Greetings My Beautiful Lovelies: A DIY Guide to Shaping an Egg Like Mickey Mouse

Hello and welcome back to my channel, lovelies! Today, we're going to be tackling a unique and fascinating DIY project that involves taking a regular egg and shaping its yolk into the iconic silhouette of Mickey Mouse. This technique is commonly used in Japanese cuisine to add a touch of whimsy to traditional dishes like ramen. I've got the instructions right here, so let's get started!

To begin, we'll need to bisect our egg vertically using a marker to determine the halfway point. Next, we'll carefully remove the egg from its shell by gently tapping it and then extricating it with a pair of scissors. Don't worry if it breaks – we can always trim off any damaged bits later. Once we've freed our egg, we'll separate the yolk using my trusty hand method, which has proven to be reliable time and time again.

Now that we have our yolk, it's time to widen the hole in the shell to accommodate its new shape. We'll use scissors once more to carefully cut away at the shell until we reach the desired size. I've found that using a pair of fingers to gently chip away at the edges can be quite effective – just be careful not to break anything!

With our shell now hollowed out, we'll need to create a little nest for our yolk using a ramekin or dish and some paper towel. Next, we'll carefully place the white back into the shell, making sure it's snug and secure. Then, we'll submerge the egg in hot water – about half an inch deep should do the trick – and let it steam for five minutes.

However, I quickly realized that this wasn't going to be a straightforward process. The white took longer to cook than expected, and I found myself needing to steam it for about six minutes just to get it right. But the real challenge was the yolk – with its wrapping in saran wrap, it needed an additional couple of minutes to cook properly. Who knew that this simple egg would be so finicky?!

Once our egg has finished steaming, we'll carefully remove it from the pot and let it cool for a bit. Then, we'll use a little forceps to gently peel away any excess shell, revealing our Mickey Mouse-shaped yolk. I must admit – I was getting a bit nervous about this part!

To finish off our egg, we can either place it in the steamer again or wrap it in saran wrap to help it cook evenly. Either way, the end result should be a beautifully cooked yolk with just the right amount of firmness and creaminess.

And there you have it – my Mickey Mouse-shaped egg is finally ready! It may not have been the most straightforward process, but the end result was well worth the effort. So, if you're feeling adventurous and want to try your hand at shaping an egg like Mickey Mouse, be sure to follow along with me in this video.

