Easter Antipasto

This is from The Complete Holiday Cookbook, from Favorite Recipes Press. It looks like late 60's.

Several Easter menus are provided, and this one goes with Cold Easter Supper. Here's the menu:
Easter Antipasto

Cold Cut Platter

Potato Chips (I'm serious)

Celery and Carrot Sticks

Butter Cream Easter Eggs

So stop worrying about a fancy Easter supper - this is all you need. I am not even putting the Easter Antipasto recipe up here, as it involves artichokes and dyed yellow cream cheese. Instead, let's focus on :

Butter Cream Easter Eggs

1/2 pound plus 1 tablespoon butter

1 8 oz. package cream cheese

3 boxes confectioners' sugar

8 oz. bitter or semisweet chocolate

1 2-inch square wax

1/4 tsp. vanilla

Cream 1/2 pound butter and cream cheese; gradually blend in sugar. Shape into small eggs. Coo for about 1 hour. Melt chocolate, remaining butter, wax and vanilla over hot water. Dip eggs in mixture and allow to cool. Yield: 90 - 100 eggs. (!!) I don't even want to think about how many I could eat.

I actually think you could make these into larger eggs and pour that hot chocolate over them, maybe turning once or something. I'd love to see how 90 - 100 eggs comes out of one 8 oz. block of cream cheese, but no pictures are provided.

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