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
Totally making these for Easter! So fun. I did this by accident a few years ago, but now I can do it on purpose and it will be cool.
Love the idea. It looks so fun, I’ll have to try it. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for the perfect boiled egg link, i have been meaning to look up how to boil them properly, we have had our very own hens the past month and they don’t seem to boil properly (they turn out more poached than boiled, its kinda weird, but happy to have fresh eggs i try not to mind) so hopefully with your recipe i will have success!
Sara, LOL!!! I’m new to your blog, but it’s so much better than a recipe blog because of stuff you guys write like: “totally wasting time avoiding piles of laundry and dishes.” That is precisely how I found your blog! Congrats on the book, thanks for the recipes (we love the Brazilian ones especially), and thanks for making me smile!
I’ve never peeled eggs and then put them back in the fridge…is there a shorter shelf life??
My son would think these were “AMAZING!”
I absolutely love reading your blog…never fails to make me smile and give me inspiration!! Thanks for all the work the two of you put into it!
Just mentioned this post on my blog. Even though my “kid” is 26 years old, we’ll be doing this for Easter!!
http://onthepondfarm.blogspot.com/2011/04/coloring-brown-eggs.html
These would be so fun for making deviled eggs, wouldn’t they? And I have some grandsons who all over dinosaurs these days!
Those eggs are darling, and your pictures are adorable. Your kids are so lucky to have such a fun mommy!
This is the solution to dyeing brown eggs. Great idea for me with all my fresh brown eggs. Oh! A reminder – you really don’t want to use the fresh eggs. A pain to peel and I bet the membrane won’t let the dye work as well. I’ve got some eggs “aging” as we speak!
Thanks, Sara.