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Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies

April 4, 2015 This post may contain affiliate links.

These sweet little Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies will make the perfect centerpiece for any Easter dessert table.

Aren't these Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies adorable? You can make them. See how at HungryHappenings.com

I’m so sorry it took me so long to get these chocolate Easter bunnies made and shared with you. I realize it’s going to be too late for most of you to make them this year, so you’ll just have to pin them and remember to make them next year.

This design has been swimming around in my head since I made my first egg shaped chocolate truffle animal last Thanksgiving.

How could I possibly let Easter go by without creating another one?

Create whimsical treats using chocolate eggs. These bunnies, turkeys, mice, snowmen, penguins, and bears all have different fillings inside and taste as great as they look.

Each one of these egg shaped treats has a different filling so if you don’t want to fill your chocolate bunnies with peanut butter fudge, you can swap out the filling with any of these:

  • Chocolate Turkey Truffles filled with Pumpkin Ganache
  • Triple Chocolate Truffle Christmas Mice
  • Snowman Truffles filled with Chocolate Hazelnut Coffee Ganache
  • Chocolate Penguin Truffles filled with Amaretto Raisin Ganache
  • Buckeye Bears – Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Teddy Bears (a different fudge recipe)

These sweet little Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies will make the perfect centerpiece for any Easter dessert table.

Don’t you just want to reach into the screen and grab one of these Easter Egg Bunnies?

Not only are these bunnies darling, but they are decadently rich, as well.

Each one is filled with my favorite peanut butter fudge which is made with peanut butter, peanut butter chips, and white confectionery coating. The simple recipe is so easy to make and is creamier than any other fudge I’ve ever tried. My customers love it and can’t get enough of it.

Turn chocolate eggs into these adorable Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies. Tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

If you are experienced at tempering pure milk chocolate, I highly recommend making these using real chocolate. If not, they can also be made using confectionery coating (Candy Melts.) If you aren’t sure what all of this means, click over to read my Chocolate Making Tips page for all the details.

Either way you make them, they will be the hit of your Easter dessert table, I’m sure.

Turn homemade peanut butter fudge filled chocolate eggs into these adorable Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies.

 

RELATED: Find dozens of easy fudge recipes at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com.

Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies

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Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies
Prep Time
1 hr 30 mins
Total Time
1 hr 30 mins
 
Creamy peanut butter fudge filled chocolate eggs are decorated to look like Easter bunnies.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: easter bunny candy, homemade easter candy, peanut butter fudge
Servings: 25
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
Peanut Butter Fudge
  • 8 ounces white confectionery coating*
  • 4 ounces Reese's Peanut Butter Chips
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter I suggest Jif Peanut Butter
  • a pinch of salt
Chocolate Eggs and Decorations
  • Chocolate -
  • 24 ounces melted and tempered pure milk chocolate
  • or melted light cocoa confectionery coating Candy Melts*
  • 50 candy eyes I used 1/2 inch eyes
  • 25 pink Sixlets
  • black food coloring marker
  • 25 large pink heart sprinkles
  • 75 small round pink confetti sprinkles
  • 1 1/2 cups green jimmies
  • I mixed green jimmies with Wilton's Easter Sprinkle Mix of light green jimmies & eggs
*See my Chocolate Making Tips page for detailed information about melting and tempering chocolate and confectionery coating.
Instructions
  1. Combine white confectionery coating wafers and peanut butter chips in a microwave safe bowl. Heat on high power for 15-30 second increments, stirring after each until melted.
  2. Stir in peanut butter and salt.
  3. Allow it to cool enough so that it no longer feels warm to the touch.
  4. Paint a thin shell of melted chocolate into plastic egg molds.
  5. Refrigerate until hardened.
  6. Pour peanut butter fudge into chocolate shells.
  7. Refrigerate until firm. Then allow to warm up to room temperature.
  8. Top with a thin layer of chocolate.
  9. Refrigerate until firm then un-mold.
  10. Pipe chocolate ears and paws onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
  11. Add pink hearts and confetti sprinkles to paws.
  12. Refrigerate until hard.
  13. Remove and brush pink luster dust over ears.
  14. Spoon some chocolate onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet and set one egg on top, then sprinkle on green sprinkles and hold egg in place until it sticks.
  15. Decorate each egg by adding 2 candy eyes, a pink candy nose, 2 candy ears, and 2 paws using melted chocolate.
  16. Draw on smile and whiskers using black food coloring marker.

Instructions:

I will show you two different methods for making the peanut butter fudge filled eggs, one using plastic hobby grade candy molds and the other using polycarbonate commercial grade molds. 

How to make chocolate eggs filled with peanut butter fudge. Recipe and tutorial from HungryHappenings.com

**See my Chocolate Making Tips page for detailed information about melting and tempering chocolate and confectionery coating.

Paint a thin layer of chocolate into each egg shaped cavity in your candy molds.

