Hard Boiled Egg Snowman * Christmas *
- 1 extra large hard boiled egg
- 1 medium to large hard boiled egg
- 2 toothpicks
- 1 salt to taste
- 1 see directions as there are several options.
- FOR THE SNOWMAN BODY:
- when eggs are cool enough to handle gently crack and peel eggs.
- using a sharp knife slice of a small layer on both bottoms of both eggs so they stand on their own.
- repeat same process with tops of eggs.
- place larger egg standing up biggest side down.
- insert 2 toothpicks into the snowman base.
- place smaller egg in same fashion over toothpicks.
- now u have a snowman body.
- arrange slices u cut off around snowman in any matter u wish.
- this is the snow.
- FOR THE NOSE: thing u can use... an almond sliver, a carrot shoestring, shoestring potato chip, a small pretzel stick.
- insert any one of those into center of top egg.
- FOR THE BUTTONS: U can use raisins or currants any small dark firm item.
- gently press 3 of what u chose into the bottom egg.
- centering one and place one above and one below that.
- FOR THE EYES: same as buttons.
- place above nose.
- FOR THE ARMS: u can use pretzel sticks, small sesame sticks, shoestring carrots.
- place one one each side of the egg wherever u think they look good.
- FOR THE HAT #1: a toast hat!
- u need 2 different sized round cookie cutter proportionate to ur snowman.
- toast bread to ur liking.
- cut one big circle and 2 small circles out of the toast.
- place large piece on top of head then the two smaller.. u have a hat!
- FOR THE HAT 2: 3 slices of carrot, each smaller than the next.
- stack biggest to smallest.. now u have a carrot hat!
- FOR THE HAT 3: tomato hat, slice the but end of a tomato off.
- this is the base of ur hat.
- trim as needed.
- now cut a cherry tomato by cutting off the top 1/4 of tomato.
- place cheery tomato on top of tomato slice.. now u have a tomato hat!
- FOR THE MOUTH: use a pretzel stick or shoestring carrot.
- make a small slkice into top egg below the nose where the moth should be.
- inserrt pretzel horizontally.
- now u have a mouth.
- sprinkle a bit of salt around plate for more snow.
- ( this looks best on a darker plate" blue for ice is great.
- serve and enjoy!
egg, egg, toothpicks, salt, directions
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/351020-hard-boiled-egg-snowman-christmas (may not work)