Egg Nest
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A large chocolate Rice Krispie nest shaped around bowls and filled with decorated Easter eggs. See the moulding and finished nest.
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- The ingredients were 1 pack of Rice Crispies, 6 large chocolate bars, 2 medium-sized Easter eggs, icing sugar, food colouring and hot chocolate powder, £6.00. The chocolate was melted while resisting the temptation to eat it; the coating that turns the big eggs into mini eggs was icing sugar mixed with a little water and plenty of colouring, kept nice and thick, and the eggs went into the fridge to set for about 1 to 2 hours. The Rice Crispies were stirred into the melted chocolate without making it too chocolatey, which would take about 3 days to set, the mixture packed into a large bowl lined with greaseproof paper with a smaller bowl pressed in the middle for the nest, and set in the fridge for about 1 to 2 hours. The set eggs were lightly dusted with drinking chocolate powder for a speckled look, the nest turned out onto a plate with the small bowl removed, and the eggs placed in it. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6
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1 Pack of Rice Crispies 6 Large Chocolate Bars 2 Medium Sized Easter Eggs Icing Sugar Food Colouring Hot Chocolate powder
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Ingredients
1 Pack of Rice Crispies
6 Large Chocolate Bars
2 Medium Sized Easter Eggs
Icing Sugar
Food Colouring
Hot Chocolate powder
Cost: £6.00
Firstly Melt down the chocolate resisting the temptation to eat it (which is just too hard!!)
Next start making the coating for the large eggs to make them look like mini eggs, mix the icing sugar with a little bit of water and the food colouring they need lots so make it nice and thick!! then put them in the fridge to set should take about 1 to 2 hours.
Once the chocolate is melted start mixing in the rice crispies make sure that its not tooooooo chocolately which would taste amazing but take a bout 3 days to set! once this is done put greasepoof paper into a large bowl an put the mixture in, put a smaller bowl in the middle to make the nest part then put in the fridge to set should take about 1 to 2 hours
Once they have set take some drinking chocolate powder and lightly dust the eggs to give them that speckled look, take the nest out the bowl put it on a plate remove the small bowl put the eggs in and bangarang you’re done!!
