Hellobee

By: Mina of Mini Piccolini

I painted a couple of egg cartons to use as gift boxes this Easter. This is such a simple but charming way to give an Easter gift.

We’ve filled ours with these fabulous egg candles, fun feathers, little egg shell planters, and no bake chick cake pops. Cake pops can be a little tricky but these are no-bake with very few ingredients and they are delicious. They are always a hit at any party and I’m excited to give these as gifts this Easter!

To paint the egg cartons, I just removed the labels and painted the cartons with craft paint. A second layer was needed where there was print on the top and sides, but for the rest of the carton, one layer of paint was enough. I decided to leave the inside of my cartons un-painted, but you could certainly paint the whole carton if you wanted to like DesignMom does. You can also use spray paint to paint your cartons, like Kreativa Karin does.

I made my little chick cake pops without sticks since I want to give them as gifts in an egg carton, but it was easy to just spear the pops on cake pop sticks afterwards if you can live with a flat bottom instead of a rounded one.

(I made 40ish cake pops using these amounts)

NO-BAKE OREO CHEESECAKE EASTER CHICK CAKE POPS

4 rows of Oreo cookies
300gr cream cheese
candy melts
sugar paste
gel food coloring
dark chocolate

1. In a mixer or food processor, crush the oreo cookies into fine crumbs.

2. In a mixing bowl, use a spatula to soften the cream cheese and mix the cookie crumbs into the cream cheese until you have a big black ball of oreo mix. If you need to, you can chill the mixture for a little bit to make it easier to form balls.

3. Roll the mixture into little balls and keep them in the fridge.

4. Make the chick wings and beaks out of sugar paste (they’re easier to “apply” if they’ve had a few minutes to dry out and harden a little). I colored white sugar paste with gel food coloring and added a bit of icing sugar if the paste got too sticky. I formed little triangle beaks and drop-shaped flat wings.

5. Melt candy melts in a bowl over a small pot of simmering water. The melts harden quite quickly, so you may need to keep return them to the heat after a few minutes. Put your cake ball in a spoon and pour the melted candy over it with another spoon, then tip it onto parchment paper to harden. Add the beaks and wings before the cake pops harden (if you’re too slow, you can always dip the wings in a bit of candy melt and use that to attach them to the pops).

6. Melt a little dark chocolate in the same way as the candy melts. Use a piping bag with a small tip to pipe little chocolate dot eyes above the beaks.

7. Store them in the fridge in an airtight container.