Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and today we're making 5 different easter
eggs with surprises inside.
Firstly we are going to make our dotty egg.
And to do that you need to fill each half of a mould with milk chocolate, spreading
it up and around and all over the sides and then tip it upside down and let the extra
chocolate drip out onto the baking paper.
Flip it over and wipe the edges clean and then before it sets sprinkle some colourful
candy onto the inside of the egg.
Then we want to flip it upside down and leave it to set that way so that the top edges don't
get too thin.
Print out a sheet of circles, and I'll put one on the Howtocookthat.net website for you
so you can print that out.
And then pipe little circles of white chocolate.
Then use some candy colouring or oil based food colouring to make some of the white chocolate
yellow and pipe more circles.
And then do the same with orange.
And I've had lots of people asking lately for another chocolate truffles video so let
me know in the comments what flavour chocolate truffles you would like me to make for you.
Then pipe on some red circles and if you start in the centre and push it around towards the
outside it's easier to get it smooth than it is to try and pipe around the edge.
To make these little piping bags you just take a square of baking paper and cut it in
half so that you end up with a right-angle triangle.
Then bring one of the skinny corners up and tuck it under and around so that you get it
up to where the right angled one is.
And then do the same with the other corner.
Fold the edge over into the middle so that it keeps it all together.
Fill that up with your chocolate and then fold over the top a few times to stop it spilling
out the top.
Cut off as much as you need and then use that to pipe on your chocolate circles.
Once the egg is set gently pull on the edges of the mould just to release it and then place
one half of the egg onto a hot baking tray, just to melt the edge evenly the whole way
around.
Then quickly put them together lining them up straight with each other.
Pipe some chocolate onto one of the circles and stand the egg up on top.
You don't to do this but I like having them upright.
Use chocolate to glue on the coloured circles onto the egg and I'm using compound chocolate
for gluing them on because it just sets quicker and makes life easier.
And put them in a line.
And then continue to add them all over your egg on all of the sides.
For our Fanta egg, you'll need some orange flavoured candy and some popping sugar and
white chocolate.
Fill the mould with the chocolate, and if you're using real chocolate make sure you
do temper it and I'll link you to the tempering video at the end of this one.
If you don't want to temper you could use compound chocolate for the whole egg but it's
not as yummy as real chocolate.
Tip it over and let the excess chocolate drip out onto baking paper and we'll use all that
excess chocolate so scrape it back into the bowl.
Sprinkle inside of the egg with orange candy and the popping sugar, I like to add lots.
Once that's set you then want to cover that whole thing in chocolate.
If we leave the popping candy exposed to the air it will dissolve so then it's not going
to pop in your mouth so you need to seal it into the chocolate.
Tip out the excess, scrape around the top of the mould and then place it upside down
on some baking paper.
Once they're set place one half on a hot baking tray just like we did before to melt the edge
and then put it in place on top of the other part.
Use some more chocolate to attach it to a chocolate melt so that we can stand it up
and then use oil based food colouring to colour some of that chocolate orange and drizzle
it over the top of the egg.
Then drizzle some white over the top of that and if it's for a little one then you could
even add some eyes to this egg to make it a bit more fun.
Now for our tree egg with some engraving on the outside and some little eggs in a nest
on the inside.
Fill a mould with white chocolate, tip out the excess and place it upside down.
Once it's set take off your mould then use a pastry brush and brush some dark chocolate
over the top.
And we want it to look rough like tree bark, so we're not trying to get it smooth, just
brush it over.
Once that is set draw the outline of a heart on top using a knife and then gently scrape
away some of the dark chocolate so that you can see the white underneath, don't go too
deep or you're going to make a hole in your egg.
Then use a knife to scrape off the heart area and it doesn't matter that it looks sort of
rough because that's what it would look like if you were scraping bark off a tree.
Place some chocolate into a pipin bag and pipe on the initials of your choice.
Now inside this egg I'm going to use pashmac to make a nest . Pashmac is a Persian fairy
floss and it's sweet with a slightly nutty flavour, I really like it and it looks amazing.
Then add some little eggs inside, a little cute nest.
Place the top half onto a hot baking tray and then add it onto the egg and you'd probably
want to serve this one flat in a box.
For the golden egg, fill the mould with milk chocolate and I'm not washing the mould between
eggs because chocolate doesn't like water and I won't be able to get the mould completely
dry between one egg and the next.
Tip the excess out of the mould and clean up around the edges.
Add chunks of chocolate coated honeycomb to the inside of the egg and I have a recipe
video for honeycomb or seafoam.
If you search for it on the howtocookthat.net website you'll find it.
Take them out of the mould and drizzle them with more chocolate, just in random stripes
across the egg and the other way.
Then heat up one side just like we've been doing and add it to the top like a lid.
Stand it up and then brush the whole thing with edible gold lustre dust to make it look
amazing.
For our Nutella dream egg, make a white chocolate shell then splatter it with milk chocolate.
Now to make your chocolate thinner for splattering you can just mix in some extra cocoa butter
or you can just drizzle it over the top thickly it doesn't really matter.
Take one half of the egg and fill it with Nutella, you can be as generous as you like.
Scoop some more in, why not.
Seal that shut and there you have 5 amazing Easter eggs ready to give as gifts.
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Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday.