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Chocolate Easter Eggs Recipe

Chocolate Easter Eggs Ingredients:

1 cup Butter, softened
3 lb Icing sugar
2/3 cup Condensed milk
1 tbsp Vanilla
1/2 tsp Salt
1 lb Semisweet chocolate,chopped
2 tbsp Vegetable shortening

ICING

2 lb Icing sugar
1 cup Vegetable shortening
1/2 cup Milk
Food colouring (optl)

Chocolate Easter Eggs Preparation:

To increase variety, divide dough into four portions and use extra
flavors. In a large bowl, beat butter until fluffy; gradually beat in
icing sugar, milk, vanilla and salt. On work surface, knead until
smooth. Shape into 32 eggs. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm. In
;bowl over ;hot (not boiling) water, melt chocolate with shortening;
remove from heat. Using 2 forks, dip 1 egg into chocolate to coat;
shake off excess. Repeat with remaining eggs. Place on waxed
paper-lined baking sheets; refrigerate until chocolate is set. Icing:
In a large bowl, gradually beat sugar into shortening until fluffy.
Beat in milk until smooth. Divide into batches; beat in food
colouring (if using). Decorate eggs. Extra Flavors: (per one-quarter
of egg mixture) Chocolate: beat in 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
Maple Walnut: add 2 tbsp chopped walnuts and 1/2 tsp maple extract
Citrus: beat in 1 tbsp grated orange rind.

�In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.�

a nation taste-blind.� M.F.K. Fisher

�That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.�

Madeleine L'Engle (1918--) American author.

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