These Chocolate Covered Apple Easter Chicks would be such a fun display and dessert on Easter Sunday! They would also be great for a barn party, Spring, or Summer get together. The chocolate chickens are dipped in coconut that is colored brown to resemble hay or a nest. Here’s what I did to make these little chickens:
You’ll Need: for 8 medium sized chicks, or 4 large apple chicks
- small to medium apples – like macintosh, gala
- Yellow Straws – I found mine at Michael’s Craft Store in the Easter Section
- *Another option in place of straws is lollipop sticks or wooden sticks
- Yellow Chocolate Melts – Such as Wilton 12 oz. bag
- Candy Eyes
- Orange Jelly Beans – 2
- Coconut Shavings
- Copper Gel Food Coloring – Wilton makes this – Light brown would also work
Equipment:
- Scissors
- Wooden Dowel to dip the apples with
- Wax Paper
- Medium Glass Bowl
Instructions:
- First off…color your coconut with a little bit of the copper food coloring – a little goes a long way – mix it together with a fork
- Set your candy eyes out
- Cut the jelly beans in half lengthwise and then cut the long pieces in half going across to make 4 beaks per jelly bean
- Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl using the microwave method on the back of the bag
- Set wax paper out for the apples to dry on
- Insert a dowel into the apple you are ready to dip
- Tilting your bowl to get make a deep section of chocolate, roll each apple in the chocolate, coating it with yellow chocolate
- Dip the apple immediately into the coconut, coating the bottom
- Set the apples onto the wax paper
- Let the chocolate cool off on each one as you reapeat the steps above for each remaining apples
- Use a toothpick or another utensil to dip into the leftover melted chocolate. You will use this melted chocolate to glue the eyes and jelly bean beaks onto your yellow apples
- If you want to use the yellow straws, take the dowels out and replace with straws
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