Published: 10 March 2025

Easter is just around the corner, and we’re willing to bet that your little ones have nothing on their minds but chocolate eggs! How many? What size? Which flavours? The anticipation is almost as exciting as the chocolate itself! But if you want to add to the fun, how about letting your kids make and decorate their own chocolate eggs to give to the rest of the family? It’s easier than you might think and a great way to get a bit of creativity flowing during the Easter break.

Decorating Ideas for Easter Eggs

Start by making your eggs

If you’re short on time, you can just buy blank hollow Easter eggs online. You may even be able to find them in large high street variety stores. But if you want to do the whole thing yourself, you can find chocolate egg moulds in most craft stores. From there, the process is simple:

  • Choose your preferred chocolate.
  • Melt it on a low heat in a bain-marie, stirring until completely smooth—ideally until it reaches 45°C, to create the perfect sheen on the chocolate.
  • Using a pastry brush, paint the chocolate thinly inside the mould, ensuring that you go right up to the edges.
  • Pop the moulds in the fridge for 10 minutes and apply another layer of chocolate.
  • Repeat this process until the eggshell has reached the desired thickness.
  • Refrigerate the egg.
  • Once the chocolate is completely firm, remove it from the mould, ‘glue’ it together with melted chocolate, and decorate—not forgetting to hide a little treat inside first!

Get decorating

Stripes

There are all sorts of ways to decorate a chocolate egg. Sometimes, the best results are achieved when you just let your kids go wild. But if you want a more polished finish, here are a few ideas.

There are three different ways to make striped Easter eggs.

  • The first is to choose a contrasting chocolate and paint the stripes onto your mould as your first layer. You can make them thick, thin, straight, wobbly, random, or patterned.
  • The second way is very similar. But instead of painting, you can drizzle your contrasting chocolate(s) onto the mould before you create the rest of the shell.
  • Thirdly, if you’re good with a piping bag, you can pipe chocolate onto your finished egg. This way takes time and patience, however, as you have to wait for the chocolate to dry to avoid dripping.

Sweet clusters

To add a little eggstra pizazz, you can amp up the flavour by adding sweets, chocolates, or dried fruits and nuts to the outside of your eggs. To do this, you simply need to choose your decorations and melt a little extra chocolate. Working on one side of the egg at a time, carefully dip your decorations into the melted chocolate and place them on the egg. You can create a pattern or cluster your treats around the middle.

Coated

This can be a little messy to do. But if you’re looking for something a little bit different, you can coat your Easter eggs. Choose your coating—chopped nuts, grated chocolate, 100s and 1000s, vermicelli, coconut, and chopped dried fruits work well. Then coat one side of your egg with more melted chocolate. Roll it in your coating and cool until the chocolate has dried. Then repeat the process on the other side.   

Fancy

Lastly, this one might not be for the kids. But if you want to create a picture on your Easter eggs, you can colour white chocolate. Using either powdered or oil-based food colouring, simply mix your chosen colours into separate bowls of melted white chocolate. Then use this to pipe your design. Bunnies are always popular. But you might pipe the recipient’s name, flowers, a chick, a heart, or anything else you fancy!

DIY Easter eggs aren’t just fun for kids to make. They’re a great way to personalise an Easter treat. And if you want a little peace on Easter Sunday, pre-make your chocolate eggs, melt some chocolate, and lay out bowls of your family’s favourite toppings, then let your children loose to decorate their own special Easter surprise.

Join us for some egg decorating as part of Cumbria’s Biggest easter Egg Hunt event taking place from Good Friday, 18th April, to Easter Monday, 21st April! More details can be found here.