Name: Chocolate-Filled Delights
Ingredients: Newspaper; Blown eggs , as many as desired, sterilized and dry, with egg cartons to hold them all; Wooden skewers; Long, narrow block of Styrofoam; Stiff, flat 1/2-inch-wide paintbrush; Brown food coloring (mix red and green if you don't have brown); Masking tape; Small needle-nose pliers; Baking chips, white, milk, and dark chocolate flavors, 1 cup per egg; Plastic food storage bags, 1 gallon size

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Chocolate-Filled DelightsMatthew Mead

Imagine the surprise of friends who open these hard-boiled look-alikes to find them filled with chocolate. Give yourself time to make these; they need sufficient drying and hardening before they can be enjoyed.

Tips:

— Be patient! Dont try to melt more than 1 cup of chocolate at a time—the chocolate consistency may change and it will cool too quickly to fill multiple eggs.
• To create a rack to hold the eggs while they're being painted or drying: Cut wooden skewers into 7-inch lengths. Insert them into a block of Styrofoam, spacing them 2 to 3 inches apart so you can support a blown egg on each without the eggs touching and arranging them in a single line so you can access each egg from all sides. To use the rack, remove the skewers, insert each into an egg, angling the egg a bit so the top of the skewer supports the shell and doesn't go through the top hole, paint the egg, and then reinsert the skewer into the foam.

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