New way to look at eggs

Have you ever had this GREAT idea?  Or seen a really interesting project, small or large, and say to yourself “That looks sooo easy.  I’ll try it.  Why didn’t I think of that?”

Anyone who knows me, and I mean really knows me, knows that like a fool, I carry around a mini sketch book FULL FULL FULL of fabulous ideas.  AND I am constantly adding things too it.  If I see something interesting online, I print it off, cut and paste it to this little gem of a book.  If I’m out and about and fall in love with something, I snap a pic of it or sketch it into this book.

So I told you all of that to tell you this.

Quite a few years ago, I came across this wonderful “project” showing how to blow eggs (meaning blowing the innards out through a hole.  aka instant scrambled eggs.) and transform them into homemade "chocolate” eggs that the kids could peel like a real hardboiled egg at Easter.  So, here’s the process.

 

So I figured I should start this project on a small scale.

I started out with 5 eggs.  Honestly that’s all I had to spare.

 

 

Here is a picture representing the “blown” eggs.  I definitely learned a few tips.  One would be use a drill with a small bit.  I think it would make an easier and cleaner “hole.” 

Next we washed all the eggs.  Then boiled them in a small sauce pot 2/3’s full of water.  I added about 1/3 Cup of white vinegar to the water.  Why vinegar, you ask.  Cuz’ the directions told me too.  Simmered them about 20-25 minutes.

After the simmering in a vinegar water bath, I let them dry and drain for about 6 hours.  Making sure they were COMPLETELY dry, otherwise they can get a bit…funky inside.  I placed a small bit of tape over each hole, so one on each end.  Then the little babies hit the coloring pool with the regular hardboiled eggs.  Coloring was an interesting event, considering they want to float in the solution rather than sink like their hardboiled friends.  The little buggers!

After coloring, and glitter for “bling’ed eggs,” they look just like the others.

It was a fun project.  Wyatt loved the “egg peeing egg” (ahh the mind of a 5yo boy!)as he put it, but sure loved loved loved the cool scrambled eggs for breakfast.

 

I wish I could report to all of you how easy it was to fill them with chocolate, which I’m sure it is ….. the directions told me so.  However, I didn’t get that far.  We had a bit of drama at The Farm the week of Easter, which threw the whole week off.  But, back to the story, the directions call for making a chocolate “coating” by melting baking chocolate with a bit of cream.  Pour into eggs and swirl it around until completely coated on the inside.  Pour out remaining chocolate.  MY plan was to do this coating process a couple times, then make a peanut butter cream to fill the inner core with.  YUMO!  But like I said, I didn’t get that far.  

Maybe next year. 

It was a great project none the less.

Happy Easter, The Farm