A kid-friendly Eggless Coconut & White Chocolate Easter Eggs prepared with unsweetened coconut and white chocolate chips and sweetened more with sweet condensed milk and apricot jam.
Why not hide these eggs instead of plastic ones this Easter?
Holi and Easter are back to back with a few days gap. Luckily Ugadi (Kannada, Telugu New Year) is in April this year. So here is an Easter recipe. Last year I posted the carrot cake, so I thought of trying something different this time. A couple of weeks ago, I got a chance to attend a chocolate decoration and chocolate-making class, and I learned quite a few things about chocolates.
As you all know, this week’s theme is coconut. I thought, why not make some chocolates with coconut.
We(I, M, and Vaandu) love white chocolate, so we thought of combining coconut and white chocolate, and that gave me the idea of eggs. The addition of apricot jam just popped in during the grocery shopping. As I was picking up the desiccated coconut, I saw jams, and when I saw the apricot jam, it just reminded me of the egg yolk. Thought why not add it inside and mimic the real egg?
I was skeptical, but the ingredients assured me that it wouldn’t go wrong. I have tried pedas (with both almond flour and milk powder) and orange-covered chocolates before. So Coconut, white chocolate, jam, and condensed milk, can these let me down? No, they didn’t. I still need to perfect my egg shape, but taste-wise, it was awesome.
So here is what I did,
Ingredients:
- White Chocolate Chips – 1.25 cups
- Unsweetened Coconut – 1 cup
- Sweet Condensed milk – ¾ cup
- Apricot Jam – as needed
- Oil/butter for greasing.
- Water for double boiler method.
- Colored sugar or sprinklers for decoration.
I didn’t add a separate notes section. Included the notes along with the steps and italicized them.
How to make Eggless Coconut & White Chocolate Easter Eggs
- Mix the coconut and condensed milk together and mix them well. It should not be watery. If the condensed milk is too much, add more coconut. Make sure you can make balls out of the mix.
- Grease your palms with oil or butter and scoop out some of the mixtures to make a ball.
- Now press the ball in the middle and add the apricot jam (I filled about a tsp)
- Cover it and now try to get the egg shape.
- Similar proceed with the rest of the mix. I got about 7 eggs.
- Keep this in the freezer, and I let it sit overnight. (It has to be firm, so the more it sits in the freezer it is good)
- Remove the eggs from the freezer and let them sit. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate for dipping.
- I went with the regular double boiler method. You can also melt them in the microwave.
- So basically, I boiled water in a vessel and cover it with a plate. In another bowl, I added the white chocolate and kept it on top.
- The chocolate will slowly start to melt.
- Meanwhile, cover another plate with parchment paper and keep the eggs, the plate everything ready. So you can dip them in the white chocolate before the chocolate thickens. (It was pretty cold that day, so I had to act fast)
- Once the chocolate melts, dip them in the white chocolate and set them on the plate covered with parchment paper. If there is any excess chocolate on the sides, you can remove them later. So don’t worry about it while dipping.
- Add sprinkles or color sugar crystals and let these dipped chocolate eggs sit for an hour to set. You can also keep them in the fridge.
That’s it. Yummy chocolate eggs are ready. Break in to see the apricot filling.
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📖 Recipe
Eggless Coconut and White Chocolate Easter Eggs with Apricot Jam Filling | Easter Recipes
Ingredients
- 1.25 cups White Chocolate Chips
- 1 cup Unsweetened Coconut
- ¾ cup Sweet Condensed milk
- 7 tsp Apricot Jam or as needed
- 2 tsp Oil/butter for greasing.
- 2 cups Water for double boiler method.
- Colored sugar or sprinklers for decoration.
Instructions
- Mix the coconut and condensed milk together and mix them well. It should not be watery. If the condensed milk is too much, add more coconut. Make sure you can make balls out the mix.
- Grease your palms with oil or butter and scoop out some of the mixture to make a ball.
- Now press the ball in the middle and add the apricot jam (I filled about a tsp)
- Cover it and now try to get the egg shape.
- Similar proceed with the rest of the mix. I got about 7 eggs.
- Keep this in the freezer and I let it sit for overnight. (It has to be firm, so more it sits in freezer it is good)
- Remove the eggs from the freezer and let it sit. Meanwhile melt the chocolate for dipping.
- I went with the regular double boiler method. You can also melt them in microwave.
- So basically I boiled water in a vessel and cover it with a plate. In another bowl, I added the white chocolate and kept it on top.
- The chocolate will slow start to melt.
- Meanwhile cover another plate with parchment paper and keep the eggs, the plate everything ready. So you can dip them in the white chocolate before the chocolate thickens. (It was pretty cold that day, so I had to act fast)
- Once the chocolate melts, dip them in the white chocolate and set them in the plate covered with parchment paper. If there is any excess chocolate on the sides, you can remove them later. So don’t worry about it while dipping.
- Add sprinklers or color sugar crystals and let these dipped chocolate eggs sit for an hour to set. You can also keep them in fridge.
Nutrition
I am not a nutritionist. The nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. It varies depending upon the product types or brands.
Thats an innovative recipe for eggless easter eggs.
Thanks Usha.
that class must have been fun – these are a great idea
Oh yeah.. It was loads of fun and learnt a lot too. Thanks
Simply superb…..
Thanks Annu.
I am sure the kids will love these ‘eggs’ . Very creative!
Thanks Harini.
Interesting recipe dear. Looks so yummy!
Thanks Kushi.
Lovely looking Easter eggs.Love the filling and the outer covering.
Thanks Sapana
Genius idea to make vegetarian sweet eggs with coconut. Lovely dish for Easter.
:-) Thanks a lot pavani.
This one is a sheer delight to see – i am sure a delight to eat too, if only i could get :)
Sure will send it across.. :-) Thanks
Love your creativity Srividhya, they look yummy. I have to try these soon.
he he thanks Amara
interesting dish, looks yummy
Thanks a lot gayathri.
looks delicious
Thanks :-)
wow looks fantastic Sri- they look like real eggs… yummm
Thanks Chitra.
Wow, this coconut white chocolate easter eggs looks absolutely irresistible and damn cute.
Thanks a lot Priya.
Wow Vidhya, the idea is innovative and they look superb cool, love them :)
Thanks a lot FV. Please do give it a try. :-)
Great ideas. They look like soft boiled eggs. :)
:-) Thanks a lot Aruna.
Lovely…. Going to make it asap
:-) Thanks Ritu. Let me know how you liked it.
This really is a great idea Sri :) These look like real eggs and you experiment turned out super yumm :)
Thanks a lot GB :-) :-)