Look! Newly-Hatched Chicken and Egg Family

Look at this cute spring treat! Hardboiled eggs, carved with a few simple tools into a family of cheeping chicks and their proud mama.

We love this cute presentation of hardboiled eggs. It's a lot better for you than most of the sweets that fill Easter baskets, too.

The chicks were created with a sharp knife, some little circles of nori, and carrot beaks. (One commenter suggested using peppercorns for eyes.) They are pretty straightforward to assemble; we think that just about anyone could do this — no special tools required.

• Get the instructions: How to make a Chicken Family from Hard-Boiled Eggs at Eye Candy

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Categories: Easter, Passover, Spring

Posted by Faith Durand

Faith Durand is the executive editor of The Kitchn and the author of Bakeless Sweets: Pudding, Panna Cotta, Fluff, Icebox Cake, and More No-Bake Desserts. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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Comments (10)

WOW. That's cute.

Aw it's adorable. I would never want to eat it...

...ok, that's a lie, anytime there's deviled eggs around it doesn't last long.

Actually that's vaguely disturbing...but then again, I am reading Safran Foer's "Eating Animals" right now. Could have something to do with it. ;)

what's the momma chicken's comb made of? a pepperoni?

They're kinda cute, but I have to agree with wabisabichan.. they're a little morbid if you think about it. (I know, I know, unfertilized are not, and never would have been, chicks. But still.. you know?)

Are chick-shaped peeps morbid?

Aww...the little chickens that never were.

Omg!!! SO CUTE! I totally want to make them.

These are a bento staple. They're even more cute if you make them out of tiny quail eggs.

So cute!