My Archives: March 2004
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Hopefully get a seperate website for this sorted, but as people are interested I'll put details here.
Pictures can be found here.
Day 1
Ok, first part of the project was to cut the giant easter egg in two. I was thinking several ways to do this but decided to go with my first idea of running a knife around the edge. I tried scoring it, but that didn't work too well. So I then heated the knife up and voila, went through quite easily. It took off a few mm of chocolate though so once the initial hole was there I then tried the sharp knife cutting through the chocolate approach. Unfortunatly this weakened the side and nearly cracked the egg! That would be a disaster. So I carried on just going around with a heated knife and ended up with two sides.
Worried about the crack and weakened structure I decided that I'd take some of the chocolate from one of the spare shells and spread it liberarly over the crack. So I got to put the first bit of cream in, and it looks like it might actually fit! After spreading the chocolate over the crack I then put the halves back into the fridge to firm up before inputting the big creamy wad.
Day 2
the main project itself. There were discussions about what to use to fill the eggs, the first thought of course being to use small cadburys creme eggs themselves. This would require a lot of eggs though, a definite downer but represented the perfect egg. McDonalds make creme egg mcflurries and have buckets of the gloop, someone suggested trying to buy a bucket of that. There was also the option of making some fondent stuff similar and using that instead. I opted for the original way, it's a one off, it has to be done. With this in mind I purchased a box of 48 creme eggs! I figured that should be enough. I also got 6 creme eggs with the easter egg. Altogether 54 eggs, not bad.
I had friends willing to help me (of course they were just in it for the eggshells) so we arranged to meet up and go ahead. And ahead we did! 54 eggs later (they managed to eat about 3-4 shells each, wusses!) we'd almost filled one half of the easter. Argh! That's no good. Back to the drawing board. I had no idea whether to carry on and buy more eggs, the project hasn't been cheap so far as it is, or to buy a smaller egg and fill that. Handily it was decided for me when my friend Simon very nicely donated money! So now I'll be buying 2 more boxes of 48 eggs which should fill it amply.
The egg should weigh around 2Kg when finished . . . EEK!
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