Ingredients
- MATERIALS NEEDED::
- Ingredients for egg and icing recipe (see below)
- 5-inch egg mold (see shopping information)
- Icing knife
- Serrated knife
- Scissors
- Pastry or plastic bags
- Pastry tipsstar #21, round #12, petal #13 and leaf #67
- 2 tablespoons sweetened shredded coconut for grass inside
- Plastic lamb (or a 1- x 1-1/2- x 1-3/4-inch decoration of your choice)
- Flower nail (see note and shopping information)
- Footed cake plate or serving plate
- Green Easter grass
- Jelly beans
- Store-bought sugar roses (optionalsee note)
- EGG::
- 3 tablespoons water
- Yellow and green liquid food coloring
- 4-1/2 cups sugar
- Cornstarch
- ICING::
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon water
- 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3-1/2 teaspoons meringue powder
- Red, blue and green liquid food coloring
Reviews
Worked out wonderful, I had tried three other recipes before this which kept crumbling! Thank You!
Thank you TOH for publishing this recipe. My grandmother used to bake and decorate cakes in her home for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Every year at Easter, she would make my sister and I a sugar egg for Easter with a different theme inside. When she passed away, I inherited all of her baking pans & molds, her cake & icing recipes, but we never found the sugar egg recipe. Now I have something very similar. The eggs take work, love and patience, but I thank you.