As per usual a holiday, any holiday, means that themed
baking is in order. Since I did cake pops last year and it’s been very warm I resorted
to cupcakes; less fussy but still so so vey good.
Easter egg moulds are everywhere so I tried making a couple;
all I can say is messy and a pain to get out of the moulds. I didn’t want to
ruin my luck and try to put them together as a whole egg so I frosted some cupcakes
and put half the egg on.
Just as a side note I tried the new
Philadelphia Chocolate as
frosting on the cupcakes; AMAZING!
As well as the egg cupcakes I used the chocolate Philadelphia
on the mini Crispy M&M easter egg cupcakes and embellished with a butterfly or a flower.
For the flower I used a press mould; it takes a bit of getting
used to in terms of how much fondant to put in but you get the hang of it very
quickly.
The hatching chicks, bunnies and flowers were all done with
fondant. The chicks were just a matter of cutting out geometric shapes, the
bunnies were done with a cookie cutter and with silver cachous for necklaces
and the flowers were embossed with a daisy embosser and then had a fondant
flower on the top.
