Soundtrack: Punk Bunny

finished white chocolate cream eggs

Supplies:
saucepan
measuring cups/spoons
spatula
silpat lined baking sheet
wire rack
Ingredients:
1/4 c butter
1 c finely chopped pecans
1 and 1/2 c confectioners sugar
1/3 c sweetened condensed milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
8 oz white baking chocolate chips
paste food colorings

chopped pecans

finely chop pecans

candy center

melt butter in saucepan. stir in pecans, sugar, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla. transfer to bowl

chilled filling

chill for 2 to 3 hours

chilled centers

shape mixture into eggs (…decided to go with balls vs. eggs since making mini eggs wasn’t really working out for me) - place on silpat lined baking sheets and refrigerate overnight

dipping

melt white chocolate in bowl set above pot of simmering water. using fork or candy holder carefully dip candy into melted chocolate.

chilling

place on wire rack and allow chocolate to harden

coloring

place small amount of food coloring on paper plate (or plastic container lid). dilute with a bit of water to achieve pastel colors.

speckling

crumple piece of wax paper, dip and carefully blot eggs to decorate.

chilling

allow coloring to set, chill candies

noms

Lessons Learned:

• the pecan cream filling is pretty rich so i wanted to make smaller sized pieces – especially since they were going to be coated in white chocolate which is suuuper sweet. i thought small ball shapes just made more sense than eggs since every time i tried to make a mini egg it wound up looking round anyways
• dipping the candies in white chocolate with the round chocolate dipping tool i have resulted in some weird marks when i put the candies down to cool – i let the chocolate harden up some and then re-dipped wonky looking ones for a thicker coat
• the bottoms of the coated candies stuck to the wire rack while cooling. luckily i still had some melted white chocolate left over so i went back and tried to fill in the gaps

• wear gloves

• seriously – this was what the final product was supposed to look like. i like to think mine’ve got character.

perfection

Review: really rich tasting but pretty and festive. i don’t like white chocolate but it’s a sacrifice that has to be made to get the colors to turn out so vibrantly. smooth and melty with little bits of crunch from the pecans. i like them better chilled vs. room temperature. again, i cannot re-itterate enough these are so sweet i can’t imagine eating more than one at a time, if that. maybe if you really like white chocolate…