Webbcrafts

Little Maid Decorated Eggs

Egg Time

If you have been filling your nest with eggs it should be full by now because it’s Easter Sunday tomorrow and the children will be expecting their eggs.

Boiled Eggs

If you haven’t made the chocolate ones and you haven’t made the needle felted ones, you still have time to boil an egg.

I chose two double yolk organic eggs from a local farmer’s market and boiled them for 7 minuets, then plunged them into cold water so that a black line wouldn’t develop inside, and left them over night.

Two Little Maids

Braided brown wool tied with red shiny parcel tie provided their hair and acrylic paint their faces. I hope that the children won’t mind breaking them open to provide a healthy lunch!

Chocolate Egg just fits the Hobbycraft container

Easter Chocolate

Didn’t I promise you chocolate?

There are many kinds of chocolate, some are good, but most of the shop bought chocolate eggs are not either good or economical. The cardboard and silver paper make up much of the cost.

The Best Possible Chocolate

I wanted my grandchildren to have the best chocolate possible. This means that some sugar is unavoidable, but by using organic  chocolate with as high percentage of cocao mass as possible, and raw sugar, I am doing the best that can be done.

I melted 2 bars of 80% cocoa with a little butter and moulded the chocolate in different ways.

Egg Poacher Mould

The Egg Poacher Easter Egg Mould

The egg poacher was the perfect size to fill the Hobbycraft painted egg. Just to create the cream egg effect I put two balls of home made truffle into each half and chilled in the ‘fridge. When hard the chocolate fell out without any trouble.

This made an 8 ounce egg of the finest quality. Wrapped in cellophane and put into the painted egg I am very pleased with the effect.

Wrapped and ready to go!

Hobbycraft Lollipop Mould

Hobbycraft Lollipop Chocolates

A Hobbycraft lollipop mould was very easy to fill with liquid chocolate and produced shapes that will be attractive to the children, once set the chocs fell out easily too. Nothing wasted!

Now what to do with the left over chocolate.

Coated Nuts

The little ones love soft cashew nuts (so do I!) and coated in chocolate they are even more tempting.

Brandy Truffles

For the adults I used the same chocolate melted with raw sugar, egg yolks and finely chopped nuts and then added a good splosh of brandy. Chilled, and then rolled in good quality cocoa powder and arranged on a dish…who can resist?

Brandy Truffles and Coated Cashew Nuts

The Meta Egg

Decorated Egg

Every nest needs eggs and this is the first one laid in the woolly nest.

Painting between the lines

Hobbycraft provided the unpainted egg printed with the picture. Almost like painting by numbers, but not quite!

Just a little artistic skill

I used acrylic paints and every shape had the initial letter of a colour, except where it didn’t, and so I mixed my own. The little birds were designated blue, but they couldn’t be the dark blue suitable for flowers, they needed to be pale blue. The beak was also not separate which meant that I gave them yellow beaks as every self respecting baby bird would know!

Open Egg

An inexpensive meta egg

I can only say, ‘Well Done’ Hobbycraft for this inexpensive shell which will make a lovely container for small chocolate eggs, and gave me an entertaining afternoon.