When I travel in France, one of the souvenirs I unfailingly haul home is cooking magazines. I don’t buy or subscribe to that many these days but I love to see what’s happening on the French culinary scene. On my recent trip, as soon as I saw this feature in Marmiton showing how to make egg shells out of chocolate using balloons, then filling them with Chantilly cream and topping them with a little curd, I KNEW I had to give it a go!
I started out melting a little chocolate and dipping in some clean balloons once it had cooled…
I let that set for a couple of hours in the fridge then removed the balloons – carefully!
Then I filled each shell with a little Chantilly cream and topped each with a touch of lemon curd (I added some food colouring to get the deep yellow I wanted)…
These were SO easy and (I think!) looked SO good! the possibilities for filling them are pretty endless – I’m thinking white chocolate mousse or even a white chocolate coeur à la crème. Then any form of citrus-y curd would work – lemon, orange or even passion fruit.
Happy Easter!
For step-by-step pictures of this recipe (in French but it’s pretty self-explanatory), check out Marmiton!
Easter is coming, so I like the dish associated with eggs or chocolate. thank you for sharing. I will try to do this dish.
It’s so easy with pretty great results! Enjoy!
With white chocolate coeur a la creme for me please!
p.s. Loved the hippo chocs!
See I KNEW you would think that was a good idea! Glad you enjoyed the Gloria hippos 😉
Joyeuse Paques to you too. Those eggs look divine. They are a work of art. No doubt, they taste as good as they look.
The photos of Nerac and Paris were wonderful also.
Thanks so much 🙂 I hope you enjoyed the Easter weekend as well!
Aloha Mardi, I believe it worth noting your dish is far more tantalizing than that depicted in Marmiton .. your patience and attention to detail are clearly obvious.
Mahalo et Merci for continuing to share with us .. though I don’t frequently comment, I do enjoy your blog on a regular basis.
Bill Facker
http://www.kauai-to-paris.com
Thank you so much Bill and for your continued and loyal readership!
Had me flummoxed for a moment… I thought, an egg in a chocolate container. Never.
Nicely done, Mardi.
Oh I have plans for making these look even more “egg-like” next year!
These look great – so effective.
Right? And so easy!
These look wonderful!