Baking Easter Treats
Today’s post is all about these cute Easter treats you can make over the Easter holidays. If you’re anything like me and don’t actually like eating plain Easter eggs then these simple bakes are great for melting down and using up your eggs! In this post I will explain how I made chocolate nests, creme egg chicks and marshmallow lamb cupcakes.
Chocolate nest Easter tREAT
You will need:
- Shredded wheat cereal
- Milk or dark chocolate
- Mini eggs
- Cupcake cases
- Cupcake tin
- Mixing bowl
- Spoons
Method:
- Melt your chocolate over a mild heat making sure to stir. I used 1 bar of dark cooking chocolate and 1 bar of milk chocolate. However, if you have easter eggs this will work too.
- Tear up your shredded wheat into a big mixing bowl, I used 3 bars.
- Pour your melted chocolate into the large mixing bowl with the shredded wheat and mix well.
- Line your tins with the cupcake cases.
- Spoon your mixture into the cases making sure to leave a little dip in the middle.
- Put 2 or how many mini eggs you would like in the middle.
- Leave it to set in the fridge.
Creme egg chicks easter tREAT
(Although mine do look a bit like melted penguins, haha.)
You will need:
- Creme eggs
- Milk chocolate buttons
- White chocolate buttons
- Chocolate writing pens
- Patience
Method:
- Unwrap your creme eggs.
- Using your white chocolate writing pens create 2 big white dots (you could use icing sugar but, I think that would be even more fiddly)
- Then create 2 smaller dots inside the 2 larger white dots with the chocolate pen to create eyes.
- Taking your white chocolate buttons snap them into quarters to create a beak shape and stick this on with a chocolate pen.
- Take 2 chocolate buttons and use a bit of chocolate icing on 1 half and stick them onto the sides of your creme egg.
- Take another 2 chocolate buttons and again cover half of the button and stick your creme egg on top. You may want to rest your egg against something while it sets or put it in the fridge. Beware when I did this my icing eyes started to droop!
Marshmallow lambs eASTER tREAT
You will need:
- 110g of butter or margarine
- 110g of caster sugar
- 2 free range eggs
- 110g of self raising flour
- White and milk chocolate buttons
- White chocolate
- Chocolate writing pens
- Mini marshamallows
- Cupcake cases
- Cupcake tin
- Whisk
- Mixing bowl
- Sieve
- Spoons
- Oven
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line your cupcake tin with the cases.
- Beat the sugar and butter together with the whisk until pale.
- Add in the eggs sowly
- Sieve in your self raising flour and gently fold into mixture.
- Add in your white chocolate buttons and fold into mixture.
- Spoon into cupcake cases into half full.
- Pop in the oven for 10 -15 minutes or until golden brown. Use a cocktail stick or a skewer and put into cupcake, if it comes out clean it means it is done.
- Leave to cool.
- Melt white chocolate over a mild heat.
- Spoon a little bit of white chocolate onto cupcake.
- Stick white mini marshmallows all over and then stick one chocolate button on top and quartered buttons onto the sides.
- Using chocolate icing pens to create eyes.
Other posts
Other baking posts that I have done that I think you might enjoy are: Festive rice krispie treats, Baking pupcakes, Pavlova recipe, Halloween treats and Gingerbread Christmas treats. I will also leave a link to my baking Pinterest board which you can have a look at to get some more baking inspiration.
Lots of love, Melissa x