How to make chocolate eggs filled with peanut butter fudge. Recipe and tutorial from HungryHappenings.com

Make sure you fill in any thin spots or holes and be sure the chocolate goes all the way up to the edge of the egg cavity. Wipe the excess chocolate off around the edge of the eggs.

If using pure chocolate pop the molds in the refrigerator for about 5 minutes until the chocolate hardens. If using confectionery coating, place the mold in the freezer for about 5 minutes.

Make the most delicious peanut butter fudge using peanut butter, white chips, peanut butter chips, and salt.

While your chocolate egg shells are hardening, make the filling.

I use Peter’s White Caps which you can usually find at cake/candy decorating stores. A grocery store option is to use Nestle Premier White Morsels (white chips) which when melted may need a teaspoon of vegetable oil stirred in, if too thick, but they have the right flavor.

Make homemade peanut butter fudge using peanut butter, white chips and peanut butter chips.

Place white confectionery coating wafers and peanut butter chips in a microwave safe mixing bowl. Heat on high power for 30 seconds. Remove and stir. Heat for 25 more seconds, then stir. Heat for 20 seconds, then let it sit in the microwave for 2-3 minutes, then stir vigorously. If all of the chips are not melted, heat at ten second intervals, stirring in between each, until completely melted. If you don’t have a microwave, you can melt this in a double boiler.

Once melted, stir in peanut butter and salt.

Allow it to cool enough so that it no longer feels warm to the touch. This should take anywhere between 15 and 30 minutes. Don’t wait too long or the fudge will set firm. If this happens, just heat it in the microwave again, as needed.

Fill chocolate Easter eggs with the most delicious peanut butter fudge.

Pour the filling into a disposable pastry bag or large zip top bag, snip off the tip, and pipe the fudge into the chocolate egg shells. Fill to 1/8th inch from the top.

Allow the eggs to sit until the fudge firms up, about 30-60 minutes. You can speed this up by refrigerating them for about 15 minutes, but once you remove them from the fridge, you need to allow them to come to room temperature before topping with chocolate.Spread a layer of chocolate over top of the fudge and scrape off any excess chocolate using an offset spatula.

Pop them in the refrigerator for pure chocolate and freezer for confectionery coating for 5 minutes until the top coat is hardened.

How to make chocolate eggs filled with peanut butter fudge. Recipe and tutorial from HungryHappenings.com

Carefully turn the mold upside down, holding your hands over the chocolates (not pictured) and allow the chocolate eggs to fall out.

Make chocolate shells then fill them with peanut butter fudge to create the best homemade peanut butter fudge filled eggs for Easter.

If you have polycarbonate molds (very thick heavy molds) the egg making process goes a bit more quickly. Pour chocolate all over the top of the mold, spread the chocolate into the egg cavities. Turn the mold upside down over your bowl of chocolate (or in my case my chocolate tempering machine) and allow the wet chocolate to drip out. Scrape the top of the mold and allow that chocolate to drop back into the bowl.

Turn the mold right side up and use a bench scraper (mine is a brand new paint scraper from the hardware store that has been washed and only used for chocolate) to scrape off all the chocolate that is on the top of the mold. Pop the mold into the refrigerator until the chocolate hardens.

Remove and let the chocolate come to room temperature. Pipe the peanut butter fudge into the chocolate egg shells. Allow the fudge to firm up.

You may have noticed these pictures are of dark chocolate eggs. I took them as I was making all my Easter eggs and got distracted and never took them of the milk chocolate eggs until I got to the next step.

How to make handmade peanut butter fudge filled chocolate Easter eggs. Tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

Pour chocolate over top of the eggs. Smooth it out using an offset spatula. Scrape the excess chocolate off the top using a bench scraper. Chill the chocolate eggs until the chocolate sets.

Un-mold the eggs by turning the mold upside down. Be careful, the eggs will fall right out! I pick up a piece of parchment paper and set it over the eggs then allow them to fall out onto the parchment paper.

These eggs will be nice and shiny. This is how I created the eggs for my Easter egg bunnies.

How to make handmade peanut butter fudge filled chocolate Easter egg bunnies. Tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

Now to turn the chocolate eggs into bunnies, you first need to add ears. Pipe some chocolate ears onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet then set an egg over the bottom tips of the ears.

Handmade peanut butter fudge filled chocolate Easter eggs can be decorated to look like bunnies.

Use chocolate to attach two candy eyes and one pink Sixlet nose to each bunny.

Place in the refrigerator for 5 minutes so the ears will harden.

How to make tiny chocolate bunny paws. Tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

Pipe little ovals onto parchment paper for the bunny feet. Add one large heart sprinkle and three small pink confetti sprinkles to form the foot pad and three toes. Try to put the tip of the heart into the chocolate a bit to round out the bottom edge of the foot pad.

Chill in the refrigerator for 5 minutes until the chocolate hardens.

Homemade Chocolate Easter Bunnies tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

Attach two feet to the bottom of each egg shaped bunny using some chocolate.

Use a black food coloring marker to draw on whiskers and a smile.

