THIS RECIPE IS OUT OF A BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS MAGAZINE
Preparation time: 10 minutes plus 30 minutes chilling time
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Serves 4
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300g dark chocolate
100 g milk chocolate
300ml cream
100g marshmallow, roughly chopped
100g Madeira cake, roughly chopped
100g chocolate freckles, roughly chopped
canola oil spray
hundreds and thousands
Step 1. Break the dark and milk chocolate into pieces in a bowl. Bring cream to the boil in a saucepan and pour it over the chocolate. Stir until chocolate has melted, then put bowl over a larger bowl of iced water, to cool. In another bowl, mix marshmallows with the cake and chocolate freckles.
Step 2. Spray each egg half-mould half with canola oil and line with plastic wrap, leaving a 1cm overhang. flatten out any air pockets under the plastic wrap. When chocolate and cream mixture has cooled to about 30-34 degrees celsius (just below body temperature and still runny), combine it with the marshmallow mixture. Fill each half-mould with mixture to just above the rim. Align the 2 halves and gently press together. Wrap whole egg moulds in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Step 3. When set, remove the eggs from moulds. Roll in hundreds and thousands.