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Homemade Easter eggs

At Easter in Iceland people like to give each other large chocolate eggs, which you can buy in stores everywhere and which sometimes weigh a good 1.5 kg. There are sweets and notes with good wishes hidden in the eggs.

Here's a recipe I used to make homemade Easter eggs to give as gifts:


Ingredients

400 g milk chocolate
Easter egg shape

To taste:

Vanilla
Cappuccino powder
Liquorice powder or similar


Preparation

Melt the chocolate in a water bath, stir in vanilla, cappuccino powder, licorice powder or similar to taste and then let it cool slightly until the chocolate has become viscous.

Pour the chocolate into a small mold that will later form the “foot” of the Easter egg. Cool well in the refrigerator and allow to solidify.

Pour the remaining chocolate into the Easter egg mold in portions, spread out the mold and let it set. Repeat the whole process again and again, applying a thin layer of chocolate until the chocolate layer has become thick enough. Carefully remove the hardened chocolate from the mold. (If something goes wrong - melt the chocolate again and start again, that can happen!)

When both halves are good enough, fill one half with candy and put a note with a kind wish inside.

Liquefy some more chocolate and spread it on the edge of both halves and stick them together.

When everything has set, pour some more liquid chocolate onto the chocolate mold for the foot and place the egg on top. Allow to solidify again.

If you like, you can decorate the egg with liquid chocolate, icing or similar.

Store the chocolate Easter egg in a cool room - and give it to a nice person!

[Translated from here.]