Easter Eggs

On Easter Sunday I was going to dye eggs with the bee but she was preoccupied with eating candy. She did help for a minute, adding the turmeric. I have wanted to try natural dyes for a few years now. Just Braise’ post on how to dye eggs came in very handy. I dyed some eggs using turmeric and some using blueberries. I think her inclusion of a recipe for each dye was what I needed. Once I get the hang of something I’m pretty comfortable experimenting but it seems I need someone to draw up the baseline in specific detail first.

Next year, I think we’ll try boiling the eggs first then dyeing them overnight in the refrigerator. That way it might be more interactive for the bee.

Everybody helped eat them.

Easter butter cake

Sunday, I made a lamb cake and between the cake and the frosting and I end up using four sticks of butter. I didn’t mean to! It was pretty buttery. Next time I need to pay more attention to the cake batter recipe I choose. A pound cake would probably work better, structurally.