DIY Shaving Cream Dyed Marble Easter Eggs
I haven’t dyed eggs with my kids yet. It seems like Easter flew up on us this year. If we don’t make Kool-Eggs, then I think we are going to do Marbleized Dyed Easter Eggs. Inexpensive, fast, pretty, and very pretty!
NOTE: Dyeing your eggs with shaving cream is for decoration ONLY since egg shells are permeable and you shouldn’t eat shaving cream. If you like to eat your eggs after dyeing them, you can do marbleizing with whipped cream instead of shaving cream. Whipped cream is a lot more expensive than buying cheap shaving cream at a dollar store, so this is an optional switch.
What You’ll Need:
- Completely cooled hard boiled eggs
- Food coloring drops in different colors
- Medium to large baking sheet, baking pan, or other container with sides
- Cheap shaving cream (or whipped cream in an aerosol can)
- Spoon
- Toothpicks
- Paper towel
- Plastic gloves, sandwich baggies or plastic wrap
- Paper plate or cheap plastic storage container (that you don’t care will get dyed)
Instructions:
- Spray shaving (or whipped) cream and spread out evenly on a cookie sheet (or other container) with a spoon.
- Dribble food coloring across the surface. Neon food coloring makes cooler looking eggs.
- Use toothpicks to swirl the colors around in the shaving cream. Do it totally randomly and be sure to pick up and restart lines into the cream. This will make the best designs.
- Take a dried, cooled hard boiled egg, and roll it around in the cream. You can use plastic gloves, or use sandwich baggies or plastic wrap as gloves to help keep the dye consistent, keep finger prints off the eggs, and will protect your fingers from dye.
- Add more cream and/or dye as needed throughout the dyeing process.
- Sit colored eggs to the side on a paper plate or in a plastic storage container and allow them to dry for at least 2 hours, but best is overnight to 24 hours. DO NOT WIPE THEM OFF, leave them in the cream and dye. If you used whipped cream, be sure to put them in the refrigerator while they sit.
- After allowing the eggs to sit, wipe the cream and dye off with paper towel. You can store in the original egg carton in the fridge or set them out as decorations.
Thanks to TotSchool for the picture!
Recipe: Fluffy Bunny Butt Cookies
Spring is here and Easter has some of the cutest and brightest holiday treats. These adorable Fluffy Bunny Butt Cookies recipe from the Pillsbury website are easy and will be a big hit at any parties or family parties this weekend. Have your kids help decorate these lil cuties!
Ingredients:
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookies
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 container (12 oz) fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting
- 22 miniature marshmallows
- Spring colored candy sprinkles
- Optional: Pink gel food color
Directions:
- Heat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, knead cookie dough and flour with hands until well mixed.
- Reshape dough into 9 x 1 1/2-inch log. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Remove plastic wrap. Cut cookie dough into 33 slices. Cut 11 of these slices into 4 equal wedges. Shape each of the wedges into ovals for bunny feet. Place cookie dough slices and bunny feet on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 8 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Let cool for 1 minute, then remove from cookie sheets and place on cooling racks. Cool completely (10-15 minutes).
- While cooling, using a medium microwavable bowl, stir frosting and 1 to 3 drops pink food color until well blended and you find the color pink you like best. Microwave frosting uncovered on High for 10 to 15 seconds or until soft, but not translucent.
- To make bunny butt, frost 1 whole cookie slice and 2 bunny feet with frosting. Place bunny feet on bottom of cookie as shown in photo. Place 1 marshmallow in center of each cookie for tail.
- Decorate bunny paws with candy sprinkles. Repeat with remaining cookie slices and bunny feet. These can be baked and frozen for up to 2 months before thawed and eaten.
FUN EXTRA: If you want to decorate more, you can add ears to your bunny by placing candy-coated almonds or jelly beans at top of each cookie.
DIY Bunny Ears Headband
I love dressing my little ones up for Easter with cute little outfits and bunny ears. I always get them the cheap ones from Target, but I think this year I’m going to do this easy craft from Martha Stewart Baby. You can make them for kids or adults as long as you have the right size headbands!
What You’ll Need:
- Child-size headband (or adult for larger head)
- 8-by-16-inch piece of pink felt
- 6-by-6-inch piece of white felt scissors
- Pinking or scalloped shears (optional)
- Hot-glue gun
- Hot-glue sticks
- Bunny ears template
Directions:
- Measure the width and length of the top of the headband, add 1/2 inch to all sides, and cut a strip of pink felt to cover.
- Glue the felt strip onto the top of the headband, wrapping the extra material around the headband’s edges.
- Measure the underside of the headband, and cut a strip of pink felt to fit.
- Glue the strip to the underside, creating a backing that covers the edges of the top felt.
- Print out our bunny-ears template, and cut out both shapes.
- Trace the outer-ear shape onto pink felt twice, and cut along scalloped edge (or cut out with pinking or scalloped shears).
- Trace the inner-ear shape onto white felt twice, and cut out with regular scissors.
- Glue each pair of ears together with hot glue, and let dry.
- Crease each ear vertically down the middle, and press.
- Fold up the bottom flaps on either side of the notch, and attach to headband with hot glue, pulling notches closed so ears are slightly bent. Hold until glue sets.
Easter Bunny Race Cars
Saw this floating around Facebook yesterday and knew I had to share it with you all. What a fun way to make an edible spring decoration with the kids!
Ingredients:
- Large Marshmallows, cut horizontally
- Marshmallow Bunny Peeps
- Mini pretzels
- Cream-Filled Cakes (e.g. Cloud Cakes or Twinkies)
- Decorator Icing
- Frosting
- Sprinkles
Directions:
- Cut a small rectangle out of the top of the cream-filled cake about a third of the way back from the “front” of the car.
- Use the white decorator icing to adhere the bunny Peep, mini pretzel “steering wheel” and large marshmallows in place.
- Use frosting and sprinkles to decorate your car. Allow to set, then enjoy!
Recipe: Cadbury Creme Eggs “Brookies”
I love Easter candy. I love it more than any other “holiday”-themed candy. I believe it’s because of Cadbury Creme Eggs. I saw this beautiful recipe with the words CADBURY CREME EGGS floating through my Pinterest page, and I knew I had to share it. I know there are others like me out there with a deep love for these creme-filled wonders. HUGE THANK YOU to House of Yumm for this recipe. She has tons more recipes, so go check them out!!!!
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- 1 brownie mix-ingredients needed per brownie mix
- 1 package of miniature Cadbury Creme Eggs foil wrapped eggs with the creme inside (NOT the bag of mini chocolate eggs!)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Prepare brownie mix according to the directions on the package and pour into greased 9″ square baking pan.
- Chop up Cadbury eggs into random sizes and shapes then set them aside.
- Combine the flour, salt, baking soda in a separate small bowl.
- In a large bowl, beat softened butter and sugars until creamy. Add in the egg to the mixture and beat until it is mixed in fully.
- Slowly add in flour mixture from the small bowl and stir until combined. Add in the mini chocolate chips and chopped up Cadbury eggs then stir together evenly.
- Add the newly combined cookie dough as evenly as you can into the baking dish on top of the brownies. BE CAREFUL! You won’t be able to really spread it to even it out since the dough is thicker than the brownie mix.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Allow to cool, cut, and enjoy!