Deviled Creme Eggs

OMG! What is this? A second post! I know, I know... It's been a while. Buuuuut I have another one for you, and boy, is this one is FUN! First off, my drink! Nothing crazy here, just some Smirnoff Whipped Cream Vodka and Sprite. Yummy!

Okay, so. As you all know, Easter is right around the corner. And what is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Easter?

CANDY!

My face gets super squishy when I get excited about things:

So that should give you a pretty good idea about how stoked I am for this.


I saw something online the other day that was absolutely AMAZING. Someone took Cadbury Creme Eggs and made a DEVILED EGG version!


http://www.smashboxstudios.com/yello/2011/04/weekend-delight-cadbury-creme-deviled-eggs/


I squealed so loud when I saw this! But then I looked at the recipe and process. Unfortunately, they simply cut the egg in half, and topped it with yellow buttercream. I'm not gonna lie, this saddened me a bit. So I decided to do something about it! I made my own :D


Okay so, to start:

• 1/4 cup of butter
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 3 cups of powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• Yellow Food Coloring
• Red Sprinkles
• 1 bajillion Cadbury Creme Eggs (JK. I used 20)

First, we're going to work on splitting the Cadbury Eggs in half. For this I used a plastic cutting board, a knife (duh) and a glass of warm water for the knife to sit in. I also had a bowl to put the creme "yolks" in and a cooling rack to sit the halves on.

The first method I tried was kind of laying the egg on its side, and then slicing horizontally along the seam with the knife. This is how well that worked:

So then I tried to do it a different way! This time, I stood the egg up and tried slicing vertically, still along the seam. This one worked MUCH better!

After splitting the egg, take a small spoon and transfer the creme filling into your bowl. Ta-Da!

Go ahead and put your empty egg "shell" on the cooling rack to hang out while you finish the others.

Then repeat that process over, and over, and over, and over... Until you have a whole bunch of egg "shells" and a bowl full of "yolks!"

I stashed my chocolate "shells" in the fridge while I worked on the next step. I'd hate for them to melt before they even have a chance to meet their filling!

Now, we have two options here. One, is to make our own filling from scratch. The other, is to take the filling we already have, and pipe that into them. I chose to do both. I made a creme filling from a recipe found online, and combined it with the normal Cadbury Creme filling.

BUTTA! Throw that butter into your mixer and cream it up just a smidge.

Now let's pour some silky light corn syrup in there and get them all nice and cozy.

Aaaaand why not throw some vanilla in there? After the vanilla, we're going to add the powdered sugar. You want to make sure you add it SLOWLY. Let each bit fully incorporate before adding any more.

After all of the powdered sugar is added, it should look like this:

At this point, I added the Cadbury Creme "yolks" and mixed them in all nice and velvety like.

While that was mixing, I also threw in a little bit of yellow food coloring to give it that perfect deviled egg look. By the time it's done mixing, it will look somewhat like this:

And at this stage, I was faced with a dilemma. With the creme filling as is, the consistency is very... Goopy. It's similar to Silly Putty! If you leave it sitting for a minute, it will start to droop, and melt almost. Now, for piping, that just won't work. So I could mess with the taste, and fix the consistency, or leave the taste and deal with terrible consistency.

So I decided to mess with it. Because, why not?! I added a few tablespoons of powdered sugar in order to get it to firm up and work better with piping.

Now let's fill our piping bag! I saw this trick online too. You want to take a glass, and set the piping bag in the glass, pulling the end of the bag over the glass. Like so:

And:

I LOVE this trick. It makes filling the bag so much easier and less messy!

And I FINALLY remembered to pick up metal tips! YAY!

Now simply pick up and empty "shell" and pipe in your delicious filling!

It took a few tries to get it to cooperate, because it is SO STICKY. But just stay at it, and you'll be able to pipe that filling into submission. See?

Then throw on some red sprinkles for the paprika, and voila!

Finished product:

SO PRETTY!

Now... As far as taste goes...

I LOVE IT!

Keep in mind, Cadbury Creme Eggs are sickeningly sweet. They always have been, and they always will be. To me, these tasted almost exactly like the original, simple Cadbury Creme Eggs. Just a different, unexpected look for a little fun :]

Hope you enjoyed my entry today! Thanks for reading :D