T Stands for Tie Dye Easter Eggs and Easter Egg Bread

 

For Easter, Italian tradition calls for a braided loaf of bread studded with eggs. Years ago, I found a recipe that makes individual nests so this is what I bake for Easter Sunday breakfast or lunch (if I don't get up early enough to bake the bread.)

The recipe calls for dyed eggs. The eggs are not hard boiled before hand but dyed uncooked. As the bread bakes, the eggs will cook and become "hard boiled."

This year I found a different way to dye the eggs. Instead of dipping the eggs in a solution of hot water, vinegar, and liquid food coloring, you Tie Dye Easter Eggs

You will need white eggs, liquid food coloring, paper towels, disposable nitrile (I have a severe allergy to latex) gloves, small elastics or bread ties, a small spray bottle of clean water, and a glass dish. If you are not baking the eggs in the bread, hard boil them.

Wrap the eggs in paper towels and secure with the elastic

Randomly drop the liquid food coloring on the paper towel. The lightly spritz the paper towel with water. The dye will run. The more water, the less vibrant the eggs will be colored. Then over the sink, gently squeeze and press the paper towel against the egg. This is why you will want to be wearing a pair of gloves.

Lay the eggs to dry in the glass dish and allow them to dry for several hours or overnight. I was impatient and needed the eggs because I was also baking the bread. I put the eggs on a cookie rack over the glass dish and put the eggs under the blower of the mini-split heater to dry them faster.

Tie dye eggs waiting to be baked into the bread

Easter morning breakfast.

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