But before we go – I just want to say thank you so much for joining me on this DIY journey, lovelies! It means the world to me that you're always here to support me and share in my creative adventures. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button and follow me on social media to stay up-to-date on all my latest projects and behind-the-scenes peeks. Until next time – take care, and I'll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engreetings my beautiful lovelies hello it's emmy welcome back today's diy involves eggs or an egg another egg so what i'm going to be tempting to do today is taking this little ordinary egg and taking the yolk and making it into the shape of mickey mouse while it's still in the egg it is very common and traditional to serve an egg that has kind of a jellied yolk in a bowl of ramen but at disneyland in tokyo they serve it where the yolk is actually shaped like the silhouette of mickey mouse all right so that's what i'm going to be attempting today i will put the original link to the blog post down below where i got the instructions for this tutorial all right let's go ahead and get started so what we're going to do is take a marker and we're going to bisect this vertically so we know where the halfway mark is now we need to get the egg out of the shell we're going to gently tap it i'm going to use a pair of scissors to extricate this egg take a pair of little scissors here get an opening i want my opening large enough to get the egg out without breaking the yolk scissors are helping now and get that shell out of there now we're going to separate the yolk this is my favorite way of separating a yolk i do this for all recipes i just use my hands it works all right so there's my yoke we're going to set that aside now we're going to widen this hole take our scissors again and we're going to take it down almost to that line in the blog they instruct just chipping it down with your fingers i'm going to use scissors i think we'll get a cleaner edge we'll be less likely to crack the egg shell so this works pretty well now what we're going to do is take a little ramekin or dish or some kind and i've placed a little bit of paper towel in there and make a little nest to hold the shell level now we're going to replace the white back into the shell okay there we go right in a pot i've got about half an inch of hot water into the water and then we're supposed to stain this for five minutes so it's starting to rat a little bit and starting to shake my ramekin which is not good so that rattling you here is a little ramekin dancing around in the bottom of the pot don't really like that so i'm going to elevate this i'm going to place another ramekin down below and then i'm going to place this one on top this is steaming here oh see i don't think i like the steaming technique at all it's jarring the pot so i think what i'm gonna do ah that was so hot so i didn't like that steaming technique because it was rattling the ramekin and i'm afraid that i won't get a level surface so i'm going to replace that technique with a basket like this crank this up onto high turn on some more hot water like that and i'm going to place this in like that and that way it won't rattle all right so next i'm going to put the lid back on and this is a little dim sum technique i put a clean dish cloth on here and this will absorb any condensation so hopefully it won't drip into the egg and create any mars or bubbles so yeah we'll place that on top and let that go for five minutes all right be right back it's been seven minutes and here is my egg it feels firm to the touch the instruction said five minutes but i let it go a couple minutes longer and i think that has to do with the kind of adaptation rig that i did right here now we're going to cut out the mickey mouse shape i'm going to use some of these piping bag adapters i found in my kitchen drawer and these happen to be just about the right size this is about two centimeters in diameter and about one centimeter in diameter for the ears you could also use boba straws or even a spoon if you're really really adept i'm going to cut the face up first so using a little pressure to cut and get that perfect circle twist and then i'm going to use a tiny spoon to scoop out the center now i'm going to cut the ears this is very tedious what do today oh i mean mickey mouse ears oh there is the mickey mouse hollow all right so next we're gonna take our yolk that we removed and beat that up so now we're going to take this yolk and place it into our little mickey mouse shaped hole i'm going to use this little pop and cooking syringe that i have very handy don't want bubbles though so hopefully we're gonna pop some of those bubbles all right oh bubble so now we're going to place a little sheet of parchment on top place this back in the steamer all right so it's been two minutes i just took it out of the steamer it looks like it has wicked a little bit i hope this has turned out i'm going to use my little forceps here to see if i can peel this off and clean it up a little bit oh no so it still looks like it needs to be cooked a little bit more i'm going to try cooking it without this parchment because it's getting the egg yolk everywhere so i don't like that wicking action let's refill this back up so it also said you could put saran wrap over the top of this so we'll just wrap this whole thing up and see what happens back into the pot steam it for another couple minutes all right let's go ahead and check this this has taken a lot longer than i expected the white itself took about six minutes and i actually had to use more about eight to nine minutes for the yolk and i think it has to do with wrapping it in the saran wrap here it i think insulates it a bit so it takes longer for it to cook and there is my stinking mickey mouse egg there it is here is my mickey mouse egg it turned out i'm so glad it did this is probably got to be one of the most labor-intensive egg projects i've done at least just for a single egg i think i've done except the eggs tractor that was pretty labor intensive but that was more about testing the product but in terms of just making an egg yep this is probably going to be right up there all right let's go ahead and give it a taste i'm going to sprinkle a little bit of salt on top all right let's go ahead and scoop it oh it's actually cooked nicely kind of gelled right exactly how i like it itadakimasu it's delicious i was expecting the white to be very rubbery because in terms of total cooking time this was seamed for quite a while i think the egg white was probably in there for about 12 to 15 minutes but it actually is cooked really nicely the top is a little bit firm but in totality actually quite good the yolk is actually cooked perfectly that's exactly how i like my eggs cooked for ramen yay so happy about that it's still jellied and kind of creamy on the top perfect perfect perfect perfect so happy about that would i say it's worth the effort not so sure but you saw me do it so you don't have to do it but if you do attempt this please share your results with me on social media i want to see what you came up with all right thank you guys so much for joining me i hope you guys enjoyed that one i hope you guys learned something be sure to share this video with your friends and follow me on social media so you can see what videos are coming up next and i shall see you in my next one toodaloo take care bye we\n"