Sugar Easter Egg

Name: Sugar Easter Egg
Ingredients: 400 g/14 oz/2 cups caster (superfine) sugar; cornflour (cornstarch), for dusting; cornflour (cornstarch), for dusting; sugar decorations; 45 ml/3 tbsp meringue powder or egg whites; 45 ml/3 tbsp meringue powder or egg whites; 600 g/1 lb 6 oz/5½ cups icing (confectioners’) sugar; 75-105 ml/5-7 tbsp water

Preparation info

Makes
1

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home-made Sweets & Candies

By Claire Ptak

Published 2022

About

Looking inside a sugar Easter egg is like looking into a fairytale if you are a child. The panorama that you create inside the egg can set the imagination off on a little pastel-coloured adventure – if you let it. This recipe does require some patience, but the results are well worth the effort.

Ingredients

For the Egg

400 g/14 oz/2 cups caster (superfine) sugar
2.5

Method

To make the egg, combine the sugar and meringue powder in a large bowl.
If you are colouring the egg, combine the desired amount of colour in with the water and blend well. Make a well in the sugar and add the water, and colouring, if using. With a wooden spoon, stir the mixture to an even colour. It will have the consistency of wet sand.
Dust a two-p

Energy 3956kcal/16879kJ; Protein 9.1g; Carbohydrate 1045g, of which sugars 1045g; Fat 0g, of which saturates 0g; Cholesterol 0mg; Calcium 532mg; Fibre 0g; Sodium 146mg