Homemade Cream Eggs

Just look at all this chocolatelyness! It's so easy to make, you really need to try this, this weekend. Invite your friends round and pretend that you've been slaving away in the kitchen. It's quite the little Easter crowd pleaser. You don't need your oven, just some egg holders, your fridge and some cute little chicks to entertain yourself with.

What you'll need:

6 hollow chocolate eggs - preferably egg sized - I got mine from Tesco in an Easter egg hunt pack.

150g cream cheese

1/4 cup icing sugar

Juice of 1 lemon

1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/2 cup whipping cream

2 passion fruits

1tsp apricot jam

1 tsp butter

First step - grab a knife, run it under hot water and then slice of the top of the egg and eat it.

Pop the eggs into your egg holders, I got mine from Dunelm, such cute little pastel egg holders.

Grab your cream cheese, vanilla extract, icing sugar and lemon juice ad all into a bowl and mix it all up with an electric mixer. Mix for around 2 minutes or until light and fluffy.

In another bowl mix the whipping cream, until it forms soft peaks - you'll know when this happens, so just keep on mixing. When that is done, softly mix the contents of both bowls together. When you've done that grab a teaspoon and start adding the mixture into your chocolate eggs - fill to the top and scrape off the excess.

Now onto the yolk ..... Cut your passion fruits in half and get all of the insides out. Once this is done you'll need a saucepan and a sieve.

Put the papaya into the sieve and get rid of all the pips. Add the butter and apricot jams and heat up until all has melted.

Now it's time to add the yolks to your eggs. Make a little hole in the middle, use the other end of your teaspoon and then put the mixture into the hole. Et Voila - homemade cream eggs or passion fruit cheesecake in a chocolate egg - the choice is yours. Once all the yolks have been added, put the eggs into the fridge for around 15 minutes, the your good to eat up absolutely everything in sight.

Just look at how cute they are - perfect cream eggs without having to leave the house! 

You can eat them all by yourself or share them! I may have had 4 and shared the last 2! Ha!

I bought the chicks and mini eggs in Tesco - incase you were worrying! 

Recipe inspiration here

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Cream Egg Croissants

One very late post from me today guys as I just couldn't be bothered. Ha! However it was worth the wait. You seriously need to try these croissants they are just Ah-ma-zing. I can't eat more than 2 as I need a lay down afterwards, but it's aways worth it. Give these a go during the week or surprise everyone with an Easter brekkie on Sunday. I found this idea over on Pinterest and the how to was adapted from this recipe.

Tip - leave eggs in the freezer over night.

First up - pre heat your oven to 180 degrees.

Grab your pastry and  open the tube. It's brilliant, just like getting a brand nee tub of playdough. Once open, cut the croissant shapes out. Grab your egg and brush on your pastry.

Choose your egg of choice - mine will always be a cream egg - however I am tempted to try the cadburys caramel.

Roll your croissant, starting from the larger end and roll down to the smaller end to form a croissant shape. Then push down around the edges and around the egg, to make sure the chocolateyness doesn't escape whilst cooking, then brush egg all over the top. Place in the over on greaseproof paper and leave for 10 minutes. Check back after 8 minutes, just to make sure.

Once they are all goldeny and pretty, take them out of the oven and let them cool for 5 minutes, then tuck in.

Add your fave fruit, raspberries were all that I had in my fridge and they were so yummy dipped into the chocolate.

The dive in and thank me later. Enjoy! 

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Chocolate Avocado Cookies

A quick recipe post for you today as some of you lovely lot requested it, however the only pictures I have are from my Snapchat so sorry about the poor quality. Measurements are all in cups because I don't have scales. I found the version somewhere on Pinterest and as soon as I can locate it, I will link it.

What you’ll need: 

1 ripe avocado (not brown)1 tsp baking powder1/3 cocoa powder (or hot choc powder)1 large egg1/3 cup brown sugar1/3 cup sugar (the kind you put in your tea)Chocolate of your choice – you can use as little or as much as you like – I ended up using half a bar of white and half a bar of milk, which was a little bit too much.

How to:

Put you’re over on at 180 degreesMush up your avocado – but don’t do it on any kind of a hangover, you won’t be able to – trust me!

Once the avo is all mushed up (You should have half a cups worth), add all of the ingredients (except the chocolate), and put it all in the blender. You can use a spoon, if you don’t have access to a blender, I used my new Ninja Nutribullet. Once its all mixed up nicely, you can add the chocolate chunks in. Mix it all up and you’re good to go.

Get your baking tray and add some grease proof paper – this is a must – do not substitute for foil. Aim to make between 5-7 cookies, depending on how big or small you want them. Pop the tray in the oven for 17 minutes, checking every once in a while. When the buzzer goes off check the cookies – if they are too sticky/ spongey put them back in at a minute each time until they are ready. Be careful not to burn them. I ended up keeping this batch in for 20 minutes! 

Tip: They are pretty sickly, so don’t make them too big.

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Giant Peppermint Cookies

I love whipping these up at the moment! Who doesn't love a cookie and who doesn't love candy canes! So why not mix them together. These are my favourite cheat cookies - cheat because it's a packet mix. Shhhhh don't tell anyone.

What you need:
Packet cookie mix
2 candy canes

Set your oven to 190 and then you can begin .....

Take your candy canes and pop them in a freezer bag or lunch bag (with a zip), grab a rolling pin and crush away.

Follow your cookie pack instructions and make some cookie dough, try not to eat any whilst doing this. The pack that we had said that it would make 8 cookies, however we had other ideas. And those included GIANT COOKIES! So we just split the dough into two and rolled into a ball.

Once covered in crushed candy canes, pop the cookie dough onto a baking tray (with grease proof paper and not tin foil) and then flatten the dough to make a cookie shape. Place the cookie dough in the oven for 10 - 12 minutes. Keep an eye on them after 10 minutes and make sure to take out before they have browned. They will continue cooking once removed from the oven and we want them to be soft and gooey.

When they are done take them out of the oven and leave for 15 minutes, This is a tough job, but try to resist the urge to gobble them all up then and there.

Once cooled, you can share with your friends, or not and just eat them all by yourself. However as they are giant cookies, this is quite a tough mission. Enjoy.

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