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Fondant Easter Eggs

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Dairy Candy, Easter 2 Pounds

INGREDIENTS

1/2 c Butter
1 ts Vanilla
1 ts Salt
2/3 c Sweetened condensed milk
6 c (about 1 and 1/2 lbs.) confectioner's sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Recipe by: Karen <popette@twd.net>
In a medium-sized bowl, cream butter, vanilla, and salt. Blend in sweetened
ondensed milk until smooth. Gradually add sugar, blending well after each
addition until mixture becomes very stiff.
Turn out on a clean pastry board (or counter). Carefully knead in any
remaining sugar. (NOTE - mixture should be smooth, and not sticky)
Divide fondant in half if making 2 flavors. Add desired flavoring. (see
below) Cut each portion into the desired number of eggs. With palms of
hands, mold each piece into an egg shape. Place eggs on a wax-paper or foil
lined cookie sheet. Refrigerate several hours or overnight.
Dip eggs in dipping chocolate, and decorate as desired. (I use a 2-pronged
cooking fork to dip the eggs, placing the tines into the bottom of the egg,
dipping it into the warm chocolate, and turning it sideways to let the
chocolate run onto the bottom. Let it cool a few seconds, and then slide it
off onto the cookie sheet. Use the side of a dinner knife to push it gently
off the fork if needed.)
FLAVOR VARIATIONS
Coconut - Gradually knead in 1 and 1/2 cup flaked coconut for full batch
(3/4 cup for half batch) of fondant.
Almond - Use 1 teaspoon of almond extract in place of vanilla
Cherry - DON"T use maraschino cherries - it will be sticky! To make cherry
eggs, you must use chopped candied cherries ( the kind used in fruitcake)
Nut - add pecan pieces or walnut pieces (about a cup)
Other - I have also made strawberry, maple, walnut, lemon, and orange
flavored eggs, simply by replacing the vanilla with the desired extract.
Use your imagination! Rum-raisin comes to mind.
DIPPING CHOCOLATE
(Note - this is not from the book - it's my recipe)
12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips 1/2 of a half-inch thick slab of
paraffin (the type used in canning)
Melt the wax and chocolate slowly in a double boiler over hot, (NOT
BOILING) water. Stir with a wire whisk until melted and well-blended. DO
NOT LEAVE UNATTENDED!!! Stir again before dipping each egg. If chocolate
cools and thickens, place over warm water again and gently re-heat. Let
chocolate dry thoroughly before decorating. Store in refrigerator.
DECORATING
I make rosebuds and leaves out of decorator's frosting a couple of days
ahead.. I believe the recipe for that has been posted here recently. If you
need it, let me know. Using a decorator tube and more frosting, I make a
ruffle around the circumference of the larger eggs, and then use dots of
frosting to glue the roses and leaves in a little bouquet on the top of
each egg. Another option is to write the recipient's name in frosting
across the top of the egg. Or you can make little birds, crosses, bells,
whatever you like. Play with your food! I have also made these in heart
shapes, and filled them with strawberry-flavored fondant to give as
valentines. A single rosebud and a couple of leaves makes them look lovely.
They made a special treat for my daughter's 2nd grade class party years
ago.
Trees might be nice for christmas, bells for a wedding shower...
Makes 2 pounds of fondant - enough for 12 large, 24 medium, or 36 small
eggs
Entered for you by: Bill Webster
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #835 by Bill Webster <thelma@pipeline.com> on
Oct 10, 1997

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