Martha Can Kick My.....

I don't know what issue or what year this chocolate filled egg recipe was published in Martha Stewart Living. It caught my eye, was duly clipped and in a binder on my cookbook shelf. It calls for tempered chocolate (ha) and a ganache filling (yum). Over several years I have tried to make the backwoods version using chocolate chips (cheap) and various fillings (also cheap). I wish I had documented my glorious fails with photos, but alas there are none.

This year I was bound and determined to succeed. I still didn't have the quality chocolate to attempt the tempering process, nor did I even have the patience or knowledge of how to temper chocolate. Heck, I can't get my kids to behave, how was I going to get the chocolate to do so?

So I got chocolate candy coating, bit my tongue, bought white, antibiotic laden, cage raised eggs, and began.

Martha used lovely shell blue. Not for me, I scavenged the kid's egg coloring kit for bright colors. I have no clue how her team of minions managed to make such perfect holes on the large ends of the eggs. Mine have a few wiggles.

The results aren't bad. Now I don't have them displayed on a delicate delft blue Wedgewood plate, but bear with me. Once they harden and are turned over, the effect should be just fine.



Martha, take that!


Now my other dessert for the Springtime resembles a radioactive refugee from another planet, but please forgive me. My 5 year old picked the colors and supervised the entire decorating process. Each color frosting had to be tasted and approved.




Hoppy Spring Everyone!