Easter Eggs
Ingredients
- 2 boxes powdered sugar
- 2 sticks butter or margarine
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 small can evaporated milk|carnation milk
- 1 pkg. chopped nuts
- 1 small bottle maraschino cherry|maraschino cherries, drained
- 1 cup coconut
- 1 can crushed pineapple, well drained
- 1 pkg. (12 oz) chocolate chips
- paraffin, optional
- Mix granulated sugar|sugar, butter, nuts, cherry|cherries, pineapple and coconut.
- Add salt.
- Add milk to stick together, but not runny.
- Shape and allow to dry.
- Melt chocolate chips in double boiler.
- You can add shaved paraffin to chocolate chips to make chocolate shiny.
- Dip shaped egg into melted chocolate and set out to dry (Tupperware™ pastry sheet very helpful here)
- When chocolate is set, eggs can then be personalized and decorated with icing.
This article uses material from the "Easter Eggs" article on the Recipes wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License
