Is there anything more delicious than a Cadbury creme egg?

Seriously

And what is more fun than unwrapping them; making your own!

Do you remember them from when you were a kid? I do, but back then, they only seemed to be available around Easter time. Am I right? Nowadays, they seem to be available all year round. I find them from Canadian Tire to the dollar store and almost everywhere in between. It makes it very difficult for me to stay away from them. Prices do vary from place to place but hubby and I always have an excuse to pick 2 or 3 on our way out. Last week, when paying for our groceries, hubby had a brilliant idea. He asked: “babe, do you think we can make our own?”. I didn’t reply because I didn’t take it seriously. He then, asked again and again and again throughout the week. So last Saturday morning, to stop him from badgering me with this, I told him to “google it”, which he did and then badgered me again to make them. Hours later, we found ourselves enjoying these great treats.

Don’t forget, this is not your typical homemade treat but everyone I shared these eggs with were in awe that I made them myself. Hubby was so proud, he brought some to work on Monday. Don’t be fooled, they might not look perfect on the outside but they are pure goodness on the inside. I don’t have an egg shape mold but I did try my best to shape them by hand, so please use your imagination and picture the perfectly shaped chocolate egg despite the images below.

Now please let me share another fun recipe with you.

Here are the ingredients you will need for the recipe:

• 170g golden syrup (for this recipe, I used equal parts of honey and maple syrup)
• 60g butter
• 375g icing sugar
• 1 tsb vanilla essence
• pinch salt
• yellow and red food coloring 
• 400g milk chocolate

 

Start by pouring honey and maple syrup in a mixing bowl, then add the butter to the mix:

 

once mixed add vanilla and salt:

 

Gradually pour icing sugar into the mixture and mix it thoroughly:

 

You need to mix it well and continue to gradually pour in the icing sugar until achieving the desire texture. Not enough icing sugar and you get a very creamy interior but good luck turning it into an egg:

 

continue mixing with the icing sugar until it resembles dough:

 

Separate a quarter of the “dough”, add a drop of red food coloring and 7 to 10 drops of yellow coloring to the smaller portion of the “dough” and mix well until you obtain the perfect yellow yolk. Refrigerate them both for about 25 minutes; it will be easier for you to work with them later:

 

Before shaping the yolks with your hands, make sure to cover your hands with icing sugar, these yolks were incredible sticky. Roll the yellow “dough” into small yolks and re-refrigerate them again for a few minutes:

Take the white “dough”, wrap it around the yellow “dough” and attempt to shape an egg. As mentioned before, your hands should be powdered with icing sugar. This was the most difficult part, my hands were very sticky and the longer the “dough” was left outside of the fridge, the stickier they got:

YAY! one egg done, 5 to go:

OK, this one doesn’t look so bad but wait until you see them dipped in chocolate:

This is the best step of the recipe:

Melt milk chocolate chips in the microwave for about a minute. I used Hershey’s chocolate chips but any chocolate chip will do!

Now, this is a fun but hard part to achieve: dipping the egg shape dough into the melted chocolate. It’s fun because you get to add as much chocolate on top of the egg and lick the melted chocolate as you go while still trying to maintain the shape of the egg. Almost impossible for me to do, so I ended rolling the eggs in the chocolate after dipping them:

Here they are, not looking too good but presentable enough for this post. Look at the first one on your left; that’s happens when you try too hard to get it right and you loose your patience.

Refrigerate these until chocolate is completely solid (around 35 to 40 minutes):

 

This is how they looked when they are ready to be served. I tried to put them in this small decorative egg cart but they wouldn’t hold because they weren’t perfectly egg shaped:

 

Now, here is how they looked like in the inside. Don’t they resemble the real thing?

 

They really do taste great and very much like Cadbury creme eggs but nothing beats the real thing. I still recommend the Cadbury creme egg fans to give it a try.

This week I’m linking up some of my recipes at Domestic Superhero, please make sure to stop by!

Thanks again for stopping by!

recipe adapted from this youtube video