Chocolate Easter Basket

An edible chocolate Easter basket woven from chocolate, filled with colorful jelly beans and candy
Kim Simons
Intermediate
Weave modeling chocolate strips over a Styrofoam bowl to form a woven Easter basket, then paint and fill it with candy and wafer-paper grass.

Supply List

Modeling chocolate
Rolling pin
Paintbrushes
Clay tools
Petal punch
Petal dust
Small Styrofoam bowl
Jellybeans
Water
Cornstarch
Wafer paper

Instructions

  • Make about 18 1-inch balls out of modeling chocolate.
    Bowl of modeling chocolate balls
  • Roll the balls thin, about 11 inches long and about 1⁄4 inch thick.
    Rolling modeling chocolate into long strips
  • Lay three strips over the bottom of the bowl.
    Modeling chocolate strips laid over an inverted bowl
  • Use a simple weave pattern to form the basket.
    Woven modeling chocolate strips forming a basket pattern
  • Use a little water to cement the connections, twist off the tips, and sculpt the rim.
    Sculpting the rim of the woven chocolate basket
  • Use a clay tool to add texture and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
    Textured woven chocolate basket after chilling
  • Use the petal punch to make flowers.
    Small white fondant flowers made with a petal punch
  • Pull the basket out of the Styrofoam bowl.
    Removing the chocolate basket from the Styrofoam mold
  • Paint the basket with brown petal dust.
    Painting the chocolate basket with brown petal dust
  • Add flowers with a little water, then paint with petal dust.
    Adding white flowers to the painted chocolate basket
  • Cut grass strips out of wafer paper and lay in the basket.
  • Add candy.