One more post for this Easter. Here’s a neat curiosity that I highly recommend everyone to try at least once if you’ve never experienced it: the mignon eggs from Fazer!
It’s a fun one! The idea is that they take real eggs, make a small hole on the bottom and suck out the contents—which is further then pasteurized and used in Fazer bakeries for something—and wash the egg shells properly, and then fill it with almond chocolate nougat. Then they plug the hole with some sugar thingy, pack it up and off it goes.
They make these fully by hand, and they make around 1.5 million eggs each year in a span of around 3-4 months. It’s unlike anything I’ve heard of and it might be pretty much wholly unique to Finland and Fazer more specifically, which is why I really want people to know about it more. You usually get these around Easter only so it’s sort of seasonal but you might find some leftover eggs around other times during the year as well.
Now the thing you need to know, if you intend to get your hands on one of these bad boys is that you really need to be careful and not go crazy with them. You only need one and that should cover your needs for the entire year. It’s so god damn heavily packed with fat and sugar that having more than one is nearly impossible, and very much not recommended.
One good idea is to get some hot milk and melt half an egg per cup for some delicious hot chocolate, but just digging your teeth into one is so… decadent that you really should give that one a go at least once as well. I say once because you’ll probably regret it after and never want to do it again, but it feels so good-but-so-wrong that I still recommend doing it.
So if you can find these, get one! If you have Finnish friends, ask them to send you one. This is worth the effort.