Edible Easter Make-its!
Chocolate Easter Nests
You will need:
Melt the chocolate and stir in the shredded wheat until it forms quite a stiff consistency. Spoon this mixture into the paper cases leaving a 'hollow' in the middle (like a nest). Leave this to set. When set add the mini-eggs to the centre of your nest.
Iced Easter Bonnets
You will need:
Secure the marshmallow with glacé icing, and then cover the whole thing with more icing. As the icing set add sugar flowers, smarties etc for decoration.
Thanks to the UK Guiding mailing list for this idea
Chocolate Easter Bonnets (the same but different!)
You will need:
Stick a teacake onto the centre of the chocolate side of the biscuit using a little icing. Pipe icing around the join to form a "hatband" and stick on decorations using icing. You can make very tiny marzipan animals, bunnies and chicks etc. to go round the brim. If you want to make the whole thing more chocolatey you can also cover it all in melted chocolate before you decorate!
Thanks to Verena on the UK Guiding mailing list for this idea
Easter Chocolate Piggies
You will need :
Break up and melt the chocolate in the small china or Pyrex bowl by standing it in the bowl in some boiling hot water. Make sure that no water gets into the chocolate or it goes all weird! Take the wrapper off the egg. Soften the marzipan in your hands until it is pliable.
Roll out a "sausage" of marzipan and chop off four short lengths - these are for the pigs legs, so make them small and squat.
Using the melted chocolate as if it were glue, stick the legs on the egg, with the egg on its side so that when on its "legs" the sharper end of the egg points forward and will make the nose end.
Stick the legs on to the chocolate biscuit - using it as a stand.
Make the nose and stick it on the front point of the egg in the same way, use the cocktail stick dipped in a little melted chocolate, to make nostrils. This leaves a darker mark inside the nostril and makes it stand out better.
Use very small pieces of marzipan to make two very small piggy eyes and place close to the nose. Use to cocktail stick as with the nostrils to make pupils.
The ears are made by making two leaf shaped bits of marzipan, sticking them on, "gluing" only at the thick base and then folding the pointed top down to make a flopped over ear.
The tail is made from a very thinly rolled out sausage of marzipan which is stuck on as before, coiling it to make a curly tail.
Options.
You can make tiny piglets to stand alongside the bigger one on the biscuit. Use mini solid chocolate eggs.
Owls - Stand the egg upright an make a pair of flattish feet to stand it on (on the biscuit stand). The beak is a cone shape, make two big round eyes and owl ears if liked.
Rabbits - as piggies with long ears, pom pom tail and little snuffly nose with buck teeth. Divide the teeth with a chocolate dipped cocktail stick. You could have baby bunnies standing up as the owls. Make the front legs smaller and the back legs longer.
Mice - leave out the legs, make the ears round, the tail longer, and the nose round, tipped with little thin whiskers.
With all the above you can "paint" any bits of marzipan with melted chocolate to make it blend in - might be best with the Rabbit's legs.
Thanks to Kathy on the UK Guiding Mailing list for these instructionsMini Egg Crispies
Recipe makes 16.
You will need
For the icing
Also, you will require
Melt the chocolate then stir in remaining ingredients, mixing well. Spread mixture in tin and set. Later, cut down the centre then into 16 finger shapes, but leave in the tin.
Sieve icing sugar into a bowl, add finely grated lemon rind, strained juice and just enough water to make a coating icing; spread over the base. Press 3 Mini Eggs onto each finger then lift out, trim edges and leave to set.
This recipe is from Cadburys
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