Making my own easter eggs - a couple of questions

[DirtyDennis]

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So, I've decided to have a go at making my own easter eggs this year. I am completely rubbish at cooking so need a bit of help, please!

1. I want to stick some culpitt sugar decorations onto the eggs - what's the best thing to attach them with (I thought icing sugar)?

1. If I want to cover one of my eggs in nuts, how should I do this? I thought I'd wait for the egg to completely set then put a really thin layer of melted chocolate on, then roll around in nuts but I'm a bit worried that the melted chocolate might melt the egg - will it?

1. Can I use any chocolate to make the eggs themselves or does it have to be cooking chocolate?

I made my own a few years ago. To add decorations to the eggs, I put the nuts/ decorations in the mould first and then added the chocolate.

I used Cadbury’s but it was before they changed the recipe -not envy

That's a brilliant idea to put the nuts in the mould. Did they coat the outside or did they go into the chocolate? What I'm after is for the egg to be coated in nuts so the texture's all nobbly bobbly and you can't see the chocolate underneath IYSWIM

Mine went in the chocolate.

What I would do then is after the Egg is made us a paintbrush to paint in melted chocolate and roll it around in big lunchbox of nuts. Do a small section at a time so it doesn’t get too messy.

Use and paint on 🙈

I wouldn't use cooking chocolate...it's very weird and tastes odd imo.

Okay, I'll give that a try, thank you!

I'm thinking of using Green and Blacks chocolate for it, that should be fine, right?

I'm really looking forward to doing it but also conscious it might be a complete shit-show!

Use whatever your favourite chocolate is, but make sure you temper it or the eggs will be soft not snappy.

Last year I used the “middle ground” method from this article and it worked a treat:

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/15/how-why-temper-chocolate

Thank you @SlipperyLizard I've never tempered chocolate before never heard of it but will most definitely give it a try

Useful

blog.lakeland.co.uk/make-your-own-easter-eggs/

Ha! @Palominoo That's the page that got me inspired to make my own this year in the first place. They make it look so damn easy!

Give it ago. Even if it doesn't look professional it will still taste lovely.

Big raffia bow round the middle and you can call them 'artisan'