Jello Eggs

It’s entirely possible I’ve lost my mind. But I prefer to call it investigative blogging. It has a better ring to it.

I was talking to Grandma Pellegrini the other day about Easter, and food, and food, and Easter, and she started telling me about these jello eggs she used to make.

“Wait, what?!?!” I replied very casually.

And so she set about telling me that she used to use egg shells as dessert molds to make egg shaped desserts. “You can use cake batter or jello,” she said simply.

“And you shake the egg to break up the yolk so it blows out easily.”

I was intrigued.

And so…

Yes. I did.

I used a thermometer to break a small hole open in the bottom…

And an even smaller hole on the top.

You blow in the small end and out comes the insides of the egg into a bowl, destined for an omelet.

Then you give them a power wash on the inside and shake them out.

And let them sit in their crate.

Meanwhile, you boil some water, and put your jello in its various bowls.

And you mix in the boiling water and let it dissolve. Use slightly less water than the recipe calls for to get a firm jello.

Mix some more.

Meanwhile, it’s time to get out the hot wax.

Drip a little bit onto the small hole to seal it.

You really have to channel Martha Stewart here in order to keep it real.

But then I started channeling myself again… because my pastry bags are in New York… and that’s when I got off track for a few minutes.

You see…

I tried to go all MacGyver on the eggs and use a zip lock bag as a pastry bag and it wasn’t so smooth.

But then I remembered something nifty I’d gotten as a birthday gift…

Kodak glasses! Perfect for developing film in a darkroom or filling egg shells with jello!

Thank you Kodak!

A funnel would work too. If I had a funnel. If only I did.

And in acuppula hours…

I began peeling.

Peach flavored.

All natural, from peach juice, hand squeezed by a monk in Tibet.

Lime. Plucked from the underbelly of Orlando.

Raspberry. Hand selected from a patch in Yorkshire.

Lemon. From the jello-aisle in Safeway.

Grandma P. used to place these in a bed of whipped cream.

You could also put a dollop of cream in the bottom of your egg cups.

You can also call me Martha from now on. Thank you.

Now excuse me, I have four bowls of leftover jello to eat.

Print Recipe

“Jello Eggs”

Ingredients

• Jello various flavors
• Eggs

Instructions

• Tap a small hole in the bottom of the eggs, large enough to pour in liquid. Tap an even smaller hole into the top so you can blow out the yolk and white. Shake the egg to break up the inside. Then blow through the small hole over a bowl until all the liquid it out of each egg.
• Give them a power wash under running water and shake all of the water out and place them back into their carton.
• Prepare the jello according to the instructions, using slightly less water than it calls for, for a stiffer jello.
• Drip hot wax on the smaller hole of each egg.
• With a funnel, pour in the different colored jello into each egg, filling them just to the top. Refrigerate for several hours until the jello is firmly set.
• Peel the egg shells gently away from the jello and serve with whipped cream.