I can’t believe how fast this year has flown by! Â Easter is this weekend and I have NOTHING. Â It’s also spring break so my kids are anxious to do crafts and stay active. Â Since I don’t have any egg dye kits around but I DO have a GAZILLION shades of food dye we can still dye eggs.
This works on shells AND on egg whites (so safe to eat). Â I TRIED the spiderweb look, cracking the egg shells and dying them, but it was a TOTAL FAIL, I’ll keep trying though…Â The strength of the color depends on how much dye you use. Â You can use grocery store liquid dye, but it will be hard to get nice dark shades! Â While with Gel dye a little goes a long way. You can use just a drop or two for really bright colors use a few more!
dye eggs with food coloring
Ingredients
- 3/4 C HOT water
- 1/4 C vinegar
- 3 drops gel food dye - various colors
- 18 hard boiled eggs
Instructions
- These measurements are for EACH cup
- mix all three ingredients in a cup or mug
- place egg in the mug, for lighter colors take out sooner, for darker shades leave in longer
- Leave in a little longer than normal, you'l get a nice dark egg color, and pull out and peel!
Nutrition
GAH, you can see the spider web look was a TOTAL FAIL!!!  Not a single egg out of a dozen worked!  ONE yellow SLIGHTLY worked! Some were completely white, some where half dyed, it was a mess.  I’m not sure what I did wrong, do any of YOU have any suggestions for me???
In the mean time I still want some color on my egg whites, SO I placed the unpeeled eggs in the dye. Â It worked BRILLIANTLY, seriously GORGEOUS! Â I love how bright they turned out! Â Perfect for the Spicy Deviled Egg recipe!
I STILL think it would have looked great with a spiderweb look too… Â But at the end of the day they were pretty and tasted good, so not much else matters.
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Ypu can also peel the eggs, remove the yolk, and then color them in food coloring. That way you have pretty colored eggs with no shell.