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Sure you could just run out to the store and get your plastic Easter eggs and chocolate Easter eggs, but if you really want to put your all into the Easter holiday and do it yourself, then it is really going to mean a lot. The chocolate Easter eggs are very much popular among the recipes and some others are also delectable.

If you want to try making your own chocolate Easter eggs for once, here is a great, easy recipe that you can make.

The Recipe For Chocolate Easter Eggs

For this chocolate Easter eggs recipe you will need ¼ lb. butter softened, 8 oz. cream cheese softened, 2 lb. confectioners’ sugar, 1 ½ cups peanut butter, 1 ½ tsp vanilla, ½ tsp salt, and 12 oz. milk chocolate candy melts.

Now to prepare this recipe, you want to start by mixing the butter and the cream cheese together. Then you add the confectioners’ sugar and mix well. You want to keep mixing until you can no longer see any powder residue.

Add peanut butter, vanilla and salt in the recipe before mixing this. The mixture should be kept into the refrigerator for an hour or two. Then when the dough is hard enough you want to form it into egg shapes, and then refrigerate these for an hour.

You must make sure that you are refrigerating long enough each time, otherwise the oil from the peanut butter is going to make the dough too mushy and you will not be able to form it properly.

Now to finish off the chocolate Easter eggs you want to melt the chocolate that you have ready in a double broiler, dip each peanut butter egg in the chocolate, and then let them sit to dry on waxed paper. You are really going to love these eggs, and your kids are going to love them even more.

They are very easy to make and the best part is that you can save the extras and keep them for later on in the week. They are very good recipes to be prepared for kids on Easter which will surely be in demand in the home. Just remember there are lots of varieties that you can try out as well if you are not a fan of the peanut butter and chocolate, for instance you could make them with caramel.

With the Easter holiday coming up, you want to make sure that you have everything in order and that you are going to be ready to go. You could just go out and buy the Easter eggs that you want, but if you really want to have fun with it and get into the holiday, then why not make your own Easter eggs?

There are chocolate Easter eggs that you can make, peanut butter chocolate eggs and lots of other great ideas that you can work with and which are not only going to be fun for you to make but also which your kids are going to love and which are sure to become a staple in your household.

If you want to make your own Easter eggs, here is the most basic way on how to do it, as well as a few ideas on how to really make them unique and all your own.

Cream Filled Easter Eggs

These are the easiest Easter eggs that you can make at home, not to mention the most delicious as well. To make them, you are going to need 250 ml unsalted butter softened, 5 ml salt, 15 ml vanilla extract, 1 can sweetened uncondensed milk, 1.You will require yellow gel food coloring,1 kg chocolate melts and 5 kg powdered sugar plus extra for dusting on the eggs.

Now to prepare, you want to combine the butter, salt and vanilla, and then you use an electric mixer on medium and beat this mixture until it is light and fluffy. This should take about two minutes, and then you want to add the condensed milk and beat, making sure to scrape the bowl when you need to so that there is no powdery residue left over on the sides or bottom of the bowl.

Then you want to add in the powdered sugar, continue mixing until the dough gets tough and then you want to transfer this mixture to a countertop that has a fair bit of flour on the surface so that the dough is not going to stick to the countertop. Add a few drops of food coloring of as per your taste and after that roll it into ovals if you want and cool these in refrigerator.

Then when they are done you can dip them in any type of dip that you want such as chocolate or peanut butter, and you can decorate these Easter eggs however you want.