Dyed Easter Eggs Recipe
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When Easter rolls around, don’t miss out on the egg-dying fun. Decorate your eggs in red, blue, green, or whatever color sparks your fancy. Use a clear or white crayon to draw on them before dipping them in the dye.
INGREDIENTS
- 12 white eggs
- 2 teaspoons distilled white vinegar
- About 40 drops (1/2 teaspoon) food coloring
- Crayons (preferably clear or white ones) or stickers, for decorating (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place a rack over a paper-towel-lined baking sheet; set aside.
- Place eggs in a single layer in a large saucepan with a tightfitting lid. Add enough water to cover the eggs by 1 to 2 inches. Bring to a boil over high heat. Remove from heat, cover, and let sit for 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, carefully remove eggs to the rack and let sit until cool enough to handle.
- Pour 1 cup water into a small, nonreactive bowl or mug. Add vinegar and food coloring and stir to combine. For a darker color, add a few more drops of food coloring. Repeat for additional colors.
- If desired, decorate cooled eggs with crayons or stickers.
- Using a spoon, dip each egg into the dye, turning to coat evenly. Remove to the rack to dry.
A cool thing we did, to avoid bad eggs, is we punched a little hole in the raw eggs, saved this for scrambled eggs, and then decorated the shells, so they could be kept as souvenirs. We got wild and hot glued pearl, feathers, glitter, etc. on them. The girls had lots of fun.
I put gold dollar coins in the surprise plastic eggs, along with edibles.
I'll be doing this this year. I tried a dozen natural dyes last year and they turned out crap. lol
Don't forget to rub the coloured egg with some fat (ham's rind works well) to make tehm shiny!
I'm almost 60, don't have kids or grandkids but feel the need to dye at least a dozen eggs every Easter.