Last weekend, I tried a new method of dying Easter eggs that sounded like it would be fun for Maxwell. It was fun…but it didn’t dye the eggs well at all. Oh well!
These were the instructions:
SHAVING CREAM EGG DYE
1. Spread cheap white shaving cream in a cookie sheet
2. Apply drops of neon food coloring across surface
3. Use toothpicks to swirl colors around
4. Roll the dried, cooled hardboiled eggs in the colorful cream (we used disposable kitchen gloves to reduce the tattoo effect)
5. Allow to set for 3-4 minutes on a paper plate
6. Wipe off shaving cream with paper toweling
7. Rinse! Voila! Beautiful marbleized eggs, done quickly!
Well, not exactly Voila! Now, I didn’t use the neon food coloring and I think that made the difference. I just had regular food coloring and I think it just wasn’t enough to really saturate the eggs with color. I might have used too much shaving cream too – or just needed to use a LOT more food coloring – in order to coat the eggs with enough color to stain them. No matter though, we still had fun!
Robert did say it was pretty funny to tuck his 2 year old into bed that night smelling like shaving cream! 🙂
One other note – I “boiled” my eggs in the oven and, aside from one cracked one, it worked great. I put them all in a mini muffin tin and baked them at 325 for 30 minutes and then put them in an ice bath immediately. Worked like a charm for this project!
