I kind of forgot egg molds existed until we accidentally bought too many eggs a few weeks ago and thus were making a whole lot of egg salad. I started saving some hard boiled eggs for Juju's breakfast, using a egg slicer to make the pieces more toddler friendly. And then I remembered that eggs are pretty malleable; I once even saw a square shaped egg mold. (Why anyone would want a square shaped egg is beyond me).
Since I was looking for ways to make lunch more fun (both to eat and to make!) I set out on an egg hunt of sorts looking for affordable egg molds. I'm aware the term "egg mold" sounds really gross but just go with me here. Amazon has a few options, as does Etsy, but I preferred shopping at a 100 Yen store because it was cheaper and I liked reviewing all of the options in person. The set I purchased contained the bunny and teddy bear shown in the picture above. I also saw molds for hearts and stars in addition to the car and fish in the photo. Since Easter is around the corner, I bet there are other great options for deocrating hard boiled eggs. If anyone finds any please post a link in the comments!
I got some great ideas on how to actually make the molds from this great blog post on Just Bento. I followed her instructions but I used Extra Large eggs the first time and the results were not so pretty. The Large eggs are a much better fit (if only I read Japanese I would have understood this from the package). And if you want to get really fancy, you can soak your eggs in colored water before molding them to give them a color AND a shape (but that kind of creeps me out). Another plus to using Japanese molds like the one above is that they double as rice molds and they have a "stamp" on the back of the mold so you can use them like a cookie cutter to cut a fish for example out of a piece of cheese. Again, writing this out in words sounds gross but they do look really cute, I promise.
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If you can't find any egg molds near you, you can still have a whole lot of fun with an egg slicer (or just a plain old knife); I used hard boiled egg slices to give eyes to my snack face gal shown in the photo to the right.
*Sadly the only egg molds I could find are made of plastic.
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