Make your own Easter bunny out of chocolate

Prepare chocolate for pouring

When pouring Easter bunnies, it doesn’t come to them chocolate You can use any chocolate that isn't filled and doesn't contain any major ingredients like nuts or raisins. Nut chocolate with finely ground nuts is difficult to pour, but it comes in a pinch. It is more important to have the chocolate ready for pouring on top of that correct temperature bring to.

1. Chop up all of the chocolate that you want to melt. Be careful not to get the chocolate damp, so use a dry knife and cutting board. Melt 2/3 of the chocolate, this will make the Easter bunny more beautiful.
2. Make a large saucepan with water on the stove and hang a second pot or a metal bowl with handles in the pot so that it is approx. 2/3 hangs in the water. Chop the chocolate and put it in the inner pot or the bowl. Heat the water to 60 ° C and let the chocolate melt at this temperature. This means that there is no water vapor that could damage the chocolate, and the chocolate cannot burn.
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3. The easiest way is to put the finely chopped chocolate in an ovenproof bowl and melt it in the oven at 50 ° C. This takes a long time (a few hours), but it is safe and temperature-monitored automatically.
4. Work in the approx. 45 ° to 50 °, heat chocolate the previously retained chocolate so that the temperature cools down to 30 ° (white chocolate) or 33 ° (dark chocolate). Whole milk chocolate must be between 30 ° and 32 °, depending on the composition. This is the best way to water the Easter bunnies.


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Even if you can melt chocolate well in the microwave, it is better not to do it, because there is a risk that the chocolate will get too hot on the outside and the sugar with it caramelized. Sounds good and smells great too, but tastes burnt and the consistency is not good for pouring Easter bunnies.

So pour the Easter bunnies

• You pour large Easter bunnies into hollow molds. Follow the step-by-step instructions.
• Small eastern bunnies are best cast as half-figures, which you then put together. Fill a small box of talcum powder and press it firmly into place. Then press a small plastic Easter bunny into the powder from two sides so that you have two negative molds. Fill these cavities with liquid chocolate and allow them to solidify. Put the two halves together with liquid chocolate. In this way you can process the chocolate that is always left over from the hollow figures.
• If you are unsure how much chocolate you need, fill a measuring vessel with water and dip the plastic bunny in. This is how you know the volume of the bunny. Roughly calculated, you need 1.5 times the volume, i.e. if it displaces 10 ml of water, 15 g of chocolate. With the hollow figures in the supermarket, you can see how heavy the rabbits are in the corresponding size.

Pour hollow chocolate Easter bunnies - step by step

1. Rub the mold with cotton wool, then the chocolate Easter bunny will shine nicely later.
2. Brush both sides of the mold with chocolate or couverture. This will avoid air bubbles on the surface of the Easter bunny.
3. Put the mold together and fill it to the brim with chocolate.
4. Let the excess chocolate flow out of the mold and wait for the remaining chocolate to solidify in the mold.
5. Repeat the process until the chocolate wall is thick enough. If necessary.
6. Remove the chocolate easter bunny from the mold as soon as it is set. Since the Easter bunny is open at the bottom, put a dollop of chocolate on baking paper and place it there. So he gets a bottom.
7. Make up the finished chocolate bunny, so paint eyes or clothes. You can use white chocolate, white chocolate colored with food coloring, or lighter or lighter colored chocolate. darker chocolate.