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Little Foodies: Watercolor Easter Eggs

The Foodies' KitchenMarch 22, 2016

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This technique for dyeing easter eggs is easy, and the results are so pretty! All you need is food coloring, plastic glasses and plastic spoons, which you will use to pour colors over the eggs. We used water and edible food coloring to get the watercolor effect. This results in very light and delicate colors. If you want brighter and deeper colors, we recommend you add food color drops directly to a plastic spoon, and maybe add a few drops of water to dilute it slightly, or don’t use any water at all.

So, this is what we did: We used a ½ cup water 20 drops of food coloring ratio, which results in delicate colors. For a deeper shade, try ⅛ cup water and 20 drops of food coloring, and for deep colors add the food color drops straight from the bottle.

An important tip is that you should start with the light colors first, and add darker shades or different darker colors next. Each color needs to dry before you add the next one. You can set them to dry on the carton the eggs came in.

Kitty & Helga

Watercolor Easter Eggs

Procedure adapted from Spoon Fork Bacon

You need:
eggs
pinch of salt
vinegar
water
food coloring
plastic spoons
plastic glasses
a cooking dish, pyrex mold or cooking sheet to collect the run off dye.
the carton the eggs came in, that’s where you’ll set them to dry.

Procedure, Cooking your eggs:

First, you need to hard-boil your eggs. Set them in a pot of cold water, with at least 1-2 inches of water to cover them. Add vinegar and salt to the water, to help keep the shells intact. Bring the temperature to medium-high.
Bring pot to a boil, let it boil for 1 minute. Cover the pot, and turn off the heat completely. Let the eggs sit for 10 minutes.
Carefully, drain the hot water. Pick up the eggs using cooking tongs.
Let them sit 1 minute, before you start to color.

Procedure, Dying your eggs:

Set as many plastic glasses as you want colors. Use ½ cup of water and about 20 drops of food coloring for light and delicate colors, or ⅛ cup and 20 drops food coloring for a deeper shade.
Next, prepare your eggs. After they have cooked, set them in a bowl with 50% water and 50% vinegar. Wipe them with a bit of the mixture, and dry them off.
Get your collector (pyrex, cooking dish or cookie sheet) and holding each egg on top of it, simply pour color over it using a plastic spoon. Start with the light colors first, and you have to let the colors dry before adding another one. You can use a hair dryer to speed things up, but we didn’t need to. The colors dried pretty quickly.
Set them on an egg carton to dry.