Homemade Chocolate Easter Bunnies tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

Pipe some chocolate on a parchment paper lined baking pan creating a little grassy patch for the bunnies to sit on. Set the bunny on top and sprinkle with green jimmies and tiny Easter egg sprinkles. Hold the bunny in place until it stands upright on it’s own.

Homemade Chocolate Easter Bunnies tutorial at HungryHappenings.com

Allow the chocolate to harden for 15 minutes.

Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies

Lift the bunnies up off the parchment paper and allow the excess sprinkles to fall off.

Store in an airtight container for up to a month. Be very careful as you are handling these as the ears are very fragile.


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If you recreate these Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chocolate Easter Egg Bunnies
be sure to link to this tutorial and send pictures to beth@hungryhappenings.com, so I can  share it in my Readers’ Gallery.

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Comments

  1. Pamela @ Brooklyn Farm Girl

    December 3, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    I just came across your amazing blog full of wonderful chocolate adventures and wanted to thank you. I just visited the chocolate mold store (rows and rows of beauties!) yesterday and tonight will be my first chocolate attempt. I hope to do some filling in with oreos and pretzels. Wish me luck! Thanks again for this tutorial, it helped a bunch!

    Reply
    • Beth

      December 3, 2015 at 6:00 pm

      Hi Pamela,

      I’m so happy you found my site and I hope you enjoy looking around at all the projects. Be sure to check out my Chocolate Making Tips page for lots of really good tips on working with chocolate and candy molds. https://hungryhappenings.com/chocolate-making-tips/

      Have fun and don’t hesitate to ask questions if you need help.

      Beth

      Reply
  2. Tavette Tavetta

    April 8, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    Your latest egg bunny with the adorable tootsies…..too cut. First of all one needs to make a hollow egg which is always time consuming to paint it so it's fully covered & just the right thickness. You mentioned pouring the chocolate directly over the mold and then turning the mold upside down to let the excess drip out. I'd seen that done (on TV) but I don't recall them mentioning using a heavy duty commercial mold so I probably missed that part.

    Reply
    • beth

      April 8, 2015 at 1:35 pm

      There are a few reasons it's better to use the filling, dumping, scraping technique with heavy duty polycarbonate mold. First, those molds are sturdy and are easier to turn upside down and scrape than the flimsy hobby grade ones. They also do not have any bumps or curved edges. They are completely flat, so they are once again they easier to scrape. Finally, the cavities in the polycarbonate molds are closer together so you don't have to scrape off quite as much as you would if you used the hobby grade molds. All in all, it's just easier and as you mentioned, much faster. That's not saying you can't use that technique with the other mold, but it's much more challenging and messy.

      I did a video where I used this technique to make smaller chocolate pieces. You can watch it on You Tube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9Yn_DdrHk

      Reply
  3. Davie Cooper

    April 8, 2015 at 11:16 am

    Well, this looks amazing but in the same time really complicated for me to prepare it. My kids will love it, may be I will try to do something like this.. like home-made chocolate eggs. But this looks so professional! Congrats 🙂

    Reply
  4. Tavette Tavetta

    April 5, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    I've been thinking about all the other wonderful things you've made using that egg mold (even bought one) and today – WHALA. The cutest Easter bunnies ever. Their tootsey-whootsey little feet are adorable and setting them on their own little patch of paradise (grass) is a great idea.

    My mouth is watering, but I'm sure I couldn't just chomp into one of these – I'd have to wait and admire it til after Easter. Set them in the middle of each dinner plate and the guests wouldn't even notice what you've fixed for dinner – they'd be waiting for dessert.

    Another great idea. Know your party tonight will be fun filled and you deserve all the oohs and aahs that are sure to happen. Thanks for including us by way of the photos and recipes. Oh yes – these will be made next Easter.

    Tavette – S. Fla.

    Reply
    • beth

      April 5, 2015 at 3:19 pm

      I know I can't believe it took me so long to get an egg animal created for Easter. I had ideas for 4 of them and only got one done. Oh, well, there is always next year.

      It will be interesting to see if any of my guests have the heart to bite into one of these bunnies today. I'm now hosting 20 guests and am so excited to have some little kids joining us. I pulled together an Easter egg hunt for them. It should be fun.

      I hope you have a lovely Easter too.

      Reply
  5. Anu-My Ginger Garlic Kitchen

    April 5, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    Awww, so cute and adorable bunnies. Loved them so much! Major drooling!

    Reply
    • beth

      April 5, 2015 at 3:34 pm

      Thanks so much. They sure are drool worthy:)

      Reply
  6. The Partiologist

    April 5, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    You've done it again, I want chocolate at 7:30 a.m. I have loved all your chocolate eggs, but this little bunny sitting on the chocolate grass is my favorite!!!

    Reply
    • beth

      April 5, 2015 at 3:17 pm

      I always want chocolate at 7:30 a.m. LOL! I'm happy to hear these are your favorites.

      Reply

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