I managed to purchase a large quantity of Cadbury Creme Eggs for a dirt cheap price based on the fact that they go out of date soon. I am embarking on a challenge over the month of July to eat a Cadbury Creme Egg in 31 different ways. Below are the recipes for you to try at home and links to videos so you can see how they turned out and here is where I write about what I thought of the whole experience.
Day 1: The Right Way
1. Bite off the top.
2. Lick out the middle.
3. Down the rest.
Day 2: Creme Egg Milkshake
1. Add a couple of scoops of ice cream and a random amount of milk to a blender.
2. Scoop out the insides of a couple of Creme eggs and add them before blending until you get bored of doing so.
3. Pour into a glass.
Straw optional.
Day 3: Fried Creme Egg Sandwich
1. Pre-heat a frying pan
2. Place Creme Egg in frying pan.
3. Poke it around about and flip it when it starts to burn.
4. Put inside a piece of bread and fold in half.
Day 4: Antarctic Creme Egg
There are two ways to experience this.
Method A:
Take a creme egg to Antarctica and eat it
Method B:
Put a creme egg in the freezer for 24 hours.
Wear your warmest clothing.
Remove the creme egg from the freezer and eat it.
Day 5: Dippy Creme Egg and Soldiers
To make the soldiers:
Put piece of bread in toast.
Turn on.
Slice into soldiers.
Arrange in order of rank
Put the egg in an egg cup.
Open the egg with a spoon.
Invade the egg with the soldiers.
Day 6: Creme Egg Cheesecakes
1. Cut 3 Creme Eggs in half and separate the constituent parts.
2. Add a tablespoon of butter to the chocolate and melt in the microwave.
3. Using a rolling pin, break up 7 digestives into crumbs and then mix in with the chocolate.
4. Press this chocolate mixture into the bottom of some muffin trays and rub a bit of butter on the top.
5. Mix 125g of cream cheese and 50g of plain yoghurt together.
6. Fold in an egg.
7. Put a tablespoon full with the yolks and spoon the rest over the bases and bake for about 7 minutes a 200 degrees Celsius..
8. Mix in the cheese mix with the yolks and put on the cheesecakes so they look like eggs and bake for another 7 minutes.
9. Allow to cool.
Slightly adapted from a recipe at bakarama.
Day 7: Barbecued Creme Egg
1. Light barbecue
2. Wait
3. Split banana in two.
4. Split creme egg in two and place inside banana.
5. Place banana inside tin foil.
6. Place on barbecue.
7. Wait some more.
Day 8: Creme Egg Lava Cake
1. Steal the recipe from here
2. Mess up reducing the quantities.
3. Mess up when you put the creme egg in.
Day 9: Scotch Creme Egg
1, Try not to be put off by the idea.
2. Cut up and process some bread before putting it in the oven on a low heat for 20 minutes
3. Break up some quorn sausage.
4. Chop some spring ontion and add this with some herbs to the sausage.
5. Roll out the sausage meat.
6. Place the creme egg in the sausage meat and wrap it around the egg.
7. Coat the meat with whisked egg before covering with the breadcrumbs
8. Fry it until you think you’ve burnt it too much.
Day 10: Hot Chocolate Creme Egg
1. Fill a mug with milk
2. Put a creme egg in the mug
3. Put in the microwave until it has melted, stirring repeatedly.
Day 11: Upside Down Creme Egg
Warning: Do not try this at home
1. Get upside down
2. Eat creme egg
Day 12: Creme eggs in pancakes
1. Make pancakes using any standard pancake recipe
2. Wrap one around a creme egg
Day 13: Creme Egg Cookies
1. Prise my cookie recipe out of my cold dead hands
2. Add a creme egg to one of the cookies
Day 14: Creme Egg Cupcakes
1. Find a common or garden cupcake recipe.
2. Squide a creme egg into one of the cupcakes.
Day 15: Creme Eggs on Waffles
1. Get up early
2. Prepare yourself for disappointment
3. Melt a creme egg
4. Spread it over a waffle or waffles.
Day 16: Creme Egg McMuffin
1. Lightly toast a muffin
2. Cut it in half
3. Cut a creme egg in half and place on either side of the muffin
Day 17: Creme Egg Mayo Sandwich
1. Chop creme egg into little pieces
2. Mix with mayo
3. Put in bread
Day 18: Outside First
1. Eat the outside of a creme egg.
2. Eat the inside of a creme egg.
Day 19: Creme Egg and Beer
1. Dunk creme egg in beer.
2. Eat as per the Right Way until hollow.
3. Try to fill creme egg with beer.
Day 20: Creme Egg Cocktail
1. Melt creme egg in a saucepan using the technique that I forget the name off.
2. Combine with 2 shots of chocolate liqueur and one shot of vodka.
3. “Drink”
Day 21: Creme Egg with Chocolate Lover’s Wine
1. Stumble upon the wine in Sainsburys
2. Buy it
3. Drink with creme egg
Day 22: Cadbury Creme Brulegg
1. Go to Culinary Concotions by Peabody.
2. Use their recipe
Day 23: Cadbury Creme Eggy Bread
1. Inherit breadmaker from your mum or otherwise acquire (preferably through legal means)
2. Find the recipes that closest resembles Creme Egg Bread
3. Substitute something in that recipe for Creme Eggs
4. Wait
Day 24: Creme Egg Flavoured Coffee
1. Make coffee
2. Break creme egg into it in place of sugar and cream.
Day 25: Deep Fried Battered Creme Egg
1. Get someone who worked in a chip shop for years to Google a batter recipe for you.
2. Wear protective goggles.
3. Boil a saucepan full of vegetable oil
4. Make the batter as per the recipe
5. Coat the creme egg in the batter
6. Put the creme egg in the boiling oil until it has turned a nice orangey brown colour, similar to the colour of the people from The Only Way Is Essex.
Day 26: Creme Egg and Chips
1. Visit your local chip shop and buy some chips.
2. Eat with creme egg.
Day 27: Boiled Creme Egg
1. Put an egg in a saucepan of boiling water.
2. Leave it in there for as long as you dare.
Day 28: Creme Egg Fried Rice
1. Learn how to cook egg fried rice incorrectly.
2. Be mocked mercilessly by your friends.
Day 29: The Cobra
1. Attempt to swallow a creme egg whole.
2. Realise you can’t do it.
Day 30: Ice Creme Egg
1. Ask Natalie nicely to help you make ice cream.
2. Wait for ages for it to freeze.
Day 31: Pickled Creme Egg
1. Put a creme egg in a pickling jar.
2. Leave it for a while.
3. Try not to gag.