Waching daily Mar 23 2018

Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and the rules of today's Easter

Egg Challenge are simple take a store-bought Easter egg and pimp it on

the inside ... that's right on the inside ... the outside can look the same so

everyone's unsuspecting but the inside has to be surprisingly impressive! Let's

start with an easy one, okay I'm going to take the big egg and then heat up a

circle cutter in a pan and then use that cutter to melt a hole in the bottom of

my egg so I can access the inside. Then I'm just filling up a piping bag with

Nutella. When you fill a piping bag to make it easier if you fold the top of

the piping bag over your fingers then when you're finished and you scrunch it

up you don't have any of the Nutella on the outside of the bag it's all on the

inside. Now I'm just gonna pipe that into the egg and this Nutella doesn't even

seem to be making a dent on filling it up I'm gonna have to open another jar.

That's looking nearly full but let me give it a shake just to make sure ... no

we're gonna need more Nutella! And some more Nutella and finally that's full. Now

to seal it I'm just going to use a little bit of melted chocolate and pour

that on top and once that is set I'm just going to put it back in the

original foil wrapping it up and then just pushing down the ends so that it

folds over on itself and once you both of your ends are all folded in and

sealed put your hands or the palm of your hands

on each end and then use your thumb to smooth from the middle out towards the

ends and doing that will make it nice and tight and sitting snugly around the

egg so that it looks like it's just been bought from the store ... until you pick it

up and then you'll realize it is super heavy! Let's weigh this thing ... 2 kilos (4.4LB)! Oh

my goodness it's a 2kg egg of Nutella goodness ... oh wow when you break

into that at that Nutella oh my goodness. For you

Nutella lovers here's a little piece for you to try... oh

sorry you're a Nutella lover, let me break up a bigger piece for you to try!

Okay moving on to egg number two, to make this one I'm going to cut it open along

the join using a serrated knife just gently going all the way around it more

than once all the way around until it comes open. I want to make this look like

a geode on the inside ... now years ago I showed you how to grow your own sugar

crystal geode which is cool but that takes time because you have to let the

sugar crystals grow, so I'm going to show you a cheats way well two cheats ways if

you don't have time for that. Number one is to smash boiled candy into small

chunks and then line the egg with melted white chocolate. Now you have to make

sure that your white chocolate is cooler than body temperature because chocolate

melts at body temperature so if you put your finger in the melted chocolate and

it feels warm it's going to melt your egg you need to wait until it's cooled

down. Then once you've lined your eggs sprinkle it with lots of the boiled

candy chunks making sure that they go all the way up the sides, then add some

chocolate around the top and join the two halves together and just use your

finger to smooth off any excess. For the geode method number two you just heat

sugar glucose syrup and water up in a saucepan until it starts to go golden

and I'll put all these recipe details on the howtocookthat.net website as always

there's a link to that below. Colour that how you like and then pour it onto some

baking paper to cool. While that's setting roll out some white fondant

really thin and then place that inside an egg and use your thumbs to smooth out

any air bubbles just running it up to the edges making sure there's no more

air bubbles left and it's all smooth and then just run a knife around the top to

cut off the extra fondant. Cover the cooled candy with baking paper and hit

it a few times with a hammer ...

and look that gives me lots of chunks that are all the same colour. Sprinkle

that into the egg and push it down into the fondant and keep going until it is

all covered then you want to join those two halves together in the same way that

we did for the other geode egg. Which one of these do you prefer? The hard-boiled

candy one or the geode made using homemade candy? To me I definitely prefer

this one I think it looks heaps better with all the crystals being the same

colour. If you could find candies at the shop that were all the same colour then

you could of course do that just by smashing those but I could only find the

bags of mixed coloured ones. For the next egg I want to make it look like a

hard-boiled egg on the inside of course. For the yolk I'm just going to use

melted white chocolate mixed with some warm water just to thin it down and then

I'm gonna add in some yellow food colouring and we'll of course need to

leave that to one side to cool. For the boiled egg white bit of it I'm going to

use ice cream because that's nice and white and because I like ice cream :) Fill

it all the way up to the top smooth it off and then use a tablespoon to scoop

out a spot for the yolk. Fill that up with your yellow ganache and then place

that back in the freezer just to let it really firm up. After about 20 minutes

you can join the two halves together and obviously you're going to need to store

this egg in the freezer until you're ready to gift it to someone. Then they

can unwrap it and tap it with a spoon and dig in ... what a great combination

chocolate and ice cream and ganache if you didn't already guess I really like

ice cream and I really like chocolate so this egg might be my favorite but we've

got two more left to pimp so let's do those first and judge the best one at

the end. Get some wafer and cut circles out in a

couple of different sizes and then use the cutter

to make egg-shaped wafers that get progressively bigger. Pour some chocolate

into the bottom of an egg and add the first wafer and push down to sink it.

Then add another one on top pushing down and making sure it's completely covered.

Keep going building that up to the top with the biggest one on the top and then

let that set. Once both halves are set you can join those together using some

extra chocolate. I call this egg the Kit Kat egg because it looks like a

Kit Kat on the inside. If you cut into it you've got all those beautiful layers of

wafer and chocolate there. One more egg left now for this one I'm getting melted

chocolate and adding marshmallows and peanuts to it ... if you have a peanut

allergy no problem just swap out the peanuts for pretzels because they also

give it that nice salty crunch that we're after. Pour that mixture into half

an egg now I'm not going to join this back together so I'm really piling it up

I'm going to make two separate halves so the one egg makes two gifts. If you wrap

them in cellophane they look really good and then you can just cut it in half and

look at those peanuts and marshmallows! Remember this Easter it's what's on the

inside of you that matters much more than just the outside wrapping 💕 Click

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