ImCal
13th April 2006, 16:38
Just thought i would post this...i have had the recipe for such a long time but being diabetic i have never used it but may come in usefull to some...
you can buy easter egg moulds from the web right cost around £2 and basically theyre a plastic mould you melt some chocolate and pour into the mould let it stand for a minute until cool and pour excess out, considering most eggs cost £1 or more depending on whats included but theyre basically a ounce of chocolate melted..so you should be able to make inbetween 5-10 chocolate eggs out of 1 -200g bar of dairy milk...
now fillings box of maltezers split between the 5 eggs do nicely same with bag of large smarties etc etc..
If you have small egg moulds how about making cadburys cream eggs, what those 30p+ eggs how?
1/2 cup light corn syrup (which is 1-1/4 cups sugar and 1/3 cup water boiled together until syrupy this will make a batch of corn syrup..)
1/4 cup butter -- softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups powdered sugar
4 drops yellow food coloring
2 drops red food coloring
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening (which is basically the vegetable version of lard)
Combine corn syrup, butter, vanilla and salt in a large bowl. Beat well
with an electric mixer until smooth.
Add powdered sugar, one cup at a time, mixing by hand after each addition.
Mix well until creamy.
Remove about 1/3 of the mixture and place it into a small bowl. Add the
yellow and red food colorings and stir well.
Cover both mixtures and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or until firm.
When mixtures are firm, roll a small, marble-sized ball from the orange
filling, and wrap around it a portion of the white filling that is roughly
twice the size. Form this filling into the shape of an egg and place it on
a cookie sheet that has been brushed with a light coating of shortening.
Repeat for the remaining filling ingredients, then refrigerate these
centers for 3-4 hours or until firm.
then add them to the inside of your eggs...
Great for the kids to make if not this easter next...
Cal
you can buy easter egg moulds from the web right cost around £2 and basically theyre a plastic mould you melt some chocolate and pour into the mould let it stand for a minute until cool and pour excess out, considering most eggs cost £1 or more depending on whats included but theyre basically a ounce of chocolate melted..so you should be able to make inbetween 5-10 chocolate eggs out of 1 -200g bar of dairy milk...
now fillings box of maltezers split between the 5 eggs do nicely same with bag of large smarties etc etc..
If you have small egg moulds how about making cadburys cream eggs, what those 30p+ eggs how?
1/2 cup light corn syrup (which is 1-1/4 cups sugar and 1/3 cup water boiled together until syrupy this will make a batch of corn syrup..)
1/4 cup butter -- softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups powdered sugar
4 drops yellow food coloring
2 drops red food coloring
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening (which is basically the vegetable version of lard)
Combine corn syrup, butter, vanilla and salt in a large bowl. Beat well
with an electric mixer until smooth.
Add powdered sugar, one cup at a time, mixing by hand after each addition.
Mix well until creamy.
Remove about 1/3 of the mixture and place it into a small bowl. Add the
yellow and red food colorings and stir well.
Cover both mixtures and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or until firm.
When mixtures are firm, roll a small, marble-sized ball from the orange
filling, and wrap around it a portion of the white filling that is roughly
twice the size. Form this filling into the shape of an egg and place it on
a cookie sheet that has been brushed with a light coating of shortening.
Repeat for the remaining filling ingredients, then refrigerate these
centers for 3-4 hours or until firm.
then add them to the inside of your eggs...
Great for the kids to make if not this easter next...
Cal