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Choc-Full Of Chocolate? Here's Some Easter Treats To Make!

Happy Easter! Okay, serious question: is it REALLY Easter Sunday if you haven't made yourself feel slightly sick by the amount of chocolate you've scoffed before 9am (but will carry on eating it throughout the rest of the day regardless)? I for one definitely think not. But I find that even after eating my bodyweight in chocolate eggs, there'll still be a huge mountain left. And for those that know me well, it doesn't take long before i start dreaming up new creations to make with whatever I've got on hand. So, I thought I'd share some of my favourite things to bake with Easter chocolate. I hope you enjoy!

1. Ultimate chocolate cake
@Cadbury sponsor me please
This recipe claims it's the 'best chocolate cake ever', and I can confirm this is very true (but make sure you don't use loose-bottom cake tins like I did the first time I made it- it's very, very, sad). It's everything you want from a chocolate cake, and paired with Easter chocolate it's even better. You can decorate it however you fancy but piling on lots of chocolate eggs is super easy to do and tastes amazing.

2. Hot chocolate

If you need a new way to eat up chocolate, why not drink it instead? Simply warm up a cup of milk, add a handful of chopped up chocolate and stir until completely melted. Use flavoured chocolate (such as orange) for some added flavour, and top with whipped cream. If you use dark chocolate, add in a little sugar to sweeten it.

3. Rocky road
Another tasty snack
This is perfect because you can put pretty much any Easter treats in it and it'll still taste amazing. You can use any chocolate you fancy to melt down, and then add in anything from Maltesers, to mini eggs, to chocolate buttons into the mix. This recipe is great if you need a place to start!

4. Ice cream

If you want to make your chocolate last longer, then why not make it into ice cream? This way, it will keep much past it's best before date if you don't think you'll be able to eat it all in time. There's three ways you can do this: either mix it into shop-bought ice cream, make cheats ice cream using double cream and condensed milk, or use an ice cream maker and make it using a custard base. Mix in whatever additions you fancy when it's soft- my favourite is chopped up caramel eggs because the caramel marbles into the ice cream.

5. Cheesecake

This is such a brilliant idea- imagine everything great about a cheesecake, and then put it into half an Easter egg. Add in whatever flavour to the cheesecake mixture that you want, but make sure you pick a flavour that works well with whatever type of chocolate shell you're using (think fresh raspberries for a white chocolate shell or mint for dark). Decorate it with whatever Easter chocolate you have on hand, or melt some of the other shell half to drizzle on top.
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