Monday 2 June 2014

Easter baking - Cake thirty nine Chocolate eggs, chocolate lollipos

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I’m certainly not a maître chocolatier and I still have to learn a lot about the universe of chocolate making. Anyway I love working with chocolate and every year I make something new. I use pure chocolate for the animals and the small eggs and food colouring to make a change. As for the bigger eggs I like to mix it with cereals - rice Krispies for dark chocolate and coco pops for the milk and white one. You need a lot of time and patience, you work and work for a whole afternoon and what do you get at the end? Only a handful of chocolates and an Easter egg! Rather frustrating if you consider quantity but fully satisfying for quality and good smell!

Colourful Tiny Chocolate Eggs
200g white chocolate
pink, green and purple food colouring
200g milk chocolate

200g dark chocolate 
Melt chocolate carefully over a bain marie, to prevent it from seizing through overcooking. If you want to make colourful eggs, add some food colouring to the white chocolate to reach the colour you like. Pour chocolate into mould while it’s still hot. Fill the mould to its rim, use the back of a spoon to smooth the chocolate into the corners, tap the mould briskly on the table to settle the chocolate into designs in the cavity and to force out bubbles. Scrape off the excess using a knife. Tap the mould once again. Put mould in the freezer for five minutes. Turn eggs over on parchment paper slightly tapping on the bottom  of the mould to help release them. Eggs should just fall out of the mould.
Use some melted chocolate to join the egg halves, scraping off the excess chocolate. 

Easter Chocolate Egg










Chocolate lollipos














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