How to Colour Easter Eggs: A Quick Method

How to color Easter eggs quickly?

Here are all the tips for decoration and coloring of eggs both chocolate, and the classic eggs sode.

Coloring of the soda eggs for Easter

For the coloring of the eggs, we do not recommend the use of tempering or markers.

If there is still egg sodo inside the shell that you will go to color, it could be harmful to color it, the harmful substances can pass from the shell inside altering the egg.

We recommend theuse of gel dyes, which are easy to use.

In practical tube, you can press directly into the shell, then brush with markers, or first mix them in a saucepan, to obtain infinite colors.

1. Step 1 : boil egg (we recommend to choose white eggs ) for 5-8 minutes in a pot, covering it with hot water
2. Step 2 : make the egg cool for a couple of hours.
3. Step 3 : Once cold, use the coloring gels to give a first pass, dry and give another hand, the color will remain ‘light and vivid
4. Step 4 : Finish with details, use the food markers to recreate the eyes and various facial expressions
5. Step 5 : put the eggs in an egg door that you will have colored with food dyes
6. Step 6 Give them!

If you prefer to use empty eggs, make a hole at each of the two ends of the same and blow strongly in one of the two holes, bringing out the egg content from the other cavity.

What if I’m not good at coloring, and I want to make eggs fast?

• You have to boil water in a pot, add a few drops of food coloring gel or powder
• Water will become colored, insert the eggs and boil them for 8/10 minutes. Easy, isn’t it? 

Different speech if you want to decorate a chocolate egg!

It always uses food dyes, but in this case they serve those based on cocoa butterYou can find them on our shop.

Why use these colors based on cocoa butter ?

Because they don’t fade, they stick well to chocolate and they stay bright. 

https://www.tuttopasticceria.it/coloranti-food/coloranti-a-base-of-bureau-for-chocolate-colorcioc.html

I coloring are used by pastries, but you can also use them, all can buy them on our shop.

• Before using them, unplug the film by opening the tin
• Close the jar
• Unlock the chocolate inside the bottle up to 27 degrees
• Always move the jar, and color the egg base by creating lines (cold for 2 minutes )
• Colouring agents can also be used on acetate sheets 
• The dyes can be mixed together by spreading them on the acetate irregularly.

Don’t you know how to use them? here’s a video of the master pastry Davide Comaschi, who guides you and suggests step by step!

https://youtu.be/2RpzALzcsgI