Jell-o Pudding Eggs

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (113 g) package jell-o instant pudding mix
• 1/3 cup boiling water
• 1/3 cup margarine
• 3 cups icing sugar, sifted
• 6 chocolate baking squares
• 6 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares
• colored candy sprinkles (optional) or icing sugar (optional)

Recipe

• 1 stir pudding, water and margarine in a large bowl until smooth.
• 2 mix in sugar by cupfuls, stirring until mixture forms a ball. form into 3-cm. (1 1/2-inch) egg shapes. refrigerate until firm.
• 3 partially melt chocolate in separate bowls over hot water until 2/3 melted. remove from heat and continue stirring until all chocolate is melted and smooth.
• 4 dip eggs into chocolate and place on a sheet of wax paper to harden; decorate with coloured sprinkles or icing.
• 5 for a more sophisticated look, experiment with dipping or swirling the eggs in both types of chocolate. this can make some nice light-dark or swirl patterns.
• 6 for multi-coloured eggs, make 2 fillings using 2 pudding flavours. roll small centres from 1 flavour and surround by second flavour.