Eggs and Chocolate Figures
Learn how to turn chocolate eggs into adorable Easter characters like penguins, piglets, and roosters. This colorful, hands-on course is packed with technique and fun, bringing each figure to life through intricate detail, clever assembly, and your own creative flair.
Consultor gastronómico en Uzbekistán y Asia Central, Exdirector de Be Chef Pastry School
Course Content
Course Content
2 - Basics for Easter Eggs
3 - Musical Egg
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4 - Chocolate Figures
5 - Pig-shaped egg
6 - Rooster-shaped egg
7 - Penguin-shaped egg
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Course Recipes
About this Course
Mold penguins, roosters, and piglets in chocolate to surprise this Easter.
In this course, Hans Ovando will guide you through the creation of Easter-themed figures made from chocolate eggs. Using precise techniques of assembly, attachment, and finishing, you will learn how to transform simple eggs into charming and original sculptures such as penguins, roosters, and piglets.
Throughout the course, you’ll explore the creative use of tempered chocolate, polycarbonate molds, fat-soluble colorants, and other essential elements. Blending technical precision with artistic flair, you’ll discover how even the smallest details can bring life and personality to your creations—resulting in professional-quality pieces perfect for pastry shop displays or whimsical showcases.
By the end of this online course, you will be able to:
- Design themed figures using chocolate eggs
- Apply attachment points and texturing for assembly
- Create characters such as a penguin, a pig, and a rooster
- Add shiny features and expressive eyes
- Use visual references to inspire your creatio
What's included?
- 1h 25 min of HD video
- 16 lessons
- 7 recipes
- Recipe Book
- 1 Quiz
- Certificate
- English, Español (VO)
- English, Español
Meet your Instructor
Gastronomic Consultant in Uzbekistan and Central Asia, Former Director of Be Chef Pastry School
Hans Ovando was awarded Best Master Artisan Pastry Chef in Spain (MMAPE) in 2022. He has become one of the most celebrated pastry chefs on the international scene and is the first pastry chef to win both official awards granted by the Spanish Pastry Business Confederation (CEEAP): M.M.A.P.E and M.M.A.C.E
Transform chocolate eggs into unique, one-of-a-kind characters that celebrate the magic of Easter
What you'll learn
Basic Easter Eggs: Melt, color, mould, and unmould white and dark chocolate to form the bases.
Musician Egg: Chocolate egg partly decorated with a base of dried fruit, nuts and candied orange.
Animal Figures:
- Penguin: Assemble the wings, tail, feet, beak, and eyes using half eggs and tempered chocolate.
- Rooster: Construct the comb, wings, beak, feet, and tail with coloured pieces.
- Piglet: Create the snout, ears, feet, and eyes with pink chocolate.
Shiny and Expressive Finishes: Use of piping cornet, brush, and cooling spray to bring the figures to life.
In this course, beyond the recipes themselves, you will also learn various cooking techniques that will be useful on many occasions.
The techniques you will learn are:
- Selecting white, milk, dark, and coloured couverture chocolate.
- Using fat-soluble colorants and tinted cocoa butter for decoration.
- Working with polycarbonate and silicone molds.
- Constructing eggs with themed shapes.
- Perfectly joining halves with controlled heat.
- Stable structures for large figures.
- Internal support techniques for sculptural pieces.
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