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Use Chocolate: Recipes for Chocolate Easter Bunnies & Santa Clauses

There are many ways to use up leftover chocolate that you no longer want to eat. We present you with suitable recipes for the leftovers of your Easter chocolate.

Especially after festivities, Easter bunnies, Santa Clauses and chocolate bars are often left over. Maybe you are unsure if you can still eat one or the other leftover chocolate. In our article on expired chocolate, you will learn how long chocolate stays edible and the role of the best-before date.

Instead of throwing it away, you can use chocolate in a variety of ways, as long as it’s still edible. One possibility, for example, is to melt them down and use them for chocolate fondue. In this article we will present you with other ideas and recipes on how to use chocolate.

Tip: If you feel like chocolate, only buy as much as you actually want to eat. In this way you avoid leftovers from the outset. Also make sure that you buy chocolate products with an organic certificate and from fair trade if possible: On the one hand, you make sure that the chocolate comes from organic farming and has no residues of chemical-synthetic pesticides. On the other hand, you know that it was traded fairly and that the local cocoa farmers received a reasonable wage. If you are looking for chocolate without animal products, please take a look at our article about vegan chocolate.

The classic: hot chocolate

Ingredients:

100 g chocolate
400 ml plant milk, e.g. oat or soy drink
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 pinch(s) of cinnamon
optionally sugar or other sweetener

Directions:

Zerkleinere die Schokolade in einem Multizerkleinerer oder hacke sie mit einem scharfen Messer.
Erhitze die Pflanzenmilch in einem Topf.
Vermenge in der Zwischenzeit die zerkleinerte Schokolade mit Kakaopulver und Zimt.
Rühre die Schokoladen-Kakao-Mischung mit einem Schneebesen in die warme Milch.
Je nachdem, welche Schokolade und welchen Pflanzendrink du verwendest, kannst du die heiße Schokolade abschließend noch mit Zucker oder einer Alternative deiner Wahl süßen. Optional kannst du auch Vanillezucker verwenden.

Use chocolate in cakes, muffins, and cookies

Using chocolate also works wonderfully in various cake, muffin and biscuit recipes. Here you can find some ideas:

Vegan sponge cake
Muffins without eggs
Muffins (basic recipe)
Сhocolate cake

You can simply chop the chocolate and then fold it into the finished dough. Or you melt them in a water bath and use them to glaze the finished cake or muffins. Chocolate is already part of the recipe here:

Сhocolate muffins
Chocolate Chip Cookies (the fourth recipe)
You can use chocolate not only in pastries but also in other sweet desserts:

Chocolate salami
After Eight Ice Cream
Chocolate sauce for ice cream, waffles, and pancakes

Use chocolate: homemade chocolate spread

Ingredients:

6 EL plant drink
4 tablespoons sugar, optionally one part vanilla sugar
60 g vegetable margarine
100 g chocolate
50 g finely ground hazelnuts
1 pinch(s) of salt

Directions:

Heat the plant drink together with sugar and margarine in a saucepan.
Break the chocolate into pieces and add to the saucepan with the rest of the ingredients. Let the chocolate melt, stirring constantly so nothing burns. If the spread is too thick, carefully stir in some plant drink.
Finally, add the ground hazelnuts and a pinch of salt to the pot and stir everything into an even chocolate cream.
Pour the spread into a screw-top jar and let it cool down.

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Use Easter Eggs: 3 Ideas for Boiled Eggs

Easter is over, boiled eggs are still there? We’ll show you three delicious dishes that you can use to use up Easter eggs so you don’t have to throw anything away.

Recipe: Boiled eggs as a salad with cornichons

How to use six boiled Easter eggs (two servings):

125 g (vegan) yoghurt
1 tbsp (vegan) mayonnaise
2 teaspoons mustard, medium hot
salt and pepper
1 tsp capers
8 gherkins
chives

To taste: a crushed clove of garlic, cayenne pepper

Directions:

Peel the eggs and cut them into slices.
Drain the capers and cut the gherkins into small pieces.
Stir yogurt, mayonnaise, and mustard into a smooth sauce and season with salt and pepper.
Then add the eggs, capers, and gherkins.
Finally, you can use scissors to cut the chives into fine rolls and sprinkle them over the finished salad.

Recipe: Boiled Easter eggs as a vinaigrette for asparagus

With these ingredients and two boiled eggs you can prepare a delicious asparagus dish (two servings):

1 clove of garlic
7 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp parsley
3 tablespoons balsamic bianco
salt and pepper
750 g green asparagus

How to cook an asparagus vinaigrette with boiled Easter eggs:

Peel the Easter eggs and mash them in a bowl with a fork. Press in the garlic clove and stir the mixture with five tablespoons of olive oil, the parsley and the balsamic vinegar until smooth. Season the mass with salt and pepper.
Cut off the woody ends of the asparagus and peel the bottom third of the spears with the vegetable peeler. Then heat a baking sheet in the preheated oven for five minutes.
Put two tablespoons of olive oil on the baking sheet, place the asparagus side by side on it and season with salt.
Set the oven to 240 degrees top/bottom heat. Let the asparagus roast for a quarter of an hour, turning them twice. Depending on the oven, it may take a few minutes longer.
You can serve the asparagus salad warm or cold: To do this, place the spears next to each other on a plate and pour the egg vinaigrette over them.

Senfeier recipe: Easter eggs as a warm dish

How to use eight boiled Easter eggs (four servings):

2 tablespoons margarine or butter
2 tbsp flour
1/4 l hot vegetable stock
1/4 l hot (plant) milk
3-4 tbsp medium hot mustard
1 tbsp wine vinegar
salt and pepper
2 pinches of sugar

How to cook the mustard party:

Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour and let the mixture brown slightly. Pour in the broth and milk: make sure you keep stirring to avoid lumps. Allow the sauce to simmer for about two minutes.
Stir the mustard and wine vinegar into the creamy sauce and season with salt, pepper and sugar.
Peel the eggs and add them whole to the sauce.

Your choice when buying eggs

It is known that chickens from conventional farms are often kept in poor conditions. They often only have little space and sometimes no outlet at all. Male chicks are often not reared in the first place but are shredded as soon as they hatch.

But there are also alternatives: If available, it is best to choose brother rooster eggs. These producers renounce the cruel practice, raise the roosters with them and want to show that laying hens can be reared without killing the chicks. Organic eggs also enable the hens and chicks to have a better life: Because in order for their products to be allowed to bear the organic seal, a farmer must comply with strict standards – also when it comes to animal husbandry.

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