World's Best Chocolate
Easter Eggs
1 cup soft butter
2 tsp salt
4 tsp vanilla
1 can condensed milk
(Eagle Brand)
10 cups icing sugar
1 tsp yellow food coloring
1 LB semi-sweet chocolate
1.
Beat butter, salt and vanilla until fluffy.
2.
Add milk.
3.
Beat in sugar.
4.
Blend until stiff.
5.
Dust with brown sugar.
6.
Knead until smooth.
7.
Set aside more than 2/3 of mixture.
8.
To the remaining mixture, add yellow food coloring.
9.
Blend in well.
10.Divide
yellow and white into 16 or 24 pieces.
11.Shape
yellow into ball.
12.Mold
white around yellow to form an egg shape.
13.Dry
at room temperature on paper towels for 24 hours.
14.Melt
chocolate in double boiler or in microwave until smooth.
15.Dip
eggs in chocolate.
16.Paraffin
wax may be added and melted with chocolate to prevent chocolate from melting
in
your hands.
17.Once
dipped, cool at room temperature.
18.Refrigerate
after cool.
19.When
sliced, these eggs will have a white cream filling with a yellow filling
that appears to
be the yolk.
