I’m not sure if it’s just me getting older (and weaker in willpower) or the fact that I seem to always be on a Whole30, but the Easter candy aisle is really beckoning to me this year. The Reeses’s eggs, the chocolate bunnies, even the Peeps! They’re all summoning me with one curled finger. “Come to the dark side,” they say. “We literally have candy.” So… I made paleo Peeps, to stay strong. And that 1000% satisfied my craving for the fluffy, neon puffs! Light and airy and actually full of flavor, my paleo Peeps were way better than anything I’d had out of a tiny cardboard box.
But the chocolate coconut egg? It still called to me when I zipped by the Easter candy aisle looking for almond flour or dried oregano or something not Easter candy send help. So I did the only thing I can do: I turned my cravings into paleo Easter treats using healthy ingredients and created something more delicious than the antecedent. Translation? These paleo coconut cream eggs are so good. I started with coconut butter, which is weirdly easy to make (check it out!), added more coconut, a bit of maple syrup, and vanilla extract. I’m not sure how you could ever go wrong with that combination of ingredients, anyway, but in this case, the mixture produced a beautifully dense texture that’s not too fragile like coconut-oil-heavy paleo desserts can be. Nope, you might even be able to justify these for breakfast! Considering how revered the paleo favorite, coconut, is across the world, you probably should… The hardest part is forming the eggs, but it becomes easy if you use a medium cookie scoop. I use this one from Oxo and it went very quickly! I found that if I rolled the coconut mixture into a ball then pressed the ball within a sort of loosely curled fist, I could form the skinnier end of the egg easily. After that, just flatten a bit and smooth the edges. Unlike so many paleo desserts, these paleo coconut cream eggs can sit out at room temperature, since the rich coconut butter holds them together well. Enjoy, my little Easter chicks! ? Make sure you sign up to receive new posts (and a free Total Guide to the Whole30 ebook!) so you catch my next post about how freaking easy (and cost efficient!) it is to make coconut butter at home.
