Egg Mice Recipes

SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Put the egg white in a large bowl and whisk until foamy. Stir in the lemon juice.
• Gradually stir in the icing sugar with a wooden spoon until really stiff, like dough. Or, dust the work surface with some icing sugar and knead the sugar into the mixture until you get the right consistency.
• Divide the mixture in half. Add a dot of pink food colouring to one half, then knead in to evenly distribute the colour. Add a tiny bit more colouring if you want a stronger colour. Leave the second half plain.
• Break off a walnut-sized piece of the mixture and roll into a rounded cone shape, then flatten one side so that the mouse can sit on a flat surface without toppling over. Pinch out little ears on top of the narrow end, then squeeze the same end into a nose. Press chocolate sprinkles into the face below the ears to make eyes. Cut a length of kitchen string about 4cm long, and push it into the round end of the mouse to make a tail.
• Use a cocktail stick to dab a tiny amount of pink food colouring onto the nose, then put the mouse on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.
• Repeat the process with the remaining pink and white mixtures, then leave the mice to dry out for at least 12 hrs.

HARD-BOILED EGG MICE

Steps:

• Slice the egg in half lengthwise. Place the halves yolk side down on a plate. ) Slice tiny black olive "eyes" and radish "ears." Then make small slits in the egg halves for the eyes and ears and push in the olives and radishes. Add chive tails.
• Serve the pair of egg mice with a wedge of Swiss cheese for a playful lunch.

EGG MICE

Steps:

• Remove a thin slice from the side of the egg, so the egg will not roll over; This will be the bottom of the mouse.
• Slice the salami down the middle.
• Cut 2 thin slices, lengthwise, from the inside of each salami half, this will be the tails.
• Cut the halves in two, this will be the ears.
• At the small part of the egg and in the center, cut a small slit, just big enough to insert the broccoli floret, this is the nose.
• Just above the nose, cut two holes for the raisins to be inserted, this will be the eyes.
• Starting at the smaller part of the egg, where the nose is, cut two slits on each side, 1/3 of the way down the egg and insert two triangular pieces of salami, this will be the ears.
• Slice cheese cube in half crosswise to form two cheese triangles, one for each mouse.
• Plate mice on a dark platform and decorate with cheese pieces and serve.