Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache

Easter eggs filled with chocolate ganache are delicious and sure a different dessert for Easter dinner. The recipe is very simple: just get lots of dark chocolate, Easter eggs, butter and whipping cream.

Ganache Cream is a dense and velvety cream made of dark chocolate, used in pastry to decorate and fill so many types of sweets such as cakes, cupcakes, tarts, tartlets, mignon. With it you can make puddings, fill bignè, make little chocolates or Profitteroles, finally make decorations on cakes of various kinds. In short, Ganache Cream is an indispensable recipe, versatile as well as easy and quick to make.

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache

Down below the step by step recipe of Ganache cream with which we will fill the Easter eggs.

So, you want to impress your guests on Easter or simply give an alternative and original gift, try this delicious dessert,Easter eggs filled with chocolate ganache!

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Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache Recipe

  • Prep Time: 30 Min
  • Cook Time: 5 Min
  • Yelds:4

Ingredients

Directions

You can use either 1 medium easter egg or 4 small eggs. In this recipe, for convenience, we used only 1 medium egg for 4 people.

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache step 1Step 1) – Start Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache recipe by chopping the dark chocolate into small pieces. Once this is done, take a small saucepan and place in the whipping cream and the butter. Bring ALMOST to a boil on low heat so DON’T boil the cream. When you see that the butter has melted and the first bubbles appear around the edges of the saucepan, turn off the heat.

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache step 2Step 2) – Remove from heat and add the dark chocolate. Stir until the chocolate has completely melted.

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache step 3Step 3) – When ready, let it cool for 10 minutes, stirring the mixture from time to time. If you wanted to use the classic recipe of chocolate ganache as topping or decoration, it would be ready. BUT since we have to fill Easter eggs, then, at this step of the recipe, we have to whip it.

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache step 4Step 4) – So place the melted chocolate in a large bowl and whisk it with an electric stand mixer for ten minutes or until it is puffy and soft.

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache step 5Step 5) – Meanwhile, heat the blade of a knife on the fire, then cut the Easter egg exactly at the junction point of the two halves. The hot blade will melt the chocolate, so that it doesn’t break.

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache step 6Step 6) – Now the chocolate ganache is ready and you’ve got a beautiful chocolate easter egg bowl. So fill the chocolate egg with the ganache, then decorate with strawberries and cookies, as you like. Serve Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache on Easter Sunday as a dessert, you will really impress your guests!

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache

Chocolate Ganache: Curiosity

Chocolate Ganache is a cream made with chocolate and heavy whipping cream. Only 2 ingredients that mixed together create a creamy and firm consistency perfect for filling and decorating cakes, cupcakes, macarons. A simple and quick basic recipe of French origin.

As often happens in pastry, this recipe was born from a mistake. It’s said that a young French pastry chef apprentice poured hot heavy whipping cream on some chocolate and that his master exclaimed “Ganache!” which in fact in French is a word that indicates an “incapable person, without intelligence, stupid”. So from a trivial mistake a goodness was born!

Easter Eggs filled with Chocolate Ganache

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