Happy Easter everyone! Hope you are having some beautiful holidays spent with your loved ones and may this Easter bring more peace and light in your life! š
I know that some of you celebrated this the past weekend but we are celebrating it today and I thought about creating a 2 in 1 post to both wish everyone nice holidays and also share the technique I used to paint the eggs for this year's Easter.
It's a method that I kept using for the last 4 years but where the results are always surprising me and the people I share those eggs with, and even though the simple red eggs are the most common ones for the Easter Holidays, I think we all need more colour in our life these days so seeing some rainbow and colourful eggs on a plate is definitely a cool thing! š
- 20-30 white eggs
- liquid paint (3-4 colours) OR food dyes
- 150ml boiled water
- 4tbs vinegar
- 1tbs oil
- a pinch of salt
- optional: paper decorations, stickers, etc
I started by first cleaning the eggs very well.
I usually don't wash them just with water but also with some detergent to make sure they are 100% clean.
It's important to use eggs whose shell is white because if you are using those with a brown/darker colour the rainbow won't be that visible anymore and it will actually turn out as you didn't add enough colour for those eggs.
Unfortunately, I didn't have enough white eggs so I used both white and brown ones but which is a good example to see the difference between the two when applying the colours.
As soon as I finished cleaning the eggs, I added a big pot with water on low heat which I left to boil and then added a pinch of salt and left the eggs in the water for around 10 minutes.
The boiling time is always different depending on how you prefer the eggs to turn out between done-ness.
I'll attach down below a picture to help you understand better what I am talking about.
While waiting for the eggs to get the desired boiling effect, I started getting ready the paints that I was going to work with.
I picked four different small bowls and each was dedicated to a different colour.
I added around 5Tbs of boiled water and 1tbs of vinegar in each of the four bowls and then mixed each composition very well so all the elements will be incorporated into the dye.
You can either add more or less boiled water depending on how many eggs you want to paint. Personally, I painted 25 eggs and there was still left enough colour when I finished which could be used for painting around 10 more eggs, but if you don't intend painting so many, you can add just 2-3Tbs of water so the colour will be more prominent.
If the colours are too solid, you can even immerse the sachets in warm water before pouring them into separate bowls so the colours will be liquid and ready to be used.
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The next step is to take eggs one by one and wrap each of them in a napkin where you will twist the end of it so you make sure the napkin is very well stretched and it surrounds the egg without leaving too many empty spaces.
Then with the help of a pipette, you will add different drops of colours random making sure the whole napkin is soaked in colour. If it seems like the napkin is not stretched enough on the egg, you can even add some elastic rubbers so everything will stand still.
If you are using food dyes instead of the liquid paint as I did, the method of painting the eggs is a little bit different as you will apply directly drops of food dye on the napkin surrounding the egg and then spray water mixed with vinegar over the painted napkin so the colours will dissolve and cover the entire surface.
For the liquid paint, there are needed 3-5 minutes so the colours will be printed on eggs while the food dye might take even longer than 10-15 minutes.
As soon as you get rid of all the napkins surrounding the eggs there is one last step which you can either apply or skip if you don't find it that important, namely, to grease the painted eggs with oil by using a silicone brush or napkin soaked in oil so they will get another layer of gloss and make them look better.
Also now, you can add different decorations for the eggs or let your kids have fun will drawing faces over them. š
This is how my Easter eggs turned out this year.
The thin white lines between the colours appeared on the spaces where folds have been formed on the napkin or where this one was not entirely touching the surface of the egg.
However, for the last four years since I paint the eggs like this, I never really got an egg entirely painted which I think it's even better considering that the white lines seem like being part of the design actually.
You can use just one colour or more for each egg depending on how you want to play with the used dyes but you should pay attention on the quantity of paints available so there will be enough for all the eggs. For example, the dyes I was using should cover 10 eggs each so a total of 40 eggs to be painted.
Preparing + cooking time: 20 mins
Happy Easter hivers! š„š
I know that it's not the best moment to be alive these days with all the things currently going on out there but every single day is a bliss and we should appreciate more the moments when we see our loved ones and celebrate another holiday together.
So I do hope that as bad this year started, as soon everything will be back to normal and we will see more smiles on peoples' faces rather than tears. Stay safe! š
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