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Making Easter Eggs at Home

Posted on 20. Mar, 2008 by Mom Mag in Easter

If you have children at home who are constantly waiting to pounce on the next chocolate bar you bring home, you probably have to bring home an entire cartload of Easter eggs. However, you can try something different this Easter. Involve the entire family and make Easter eggs at home. It is suggested that you do this at least a day or so before Easter. It is not that difficult and it can be fun.

As for the mess, you will have to clean up, don’t worry too much. What I have noticed from my experience is if you end up making a mess as a family, you might end up cleaning together as long as you play your cards right.

Chocolate Easter Eggs:

Empty the contents of the egg: make a small hole on one end of the egg and a larger hole on the other end with a needle. Then blow through the small hole, so the content come out the larger hole. Depending on how many eggs you are planning on using, you may have a large amount of eggs to use. Keep them for use in baking or for omlettes. Once they are emptied, and cleaned (wash with water), allow your children to carefully decorate them with paint, markers, anything they’d like to decorate with as long as it doesn’t require too much pressure on the shell.

Make a larger hole on the narrower end of the egg and pour the melted chocolate through this hole. Go slow at this stage for you would not want the chocolate to drip down the sides of the decorated Easter eggs. Keep moving the egg around while you pour in the chocolate to ensure that the chocolate spreads evenly inside the egg shell. Let the chocolate set.

On Easter Sunday, place the Easter eggs in baskets and let the Easter celebrations begin.