How to make your own homemade chocolate eggs

There's no need to wonder whether the Easter Bunny will leave you cream-filled chocolate eggs this year. With a recipe like this one, it's easy - if calorically costly - to make your own.

The sugary, creamy filling in these chocolate eggs isn't as soupy as commercial versions, making it easy to handle and shape. It's also what allows you to form the yellow "yolk" at the center. For efficiency, that step could be skipped in favor of all-white egg fillings.

For the chocolate coating, be sure to use chocolate melts, a candy product intended for making filled chocolates and other treats. These melt easily, coat well and are inexpensive.

Regular chocolate must go through a process known as tempering before it can be used in a recipe such as this (it's not something most people will want to try at home). Melts are available at craft and baking shops, as well as in the baking aisle of many grocers.