Kitchen Test: Christmas tree devilled eggs

I don't know if doing a single trial counts as doing our own research, but for our New Year's Eve supper, the lovely Manon agreed to my request that we try making four Christmas tree devilled eggs.

Manon had spotted someone making them on Instagram without any information on ingredients.

So I figured that a ripe avocado would be good for getting the green colour and adding enough volume to get tree height, bits of a yellow pepper would work for the star on top and hot pepper flakes would make the tree decorations.

Here is Manon with our four prototypes.

She did well with the piping, but it would have gone better if I'd done a better job of smashing the avocado.

Ingredients:

• 2 boiled eggs
• 1 small avocado
• 2 teaspoons of mayonnaise
• a few bit of yellow sweet pepper
• a bunch of hot pepper flakes

Outcome:

You know what? They were fine. However, regular devilled eggs don't look so fancy, but they taste better. Let's face it. Devilled eggs are awesome. 

This appears to be another lesson that confirms you shouldn't mess with perfection.