Saturday, October 20, 2012

Jack-O-Lantern Dyed Deviled Eggs

Do you have all your pumpkins in a row? Halloween is only days away and in case you're looking for one more fun idea, I broke out the orange food coloring and made Jack-O-Lantern Deviled Eggs.
The faces are black olives. I think they could be pickles, jalapenos or roasted red peppers too.
I used a star tip aiming for it to look like the ridges on a pumpkin,
next time I'd either use a large circle tip, a bag with the corner snipped off
or just stick with the more popular 'spoon and plop' method:@)
I think the key to the pumpkin look is, you need to take the yolks up onto the white area. Don't just fill the hole as I did with the Zombie Eyes, fill the whole 'white' surface.
You might want to boil an extra egg or two for the yolk-the dog will love the white...
This isn't a hard project at all, just a little time consuming and older kids could easily help out.
Here's a shot so you can see that I've dyed the whole white of the egg.

Jack-O-Lantern Dyed Deviled Eggs
  1. Boil and cool hard boiled eggs. The technique I use is take eggs out of fridge, boil water, add eggs gently with spoon and boil for 15 minutes. Pour off hot water, replace with cold water a couple times and let eggs cool. It works perfectly for me.
  2. Cut in half, pop out the yolks.
  3. Make a dye of 1 tsp vinegar, 1 cup of hot tap water and food coloring. Normally I use drops and would add at least 20-25, but I wanted to dye these faster so I used Wilton Icing Coloring Gel this time. I added a good 1/8" drop from a toothpick and stirred until it dissolved. 
  4. Add egg whites and leave in dye until desired color (I added 2 at a time). Mine took about 4 minutes. Eggs I've made with food drops have taken longer, and it always takes longer once the water cools down.
  5. Turn upside down (hole pointing down) onto paper towels to dry. 
  6. Make your favorite deviled egg mixture (I just add a squirt of yellow mustard, some mayo, S&P). Add a little orange food coloring.
  7. Fill eggs and embellish with cut out face features.
  8. For more of my dyed deviled egg posts: Easter or baby shower, Red White and Blue, and Zombie Eyes.
Have a fun Halloween:@)

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