SC - Sharing My (albeit temporary) moment of Brilliance

[Lorix]

Well, some of you may remember my heartfelt plea
of a way of serving chocolate in a discrete
manner.  Ie When your landed royalty decide you
will serve chocolate at a feast (and not the Aztec
variety), how do you do it discretely.

Well, I received many suggestions and the one I
liked best was a suggestion of poring the
chocolate into a blown egg-shell.  Now this idea
tied in well with a subtltie I was going to use.
Alas, in practice (well with me doing it anyway) .
. . it was not a success - the least said here the
better. <think melted warm gooey chocolate
exploding backwards from the syringe/egg because I
forgot to think of 'airhole' issues.  Do you
realise how much of a SPREAD that stuff has?>

So I pondered again (cause I really wanted to tie
it in with the egg idea) and at some ungodly hour
the other morning a solution presented itself.  If
I got little chocolate easter eggs & placed them
in the 'fake faberge egg' design, I would have
achieved my desire.

For those who are wondering about 'fake faberge
eggs', basically they come hinged or joined.  With
the joined variety basically you place your 'gift'
inside egg shells, glue them back together.  Paint
shell in nice colours and put braid around the
join - that is if you are me.  If you are a
laurelly type person, you put a hinge on the
contraption, line the inside with silk or satin,
bedeck it with drapes of pearls & delicate braids
and so forth.

Problem 1:  Now I had only seen the final results
of these beauties, I had never made them.  While I
was pondering on the technical aspects of putting
said eggs together, a friendly laurel (who will be
wayfaring to my feast) asked me whether there was
anything she could do.  <think evil laughter
here>  Initially, I asked for advice on the making
of the eggs & it turned out that not only did she
know How to make them, but offered to make some
for me.

I tentatively broached what I wanted with a modest
proposed number of said eggs.  She not only
acquiesced in the making thereof, but chastised me
as she thought the number far too low (oh there
really should be more laurels like that about,
they really don't grow on trees ya know ;-)
Sometimes the life of an event steward is really
good!

Now for all those who have read this far and are
trying to work out how you cut the egg shells
evenly & get the darn things back together:  I
will impart the tidbit that my laurelly friend
advised me.  Apparently, you can buy pre-cut egg
shells in a variety of sizes and because they are
neatly pre-cut the fit together 'eggcellently' (I
couldn't help myself here).

Well for those who asked for a report on the final
result (and probably now regret the request) here
'tis!

Lorix