Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Easy to make Easter chocolates


In this video I don't make anything out of rubbish! Instead I avoid buying something that produces a lot of packaging for very little product....Easter Eggs.

Chocolate Easter eggs from shops are probably the most wasteful product for waste packaging, purely there to make a little chocolate look big. So instead I use the shell of an egg, the contents of which made a nice omelette that evening, and used it as the packaging for my chocolate eggs.

Carefully make a hole in the bottom and shake the contents out for the omelette. Boil the egg shells to cook any residue left in the shell.

Melt your desired chocolate over a bain marie, a bowl sitting over a boiling pan of water. Remember it is important that the bowl doesn't sit in the boiling water.

Then carefully and slowly pour the melted chocolate into the egg shells. Careful with your thumbs and fingers as I prove it is easy to crack the shells!

Leave to cool or pop into a fridge to speed up the process.

It can be fun to present these as hard boiled eggs on Easter morning and watch the confusion unfurl or wrap them up as I do as a nice Easter egg.

I saved some Tunnock Tea Cake wrappers from one of our children's birthday parties. These wrappers are fantastic graphically with a sun burst pattern and they fortunately just cover the egg making them look great.

Alternatively why not try and reuse the packaging that the chocolate that you melt comes with, often it will have foil wrapping.

I melted four bars of milk chocolate and only used two, one bar of chocolate for each egg. A lot of chocolate in such a small package!

With the excess I made what is probably my favourite Easter chocolate treat, cookie cutter chocolate shapes.

Get your cookie cutter shapes, I chose Easter type shapes, bunnies, chickens and others such as hearts and stars and place them onto grease proof paper on a tray.

It is so simple....just pour the melted chocolate into the cutters. I melted a couple bars of white chocolate as I like the contrast of the two.

For a nice marble type effect use a pointy object and mix them together.

Leave to cool and pop into the fridge to harden.

When hard brake off excess chocolate from the cutters and taking a knife ease the cutter from the chocolate on the backside and carefully push the chocolate shapes out.

Depending on the shape some will inevitably break. Either save those for yourself as I have of remelt and make some more.

Sure the packaging isn't big though I am sure the recipient will be delighted with these fantastic chocolate delights....I just wish someone would make some for me!

Happy Easter.

So sorry for all of the egg puns or should I say 'yokes' throughout the video....I just couldn't help it.


'Its a Rubbish Challenge' is a challenge that I set myself to give the things that we throw away a new life, to make them useful or adapt them to save buying in new 'stuff'.

I aim to upload a new video every few weeks and undoubtedly they will all be different. Some of the rubbish will be adapted with electronics, some are instruments and others are just simple.

I aim to make them all interesting and I hope they may inspire you to give it a go, take a look at your rubbish bin and make yourself something great from it.

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