On Wednesday, my friend Anna came over for our annual Easter egg day, where we make Easter eggs together. You can't buy fair trade Easter eggs in New Zealand (except for
expensive artisanal ones - even the boring hollow Cadbury eggs don't seem to be on sale this year). We want Easter eggs to eat and give away, but not
at the expense of people being enslaved and abused to make the chocolate, so, for some years now, we've made our own :-)
We've been doing great
marshmallow Easter eggs for some years now, but this year I think we've finally nailed how
to make creme eggs!
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| classic vanilla creme eggs |
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| peppermint creme eggs - for variety and to share with vegan friends |
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| and even creme 'egg' bunnies! |
If you'd like to make some yourself, here is our
recipe. There are photos of various parts of the process after the written recipe. It's a
bit time-consuming, but none of it is hard. You'll need chocolate egg molds, a candy/meat thermometer and a good
beater for best results, but none of those are strictly necessary.
