Just a selection of this year’s creations. The last two pictures are the same eggs from front and from back.
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©Charly, all rights reserved, click for full size.
Wow! Those are awesome! You’ve even got frosting bunnies in there. Your hand control must be really good.
Oops. I did not make these, my mother did and I forgot to explicitly write that in the article.
It’s Charly’s Mum who does these, amazing artistry.
Marcus I am not in any way intending to diminish Charly’s mum’s skill, but I think that while the white and chocolate icing is piped freehand most of the coloured icing is cut out of rolled icing with cutters. I’d guess the eggs are hand shaped. Part of the reason I am impressed is that while giving each of her creations an even cover of both types of icing Charly’s mum manages to keep the finished egg from looking cluttered. I’ve seen.s imilar creations just overwhelmed with cut bunnies or ducks or flowers, as if once the creator has bought themselves a particular cutter they feel they must cover every mm of surface and the end result is rarely good.Truely less can be more.
jazzlet, you are correct, the coloured icing is cut from rolled marzipan. For the bunnies and flowers my mum has a cutter form. But the basket, including all the intricate weaving, is hand cut. As well as the veins on the leaves.
Wow. She could do an annual exhibit and charge large amounts of euros. I’d be ashamed to eat these, they’re too beautiful, though they’re probably delicious, too…
Your mother should be very proud of her work. They’re beautiful cookies. Works of art really, and I bet they taste good too.
Apart from the eggs and plates being exquisite overall, the egg/candy baskets on the eggs are a fun idea.
They are wonderful.
Though, who is eating them?
Your mum always seems to make a ton of gorgeous gingerbread.