These chocolate eggs are filled with a creamy peanut butter mixture. Fill your Easter baskets with this easy to make recipe!!!
INGREDIENTS:
- 1/2 c. margarine (you can use butter, but it is harder to incorporate)
- 1 1/2c. creamy peanut butter
- 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 c. powdered sugar (to desired consistency)
- 1 (12oz.) bag of Wilton Dark Candy Cocoa Melts
or Wilton White Candy Melts
DIRECTIONS:
- Combine margarine with peanut butter and add powdered sugar until mixture is thick enough to be rolled and molded by hand.
- Form eggs in any size (I use an egg-shaped 1/3 cup measuring spoon, but you can shape by hand in other sizes as well)
- Melt chocolate in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring well in between until smooth.
- Using a fork, dip peanut butter eggs into chocolate until completely covered and slide off fork onto parchment paper. Allow chocolate to cool and harden.
- Decorate as desired (drizzle with other colored chocolate, or sprinkle with spring candy…).
My thoughts: This is my second year making these eggs as a fundraiser for missions trips at my church. We have improved our technique for making these in large quantities and had a lot of fun this year. These are HUGE peanut butter eggs. I always warn people to not eat a whole one all at once! The filling is so creamy and rich. I hope you get a chance to try these out for YOUR Easter baskets! Here’s some shots of our egg-making extravaganza:
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These look really great and easy! I love peanut butter and chocolate together ❤
Thanks– I LOVE your blog 🙂 I work in a lab and I love experimental cooking– so fun! I will be back tomorrow to check it out!
These look so yummy! Thanks for sharing, visiting from Somewhat Simple.
Thanks Nicole!
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These look divine AND delicious! Great job! If I hadn’t just eaten the last of my chocolate chips, I’d make them right this very second! MMMmmmmmm…
Aloha,
Charlie
Thanks Charlie! You’re out of chocolate chips??!! That can’t be good… 🙂
We’d love to invite you to come on by and link it up, if you wish to THIS WEEK’S CRAVINGS “Easter Cookies & Treats”
http://momscrazycooking.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-weeks-cravings-linky-party-25.html
Thanks Tina– just linked up 🙂 Great idea– all those yummy Easter treats!!!!
Hi there,
I saw this on Moms Crazy Cooking linky party. These look and sound really yummy! Love the idea.
Thanks so much Brittany!!! I’m new to the whole linky party thing- so fun to have so many yummy recipes in one place! Thanks for the comment 🙂
thanks for the recipe!! I think I’ve made about 3 batches using different recipes this year and I just can’t get the perfect peanutbutter egg! but I will def try yours! they look great!
You’re welcome Angie!!!! Wow- you are on a quest! You’ll have to tell me what you think! To me, these are a lot like Reese cups in consistency and taste- hope you love them!!!!!:)
YUMMY! I recently made a homemade peanut butter egg recipe similar to this and it was so tasty. Definitely makes you think twice before buying store-bought!
Thanks for sharing with So Sweet Sundays! I hope you’ll continue to come back and perhaps become a follower, as well! 🙂
those look egg-celent 😉 I LOVE choc and pb and those look easy and fun to make. what a super idea for a missions trip fund-raiser!
❤
Thanks Laurie! I hope others can use this idea to do the same! We made about $1200.00 this year (just sold out!) Happy Easter!
I posted a recipe for these too! 🙂
So yummy!!!!!!!!
Your eggs are so cute– that egg mold was a find!
I made these tonight, and will post on my blog tomorrow. They were so good! Taste just like Reese’s peanut butter eggs. Thanks for a great recipe!
You are so welcome– I’m glad they turned out for you– I bet they tasted great with ghirardelli chocolate!!! You did a great job decorating them 🙂 Happy Easter!
curious how much you sell the eggs for?
Usually $1.50 to $2.00. They are pretty big eggs. If you made them smaller you could sell them for less.
I just made these peanut butter eggs as a fundraiser for our girls club at church. Looking to sell lots of them because they taste wonderful! Thanks for an easy recipe! I wrapped them in shiny gold foil and found 1 oz to be the perfect size!
They are SUCH a good fundraiser…Foil wrap is an excellent idea!!! Enjoy!!
How many eggs does this recipe make using the spoon as a mold.
It depends entirely on the size of the spoon. We made ours quite large and each batch made 10-12 eggs.