How do you like your eggs?
And by that, we mean Easter eggs? April 17 will be here before we know it, but there’s still time to introduce some fresh ideas when it comes to chocolate Easter eggs. This week, we’re featuring EGGS-tra Easter eggs to help spark your imagination.
Smash Eggs
Say
“goodbye” to hot cocoa bombs and “hello” to smash eggs! Many chocolatiers already
have a hollow Easter egg mould in their toolkit, but what do you fill it with?
Depending on the size of your mould, you may want to fill your smash egg with jelly
beans, miniature foiled chocolates, truffles, chocolate-covered mini pretzels,
chocolate-covered nuts and/or berries, etc.
Some other unique ideas we’ve seen are eggs filled with tiny white chocolate chicks (cue “aww!”) and the more unexpected mini chocolate dinosaurs (cue gasp!). For even more dramatic effect, don’t forget the sprinkles, which will undoubtedly go flying upon impact between the egg and the mallet!
We love how RCI members Anderson’s Candies and Sarris Candies displayed their colorful smash eggs on their Facebook pages!
Easter Egg Overflow
There’s no surprise what you’re getting with Aldi’s
Curious Inventions Easter Eggs! These Easter eggs are so packed with
flavor, the contents are bursting through the chocolate shell. Although this does
create a nice visual effect, the flavor combinations are just as intriguing.
There are six different varieties, such as banoffee (banana, caramel and butterscotch flavors); salted pretzel and orange; cookies and cream; popping candy; strawberries and cream (with real freeze-dried strawberry pieces) and the Billionaire egg, featuring chocolate and caramel fudge, white chocolate covered cookies and honeycomb candy.
Easter Egg Bark
Who says Easter eggs have to be three-dimensional? Here’s two
examples of eggs that, despite their shape, don’t fall flat on the delivery!
It’s eggs-on-eggs-on-eggs with this chocolate bark by the LittleSugar Snaps blog that features loads of popular egg-themed candies. We love the swirls of color on the eggs by the Chocolate Pizza Company, plus the addition of a beautifully scribed name is an extra special touch.
Fruity Follies
These fruity lookalikes will have you doing a double-take! With
a little imagination, Melt London transforms a standard three-dimensional egg
into a strawberry filled with a chocolate strawberry cake.
Fruit lovers will undoubtedly fall for these lifelike pomegranate
and lemon-shaped moulded chocolates sold by British grocery retailer, Waitrose.
The pomegranate is made with caramelized white chocolate and real pomegranate,
while the lemon version features white chocolate infused with zesty lemon flavors.
Animal-Themed Eggs
Take a walk on the wild side when pulling your inspiration from
this barnyard bunch by Australian chocolatier, Cacao or try a more abstract approach with
the animal prints created for fashion designer Roberto Cavalli’s Italian coffee
shop.
No matter if you like your chocolate Easter eggs more
traditional or if you prefer a more unconventional approach, we hope this week’s
post offers plenty of sweet inspiration this season!
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