How to make Eggs in a Bun

Eggs in a bun

Like we said in the previous post, we saw this cute item somewhere on the internet last fall (I think, but who knows, the way time flies it might have been longer, right?). But when I tried to go back and find the site, GONE!  We are sure we created a bookmark, but who knows. Anyway we planned to make these a number of times for different events, but so far that has not worked out yet. Oh well, their loss.

Trader Joe's Brioche Buns

To make sure they were as easy as we thought, we decided to make them for dinner last night, you know for research. We found these lovely buns: Trader Joe’s Brioche Buns and thought they were the perfect buns for our eggs.

Here is what we did:

1. Cut the top of the bun, and cut away some of the bread in the middle, forming a sort of nest. Make sure to leave the walls thick, so that the raw egg does not ooze out the side.

Cut off the top of each bun

2. Crack the eggs into the buns. Now our buns were large, and so we felt as if they could handle the two eggs. In the original post, long gone on the internet, they were smaller buns with only one egg in each.

Ready for the oven

3. We sprinkled the eggs with sliced green onions, and some cheese. We were also thinking that a cheese sauce or Hollandaise sauce would also be nice, as would salsa.

4. Bake. We baked these in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. We were trying to leave the yolks a bit runny, but then the whites would have been runny as well. In the end, they were cooked but not hard cooked.

5. Serve. We ate these with a nice side of fruit salad. YUM!

So the bottom line: these were as cute to make/eat as we thought, but they did take longer to bake than we expected. Also they were quite large and we think they would be better with smaller buns and only one egg.

So if you are looking for something unusual to make for a brunch, these might just be perfect.