Easter Eggs

By rrxing

We all love to color eggs for Easter, but what about coloring them after they’re shelled to make beautiful deviled eggs?! Also, did you know that you can make natural Easter egg dye with dark and bright colored foods such as blueberries, beets, grape juice, red cabbage, paprika, etc?

Ingredients

• 10 hard boiled eggs
• 1/2 About 1/2 cup mayonnaise

Details

Adapted from recipebyphoto.com

Preparation

Step 1

Put the eggs in a pot and cover with water.

Bring to a boil, turn down the heat to low, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, cool the eggs with running cold water.

Peel the eggs. Then cut them in half. It's okay if some of them tear a little, the filling will camouflage that. Or just eat that one.

Put the yolks in a separate bowl. It doesn't matter if the yolks turn a little darker around the outside--that happens when the eggs aren't cooled thoroughly right after cooking.

Next, you'll need some food coloring. Make the colors just as you would easter egg dye.

A teaspoonful of cider vinegar in each glass helps.

I used about 3 drops of food coloring in each glass.

Take the eggs out when they're a pretty pastel color. Drain them on a paper towel. Mash the yolks with a fork.

When they're uniformly crumbly, add about a 1/2 cup mayonnaise. Scoop from your measurement and add half at a time. Make it as creamy as you like.

When it's nice and creamy, you can add any extras--mustard, minced chives, freshly ground pepper, bacon bits, etc.

You don't need to add salt, the yolk is salty itself.

Time to fill the eggs! I've had this Super*Shooter forever, it seems, but it still works well. If you don't have one, you can fill the eggs by hand with a teaspoon. Put a little bit of the yolk mixture in each egg, so you don't run out, then go back and add a little more on top.

Aren't they pretty! Garnish with a little bit of paprika. Pour a small amount into the palm of your hand, then add a pinch to the top of each egg.

There's a psychedelic tie-dyed one--the blue one in the middle. That happens when you add more food coloring to the glass with the eggs already in the water.

That's kind of fun.

You can be creative in your egg coloring!

If you get to the party and you see the eggs, you'd better get one right away--because when you turn around to get one later, they might be all gone!

They're the perfect deviled eggs for Easter!