One thing about being an allergy mom…you have to start planning. You can’t run to the store at the last minute for a birthday cake, you can’t head out the door with vague plans to ‘eat on the road’ while shopping with the kids, and if the Easter Baskets aren’t planned by Maundy Thursday….you’re not going to have a restful weekend!
Our baskets are usually filled with Peeps, jelly beans (we love Gimballs) and some special chocolate treat from Divvies , Amanda’s Own or No Whey Chocolates. But this year, I really wanted the kids to share in my favorite Easter treat from my childhood basket…the Cadbury Creme Egg. So I racked my brain, did a little “field research” tasting the originals, and here is the result!
The real Cadbury eggs are made by taking two halves of a hard chocolate shell, filling with fondant, and sealing up the edges with some chocolate welding material. That procedure assures a true egg shape. I don’t have a chocolate egg form in my candy-making box (yet), so I went about this backwards, making the fondant center in an egg shape and then dipping in chocolate. True to the original, they are complete sugar bombs. The difference is that mine have a flat bottom from having to set them down after dipping. After wrapping in foil, the shape doesn’t matter…and the kids didn’t mind at all!
Oh, and another thing about being an allergy mom…you have to have a sense of humor (see bottom).
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Egg and Dairy Free Cadbury Eggs! (aka Vegan Eggs!)
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1/4 cup dairy-free margarine or shortening (margarine tastes better and the final result is softer, but shortening holds its shape better during the process)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2–3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cups of safe chocolate chips for dipping (I used Divvies this time)
- 1 tablespoon shortening
Instructions
- With a hand mixer or stand mixer, blend the corn syrup and margarine together until creamy, add in the vanilla and salt and blend again. Carefully add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time and mix until creamy and smooth. Divide 1/3 of the fondant out and color with yellow food coloring. Wrap both colors in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1/2 hour.
- Spray the insides of some mini plastic Easter eggs with cooking spray (I found mine at Hobby Lobby for 50 cents!) Have fun filling the eggs, then put in the freezer for an hour or so before dipping.
- Slowly melt the chocolate chips and shortening in the microwave. (The shortening helps thin the chocolate, and is a cheater’s way to avoid the dusty “bloom” that happens when ill-tempered chocolate dries…I can’t temper chocolate to save my life…so I’ve given up) Remove the fondant centers from the plastic eggs. Reshape slightly if needed.
- Dip! I actually did a double dip. First, I did a really messy thin coat to make sure all the fondant was covered and let them freeze again. Then I re-dipped in a more pretty fashion.
- Wrap in foil and store at room temp if you plan to eat them in a few days, otherwise refrigerate for a few weeks.
Feeling like Martha?? I'd say with this one, Soaring past Martha!! Thank you!
These are *insert expletive* AWESOME!!! I showed my husband and there is no way I'll get away with not trying these. I found some cute these faux Kinder Surprise too. The Kinder Surprise maker is another MI food blogger too.
I love that I'm not alone in my terror of chocolate tempering. It kills me that there aren't safe candy melts. Sure I'd prefer better chocolate but Alex couldn't care less and the candy melts are so easy to work with.
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Wow, you win the Easter Food Allergy McGyver for these! I've got some mail order chocolate molds on the way, but I don't think I can top these! Libby
(Just wondering, though, about maybe putting Maggie's dairy free caramels in place of the yolk…)
And I was just hating on the easter candy in the grocery store this week. I know what I am making next weekend!
Those look AMAZING! This would be the best Easter/anything gift, ever.
All I can say is WOW! It is so awesome the lengths moms will go to just to see those little faces light up!
What an amazing idea- I've been missing cadbury eggs dearly!
What a great idea! I can't wait to try my hands at making an Egg Free egg!
These are great! I am really glad you shared your technique too! The song is great. That one made me laugh!
Sheer genius!!! I am at a loss for words!
How many eggs did this make? I've only got one kid to make for…I don't think she needs a dozen 🙂
Also, I'm having a heck of a time finding colored foil this year. Where should I look? Craft store? I just have to say again how amazing you are! I can't tell you how many times I've looked at the cream filled eggs and wanted to cry. I never DREAMED of trying to make my own! Thank you so much!!!
(I seem to have found lots of words afterall lol)
This made a ton, like over a dozen of the mini-egg size. You could easily half or even quarter the recipe if you only need 3-4. Fortunately, the filling ingredients are so cheap, you don't need to feel bad if you throw out some after playing around. I did find the foil at our big local craft store, Hobby Lobby. It still wasn't big enough, so I had to use two sheets per egg. Have fun!