Easy Easter Eggs

Today, we made these Easter eggs.
Instead of buying a kit to dye eggs, I did a little online search and we found a super easy way to dye eggs.

You will need:
Hard boiled eggs
white vinegar
water
food coloring drops

Fill a coffee mug with about 2/3 cup of water, add about 1 tsp of vinegar and about 6 drops of color. Use one mug for each color you decide to do, but I just did the primary colors (red, yellow and blue) The measure ments do not need to be exact, just close. Also, you may want to line the work surface with newspaper to keep the serfice dye free.

Decorate the eggs before you dye them. We used crayons to get a "resist" look. White crayons are really great, but we did not have one, so we used orange. We also used masking tape cut in shapes (hence the flower and heart). My little beauty girl did not wrap the tape tightly on her egg and what we got was a tye die effect (blue egg with white stripes) We dipped the eggs into the cups of color and just let them sit. I fished the eggs out with a normal spoon and dabbed the excess fluid on a paper towel. To make other colors, we diped the egg in the light color first. Take the green one for example, yellow and blue make green. So we did yellow first, then blue. Then we removed the tape.

This is an easy craft idea that that I did as a family activity. Happy Easter!

--Tara

White Chocolate Easter Egg Nest

If you're like me, I'm still trying to figure out what to serve for my Easter dinner. I want the whole experience to be artistic in some way. Unfortunately, I've only figured out what to do for a little sweet treat that really doesn't have to do with the dinner much. No matter what, it will be incorporated in my Easter Feast, and I hope you enjoy it, too.
Here is the White Chocolate Easter Egg Nest.


What you need:

• Candy eggs ( I used Cadbury Chocolate Eggs)
• White Chocolate/Almond Bark (I used a Russell Stover chocolate confection--the chocolate is already perfect and melt-able)

1. Gently melt desired confection in a double boiler to the point where it is spreadable, but not runny.
2. Use a spatula to put chocolate into a plastic baggie.
3. Smoosh chocolate into a corner of your baggie, making sure to remove all air bubbles.
4. Cut a small portion out of the corner of your baggie, and make sure the top is twisted to keep a constant flow of chocolate coming out.
5. Make circles and half circles in different sizes on the wax paper and let set. I think it turned out better when I had small blobs at the ends of my half circles and where I began my full circles. It allowed dimension in the project.
   
6. After chocolate is set, gently peel it off of the wax paper. I did this by lifting the whole wax sheet, and bending it under the chocolate so the paper was peeling off of the chocolate instead of the chocolate off of the paper...clear as mud?
7. Then artfully stack circles and half circles to create a nest (like what I pictured below), and put candy eggs inside. I would suggest that you construct each nest on the plate you will be serving the nest on. I will put mine on individual plates at each place setting because the way I designed it, it's a finger food and won't stay together solidly. Each ring comes up easily, and you don't get chocolate overload.

Happy Easter!