A great way to use that last little bit of chocolate at the bottom of the bowl.
- Fill a mini chocolate mold with melted chocolate
- Top with sprinkles
- Add mini sugar eggs
A little project I stumbled on when I was messing about with leftover melted chocolate. I don't have progress picks to make a nice line up of photos but the process is pretty simple. A great way to use that last little bit of chocolate at the bottom of the bowl.
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Turning ordinary Easter eggs into extraordinary Easter eggs with all the fun of creating and none of the hassle of knowing anything about chocolate. I don't know about you but I always come to a dilemma when Easter egg shopping. Do I buy the super cheap foil wrapped choccy eggs, or the pretty eggs in the colourful boxes? Sure, the boxed eggs are triple the price, but they have personality. I can find one to match each of the different personas of my Easter giftees. An individual egg for an individual person. I didn't just walk into the store scoop my arm through a bin of eggs, dust my hands of the place, thats that, job done. Nice. I walked in and thought about my purchases. Picked out an egg based on taste rather than just chocolate. But. It's like triple the price. An eggs an egg, right? When the boxes are dicarded the unassuming foil wrapped eggs can go toe to toe (shell to shell?) with those in the box. They're probably all made in the place anyway. Logic says goes with the cheap guys but it's hard to argue with consumerism. Last year I stumbled upon the solution. Decorating cheap store bought eggs (low hassle. low cost) with edible treats like marshmallows and sprinkles. This lets me be creative on a budget with relatively little hassle. I can create personalised Easter treats for half the price of those expensive Easter eggs. Plus the results always look impressive. It's hard to mess up chocolate. This is a craft for people who are either on a budget or have a relationship with melted chocolate that can only be called 'it's complicated' You don't have to know anything about tempering chocolate or chocolate molding to make these tasty holiday treats because we're using store bought eggs! The hard part is done all thats left to do is pretty things up. I made similar eggs last year when I made geode inspired eggs. Check out the posts HERE (ginger geode) and HERE (marshmallow geode) This year I'm making M&M filled, sprinkle dipped easter eggs. Mostly because I recently found caramel M&M's and want to share them with everyone. You Will Need
Cut the top off a cheap store bought chocolate egg. A hot knife works well. Don't add too much preasure or else you'll break the egg. I learnt that the hard way. Fill with M&M's and sugar coated mini Easter eggs. Glue the top back on with a little melted chocolate and leave to set (Just a couple of minutes) Then cover the top in more melted chocolate. Create stylish chocolate drips for exra effect. Quickly roll in sprinkles before the chocolate sets. I like those longer confetti-like hundreds and thousands. My egg had a couple of holes, not part of the original design, but easily fixed. After all what goes better with chocolate than chocolate? Cover up any mistakes by dipping extra M&M's and eggs in melted chocolate and gluing on to the wounded area. A sugar coated crown of caramel chocolate goodness. Who needs a flower crown when you can have a chocolate crown.
DIY Easter Eggs *Cough, Cough*Make your own Easter eggs, more like redesign your own eggs. Decorating eggs is fun, but chocolate moulds are hard to find sometimes, mostly at the times you want or need them most, and tempering chocolate into a glossy sheen is difficult. Why not just redecorate a pre-made egg? I contemplate calling these eggs Geode Eggs. It's like cracking open a stone to find a cluster of glorious crystal inside. Only these are edible!! Here, I'm combining ginger and chocolate to create my own Easter creation. You Will need- A chocolate egg - Melting chocolate - Glazed ginger Lightly cave in the chocolate egg. I like to use the end of a spoon to create a hole in the chocolate. Melt chocolate however you like, I like to use a bowl over a saucepan 0f water as a double boiler. Spread melted chocolate around the opening. Let it drip a little if you like. Leave to dry. Cut ginger into chuncks and dip in chocolate. Arrange around egg. I like to fill the hollow inside with more ginger and chocolate. You can never have too much chocolate.
