Yummy!
My favorite part of Easter has always been the peanut butter eggs and the Life Savers Gummy Bunny & Eggs (better than regular Life Saver Gummies!).
If you miss having Peanut Butter Eggs at Easter because of food allergies, then you are in for a treat!
These Chocolate-Dipped Sunbutter Eggs are perfect for Easter and a family favorite. Enjoy!
Chocolate-Dipped Sunbutter Eggs
Makes 12 eggs
Free of: gluten, dairy, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, corn, vegan
1/2 cup sunflower seed butter (or other nut/seed butter of choice)
1/3 cup – 1/2 cup home-made powdered sugar *
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chocolate chips or chopped chocolate bar
2 teaspoons coconut oil
- In a medium mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to blend together the sunflower seed butter, the home-made powdered sugar, and the vanilla. Blend together until a stiff dough forms. The amount of powdered sugar needed for this depends on how thick or thin the nut butter is. You may have to experiment a little with the amount, starting with less and adding more as needed.
- Pinch off about 1 Tablespoon dough and roll into an egg shape. Set aside on a wax-paper or parchment lined cookie sheet.
- In a small microwaveable bowl, heat the chocolate chips and coconut oil in 30 second intervals, stirring after each 30-second segment, until the chocolate is melted (about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes).
- Dip the Sunbutter eggs in the melted chocolate and return to the waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. Place in the fridge or freezer until the chocolate is set. Decorate to your heart’s content and enjoy!
* Homemade Powdered sugar:
You can use any granulated sweetener, such as coconut sugar, raw cane sugar, or Truvia. Place sweetener of choice in a small blender or food processor. Using a flat grinding blade, process the sugar until it is a fine powder. Voila! Homemade powdered sugar.
Variations:
Try replacing some of the powdered sugar in the mix with cocoa powder to make Double Chocolate Sunbutter Eggs!
My son has had a peanut and treenut allergy since he was born, 12 years ago. I have never heard of sunbutter before, I can’t wait to try it. I think you could be my new best friend!!
I am so glad I can help! SunButter is pretty yummy. There are other companies that make sunflower seed butter, but some brands don’t taste as good and I know for certain that SunButter uses a dedicated nut-free facility so it is a safe bet, too.
What brand of coconut oil is not processed on shared equipment or in a facility that also processes peanuts, tree nuts?
Hi Falon! I can’t say for sure off the top of my head, but I strongly recommend reading labels for any coconut oil you might use. Since the FDA started considering coconut a tree nut a few years ago (though it is not a tree nut), some coconut oil labels might have an allergy alert on it for tree nuts. I have used Tropical Traditions, Spectrum Organics, and LouAna and none of these have allergy warnings if I recall (I don’t have the labels in front of me right now). If the label isn’t clear, you can always call the company and and ask specific questions. Most companies are more than happy to answer questions
In the mid-Atlantic region , it can be found at Target & Wegmans
Sarah Jane ~ Another timely winner from your kitchen! Of course I appreciate the recipe as a SunButter blogger, but as a fellow baker I’m really excited about the homemade powdered sugar! Thanks!
And, Ellen, let me know if you’d like SunButter coupons. (SunButterElizabeth@gmail.com) I can set you up and I’m eager to hear what you think of SunButter — and what you do with it! Always looking for new recipes.
Take care, ladies.
Thanks for stopping by! I bet these eggs would taste good with powdered maple sugar, too
Hi there,
Wanted you to know I did a batch with powdered maple sugar (you know, to help out the Easter Bunny and all with basket fillers). That is an excellent combination. Hoping I’ll remember it for next spring. Keep the inspiration comin’!
Is coconut oil the only option?
Hi Jody! You can skip the coconut oil if you like. In this recipe, the coconut oil helps to thin the chocolate a bit for easier dipping while still remaining solid at room temperature after setting up. You could use palm fruit oil in place of the coconut oil if you like, or you can skip the oil altogether and have a thicker layer of chocolate on top.
My kids will love this! Thank you!! My name is Cindy and I blog over at Vegetarianmamma.com I wanted to invite you to link up your recipe and any others at our Gluten Free Fridays Recipe Link up party! It happens every Friday and we’d love to have you join us with some of your awesome recipes!
Also be sure to link up your blog on our Gluten Free Bloggers directory. You can reach the directory by clicking the “glutenfree bloggers” tab on our blog! Thanks, Cindy
Thanks for the invite, Cindy, I will check it out
Do you make your own sunflower seed butter? I have not been able to find a brand not processed with peanuts/tree nuts. If you have, what is it? If not, I have never made a nut butter. Is it easy?
Hi Ellen! I have made sunflower seed butter before, but it is hard to get it really smooth unless you have a high-powered blender or food processor. I use the SunButter (http://www.sunbutter.com/) brand sunflower seed butter because it is made in a dedicated peanut and tree-nut free facility. It does share equipment with soy beans, but that doesn’t pose a risk to our family. And it tastes very good!
If you can’t find the SunButter brand, or if it’s too pricey (it can be $7+ per jar), you can always make sunbutter at home. Take a good amount of roasted sunflower seeds and process them in a food processor continuously (scraping down as necessary) until the seeds puree and release their oils. It will take quite a bit of time to get the sunbutter smooth, at least 5 minutes of continuous processing. To help the sunflower seeds puree turn to butter in the early stage, you can always add a little coconut oil to help it liquify faster.
I hope that helps! If you have any other questions, ask away
You are my new favorite person! Thank you so much! I found several products by this company on Amazon. I haven’t purchased them yet, but will. I have noticed on some other blogs that the blog owner gets benefit if people purchase things through their site links. Do you have that? I want to give back to you if I can when I get this – this is going to be so amazing for my first grader – and for me!
Thank you Ellen! Right now I don’t have an affiliate account with Amazon, but I have a referral rewards account with Vitacost. They carry SunButter, and you can get $10 off your purchase of $30 or more through my link: https://www.vitacostrewards.com/3H722D. Does that help? Let me know if the referral discount works for you
Worked perfectly! Cannot wait for it to get here! Thank you!!!
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yuuuummm…chocolate and nut butter is a match made in heaven
Yummm — good thing I’m not there to eat them all
: ) It took a lot for me not to eat all of them!