Chocolate Easter Eggs

Since I was really young, Easter was one of the holidays I enjoyed the most.

In Brazil, it's a tradition to buy to your children chocolate Easter eggs and hide them in the house right before Easter Sunday so the kids would search for them once they wake up in the morning.

Each year I would go to the supermarket check which options were available that year and choose which egg I would like the "Easter Bunny" to deliver it to me. To let him know which egg I wanted, I'd write him a letter a few weeks before Easter and I would anxiously wait for the day to arrive so I could eat all that chocolate -- like me and my brother in this lovely pic below, taken circa 1996 (!!!).

It's needless to say that basically my parents were all behind this, but it really made my childhood a lot more sweeter -- obviously until the day I realized there was no Easter Bunny, so I could actually ask my parents for even bigger Easter eggs (or just lots of plain chocolate).

It's been a while since I stopped buying Easter eggs -- mostly because they started to become more and more expensive in Brazil, but also because when I moved out of the country, I've realized it's probably a local tradition since there weren't as many options as I had back home.

This year, I've decided to make my own eggs because, well, why not? They are probably not as big as I used to have in the past, but certainly way more delicious.

Inside a milk chocolate shell, I've put some creamy passion fruit (let's just say this is my favorite filling ever) and milk chocolate ganache. To make it even more decadent, I've added some mini chocolate eggs, chocolate sprinkles and other delicious goodies that would make this little girl go crazy if she saw it 20 years ago.

The recipe is good for about 4 mini-sized eggs but you can double the recipe for a large one if you want. You will also need chocolate molds for this -- I've used thermoformed molds, but you can use any type you prefer (i.e., silicone or polycarbonate).

Happy Easter!