How to Make Easter Eggs Pretty

The eggs are fun to colour. Easter eggs often come in colours like pink, yellow, and lavender. And kids love colours, of course.

Learn how to colour eggs the right way and how to boil an egg without getting green on the yolk.

1. Soak the eggs in the coloured solution until you get the colour you want. Leave the eggs in the dye for up to two hours for darker colours.
2. Pick fresh eggs that don't have any cracks.
3. People who make eggs for sale cover them with oil to help seal them. Wash the eggs with a mild detergent to get rid of the oil and make it easier for the dye to stick.
4. If you want to eat the eggs, keep them in the fridge.
5. Pour one cup of hot water into a bowl. Add two tablespoons of white vinegar and the colour you want. Make sure to put enough food colouring in the water so that it is darker than the colour you want the eggs to be. (Our twelve colour gel set works well.)
6. Cook the eggs until they are "hard boiled."

Note from the baker: If you want to use blown eggs for Easter, which are eggs that are blown out of the end of the shell, colour the eggs first. If you blow the egg out of the shell before you die, it will be hard to put the empty, fragile shells in the dying water and handle them.

Learn how to boil an egg so you don't get a green one.

Do you want to stop your hard-boiled egg yolks from getting that green coating? You can do this if you cook at the right time. It has to do with the weather. Use an egg timer every time.

This is how:

1. Get the water in the pan to boil quickly.
2. Take the pan off the heat and put a lid on it. Leave the eggs in the hot water for 14 minutes.
3. Take the eggs out of the pan and put them in a bowl of ice water until they can be handled.
4. Cover the eggs with just enough cold water to cover them.
5. Only use clean, new eggs. Cracked eggs should be thrown away.
6. Put one layer of eggs in the bottom of a heavy pot.

Put any extra eggs in the fridge.