Have you had success making your own chocolate Easter eggs?

halfamo

We used to use the transparent plastic type. I had a large , medium and small. IF you have 2 the same for each size, it goes much quicker. I would make a 'russian doll effect' by putting a small chick or other toy or some sweets in the smallest, then wrap in cling film, then the next egg, wrap and the large one on the outside. 1 KG of nice choc will do 4 of each size. It works out very cheaply compared with buying ready made. Supermarket own brand choc works well but baking chocolate isnt quite as authentic tasting.

MSE_Laura_F

Time for me to have a shot at this.

These plastic moulds are £1.30 at HobbyCraft and there's a store not too far from me:
https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/mini-and-medium-egg-chocolate-mould-3-pieces/6481361000.html

I particularly like the Russian doll effect you mention, @halfamo. I'm going to try something slightly similar - I'll aim to make a bunch of handmade small eggs to seal inside the larger handmade egg.

Rosa_Damascena

Rosa_Damascena said:

Aah...mine are actually ?aluminium so I'm going to have to have a think about this.

I thought I would offer a quick update: I used my metal moulds for the first time on Good Friday with my little niece and aside from getting melted chocolate all over the place and having lots of fun in the process, the finished results were mixed.

I used a very small amount of coconut oil to lubricate and this worked well. The chocolate was well tempered and came out of the moulds well, apart from the edges which despite best attempts were too thin and fragile. So whilst we did get a nice egg out of it, it was not aesthetically perfect. It didn't affect the taste though, and 800g of chocolate (minus a few squares that never quite made it into the broiler) was demolished by 5 adults and one little girl over the course of the weekend.

I used inexpensive chocolate from Aldi and gave it a bit of bite with toasted rice crispies.