5 Easter Sweets You'll Love | Good Housekeeping UK
- 5 years ago
Easter equals chocolate, and we couldn't think a better way to spend our long weekend than whipping up some fun edible treats with the family. From Tunnock's lambs to doughnut nests, you'll want to make these immediately for your Easter party.
Tunnocks teacake lambs
How adorable?! These Tunnock's lambs require lots of mini marshmallows for their wooly coats.
100g milk chocolate
6 Cadbury’s Mini Creme Eggs
6 Tunnock’s Tea Cakes
100g mini marshmallows
12 candy eyes
6 Cadbury’s Milk Chocolate Buttons
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat.
2 Using the melted chocolate, stick a Mini Creme Egg ‘head’ on a Tea Cake, and then cover the rest of the Tea Cake with white mini-marshmallows ‘fleece’. Stick on candy eyes and 2 halved Chocolate Buttons for ears.
Chocolate Doughnut Easter Nests
For something super indulgent, turn doughnuts into chocolatey nests, complete with Mini Eggs.
Makes 5
50g (2oz) dark chocolate, broken into pieces
50g (2oz) milk chocolate, broken into pieces
5 ring doughnuts (we used Krispy Kreme)
125g (4oz) chocolate mini eggs
1 Put the plain and milk chocolate in two separate bowls and melt them over pans of barely simmering water until smooth, making sure the bottoms of the bowls doesn’t touch the water.
2 Dip the doughnut into the milk chocolate, then drizzle over the dark chocolate.
3 Pile 6-7 mini eggs into the centre of each doughnuts. Leave the chocolate to set fully, then serve.
Strawberry carrots
Thanks to the bright green stalk, these strawberries can be transformed into 'carrots' in no time at all. For added fun, crush some Oreo biscuits to make soil.
Serves 4
275g strawberries
150g white chocolate
Orange food colouring
8 x Oreos
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat. Add sufficient orange food colouring to achieve carrot-colour. Dip a strawberry into the chocolate, coating well but keeping green leaves clean. Set aside for chocolate to set.
2 Crush the Oreos so they resemble soil and put on a plate. Line the strawberries up so they resemble carrots stuck in soil.
Marshmallow bunnies
Fluffy marshmallows are the perfect ingredient to make these moreish bunnies.
Makes 15
15 white marshmallows
15 Dr.Oetker Marshmallow Hearts (with white borders and pink middles)
50g white chocolate
Decorating confetti
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat.
2 Slice a marshmallow heart vertically in half. Stick these ‘bunny ears’ to a round marshmallow using the melted chocolate, and then stick on blue confetti eyes and a pink confetti nose.
Crème egg chicks
Similar to a quirky design by blogger A Mummy Too, these chicks use one of Easter's most iconic chocolates...
Makes 6
100g milk chocolate
18 orange smarties
6 Cadbury’s Creme Eggs
18 Cadbury’s Milk Chocolate Buttons
12 Cadbury’s White Chocolate Buttons
Candy eyes
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat. Place two white chocolate buttons side-by-side on an upturned bowl.
2 Put a small blob of melted chocolate behind the buttons where they meet, then place a Creme Egg on top of the blob (pointy end up). Using the melted chocolate, stick on 2 Milk Chocolate Button wings, two candy eyes, one Milk Chocolate Button tail, 1 orange button trimmed into a triangle beak and a crest. Allow to set completely. To ‘free’ chick, invert the bowl and pour in a small amount of boiling water – the chick should come away easily after a few seconds.
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Tunnocks teacake lambs
How adorable?! These Tunnock's lambs require lots of mini marshmallows for their wooly coats.
100g milk chocolate
6 Cadbury’s Mini Creme Eggs
6 Tunnock’s Tea Cakes
100g mini marshmallows
12 candy eyes
6 Cadbury’s Milk Chocolate Buttons
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat.
2 Using the melted chocolate, stick a Mini Creme Egg ‘head’ on a Tea Cake, and then cover the rest of the Tea Cake with white mini-marshmallows ‘fleece’. Stick on candy eyes and 2 halved Chocolate Buttons for ears.
Chocolate Doughnut Easter Nests
For something super indulgent, turn doughnuts into chocolatey nests, complete with Mini Eggs.
Makes 5
50g (2oz) dark chocolate, broken into pieces
50g (2oz) milk chocolate, broken into pieces
5 ring doughnuts (we used Krispy Kreme)
125g (4oz) chocolate mini eggs
1 Put the plain and milk chocolate in two separate bowls and melt them over pans of barely simmering water until smooth, making sure the bottoms of the bowls doesn’t touch the water.
2 Dip the doughnut into the milk chocolate, then drizzle over the dark chocolate.
3 Pile 6-7 mini eggs into the centre of each doughnuts. Leave the chocolate to set fully, then serve.
Strawberry carrots
Thanks to the bright green stalk, these strawberries can be transformed into 'carrots' in no time at all. For added fun, crush some Oreo biscuits to make soil.
Serves 4
275g strawberries
150g white chocolate
Orange food colouring
8 x Oreos
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat. Add sufficient orange food colouring to achieve carrot-colour. Dip a strawberry into the chocolate, coating well but keeping green leaves clean. Set aside for chocolate to set.
2 Crush the Oreos so they resemble soil and put on a plate. Line the strawberries up so they resemble carrots stuck in soil.
Marshmallow bunnies
Fluffy marshmallows are the perfect ingredient to make these moreish bunnies.
Makes 15
15 white marshmallows
15 Dr.Oetker Marshmallow Hearts (with white borders and pink middles)
50g white chocolate
Decorating confetti
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat.
2 Slice a marshmallow heart vertically in half. Stick these ‘bunny ears’ to a round marshmallow using the melted chocolate, and then stick on blue confetti eyes and a pink confetti nose.
Crème egg chicks
Similar to a quirky design by blogger A Mummy Too, these chicks use one of Easter's most iconic chocolates...
Makes 6
100g milk chocolate
18 orange smarties
6 Cadbury’s Creme Eggs
18 Cadbury’s Milk Chocolate Buttons
12 Cadbury’s White Chocolate Buttons
Candy eyes
1 Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over barely-simmering water. Remove from heat. Place two white chocolate buttons side-by-side on an upturned bowl.
2 Put a small blob of melted chocolate behind the buttons where they meet, then place a Creme Egg on top of the blob (pointy end up). Using the melted chocolate, stick on 2 Milk Chocolate Button wings, two candy eyes, one Milk Chocolate Button tail, 1 orange button trimmed into a triangle beak and a crest. Allow to set completely. To ‘free’ chick, invert the bowl and pour in a small amount of boiling water – the chick should come away easily after a few seconds.
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