Tricked out Easter EggsChocolate Easter eggs are always great but lets make them the greatest! Usually, I wish Easter eggs were made of solid chocolate but this year I have come to see the benefit of a hollow egg, namely with the addition of sweet treats. Pimped out ice cream cones and milkshake jars always look so fantastical and appealing, Easter is a fantastical time of year. Why not bring all that wonder to Easter. Think of all the combinations you can try. You Will Need- Premade chocolate eggs - Melting chocolate - Sprinkles - Mini marshmallows - Mini eggs Cave open an egg, be careful not to crack it half (though, you can probably stick it back together if you do) Melt a handful of chocolate. Spread chocolate around the edge of the egg. Cover melted chocolate in sprinkles!! Dip mini marshmallows in chocolate and cluster around the egg. Fill that hollow egg with goodies. I love those candy coated speckled eggs, I've filled the egg with a mixture of those and more mini marshmallows. It's probably over kill, but I feel like these would be great with a little ice cream added. Maybe that can be Eatser dessert? These eggs are going to be gifts so I wrapped them in clear cellophane and ribbon.
Decorating your own eggs at Easter is such a joy. Last year I made crackel paint eggs, they're just like dragon eggs. You can find out how to make crackle paint at THIS POST and have a look at crackle eggs at the end of THIS POST. This year I made simple speckled eggs in light frosty Easter colours. Theres no tutorial needed for these but I made one anyway. Supplies
SpecklingI mixed some pastel colours and painted polystyrene eggs. Using a stiff brustled brush I flicked paint over the base colour. I didn't really know what to do with the eggs as they dried, so I stuck them on skewers and left them in a vase to dry. The overall effect was quite festive.
Tinfoil NestThis is the biggest of the three decorative nests I made for Easter. All three are made from foraged grass and tussock. The first two nests I made are smaller, made by wrapping grass and securing it with wire and twine. This nest is a little different. It has tinfoil at it's base. ****** You'll Need *****
Making A Nest . . .Mould tinfoil around something spherical like a bowl or a ball. There is no limit to how big this nest can be, unlike the other nests I made which are only as big as the length of grass. Glue grass around the tinfoil. Start on the outside. Once the outside is covered, remove tinfoil from base, and continue gluing grass to the inside. I do the very edge of the nest last. Depending on the type of look you're going for you can mix dried moss, frayed twine and wool with the grass as you glue. I like to add a bed of frayed twine and feathers to the nest. These nests are perfect for displaying eggs for Easter.
Slightly bigger nestMade purely for decorative aesthetic. This nest is slightly bigger than the previous nest I posted. This nest is also made of tussock grass. It's tied together with twine, and a little hot glue. Little Birds Need To Collect . . .
<<<<<<Weaving>>>>You'll need one ans a bit bundles of freshly cut tussock, try to cut the grass as long as you can. Tie twine at the cut end of the bundle, leaving the twine with long ends. Tie another piece a few centimeters along the bundle. Wrap tussock in a circle and tie into place with twine. Continue doing this until all the tussock is curled up. The tussock grass I used had lovely curly messy ends that just filled in the base of the nest on its own but sometimes the grass just won't fill in the way you want (as in the picture above) If you find there is a hole in the base of the nest, curl up a bit of spare tussock and glue it to the base of the nest with hot glue. There we are, the base is nice and snuggly glued in. Separate and fray the twine ends and weave/intergrate into the nest. Add some eggs and feathers to finish. The cat tried to run off with this nest so it must look, somewhat, realistic.
Decorative Mini NestThis is a decorative birds nest made out of a clumping/tussock type of grass. It's teeny tiny and made simply from grass and wire. I thought it would make a good Easter/Christmas decoration. Add a bit of wire or a clip to the bottom so it can sit on a branch. You need to collect . . .
Nesting . . .We have this blue/green clumping grass growing in the garden. I cut a small bundle, cutting as close the base as I could to get nice long strands. I find working with fresh grass to be easier than dried. Tie the cut end of the grass with thin wire. Wrap more wire a few centimeters along the bundle. Curl grass into a small circle and tie into place with wire. Wire that is of a similar colour to the grass you're using looks best as it doesn't stand out too much. Continue wrapping the grass around and around, securing it with the wire until you run out of grass. You'll probably end up with something that looks like this. Trim the loose strands you can't tuck away. Here is the finished nest. The wire is visible but if that bothers you, you can wrap some grass around to disguise it. Note, this nest doesn't have a proper base, there's just a hole right through. Add an egg and the nest is all set. Glue or tie, wire or a clip to the base so it can clipped and tied to a tree branch. I also made another nest out of more of a wheat type grass.
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