Make your own homemade candy for Easter (or anytime!) with this easy no bake recipe for Crispy Chocolate Covered Almond Butter Eggs filled with brown rice cereal and almond butter.
Chocolate Covered Almond Butter Eggs for Easter
Who wants a chocolate Easter bunny when you can have these crispy candy eggs! They are a wonderful no bake dessert Easter treat and are made with almond butter, so no worries about peanut allergies here!
When I was a child, Easter was one of my favorite holidays, second only to Christmas. The only thing better than waking up to a bunch of presents under a tree was waking up to a bunch of candy in a basket.
Now for some reason, the Easter Bunny doesn’t visit me anymore. I wake up on Easter morning and there’s no big basket overflowing with candy waiting for me. No cute little stuffed animals. Nothing at all.
Don’t really know what that bunny’s deal is, but now if I want treats, I have to make my own with this Easter eggs recipe.
Crispy chocolate candy eggs: the better Reese’s
My favorite Easter candy as a child were Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs. I loved those little yellow wrapped packages so much and it was the first candy I grabbed from my basket and shoved in my mouth.
I don’t eat them anymore because they don’t taste as good to me as they used to. When it was time to make a candy Easter treat recipe for TEA, I knew I had to make a jazzed up version of a Reese’s egg. I made mine with an all-natural almond butter and crispy organic brown rice cereal to add some crunch.
To get the egg shape, I molded them by hand and it wasn’t that difficult but it was a little more time consuming than I would have liked it to be. I saw this Megrocle Random Egg-shaped candy mold the other day and thinking of getting it for next time.
For the egg’s chocolate coating, I used Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips
for the semi-sweet
and dark
and Valrhona white chocolate
. Enjoy Life and Valrhona chocolate are two brands of I love and use in most all of my chocolate recipes.
Chocolate melting tip: There is no better way than Alice Medrich’s way. She’s brilliant and her method is literally fail-proof. Works perfectly every single time.
Make this homemade candy as an Easter dessert recipe (or anytime you want some candy) and enjoy these better-than-Reese’s Crispy Chocolate Covered Almond Butter Eggs! If you’ve got leftover Easter hard boiled eggs, try this pickled eggs recipe.
Crispy Chocolate Covered Almond Butter Eggs
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups all natural almond butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups organic crispy brown rice cereal, lightly crushed
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips, semi-sweet, milk, dark, and/or white
Optional: assorted decorative candies
Instructions
- In a large pot over low heat, melt the butter. Remove pot from the heat and stir in the almond butter until smooth and thoroughly combined. Add the vanilla, powdered sugar, and the brown rice cereal.
- Using hands or an egg shaped candy mold, gather enough of the mixture to make a large ball and then mold into an egg shape. Set aside and continue process with remaining mixture.
To melt the chocolate:
- Using a double boiler (or make one by placing chocolate in a heat proof bowl), melt chocolate over low heat, stirring until chocolate is completely melted and smooth.
- Place one egg on a fork and dip into the melted chocolate until full coated. Put the egg on a cooling rack or waxed paper and sprinkle with decorative candies. Repeat the process with remaining eggs.
- Once chocolate eggs are fully dried, store leftovers in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks (if they last that long!)
Recipe Notes & Tips:
- Can substitute peanut butter for almond butter
- Store leftover candy in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks
That dang easter bunny; why is it that when we hit a certain age, he doesn’t care anymore?? The tooth fairy is the same too. What gives? Anyway, I like your treats better anyway. Who wants sweaty boiled eggs? The Easter bunny can keep those if you ask me. These treats looks scrumptious, girlie, and they look too fun to decorate too! You shaped them by hand? You don’t need no mold! Keep dem dolla bills and spend it on wine or, er, more chocolate. Yeah, yeah. That’s it Pinning! Have a lovely weekend sugar! XOXO
Ok, so I’m just thinking about it…I don’t want to see that tooth fairy anyway. That means I ‘d be losing teeth….WTF? Brain fart. Anywho………..it’s Friday so it’s ok if I’m not 100% today. P.S. Send candy.
You are so right, that now if we want Easter treats, we would have to make it for ourselves. These Crispy Chocolate Covered Almond Butter Eggs so adorable and delish. Love the fact this is no-bake. Such a wonderful share, Karrie.
These are adorable!! I want to eat them all. So cute!! Happy Easter.
I am always fascinated hearing stories about traditions in other parts of the world that I am not familiar with…like the Easter bunny thing. Italy, was too far for him, probably, because we never saw him there . I really like your hand shaped chocolate eggs! I know with the mold it might have been quicker and cleaner, but you don’t beat the homemade look! I so would like to bite into one of your Crispy Chocolate Covered Almond Butter Egg right now!
Ummmm, the Easter bunny doesn’t leave me candy anymore either. Should we start a petition or something? I’m starting to think being an adult isn’t all it’s cracked up to be :). These eggs though. . .pb eggs are my favorite Easter treat so I love the idea of an almond butter egg. YUM!
That rascally rabbit hasn’t stop by my house in years either. If he does stop by your home this year just tell him your handmade almond butter eggs are better than anything he could hide around your yard.
I love, love, love almond butter cookies! What a great idea. I personally would rather have the Easter bunny deliver these to me than straight up candy!!