Crackled Easter Eggs!

While browsing my now-favorite web site TasteSpotting, I came across these eggs, from The Barefoot Kitchen Witch.

Now, I’d just like to point out that these eggs fulfill three of my favorite criteria for motivation:

• OHH COLORFUL!
• OHH SHINY! (Ok, that one’s a stretch, but still)
• MmMm DELICIOUS

The little girl inside of me, who delights in said motivators, decided I HAD to try it. Mom and I were going to hardboil eggs today anyway, so I figured I’d stash a few aside and pull out all the gel colors from our cake decorating box. The original website has the eggs sitting for several (seven, if I remember correctly) hours. Not I, because well, I’m impatient These sat for approximately an hour and a half, maybe two, I did take a nap in there…

Anyway, I would like to remark upon how difficult it truly is to gently crack an egg without breaking the internal membrane. That’s the best way to get the look (otherwise dye just seeps in, like some of the eggs show).

I used the boiling water I hardboiled the eggs in, adding more salt to the water before adding the water to the dye. I don’t know if that made much of a difference, but the directions mentioned salt water, so I went with it.

Here are my totally awesome crackled eggs, I can’t wait to make these into deviled eggs! (Several hours later…and deviled these eggs, I did.)

Close up of dye job

Full batch of crackled eggs

Deviled eggs

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