I really wasn't planning on making any Easter treats this year. I was content to munch on my little bags of Cadbury mini eggs and to just stockpile Easter goodies (for my son, of course...) from Target. But then I watched The Pioneer Woman's Easter episode and saw the rice krispies eggs. Since I had about half a box of the cereal sitting in the pantry, I just couldn't resist!
The Pioneer Woman stuffed a Cadbury mini egg - those delicious little chocolate eggs ubiquitous at Easter - inside each of her krispy eggs and since I love any excuse to buy and eat more of those crispy, creamy, dreamy chocolate eggs, I was all for it. But then I was telling my husband about my plans and he had a funny idea. Why not stuff a Cadbury creme egg (he's the creme egg lover in the family) inside instead? Then, you've really got the whole egg theme going. I think he thought that's what I meant in the first place when I was describing the project but after he said it, it seemed such a hysterical idea that I had to try it.
So I did and you can see what I ended up with! Those eggs totally cracked me up (haha...corny joke alert). We all had a good giggle out of these creme-egg-within-an-egg eggs!
Besides the creme eggs, I did make a bunch of rice krispies eggs filled with a mini chocolate egg inside and also a few with some classic M&M's tucked into them too. I was a little worried about the rice cereal setting before I had time to mold each of them around the plastic egg but it really wasn't a problem if you work relatively quickly. Being rather impatient and given that fear of the cereal setting up, I started with large plastic egg molds before switching to a few smaller ones. I think the smaller ones look a bit more realistic but the larger ones make quick work of it.
I had a good time whipping these eggs up. These tasty little eggs, with their chocolaty surprise inside, are just plain fun.
