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.
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
- Hollow chocolate egg
- M&M's
- Mini sugar coated eggs
- Sprinkles
- Extra melting chocolate
A hot knife works well. Don't add too much preasure or else you'll break the egg. I learnt that the hard way.