3D easter egg and bunny

Just before Easter the lovely peeps at Lékué sent me the 3D easter egg and bunny mould and a decopen. I filled my bunny and egg mould with white chocolate and then, using the decopen filled with white chocolate coloured blue, I drew a graffiti squiggle over the top; a great gift for my cute nephew Samuel who loves bunnies and puzzles!

3D easter egg and bunny
What you will need:

• 3D easter egg and bunny mould
• White chocolate drops
• Aqua chocolate food colouring
• Decopen

Instructions

1. Temper (melt) white chocolate
2. Spoon chocolate into icing bottle or bag fitted with a small nozzle
3. Squeeze chocolate into moulds
4. Lightly tap moulds so chocolate lays flat and air bubbles are removed
5. Stir blue chocolate food colouring a little at a time into the remaining white chocolate until you have desired colour. Stir well so colour is even
6. Fill decopen with blue melted chocolate and carefully draw design onto filled moulds
7. Lightly tap moulds so chocolate lays flat and air bubbles are removed
8. Leave to set. Refrigerating speeds up this process and can make it easier to turn out
9. Carefully release the eggs and bunny from the moulds
10. Assemble egg and bunny

The decopen comes with two, four or six nozzles and can be used to decorate cakes and biscuits with messages, create ball, flower, rope and shell shapes; make toppings for your cupcakes and exquisite macaroons or profiteroles. I can't wait to use it again on my sweet treats!

Have a sweet day!

Hand-made chocolate flowers

I love the bunny jars for Easter that I made but wasn't completely happy with how I filled them with foil wrapped eggs so decided to make some hand-made chocolate flowers using my Ikea flower ice mould for the peach lidded one. I think the bunny jar looks much better now!

Hand-made chocolate flowers
What you will need

• 16 hole flower mould
• 200g White chocolate drops
• Peach powder food colouring
• Blue powder food colouring

Instructions

1. Temper (melt) 3 tbsp white chocolate
2. Place 3 tbsp of the melted white chocolate in small bowl and stir in peach food colouring until colour is even
3. Place melted peach chocolate in a piping bag
4. Fill flower top with peach chocolate
5. Lightly tap moulds so chocolate lays flat and air bubbles are removed, and leave to set
6. Temper (melt) rest of white chocolate and stir in blue food colouring until colour is even
7. Pour into flower moulds until mould is full, tap lightly to remove air bubbles and leave to set
8. Turn out chocolate flowers

Please note that if you use a silicone ice cube mould the chocolate will come out matte, versus shiny if you use a chocolate silicone mould

Bunny jars for Easter tutorial

Have a sweet day!

Hand-made chocolate bunny heads

For the past couple of years I have made chocolate bunny heads filled with hand-made honeycomb, both of which can be found on my 'in my kitchen' page. This year I wanted to keep them simple with three layers of chocolate in white, milk and dark. I also coloured their eyes with blue chocolate and their noses with pink chocolate.

Hand-made chocolate bunny heads
What you will need

• Mini non-stick cake pan, 6 cavity - bunnies
• 100g White chocolate drops
• 100g 40% milk chocolate drops
• 100g 70% dark chocolate drops
• Pink powder food colouring
• Blue powder food colouring

Instructions

1. Temper (melt) 2 tbsp white chocolate
2. Place 1 tbsp of the melted white chocolate in small bowl and stir in pink food coloring until colour is even
3. Place a small drop of pink chocolate into nose of bunny moulds
4. Place 1 tbsp of the white chocolate in small bowl and stir in blue food coloring until colour is even
5. Place a small drop of blue chocolate into eyes of bunny moulds
6. Lightly tap moulds so chocolate lays flat and air bubbles are removed, and leave to set
7. Temper (melt) rest of white chocolate
8. Pour into bunny moulds so white chocolate is about 1 cm deep, tap lightly to remove air bubbles and leave to set
9. Temper (melt) milk chocolate
10. Pour into bunny moulds, tap lightly to remove air bubbles and leave to set
11. Temper (melt) dark chocolate
12. Pour into bunny moulds, tap lightly to remove air bubbles and leave to set
13. Turn out chocolate bunny heads

I packaged mine in pink bow cookie bags from Etsy seller Avenue 55 and added a few mini mini eggs to keep them in place!

I also made one without white chocolate for my friend who isn't so keen on it!

Have a sweet day!

Hand-made chocolate egg

I have never made a big chocolate egg... until now! But when a certain little person said they would love a blue egg for Easter, their wish was my command!

Chocolate egg
What you will need:

• Large egg mould
• White chocolate drops
• Aqua chocolate food colouring
• Green dusting powder

Instructions

1. Temper (melt) white chocolate
2. Stir in blue chocolate food colouring a little at a time until you have desired colour. Stir well so colour is even
3. Fill mould full of melted chocolate, let it sit for a few minutes.
4. Then pour the liquid chocolate out. Some of the chocolate will have solidified on the inside of the mould
5. Leave to set. Refrigerating speeds up this process and can make it easier to turn out
6. Carefully release the eggs from the plastic moulds

I filled mine with coloured candy and a little white rabbit then wrapped it tightly in cling film and tied a pretty ribbon round it.

For now the bunnies are looking after the egg!

Have a sweet day!