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Ingredients:

• 2 pounds powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup vegetable shortening or 1 1/2 sticks butter, softened
• 1/2 cup light karo syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 18 ounces creamy peanut butter
• Evaporated milk, to moisten (approximately 1/4 cup)
• Chocolate wafers (melting chocolate used for candy making)
• Paraffin wax (Baker’s wax, cooking wax)

Directions:

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl until well combined. Scoop mixture using a medium cookie scooper (1 1/2 tablespoons), and roll into an egg shape. Allow to dry on wax paper or parchment paper before dipping in chocolate.

Melt chocolate and wax over a double boiler. Roll eggs in melted chocolate and allow to harden on wax paper or parchment paper. You will need 1 pound of chocolate and 2 ounces of wax per 100 eggs.

Makes 4 dozen eggs.

Nutrition:

Substitutions:

These eggs are a little sweeter than the updated peanut butter eggs.

I used butter this year instead of shortening, and I think the eggs are a little tastier this way.

Recipe courtesy of Sharon Gibbons.