
Bunny-Faced Stuffed Eggs for 6 kids
If you've got any younger brothers or sisters, this is a good recipe to make. You can even let little kids help mash up the yolk mixture in the bag. Then watch to see their eyes light up when you finish off the eggs to look like bunnies. For a special treat, you might even want to invent a new kind ofEGGimal using other foods. What EGGimal could you make using olive or cucumber slices, dried fruit bits, bell pepper sticks, cheese shreds, cut-up pieces of luncheon meat or other foods you have on hand?
Foods you need:
- 3 cups lettuce torn into small pieces
- 1 1/2 cups shredded carrots
- 6 hard-cooked eggs*
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon snipped fresh parsley or chives OR 1/2 teaspoon dried dill weed
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1 medium whole carrot
- 18 raisins or currants
Kitchen items you need:
- 6 plates
- 1/2-cup measuring cup
- 1/4-cup measuring cup
- Cutting board and knife Small spoon
- Quart-sized plastic food
- storage bag with a twist
- tie or zip seal Kitchen shears
1. Put 1/2 cup of the lettuce on each plate. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the carrots over the lettuce.
2. On the cutting board, with the knife, cut the eggs in half long-ways. Gently scoop out the egg yolks with the spoon. Put the yolks in the
plastic bag. Set the egg whites aside. Add the mayonnaise, parsley and mustard to the bag. Push out most of the air. Seal the bag closed.
Press and squeeze the bag until the yolks are mashed and blended with the mayonnaise, parsley and mustard and you can't see any streaks any more.
3. Push the yolk mixture to one of the bottom corners of the bag. Cut off a little bit of the corner with the shears. Hold the cut corner over an
empty egg white half. Gently squeeze the bag from the top until the egg white is filled with the yolk mixture and has a small mound on top. One by
one, fill the rest of the egg white halves with the rest of the yolk mixture. Carefully press 2 filled egg white halves together. Put 1 stuffed egg
on top of the shredded carrots on each plate.
4. On the cutting board, with the knife, cut the whole carrot on a diagonal into 12 long, thin slices. Stick 2 carrot slices into each egg to
look like bunny ears. Dip a raisin into the yolk mixture (from inside an egg) until the raisin has yolk on it. Press the raisin onto the
egg to look like a nose. Dip 2 more raisins in the yolk and press them on to look like eyes. Keep dipping and pressing the raisins on until
all the eggs have eyes and noses.
*To make hard-cooked eggs, click here
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