Homemade Coconut Cream Eggs Recipes

COCONUT CREAM EGGS

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add sugar and coconut. Refrigerate for 1-1/2 hours or until easy to handle. Using hands dusted with confectioners' sugar, mold rounded tablespoonfuls of coconut mixture into egg shapes. Place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet. Freeze for 2 hours or until slightly firm. , Melt chocolate chips and shortening. Remove eggs from the freezer a few at a time; dip into chocolate mixture until completely coated. Return to waxed paper; refrigerate until hardened. Store in the refrigerator.

COCONUT CREAM EGGS

Steps:

• Beat sugar, butter, condensed milk and extract in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended and smooth. Shape mixture into 1-inch balls then gently roll to form an egg shape. Place on wax paper-lined tray. Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Melt chocolate in medium microwavable bowl on MEDIUM (50% power) 1 1/2 minutes, stirring after 1 minute.
• Using a fork, dip 1 egg at a time into the melted chocolate. Tap back of fork 2 to 3 times against edge of dish to allow excess chocolate to drip off. Place egg on wax paper-lined tray. Repeat with remaining eggs.

COCONUT CREAM EGGS

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth.
• Now add the sugar and coconut, and mix in well.
• Refrigerate for 1 1/2 hours or until easy to handle.
• Using hands dusted with powdered sugar, mould rounded tablespoonfuls of coconut mixture into egg shapes.
• Place on waxed paper lined baking sheet.
• Freeze for 2 hours or until slightly firm.
• Melt chocolate chips and shortening.
• Remove eggs from the freezer a few at a time.
• Dip into chocolate mixture until completely coated.
• Return to waxed paper.
• Refrigerate until hardened.
• Store in the refrigerator.

CAROL'S COCONUT CREAM EASTER EGGS

Steps:

• Cream butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy.
• Add condensed milk, vanilla and coconut extract and mix until well blended.
• Add 2 cups of confectioner's sugar and beat well.
• Mix in remaining sugar throughly. Mixture will be very stiff.
• Mix in coconut very well. If mixture is not quite stiff enough add more confectioner's sugar.
• Shape into egg shapes and place on a cookie sheet. Refrigerate until very cold.
• Melt chocolate chips, dip eggs in chocolate and place on a wax paper. Refrigerate until set.

EASTER EGGS

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine sugar, margarine, cream cheese and vanilla extract. Divide the batter in half and place each half of the batter in a bowl on its own. Stir peanut butter into one of the bowls and coconut into the second.
• Using your hands, mold the dough into egg-shapes and arrange the forms on cookie sheets. Place the eggs in the freezer until frozen.
• Once the eggs have frozen, melt the chocolate and shortening in the top of a double-boiler. Dip the eggs into the chocolate until coated. Place the eggs on wax paper lined cookie sheets and return to the freezer to harden. After the chocolate has hardened the eggs can be kept in the refrigerator.