An Easter Dinner to Remember

Name: An Easter Dinner to Remember
Ingredients: By The Paula Deen Test Kitchen; Dying eggs for Easter Sunday is a tradition of almost every household. Easter egg hunts, egg relays, and egg tosses are all fun games to keep the kids and your guests busy while you cook a fabulous Easter feast.; Here are a few fun and different techniques for coloring your Easter eggs this year:; 1. Take a hardboiled egg and place little round stickers on it and then dye it in a simple solution of food coloring, vinegar and water. Once it has dried, take the stickers off and you have a polka dot Easter egg.; 2. Or…do the same but with rubber bands (wrap a few around the egg) to make a striped tie-dye effect..; 3. Another fun idea is to make a speckled egg. Simply dye an egg, take an old toothbrush and dip it in another color of paint and then use your finger to run over the bristle and splatter the paint on the egg.; 4. To create a marbled effect, add about a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the food coloring solution before dipping the egg. The oil allows only parts of the egg to die, creating a very cool effect.

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By The Paula Deen Test Kitchen

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Dying eggs for Easter Sunday is a tradition of almost every household. Easter egg hunts, egg relays, and egg tosses are all fun games to keep the kids and your guests busy while you cook a fabulous Easter feast.

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Here are a few fun and different techniques for coloring your Easter eggs this year:

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1. Take a hardboiled egg and place little round stickers on it and then dye it in a simple solution of food coloring, vinegar and water. Once it has dried, take the stickers off and you have a polka dot Easter egg.

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2. Or…do the same but with rubber bands (wrap a few around the egg) to make a striped tie-dye effect..

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3. Another fun idea is to make a speckled egg. Simply dye an egg, take an old toothbrush and dip it in another color of paint and then use your finger to run over the bristle and splatter the paint on the egg.

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4. To create a marbled effect, add about a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the food coloring solution before dipping the egg. The oil allows only parts of the egg to die, creating a very cool effect.

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