Gold and Silver Chocolate Easter Eggs

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    large egg or 2 small eggs
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Home-made Sweets & Candies

By Claire Ptak

Published 2022

  • About

A simple but elegant Easter egg, these can be made in your choice of milk, dark or white chocolate. A mixture of all three would be beautiful. For a special Easter egg hunt, dust one egg with gold dust and the other with silver dust and include jelly beans, chocolate coins or any other confection inside the eggs.

Ingredients

  • 500 g/ lb milk chocolate, tempered
  • 500 g/

Method

  1. Polish the inside of your egg moulds with a muslin cloth. Line a baking tray with baking parchment and set aside.
  2. Temper the milk chocolate and keep it warm by placing the bowl over a pan of hot water, wrapping a heating pad around it, or standing it on a hot water bottle.
  3. Ladle tempered chocolate into one half of the mould. Working quickly, swirl the

Energy 5245kcal/21945kJ; Protein 79g; Carbohydrate 576g, of which sugars 576g; Fat 308g, of which saturates 184g; Cholesterol 115mg; Calcium 2450mg; Fibre 0g; Sodium 975mg