Peanut Butter Easter Eggs: Updated
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Ingredients:
- 1 pound powdered sugar
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 18 ounces peanut butter
- 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 3 dozen eggs.
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Substitutions:
These eggs are a little richer and creamier than the original peanut butter eggs.
Recipe courtesy of Sharon Gibbons.