Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Some Fun in the Lunchbox

My friend Lyndsey over at The Tiny Skillet posted about one of her bento boxes a while back.  It had the cutest little shaped hard boiled egg in it.  I had to know how she did it and she was nice enough to tell me about egg molds from Japan.  I had never heard of such a thing, but within 5 minutes I had four egg molds on order through ebay directly from Japan.  They showed up not one week later!


This was my first go at egg molding.  I thought the kids would enjoy these little cuties in their lunch boxes for camp.

The first step is to hard boil some eggs.  Let them cool a bit and peel them.  Place in the mold, close and refrigerate for at least 5 hours.  I did mine overnight.  In the morning, this is what we had:


And my favorite:

I did the bear too, but the egg cracked and he ended up looking like he had a cracked skull!  All in all though, this was really cute and easy to do.  I cannot believe I hadn't heard of these molds before.  I highly recommend molded eggs for a nice little pick-me-up at lunchtime (or, if it's one of those days, you might enjoy biting the cute face right off a cuddly little bunny).

Lyndsey recently started an entire blog dedicated to bento box meals.  She is a true bento artist - check out her new blog HERE.

6 comments:

  1. I love these egg molds! I have got to buy some. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Lyndsey made me want to start making bentos too...I have some little tiny molds for quail eggs...They are really cute.

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  3. The egg molds and Lyndsey's bentos are so cool. I would love to see what little molded quail eggs look like.

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  4. OMG, those are so cute. I didn't even know that egg molds exsisted like that! Now I wish I had kids so I could put those in their lunch boxes! :) Oh wait, I don't need kids, I just need eggs!! Thanks for the post!

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  5. Children not required! I felt the same way when I saw Lyndsey's post - I HAD to have them.

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  6. I missed this one too. So sorry!

    I think I was more impressed with them than my daughter was.

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