A step-by-step guide to making chocolate creme eggs

1. Combine whipping cream, milk, light corn syrup, sugar and salt in a pan and stir.   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

2. Bring the mixture to a boil. If sugar crystals form on the edge of the pan, dissolve them with a wet pastry brush.   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

3. Cook until the mixture reaches 243 degrees.   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

4. Pour into a pan and set it aside to cool.  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

5. Stir the fondant with a bench scraper or wooden spoon.  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

6. Mix in the vanilla bean seeds and invertase.   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

7. Refrigerate until chilled, then scrape and mix again. Here are step-by-step instructions for making homemade Cadbury-style creme eggs. Once done, they can be decorated for a beautiful Easter treat. Read the story | Read the recipe   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

8. Separate a third of the fondant and knead in yellow food coloring. Chill well.   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

9. Form balls of the yellow-colored fondant into “yolks.”   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

10. Freeze the fondant yolks.  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

11. Form the white fondant around the yolks and into an egg shape.   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

12. Insert wooden skewers most of the way through the fondant eggs and then freeze them until hard.  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

13. Dip in melted chocolate.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

14. Remove skewer.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

15. Plug the skewer holes with a drop of melted chocolate.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

16. The eggs can be left plain or decorated. Here are step-by-step instructions for making homemade Cadbury-style creme eggs. Once done, they can be decorated for a beautiful Easter treat. Read the story | Read the recipe   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

A homemade chocolate egg, center right, is surrounded by two foil-wrapped and one unwrapped Cadbury Creme Eggs.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

The Cadbury Creme Egg has a pressed pattern. You can create your own look with the homemade eggs. Read the story | Read the recipe   (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)