Turn yellow Reese's Cup Eggs into adorable little chicks then nestle them in candy egg shells.
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
hatching eggs, reeses dessert
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
12Yellow Reese's Eggs
2-4ouncesyellow Candy Melts,melted
24 - ½inchcandy eyes
12orange egg sprinkles or candy beaks
12ounceswhite Candy Melts,melted
optionaltoasted coconut
Instructions
Unwrap the Yellow Reese's Eggs.
Pipe little feathers using yellow candy melts onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet and immediately attach a Reese's egg.
Add 3 dots of yellow candy melts to the egg and attach two candy eyes and one beak.
Freeze for a minute or so just until the candy feathers harden.
Carefully peel the chicks off the parchment paper.
Pour a spoonful of white candy melts into the smaller half of a plastic egg. Brush the candy coating up the sides of the egg painting the top edge so it's jagged.
Freeze upright for 1 ½ minutes then remove and let sit at room temperature for a few minutes.
Pour another small spoonful of candy melts into the egg and brush it up the sides adding a second coat.
Freeze for another 2 minutes then remove and gently tug on the candy.
If the candy shell releases easily then pull it out.
If not, freeze for another minute then try again.
Repeat making a total of 12 egg shells.
Set the shells upright and spoon in about a teaspoon of white candy melts.
Let that candy thicken slightly then set a chick upright in the center.
Hold the chick in place until it stands upright on it's own.
Arrange on a serving platter and sprinkle toasted coconut around the chicks, if desired.