Before showing more of my Easter table setting I simply feel the urgent desire to present some further little chicken. Whether they’re sitting on a branch with or without eggs or whether they’re just joining those from last year. I always feel good looking at them. Eggs, Easter grass and my chicken are fixed to the branches with some hot glue.
Sitting on a branch and accompanied by some chocolate eggs they’ll be a lovely little gift for Easter.
The first steps towards a happy Easter have been taken. For breakfast we will have little sugar-cinnamon covered bunnies made with a yeast dough or a curd cheese dough. Forming these bunnies is quite easy. Take an egg-sized portion of dough, roll out to a bar of 4/5″ and loop them twice. Place a small dough ball into the hole at the bottom – this will be the bunny’s tail. Leave the ears as they are or bend them down if you like. Our “guinea pig/bunny” was delicious and made us ask for more on Easter morning.
Ideas for a nice table setting will follow within the next days.
The hint came from my daughter who saw the instruction for these fluffy Easter eggs on LikeMag. When baking a lemon sponge cake I simply took the required eggs to realize the idea.
Just pick a hole into the top of the eggshell and pour out yolk and egg white for your recipe. Wash eggshells with water and carefully prick the membrane at its bottom. After drying give some cooking oil into the shells and swing them to dispense it. For your sponge cake you may take any recipe you like.
I took a part of the cake and filled it in the eggshells with the help of a piping bag. According to the instruction I filled them at 2/3 but you should take less because the cake rises and oozes out. I placed the eggshells in silicone cupcake moulds and fixed them in a foil ring. In opposite to traditional cupcakes the eggshells only need 12-15 minutes at 180°C/350°F for baking.
Remove them from the oven to cool and peel them like boiled egges. Afterwards they are to be decorated either with chocolate or icing sugar. Serve them on a nest made with cream. I chose a mixture of curd cheese, crème fraîche, whipped cream, some sugar and green food color. Fill it in a piping bag with a small round nozzle and pipe rounds for a nest. Place the egg in it and decorate with little jelly eggs or puffed rice.
Spring tiredness? You won’t feel anything of it any more after this coffee face mask. The coffee grounds still including caffeine freshens up your skin, olive or walnut oil and lemon juice will nourish and tighten it.
2-3 tbsp coffee grounds (simply take them aside to cool after cooking some coffee)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp olive or walnut oil
Mix the ingredients until smooth. If yet too crumbly simply add some oil. Apply mask to your face omitting the area around your eyes and leave it for about 15 minutes. Softly rub the mask after residence time using it as an additional peeling for your skin. Take it off then with some lukewarm water. After ten further minutes continue with your usual day or night care.
Already last year I showed some of these little Easter chicks. I still love them and that’s why I made some more for this year in a lightly new shape. You’ll need fabric squares mesuring 4 x 4 inches, some felt for beak, crown and tail, some round gift cord and wooden beads for the legs, some wadding and a thread for sewing the bird and for his eyes. Besides the template I showed where and how beak, crown and tail have to be placed before sewing the first three sides of your squares.
The bottom wil be sewn after turning and filling your hen. First the legs need to be inserted in the center of your bottom side and the edges folded inside for 1/5 inch. That makes the hen’s tummy look a bit fuller.
Finally sew the hen’s eyes with 3-4 tight stitches on each side of it’s head.
You may use the hens for a center piece and put them on a decorative branch but you may as well sew a thread just beside the crown and hang them up in branches placed in a vase.
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