Easter egg hunt

Our Easter egg hunt 2014 at Granny and grump house

The many eggs and the 2 hunters, Sophie and Ella all ready with their magic ears on to help them find the eggs.

We have 4 special GOLDEN EGGS these contain special prizes and are a bit more harder to find 

Easter Dinosaur eggs

Were getting all eggy as Easter is coming so we thought we would do make some multi coloured Dinosaur eggs and sandwiches.

Simple to do and i think im getting quite good at finding things that occupies the little lady and keep her quiet and busy while i grab a well earned cuppa.  First Sophie put the eggs in the pan to boil and then once they were hard boiled and cooled down Miss tippity tappity put cracks in the eggs.

She put each egg into its own container and i added some food colouring to some water and Sophie mixed this up and poured it over each egg so it was covered. this was left on the side for a hour or so, and then the long task of little fingers getting to grips with shell picking commenced.

Finally we had some multi coloured crinkle crackled dinosaur eggs, we think they look just super and Sophie couldn't wait to scare daddy with them. We made a nest to keep them in and Sophie gave a big GIANT DINOSAUR ROAR!!  Now for some multi coloured egg sandwiches.

Homemade Easter eggs

Now im going to sound like a tight wad but honestly im not as i have bought Easter eggs but i noticed that for 300g of egg you can pay anything from £8 to £15 for the egg and 70g of egg is a £1.

Now the reason for making the Easter eggs was more for the fun and creativity with Sophie rather than the cost. Seeing as you can buy better quality chocolate than you get in a Easter egg being £1 for 100g we bought Menier Patissier.  I thought this was an interesting fact that your paying more for the packaging as eggs are rather fragile things and which you throw away instead of paying for the quantity of chocolate you get.

Even silicon moulds are cheap this one cost a £1 and the chocolate £2 and gave us an hour together playing in the kitchen, being creative and having fun just what you need for a half term activity.

We even used rainbow sprinkles which we put into the moulds first and added the white chocolate on top to the sprinkles really showed through.  We then added the milk chocolate after the white chocolate after this had a chance to set for 5-10 min.  We put these into the fridge to set and releasing them from the silicon moulds was simple as they just popped out.  We even had enough chocolate to make jazzy buttons, which we squirted a spot on grease proof paper and topped with rainbow sprinkles while the chocolate was still wet.  Daddy loves jazzy buttons and i think we will have to make more of these.