Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets! A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food
Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets!
A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food
Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets! A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food
I am not a huge lover of Valentine’s day in the overtly commercial sense, but the frivolous and coquettish girl in me does love a kitsch gadget or too, so when I was sent an Eggspress heart-shaped boiled egg mould, to review from Mustard Gifts (and giveaway, more about that later) I was intrigued and I admit I wanted to play! It’s not that I am an unromantic soul, although I do admit to becoming less romantic as the years pass by, it’s just that I hate all the cheesy commercialism that surrounds the day of love and some of it makes me cringe, quite frankly. However, I DO love a bit of kitsch cooking, and heart-shaped boiled eggs, as well as heart-shaped crumpets or anything else slightly amusing in the food line makes me smile and does find its way to my table of edible passion.
Eggspress heart-shaped boiled egg mould
So, how did the egg mould hold up? Well, as you can see from my breakfast photos, I DID get a heart-shaped egg, although not as pronounced as the ones shown on the packaging. I used a medium free-range egg, courtesy of Mavis one of my free-range hens, and it was slightly too large for the mould, and oozed out as I pressed it in. First tip, only use small eggs! I left it in the water for the designated 10 minutes and I was rewarded with a heart-ish shaped boiled egg, as you can see…….
Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets! A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food
……but, my egg was just too big for the mould and as you can see, and the yolk nearly touched the edge of the heart shape. The procedure was easy, just hard boil your egg, peel it and then add it to the mould before allowing to soak in cold water for ten minutes. I think that if you were planning on a large passionate breakfast, filled with heart-shaped eggs, than one mould would be tricky as it would take you an hour to make six “lovey-dovey” eggs! However, it is a quirky little gadget and it’s fun. It costs £5, which is comparable Lakeland prices, and seems fairly hard-wearing, if you are planning to make lots of them. I served my boiled egg with a rather large heart-shaped crumpet – a packet of 4 cost me £1 from Asda, and each crumpet is equivalent to one and half normal shaped ones. There are a 143 calories per crumpet and with some very low-fat spread and a small egg, that means if you are on a fast day (for the 5:2 diet) on Valentine’s Day, and want to join in, than this breakfast, brunch or tea works out to 200 calories, so not bad at all! (143 calories + 51 calories for a small egg + 6 calories for a scant amount of low-fat spread)
Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets! A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food
I also have a Tala Heart-Shaped mini cake tin to try out, please pop back for the recipe for that later, and some fried egg shapers to try too…..things are going to get steamy in the Lavender and Lovage kitchen! Last year I posted three Valentine’s Day related articles, with recipes, and if you need more heart-felt culinary inspiration then please take a look at them below.
Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets! A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food
Baked with Love! Valentine’s Day – Love is in the Air with Romantic Welsh Griddle Cakes for Tea Time Treats
Hot Chèvre & Beetroot Salad with Chocolate & Vanilla Balsamic Drizzle
My MasterChef Romantic Appetiser – Pan-fried Scallops with Black Pudding and Warm Fennel Salad
My MasterChef Romantic Appetiser – Pan-fried Scallops with Black Pudding and Warm Fennel Salad
I hope you all have the Valentine’s Day you wish for, me, I will be in for the evening with a bottle of wine and a nice meal that I am cooking…….with a log fire, candles maybe and probably in my pyjamas too! I have TWO of these nifty little heart-shaped egg moulds to give away and you just need to enter by leaving a comment below! As it is Valentine’s Day tomorrow, I am suggesting that these might be a nice way to serve eggs to your mum on mother’s day this year, and so I am leaving the contest up for 2 weeks…….after all, a heart is for always and NOT just for Valentine’s Day! Karen
Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets! A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food
Disclaimer: I was sent an Eggspress Boiled Egg Heart Shaped Mould to review free of charge, as well as two to offer as a prize. All opinions are my own.
Giveaway:
To enter this Giveaway, all you have to do is the following:
1. Complete the Rafflecopter widget below to verify your entries – ONE mandatory questions will appear, which you need to answer by leaving a comment at the bottom of the post.
2. Entries are by blog comment only.
3. Closing Date 5th March 2013
4. Prize: Two Eggspress Boiled Egg Heart Shaped Moulds
GOOD LUCK!
Karen
Eggspress Boiled Egg Heart Shaped Mould
My boyfriend – he loves boiled eggs
My kids as it would get them to eat them!!! I would use it to cut out shapes in their toast too! It will encourage them not to always only want cereal for brekkie!
My daughters would love these. Look great on crumpets in your picture. I would surprise them 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway.
my 5year old twins there very picky at what they eat they enjoy when I do faces so I know they would love heart shape egg x
My boyfriend will find these too cheesy, my mum won’t get it or even notice it in fact so probably my little sister. She will love these in fact and it will probably help her to eat breakfast too as she is attracted to pretty things.
To my partner who loves boiled eggs
My lovely hubby because he deserves a lovely treat as he always brings me a cuppa in bed before he leaves for work and i `d love to make him some eggs with these cute moulds x
i take my oh breakfast in bed every day when she is working and this would make a fab change to normal shaped omlettes etc. and show my appreciation
Wish I had these for tmw morning, hunting for inspiration to make Valentines morning special as my OH is working the late shift :(.
I would cook these for my kids. They would love them and might even try them.
