellow ganache and then place
that back in the freezer just to let it really firm up. After about 20 minutes
you can join the two halves together and obviously you're going to need to store
this egg in the freezer until you're ready to gift it to someone. Then they
can unwrap it and tap it with a spoon and dig in ... what a great combination
chocolate and ice cream and ganache if you didn't already guess I really like
ice cream and I really like chocolate so this egg might be my favorite but we've
got two more left to pimp so let's do those first and judge the best one at
the end. Get some wafer and cut circles out in a
couple of different sizes and then use the cutter
to make egg-shaped wafers that get progressively bigger. Pour some chocolate
into the bottom of an egg and add the first wafer and push down to sink it.
Then add another one on top pushing down and making sure it's completely covered.
Keep going building that up to the top with the biggest one on the top and then
let that set. Once both halves are set you can join those together using some
extra chocolate. I call this egg the Kit Kat egg because it looks like a
Kit Kat on the inside. If you cut into it you've got all those beautiful layers of
wafer and chocolate there. One more egg left now for this one I'm getting melted
chocolate and adding marshmallows and peanuts to it ... if you have a peanut
allergy no problem just swap out the peanuts for pretzels because they also
give it that nice salty crunch that we're after. Pour that mixture into half
an egg now I'm not going to join this back together so I'm really piling it up
I'm going to make two separate halves so the one egg makes two gifts. If you wrap
them in cellophane they look really good and then you can just cut it in half and
look at those peanuts and marshmallows! Remember this Easter it's what's on the
inside of you that matters much more than just the outside wrapping 💕 Click
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