mmmmm - homemade easter eggs

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   Here we go, a tradition in our house since i was little to make our own easter eggs.

Here's the recipe:

To make the marshmellow:

1 tablespoon gelatine

1 tespoon lemon juice or essence

1 cup sugar

1/2 of a cup hot water

1/4 of a cup cold water

1 teaspoon vanilla essense

food colouring if wanted

Put cold water in a bowl, gradually add gelatine. Stand for 5 mins. Mix hot water and sugar in saucepan, stir over a low heat until disolved. Add gelatine mixture and let boil for 5 minutes. Cool till lukewarm. Pour into a bowl, add lemon juice, vanilla essence and colouring(if desired). Beat with electric egg beater until thick and creamy.    

This stuff sets in about 15 minsutes if beaten to right conisistency so best to work quickly, have moulds prepared earlier!

Get baking dishes, fill with plain flour, up to about 2 inches thick, use an egg (sideways to get the oval shape), or the back of a desert spoon to push indents into the flour, these should be the depth of about half way up the egg. 

Pour masrhmellow mixute into the moulds and allow to set.

Once set, lift out carefully, join 2 halves together (with the sticky side that hasn't been in the flour mould) give a few pats to get rid of the excess flour.

put in container and refridgerate overnight.

to make choc mixture:

 melt 100gm of cooking chocolate with 2 tablespoons of kremelta over a low heat until combined.

Again this stuff sets fairly quickly, so have everything prepared.  Best to use a really good skewer, or a 2 prong cocktail fork (little tiny plastic ones), dip the masrhmellow eggs into the chocolate, let excess drip off then place on a tray with greasproof paper to let set.

Mmmmmm, yummy eggies.

More recipes to come tomorrow.