How to recycle Easter eggs : recipes to recycle Easter eggs and prepare many tasty chocolate desserts and to recycle egg paper.
Easter eggs may be very tasty but they are not so eco-friendly : they come in bulky packaging, usually made of plastic, and the surprise itself ends up in the garbage within a short time.
In this article we will see how to reuse Easter egg paper and how to recycle the chocolate itself.
How to recycle Easter egg paper
Easter egg paper can be used again to make floral arrangements and bouquets, decorations and ornaments for birthday parties and even to wrap gifts.
With Easter egg paper you can make a nice kite for children. All the instructions are contained in our guide article How to build a kite .
Also very practical to recycle are the egg-shaped packages that contain the surprises. They can become practical containers for anything: from food to be stored in the fridge to children’s play dough! They can also be used in the kitchen as modelling moulds for different doughs, obviously not to be baked! Always with the containers you can make a vase with a mini greenhouse as shown in the photo above.
How to recycle Easter eggs
After seeing how to recycle Easter egg paper, let’s move on to chocolate and practical recipes for preparing sweets to be consumed even away from the Easter holidays.
- Homemade Nutella
If you need to recycle dark chocolate Easter eggs, you can use our recipe for making homemade Nutella .
- Homemade Ferrero Rocher
To reuse the chocolate from Easter eggs, you can prepare chocolates worthy of Ambrogio; all you need is our recipe for Ferrero Rocher to make at home.
- Chocolate fondue
Easter falls between the end of February and the second half of April, in this period the first fruits of the beautiful season begin to appear. What do you think about recycling Easter eggs to prepare an excellent chocolate fondue with fruit .
- Classic hot chocolate or with vanilla and cinnamon
Here are the ingredients for two cups:
90 g of chocolate in pieces
1 vanilla pod and/or a sprinkling of cinnamon
300 ml of milk
100 ml of fresh whipped cream (for garnish)
Place the chocolate, milk and vanilla pod in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Heat over low heat until the chocolate is completely melted. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. When you have obtained a soft and frothy mixture, you can remove the vanilla pod and pour in the mixture. Now all you have to do is decorate with tufts of whipped cream.
