Tie Dyed Easter Eggs

Using a swirl of vibrant food colors and a simple technique, transform your eggs into a groovy experience and make Tie Dyed Easter Eggs!

Course Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword eggs

Prep Time 5

Rest/Dry Time 10

Total Time 15

Servings servings

Place one egg in the middle of one coffee filter and wrap it tightly, bringing the excess coffee filter to the tip of the egg and securing it with a rubber band.
Start with one color of food coloring, putting one drop at a time in random spots around the wrapped egg. Do this with as many colors as you like, however, I like to use 4 different colors, the basic red, green, blue, and yellow. (shown here) Do this until the coffee filter around the egg is mostly filled with food coloring. It spreads, so a little goes a long way.
Leave the color-coated wrapped eggs to sit for 5 minutes,
Using rubber/latex gloves if desired, gently unwrap the eggs and pat them dry with a paper towel.
Set them back in the egg carton to dry for about 5 minutes.

You can use whatever combination of colors you like. Just note that the colors will turn out a little different than the colors you put on the egg. This is because the colors mix and end up lighter than they go on. For example, red will look pink.
You can also use paper towels in place of coffee filters, but I felt the coffee filters were so much easier and worked better for color transfer.
The coffee filters work for all sizes of eggs. I tried them with the largest eggs I could find and they still fit.
This works with brown or fresh farm eggs as well. The colors tend to come out darker on the brown eggs, but still very pretty.
The longer you leave the eggs wrapped, the darker they get. They also get a little darker if you saturate them with a lot of dye.

Serving: 1g