Can You Dye Easter Eggs With Wilton/waterbased Cake Colors
Lounge By CakesByEllen Updated 18 Mar 2006 , 1:36am by KittisKakes
Has anyone used your cake colors to dye Easter Eggs? Seems like it would work, but I don't exactly know how to do it.
What do you think?
same recipe as when doing it with regular food coloring.
hot water, vinegar (one or two TBS per small pot full) and the color.
the vinegar softens the shell so it takes up the dye better.
this of course works best with hard boiled eggs.....unless you want to have fun, as my mom did, watching the kids turn shades of color to match the eggs by blowing the eggs out!
(poke small hole on one end, slight larger on other. if have a really long sewing needle break yolk inside the egg. then put small hole to mouth and BLOWWWWWWWWWW! eventually the egg comes out, the kid falls over from hyperventeltaing -- callling LazySusan -- and you get empty shells that can be hung as decorations year after year)
Are the eggs already hard-boiled when you put them in the hot-water/vinegar/food color mixture? Or do you boil them in the mixture.
The eggs are already boiled. The water doesn't have to be so hot that you can't put a finger in it. I can't wait. I let the kids draw on the eggs with a white crayon and then dip them. The wax from the crayon doesn't take the dye. They think it's cool!
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