Sure, you can just run out to the store and get your plastic Easter eggs and chocolate Easter eggs, but if you really want to put your all into the Easter holiday, and do it yourself, it's really going to mean a lot. There are a few recipes that are quite ambrosial and chocolate Easter eggs are very popular among them.
If you want to try making your own chocolate Easter eggs for once, here is a great, easy recipe that you can do.
Recipe for Chocolate Easter Eggs
Chocolate Easter eggs for this recipe you need ¼ lb. butter softened, 8 ounce cream cheese softened, 2 pounds confectioners' sugar 1 ½ cups peanut butter, 1 ½ tsp vanilla, ½ tsp salt, and 12 ounce milk chocolate candy melts.
Now to prepare this recipe, you want to start by mixing the butter and cream cheese together. You can then add confectioners' sugar and mix well. You want to keep mixing until you can no longer see any powder residue.
The second step in this recipe is to add in peanut butter, vanilla and salt until mixed. The mixture should be stored in the refrigerator for an hour or two. So when the dough is hard enough, you want to form it into egg shapes, and then refrigerate them for an hour.
You must ensure that you are cooling long enough each time, otherwise the oil from peanut butter will make the dough is too soft and you will not be able to serve it properly.
Now at last chocolate Easter eggs you want to melt the chocolate that you have prepared in a double broiler, dip each peanut butter eggs in chocolate, and let them sit out to dry on waxed paper. You are really going to love these eggs, and your kids will love them even more.
They are very easy to do and the best is that you can save the extras and keep them for later in the week. They are a great treatment to do for your kids for Easter and they are sure to become a staple in the home. Just remember there are plenty of varieties that you can try as well if you're not a fan of peanut butter and chocolate, for example, you can make them with caramel.
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