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Original poster

To share a healthy dairy free cream egg recipe that beats Mondelez's low quality stuff

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brexitstolemyfuture · 07/04/2017 14:29

This recipe i made last night after seeing on Pinterest. They dont taste the same as normal cream eggs - they are much better imo. I used dark chocolate and just a bit of honey so there is only a fraction of the sugar in there. Dd is loves them also.

It's a shame as i used to love cream eggs but they were always a bit sickly but now i think they've really changed the recipe to add more sugar.

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MumW · 07/04/2017 14:36

Pity DD is allergic to nuts as they sound lovely.

On the subject of Cadbury's and recipes, anyone else think the new recipe for their instant Highlight drink no longer tastes of chocolate but just sickly sweet?

MongerTruffle · 07/04/2017 14:37

MumW

Cashews aren't nuts.

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brexitstolemyfuture · 07/04/2017 14:43

Cashews are tree nuts i thought.

Sorry i didn't word my aibu properly i was meaning to bitch about cadburys really as they read this site often .

I've not had highlights since the 90s, horrible low calorie artificial stuff then. Are they all low cal?

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MumW · 07/04/2017 14:44

Cashews aren't nuts.
Doesn't matter what they are, she still reacts to them and hazlenuts, walnuts, brazil nuts.
Fine with peanuts and almonds but she's been told to avoid those too.

RedSandYellowSand · 07/04/2017 14:51

@MumW the suggestions at the bottom are to use sunflower seeds in place of cashew nuts. Can your daughter eat sunflower seeds, and the rest of the ingredients?

ageingrunner · 07/04/2017 14:59

Thanks op I might try this. I'm toying with the idea of going vegan at some point this year.

MongerTruffle · 07/04/2017 16:12

brexitstolemyfuture

Cashews are the seeds of the cashew apple.

JovialNickname · 07/04/2017 16:36

They look really nce and I'm sure they taste good too.

However the link says it's a vegan recipe. Why would vegans want to painstakingly recreate eggs? Surely it's promoting something they're steadfastly against! All seems rather weird if you're making these for vegan reasons / principles.

SandInYourToes · 07/04/2017 17:49

They sound amazing.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm vegan and have zero issue with making something into an egg shape... Just the same as I have no issue with making anything into a burger shape. It's not 'promoting' eggs in the slightest haha, how strange!

HelloFreedom · 07/04/2017 18:07

Well if they have honey in they're not vegan...so not sure how that's relevant.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 07/04/2017 18:17

The recipe doesnt contain honey.

CaoNiMartacus · 07/04/2017 18:33

What rare magic is this! Make creme eggs, you say? I might have to give this a try.

CantChoose · 07/04/2017 18:38

While I do know what they're getting at, describing a recipe full of maple syrup as 'sugar free' gives me the rage...

AssassinatedBeauty · 07/04/2017 19:03

They say there's no refined sugar but surely the chocolate has refined sugar, even if it's dark?

MumW · 07/04/2017 22:30

Sunflower seeds are ok so long as they aren't processed on a production line that also handles nuts.
Might just have to give it a go.

TaraCarter · 07/04/2017 23:13

Why?

Ethical opposition to the birds' egg industry or opinions on the healthiness of eating bird eggs have no particular relation to people's feelings on:
a) the taste of chocolate
b) eating chocolate that has been placed in any particular shape of mould.

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brexitstolemyfuture · 08/04/2017 09:34

You're welcome ageingrunner, I'm not vegan (well i used honey for a start as maple syrup is not in budget!) But i do try to limit my dairy as the health, welfare and environmental benefits are pretty big.

Jovia I'm sure you didn't mean it, but that one of the most cliché vegan questions.

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Trills · 08/04/2017 09:52

Yes, YABU to share this in AIBU when there is a perfectly good Recipes section for sharing recipes.

DoorwayToNorway · 08/04/2017 12:04

A nut is a single seed so allergies to certain nuts can also show up with certain seeds. Cashew have one seed that is attached to the bottom of the fruit, therefore it's probably actually ok to call it a nut in the food sense. They are also poisonous unless they are roasted for at least an hour. So cashew nuts are not fresh and require a lot of preparation and even then they will cause severe reactions in some people.

SuperSheepdog · 08/04/2017 12:10

Sounds great. I agree Cadbury is rubbish now, their chocolate tastes bland and oily, with no flavour. I prefer Mars chocolate by a long way.

Addley · 08/04/2017 12:12

CantChoose I'm a type 2 diabetic and the number of "no sugar" recipes clogging up the internet that are jammed with maple syrup or honey or date sugar or fucking agave nectar (no, agave nectar is NOT an acceptable food for people who need to control their sugars) drives me to distraction.

Addley · 08/04/2017 12:15

Search for no sugar cheesecake:

Result 1

7 tablespoons of honey!

Addley · 08/04/2017 12:17

(Also, the base is made with graham crackers so it's not even free of refined sugars.)

Ceic · 08/04/2017 13:28

There are loads of make-your-own cream egg recipes out there - go have a ball on Pinterest!

I think that the vegan one in the OP is just a vegan cheesecake mix in a chocolate mold. When I made vegan cream eggs (long before it was a thing) mine were full of sugar - bad bad sugars.

@Addley - agree with you 100%. All these supposedly-healthy recipes full of sugar-loaded buzzword-friendly alternatives - it's the coconut oil that magics away all that sugar. Gah!

specialsubject · 08/04/2017 14:58

Tons of sugar in it, obviously. Paltrow science.

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