Lots of Easter eggs...

Lots of Easter eggs..., originally uploaded by Missy Cookie Monster.

Maybe I bought me and the Boyfriend too many chocolate Easter eggs... and this doesn't include the ones from our families... This lot should keep us going until Christmas! We're doing well though - it's Tuesday and we've only eaten three small ones. And a couple of Creme Eggs. Nom.

Cakes in eggs

Yesterday I made Easter cakes, inside egg shells...

I pierced the eggs and emptied the contents, and made the holes a bit bigger. After making the mixture, I used a piping bag to fill the eggs up about 3/4 full (although, after seeing how much spilled out during baking, I think 1/2 full would work).

To eat, crack the egg shell and marvel in the egg-shaped cakiness.

I got the idea here.

I followed the recipe there, but I didn't like the method at all. It seemed alien to mix the sugar and egg, and then add the butter to it - that's completely the wrong way round and didn't seem right. I don't think the cakes taste that brilliant, so if I did this idea again I would use a better cake recipe. And I'd mix the butter and sugar together first.

I think a little dollop of lemon curd, or butter cream, in the middle of the mixture would work really well.

Quitter!!!

Cannot believe that the boyfriend has given up on his Lent 'giving up chocolate' promise. He caved and ate a big slice of a friend's birthday chocolate cake. In front of me, who said no! Horrendous behaviour, I'm so disappointed.

However, retribution will be mine. I've currently bought 16 Easter eggs (plus Cream Eggs, Mini Eggs, and various other chocolate things) and I'm-a-gonna eat them all. Yes, I'll turn into a blimp, but it'll be worth it...