Easter Candy Centerpiece — Faux Chocolate and Pastel Eggs
Are you looking for non-candy Easter egg ideas?
For a truly delicious-looking centerpiece that will not add calories to your holiday, see how we made this faux chocolate topiary using plastic eggs. And, if you love crafts with a romantic country style, check out our archive of projects here.
Happy Easter!
This is the kind of candy that won't melt. We painted plastic eggs shades of chocolate brown and pastel pink, blue, and yellow. White and brown dimensional (Puffy) paint was used to make the icing drizzles.
Crinkly brown Easter paper filled the gaps.
We used 34 plastic eggs that were one-piece in style … they are not the type that open. We found these at a local craft store for just $1.99 a dozen.
The small eggs came from Hobby Lobby, a 30 piece set in varying sizes. The cone is 9" foam to which we glued a cork on top for height, and wrapped in jute string in case it should show through. The string is optional. You could leave the cone plain or paint it if you like.
This project is easy, but takes many hours to paint the eggs just the right colors to look like candy. We mixed spicy red-brown and brown/tan tones and sometimes mixed yellow and white into brown paint for the chocolate eggs. We mixed white into pink, blue, and yellow for the chalky pastel eggs. Remember that colors will look much darker when dry.
We hot-glued the eggs around the cone with a bit of space between them. The Easter grass was pushed into the gaps with a pencil. The pastel eggs were added here and there as accents.
The chocolate eggs were given a light polish of liquid wax for a soft glow. Check out the video for more details! If you love to paint, check out our new color charts on our supplies page.
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Looks yummy! Very pretty..
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Looks yummy! It's very pretty 😍
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