Easter Eggs and Brownies

This is a special request from Gabriel's teacher. They are having a Easter Party at school and one of the game is Easter Hunt, where the decorated hard boiled eggs are hidden for the kids to search indoor and outdoor. I think may be teachers are going to tell them the eggs were left there by Easter Bunny too :)

I have not make any Easter eggs before, I search how to decorate the eggs online and actually Martha Stewart's Lace Eggs attracts most of my attention. Unfortunately, I don't have the beautiful lace in hands and have to shelve the idea :) Anyway, Gabriel has a good time helping me dyed the eggs and he was so proud to tell his teachers he made the Easter Eggs for his classmates too :)

I also baked my first brownies using Joy of Baking recipe for the party. Of course, I cut down the sugar content in it, LOL! As I am using a 11"x7" baking tray, the brownies turned out a bit thin and I cutted them out using the cookies cutter and place them into the cupcake cases for individual serving. It has a deep chocolate flavour and I like the cakey texture! Hope the kids enjoyed their Easter Party :) Happy Easter!

Recipe adapted from Joy of baking.com

Ingredients:

150g semisweet chocolate, chopped

1 stick (113g) unsalted butter, cut into pieces

2 tbsps cocoa powder

200g granulated white sugar (used 120g) 

1 tsp vanilla extract

3 eggs

95g all purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

125g semisweet chocolate chips (used 80g)

Step:
1. Preheat the oven to 180C.
2. Line the baking tray with parchment paper. (the non-stick one is better)
3. Melt chocolate and butter over a double boiler. Remove from heat once it melted. Stir in cocoa powder and sugar, whisk in vanilla extract and add eggs, one at a time.
4. Stir in the flour, salt and chocolate chip.
5. Pour in the batter into baking tray, bake for 30-35mins. or until the toothpick inserted in center comes out with a little batter and a few moist clumps clinging to it. Mine toothpick came out clean, I think it was a bit overbaked :(
6. Remove from oven, let it cool on a wire rack before cut into small serving.

Very simple step: Wash the eggs, boil it. Let it cool down, stick the stickers. A few drops of food colouring as you wish, explore and mix with different colour to get different colour hue. Dye the eggs, leave it in the food colouring for may be 15 mins. Take out the eggs, pat dry with kitchen tissue, peel off stickers. And a beautiful dyed Easter Eggs :)