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Homemade Peanut Butter Eggs─── 12:25 Wed, 12 Apr 2017
Tasty and easy, get creative this Easter!
1/2 stick (or 1/4 cup) of butter
1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter
1 heaping cup of powdered sugar
12 oz bag of chocolate chips or chocolate candy melt
various colors of candy melts for decorating if desired
- Make sure the butter is soft to begin with, then just mix everything until smooth. Using your hands might be easiest.
- You can make these any size you want and place them on wax paper.
- Freeze for about 10 minutes after shaping. During the freeze, melt your chocolate.
- For the shiniest eggs, you might want to use chocolate candy melts. To get a good finish on chocolate that’s not specifically designed for melting, you need to temper it.
- Dip the eggs in the chocolate, working quickly so the chocolate doesn’t get too cool. Use a fork to fish the egg out of the chocolate, and tap it a few times to shake off the excess chocolate. Then use a toothpick to slide the egg off the fork onto wax paper.
- Before the chocolate sets up, use a toothpick to “trace” around the eggs on the wax paper. That way, when you pick up the eggs after they have set the excess chocolate will break off in a clean line around the egg.
- Let the chocolate set up completely at room temp or in the fridge.
- Decorate as desired. You can use melted candy melts in sandwich bags with the corner snipped off to “pipe” designs on the eggs.
Source: http://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/2016/03/03/homemade-peanut-butter-eggs-4-ingredients.html