Thankfully each year for Easter we are invited to someone's house for dinner because I am not a great cook and holiday meals are hugely overwhelming to me.
This year was no different except we were given nothing specific to bring. So I decided we'd bring deviled eggs since we are never able to finish the quantity of eggs I boil every year for dying purposes.
This year was no different except we were given nothing specific to bring. So I decided we'd bring deviled eggs since we are never able to finish the quantity of eggs I boil every year for dying purposes.
But I wanted to do something fun with them since it was the only task I had.
A friend had posted these pretty pastel deviled eggs on her blog and I planned to do that. Until I saw these adorable hacking chick eggs online on Saturday. Thankfully I attempted a couple for practice right away.
I peeled the eggs, cut them to look like a cracked egg, which was fairly easy, just a little more time consuming then chopping them in half. But the tricky part was getting the yolk out after cutting them like this. With a hole smaller than the size of the yolk I broke up the yolk with the knife and tried to squeeze it out. Each egg tore a little bit at least. But I proceeded. I mixed up the yolks with mayo. mustard etc and put it into a decorating thingy I had from Pampered Chef. I filled two eggs without a problem but on the third egg the tip must have clogged but I didn't realize it...I just tried harder...and blew the tip off...leaving and explosion on egg number three, my counter, stove etc...
I pulled the two out that weren't ruined and took a photo and called it a day...remember NOT to attempt these again. Super cute but way over my skill and patience level.
While attempting to find the site that inspired this idea I found a few that showed them differently that would have made them easier (but was unable to find the original site). If you're feeling ambitious google 'hatching chick deviled eggs" for a variety of options, and hopefully you'll have better luck than I did!
Back to those cute pastel deviled eggs. Sunday morning I attempt to look up the directions online and can't view the original post from FrostedFingers.com...so I Googled it. The directions I found said 6-20 drops of food coloring and a large time range based on your desired results but that had used 7 minutes. So I went with 12 drops and planned for 7 minutes....but then I totally forgot about them. Fifteen or so minutes later my eggs were pretty but WAY bright!!
This is what I was going for...
Thanks for the linky. I made my 2nd set a bit darker but not as dark as yours. :)
ReplyDeleteBoth of your eggs look great! I didn't get creative at all with my eggs this year...good thing too, because they were gone in 10 minutes. LOL
ReplyDeletethanks. you know I still have some left, no one really ate them much but me and I don't really need all the WW points from them.
DeleteThey both ended up cute!! I love the hatching deviled eggs!
ReplyDeleteI think you did a really good job with these. They both are darling and you definitely get an "A" for effort.
ReplyDeletethanks!!!
DeleteI think they looked pretty good. Very fun project.
ReplyDeleteLisa
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