HOWTO bake a brownie in an eggshell

Cory Doctorow 8:18 am Sat Nov 12, 2011

La Receta de la Felicidad, a Spanish-language site, has Sandeea Cocina's great little HOWTO for baking brownies inside blown eggshells. You make a hole in the shell with a corkscrew, stand the shell up in a muffin tin with tin-foil supports, and fill the egg with brownie batter using a piping bag and bake (make sure to leave room in the egg to allow for cakeular expansion!). My mom used to make me Jello-filled hollow eggs, but this is a whole 'nother level of egg-hacking.

Brownie: por fin llegó el día del brownie! (La Receta de la Felicidad)

Brownie: Finally the day came brownie! (Google Translate)

(via Neatorama)

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