Dyed Easter Egg Round-Up
Every year there seems to be a rush to re-define the dyed Easter Egg. As a result, tons of techniques for dying hard boiled eggs have popped up. For example, as I mentioned last year, there’s natural dye, which is made from kitchen ingredients such as turmeric, beets, and coffee. It looks like this:
Craft pointed me to this tutorial on making a Pysanky, the Ukrainian Easter egg:
Martha Stewart has the brilliantly simple idea of using narrow strips of electrical tape on the eggs before you dye them, which can look like this:
Or this:
Martha Stewart also has these German-Style Paper Cutout Easter Eggs, which look labor intensive, but lovely:
Then there’s these Pearlized Easter Eggs from Better Homes and Gardens use acrylic paint. I am not sure if that is a good idea on an edible product, but it looks pretty:
And finally, there’s this tutorial on making marbled eggs by The Barefoot Kitchen Witch:
Why not try something different this year?
