chocolate eggs

How a Chocolate Easter Egg is Made

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Last weekend, many of us ambitiously filled our Easter baskets with as many eggs as we could carry, and now we find ourselves with a refrigerator full of naughty things to eat.

Rather than feel guilty about the obligatory chocolate gorging going on, let's celebrate by learning from a master chocolatier at Burie how chocolate Easter eggs are made. The video above shows the step by step process.

This same step-by-step piecing together is used to create all kinds of different chocolate things, from chocolate celebrity heads to the famous Burie chocolate hands and chocolate diamonds ("for and by Antwerp"). Hans Burie even, quite famously, created an 1,800 pound Belgian chocolate car, complete with a life-like interior and completely edible.

Check out some more chocolate creations we saw in the Burie factory, as well as their charming Antwerp boutique, below.

Gallery: A Visit to Burie in Antwerp

My visit to Antwerp was sponsored by Tourism Antwerp and Cool Capitals, but the opinions expressed in the article are 100% my own.

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La Maison du Chocolat Easter Creations

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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I'm not sure why clowns are associated with Easter but the latest creations from La Maison du Chocolat have re-imagined Easter with a circus theme. Their boutiques are selling these two clown figures plus the Magical Egg which is filled with ganache and praline chocolates. Also in their boutiques they are selling an Easter dessert of a pistachio biscuit base covered with apricot, chocolate mousse, a layer of genoise and then brushed with apricot syrup. For those of us not close to a boutique (Paris, London, New York and Tokyo) they are also selling an egg-shaped box through their online store that is full of chocolates and and wrapped chocolate eggs filled with praline. The 1.25 pound box sells for $78.

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