I’d cook these for my wife – she loves eggs, and she a romantic too. Bonus
my daughter would love it
Smashing prize
My sister, as she loves eggs
perfect accompaniment to my i love you toast press . so i could make my lovely hubby/best friend / carer /soulmate thomas an appreciative breakfast for all he does for the family .
great prize.. perfect for my wife who loves eggs on toast in bed
Myself! 😛 I’m the only one in the family who likes eggs.
I’d love to do that for my husband! He does so much for me I’d love to return the favor!
me and my cat.. my hubbie doesn’t like eggs.
Me and hubby on toast (the eggs, not us)
My man because I love him – I don’t think he will appreciate them!
My Whole Family!
My husband! I love to treat him cause he’s so lovely to me! 🙂 x
My hubby, because he deserves a special treat
My son-he would love it!
I love the little egg presses, I would use them for my kids, they love eggs!
My boyfriend because I love him
I would make one for Robbie Williams as he has been the man in my life for many years (oh…but don’t tell my hubby!)
Wow! I would love to have this for breakfast ! Looks so sweet with heart shape! J’adore! Happy Velentine’s day , Karen !
To my lovely boyfriend Nick. Because they’re soo cute!
I love the little egg presses,
egg-septional prize once again karen ty x love it
What a cheery way to get your protein!
my daughter has just learnt to say ‘heart’ she would LOVE this
my boyfriend as he deserves some breakfast in bed
My girlfriend as she is amazing without knowing it.
My partner as he loves eggs
As my hubby retched at the mere thought of eggs, if would have to be my kids. They don’t often have breakfast at home as go to breakfast club before school, so this would be a nice treat and surprise for them.
my partner as he would love this
Me! love boiled eggs but don’t think to make them.
Great novelty! Love the look of your black pudding and scallops – love that combination!
My husband as he loves romantic things!!
The crumpets are so adorable! My son would go mad for those, he’s crazy about crumpets.
I would love to make heart shaped eggs, fantastic.
The boiled eggs look great heart shaped.
Who would you serve these heart shaped boiled eggs to and why? My teenage daughter. She loves it when I prepare quirky and cute breakfasts. I bought a dinosaur toast cutter to serve her dino toast for breakfast…. so she could have dino toast and heart eggs!!!
I love the crumpets! Would love those for my 3 yr old, Melody!
My girls would love heart shaped eggs. Much easier to do it this way
Looks like a ‘love’ly Valentine’s breakfast.
What a fantastic idea, Having just got in from a very cold dog walk, I have treated myself ti crumpets this evening. I have never had them for breakfast, Think they would be good with soft poached egg and crisp streaky bacon too.
My wonderful husband because I love him so much 🙂
My dad would love this!
This would be a lovely breakfast and looks so nice – Eggscellant!!
My 12-year-old sister, as she’d just think they were too cute for words!
my 5 year old would love this! it would also be a good way to get him to eat a hearty breakfast.
So romantic.
Everyone would enjoy heart-shaped boiled eggs, they look so cute!
I would do them for my man it looks lush
I love the look of the crumpets – pity they are from tesco! I’ve just started making my own ones and am getting on quite well. I do love the look of the heart shaped ones though. I wonder if you can get heart shaped crumpet “rings”…
These crumpets are from Asda Fiona, and I also make my own crumpets, and you can use heart shaped biscuit cutters for these then!
Oh havn’t had crumpets for ages and love the heart shapes lovely especially for valentines day I will have to remember next year
Don’t normally think of crumpets as savoury. I like them with butter and jam.
I’d give them to my partner, we don’t see each other that often, so I would love to make him breakfast in bed with these. We love cutesy things like this and are always doing romantic things. What a lovely way to start the morning 🙂 x
Have to be my little girl cutting toast and eggs into heart shapes may encourage her to eat all her breakfast before school.
lovely idea
my grandaughter would love to use these with me
I would serve these to my three boys, they would love it.
My Wife
My mother for Mothers day 🙂
I would make them for my gorgeous children, as we are always leaving little notes for each other and what better way than to serve them up for brekkie!
For my partner as he is lovely.
Heart shaped anything has me sold. It must be like pink and appeal to the romantic in me.
For my partner because I’m a soppy romantic! 🙂 (He would need me to point out that they are heart shaped though as he’d just scoff the lot without looking otherwise!)
My husband , I am still romantic after 33 years of marriage.
My boyfriend, he always has eggs on toast for breakfast! : )
Would serve these to my 5 year old niece!
love it 🙂
I’d serve it to my little son.
for my lovely husband xxx
My wife and daughters, who already have my heart
My gorgeous man <3 I'd also make some for the kiddies too, may encourage them to eat more eggs! x
Have to serve to my husband, just to see if he even noticed!!
I love the look of the egg mould! I bought an eff shaped mini frying pan a few years ago and every so often I pull it out of the cupboard to attempt heart shaped fried eggs =and every time I use it I’m really disappointed because the egg sticks to the pan and comes out in a big mess rather than a nice heart shape. I prefer boiled eggs to fried ones anyway so I must try one of these!
Oh my my husband should make this every morning for me!!!
my kids loves it
crumpets are my fav!
Fun breakfast!
lovely idea
I love egg moulds I have a fish and a car one 🙂
do you know if its hard to make crumpets 🙂
Please could you send the heart mold to my boyfriend to inspire him to prepare some breakfast in bed!!