These dinosaur eggs are a fun twist on hard boiled eggs that leaves your peeled eggs looking like dinosaur eggs! When my boys were little I was browsing recipes when my then 4 year old son walked into my office. He took one look at the computer screen and exclaimed, “Mom! Is that a dinosaur egg??!” What he had spied was actually a Chinese Tea Egg. When brined in a mix of tea, and spices the crackly designs look (to me) like something you’d see on a Halloween themed table, but I took a mental note to make these with fun colors when Easter came around and we could pretend they were Dinosaur eggs. My boys thought they were SO cool.
Ingredients Needed
- Hard boiled eggs
- Water
- Food coloring
How to Make Dinosaur Eggs
- This really couldn’t be easier! The first thing you need is a bunch of hard boiled eggs. After the eggs are cooked, cooled, and dry, gently tap them on the counter top. You want to create little cracks all over the egg. It’s okay if a few small pieces of shell fall off, but try to avoid breaking large chunks off. You should just have small tiny cracks all over. In fact after you make a few taps on the counter, you can even gently squeeze the egg in your hand to crack the shell.
- Use liquid food coloring to tint some water, and plop your eggs in. For some reason, my Ikea kids cups are always my egg-dying cups. We wanted a few different colors so we put a single egg in each cup. This part isn’t rocket science. No specific measurements, just, ya know…do it. I let my kids squeeze in the food coloring so I’m guessing there are about 847 drops in each cup. If you want to be exact.
- Let them sit in the fridge for several hours, or overnight. I’ve actually only let them sit overnight, so I can’t tell you how many hours will do it if you don’t leave them in all night. Somehow that makes it more fun too. My kids get all excited to wake up in the morning and crack their eggs open.
- Remove the eggs from the water, rinse them off (so you don’t color your hands, um, not that I’ve done that…) and gently remove the shells, revealing the dino designs inside!
Dinosaur Eggs
A fun twist on hard boiled eggs that leaves your peeled eggs looking like dinosaur eggs!
Ingredients
- hard boiled eggs
- food coloring
- water
Instructions
- Hard boil your eggs and allow to cool.
- When eggs are cool and dried, gently tap them on the counter top, enough to create cracks, but not enough to loose large chunks of egg shell. You can roll the egg on the counter or gently squeeze it in your hand to create more cracks.
- Fill cups with water and some food coloring-just eyeball it!
- Drop your eggs in the cups and store in the refrigerator overnight.
- The next day, rinse your eggs under cool water, peel, and reveal your dinosaur egg pattern!
Cost: $5
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Questions & Reviews
🙂 – that last pic is the best! Love the purple egg – wow. I’ve never thought to leave the eggs in the food coloring that long. Will definitely try it this year.
These are so freakin’ cute! I can’t wait until my nephew is older so I can make dino eggs with him!
It’s a beautiful eggs.. I LOVE IT.. congratulation for the great color
Love the idea, but I have to tell you, I love reading your posts even more. You are so fun and funny and normal-sounding (can’t tell for sure, but…you know, you sound like a real person)!! Thanks!
Rad is right!
That is an awesome idea! I teach Kindergarten and I have to admitt…I want to do it with them. Mostly for selfish reasons…because I love dying eggs!
Are the cups from IKEA? I seriously am going to have to go home and make some tonight. I have neon food coloring! I think the best part is that you are not wasting eggs!
Thanks for sharing!
After being dropped on the table and floor countless times, our Easter eggs look like that every year. LOL Fun stuff though! 🙂
For some odd reason the red ones make me think of Spiderman. Weird I know.
I just thought of something…these would make for some trippy deviled eggs!
That is such an awesome idea. My girls are so excited to make those at Easter time!
These are super cool, but the egg salad does look whack…kinda like purple ketchup.
Ha! You need to clarify dear. It doesn’t LOOK like purple ketchup, it looks unnatural and therefore makes you uncomfortable the same way purple ketchup does, haha
SO cool! My Boys will adore these. My two year old calls them dinosnaurs. What’s even cooler is that I can still do this with our farm fresh eggs!